Posts Tagged: Beer and Media
Evan Rail On The Trail Of Local German Beer
Posted by on Monday, May 21, 2007 in - 6 comments
I must have been overwhelmed by the gardening and snoozing and beer sipping this weekend as I failed to mention that our correspondent for central Europe, Evan Rail, had a good piece in The New York Times yesterday on the somewhat elusive local real ales and lagers of Germany. Other than the two …
CAMWA: The Campaign For Watery Ale
Posted by on Thursday, April 26, 2007 in - 6 comments
Two Nations Joined By Water • Why can't we admit it? We are all sitting around drinking flavoured water. We craft beer lovers like to pretend it is like wine, an art based on the manipulation fruit juice - but it ain't so. In a very real sense, fine beer is a far more crafted product than fine …
The New York Times Considers Brownness
Posted by on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 in - 4 comments
Our pal Lew Bryson wrangles another date with free beer at the New York Times, this time on brown ales.
Beer and Cheese Tastings
Posted by on Sunday, January 21, 2007 in - 7 comments
Yesterday The Globe and Mail ran a story about something being done reflecting the new world order in which beer is the new wine - a beer and cheese tasting in Vancouver: • “"It's something that's not done," he says. "But beer and cheese is a great combination because they're so different. A lot …
Beer And Snobs And Meaning
Posted by on Thursday, January 18, 2007 in - 9 comments
An interesting if small hullabaloo of sorts has arisen in the beer world, or at least the US web-based part of it. • It all began yesterday when the Pittsburg Tribune-Review published a column by Mike Seate entitled "Beer snobs forget the true meaning of beer" in which he makes various … read more »
<i>Beers Of The World</i> Magazine
Posted by on Sunday, September 10, 2006 in - leave a comment
I picked up issue #7 of Beers of the World magazine the other day. It is a UK journal pretty much geared for the English market. This places the North American reader at a disadvantage from the get-go with the subject matter centered elsehere. The magazine has a website which has yet to update to …
Cyclops - Perhaps The Worst Idea Ever
Posted by on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 in - 9 comments
Describing taste in words is funny business but making the effort is worthwhile as it provides you with a mechanism through which you can record your experiences with food and drink, and especially craft foods like real ale. We each take in the esters, phenols and other organic elements and …
Beer Quote Of The Week
Posted by on Friday, April 28, 2006 in - 1 comment
I went to undergrad with Trevor so I am glad to report this, our quote of the week: • “"Every week we see improvements in Trevor's recovery — sometimes big, sometimes little ..." Debbie blogged. She wrote that a nurse remarked to Greene: "Wow, you can sure suck back the water!" • "Having said …
Have I Mentioned The Bar Towel?
Posted by on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 in - leave a comment
Good news for those scribes behind The Bar Towel, a group trying to wring what good ale there is from a blink-and-you-will-miss-it hamlet at the western end of Lake Ontario, tied as they are to a few good bars and the whims of the LCBO. Well, none of that seems to matter to the Toronto Star which …
