Posts Tagged: Low Strength Beer
I'm Sure I'd Try It If It Tasted Any Good...
Posted by on Monday, August 29, 2011 in - 1 comment
Non-alcoholic beer. Gak. Sort of the definition of gak. I have tried. For a while almost 20 years ago there was a brand of near beer that blended well with some brand of real beer and I was happily drinking 2.5% on a Saturday afternoon. But that was then. I've no idea now what was in the glass …
Global #IPAday! It's Global #IPAday!! Global #IPAday!!!
Posted by on Thursday, August 4, 2011 in - 7 comments
Global #IPAday. That's what it needs to be called. I don't like the implications of international #IPAday. It leaves out the stateless and those on ships at sea beyond territorial waters. And, really, isn't that what #IPAday is all about? Inclusion? Or is it exclusion? Who knows. Here are some …
Hot... So Hot... That It's Haaaawt... Hotness... Hot...
Posted by on Thursday, July 21, 2011 in - 3 comments
Once, when traveling, I heard a couple speaking about the heat. They were from the southern US and, commenting on the heat, one said to the other "my Lawd, it's hawtah than haaahm." We were not quite sure whether than meant it was hotter than back home or hotter than a ham right out of the oven …
Ontario: Working Man's Stout, Barley Days, Picton
Posted by on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 in - 3 comments
I went to the brewery the other Sunday as I hauled the kids out of the house to give the place a sense of sanity for an afternoon. Handy (if you are on the east side of Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario) - Barley Days Brewery deserves respect for making tasty lower strength solid beers. This …
The Beer Blog Comments Thread That Has It All
Posted by on Monday, March 21, 2011 in - 13 comments
I was going to comment over the weekend at Jack Curtain's Liquid Diet on the interesting discussion about whether "session beer" is or isn't... but then I notices something more abstract about whether the beer blog post and comments as a whole. It seems to sum up all internet beer discourse on one …
Dear Craft Brewers: Get A Canning Line
Posted by on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 in - 17 comments
Dear Rob Tod. I have realized that I don't think I really care about that corked 750 ml bottle after all: • We have been doing cork-finished beers for a number of years and early on we wanted to come out with a lower-alcohol, pretty full-flavored but around 4.5%- to 5%-alcohol beer. It was … read more »
Two Strangford Lough Brewing Beers... From Somewhere
Posted by on Thursday, July 1, 2010 in - 9 comments
The six pack carrier says "Product of USA crafted from barley gown in St. Patrick's Co." I got three Legbiter Ales and three St. Patrick's Best Ales. Can't find the email that I got from the representative. There's nothing in the box but styrofoam popcorn. The waybill says they're from New Jersey …
Session 40: Session Beer Is All Around Us
Posted by on Saturday, June 5, 2010 in - 18 comments
There is a joke in Canada about why drinking American beer is like making love in a canoe. The punchline notes their common proximity to water. We may protest that those days are long gone if they ever existed. But who are the "we" who protest? One of the fallacious ideas popular among craft beer …
Michigan: Weizen Bam, Jolly Pumkin, Dexter
Posted by on Friday, December 25, 2009 in - 1 comment
It's been all too much, really. The photo contest, plus the shopping, then the work lunches and drinks and then shopping and the seminars and concerts and church and... now it's Christmas night. Present opened, lamb consumed, half the kids in bed and the rest headed that way. What to have to cut …
Day 13: Xmas Photos Of Beer Are Still Arriving
Posted by on Saturday, November 28, 2009 in - leave a comment
I am a little less than pleased with the idea of Xmas beer today. I did the math and realized that one bottle out of the six - usually a sensible session - overwhelmed the others, sneaking an extra 38% of strength into the evening. Oh, for a session beer culture. Not sorry headed or anything but …
