Posts Tagged: Inputs, Price and Value
Beware Aficiandos: Utopian Soaking May Be Nigh!
Posted by on Saturday, October 23, 2010 in - 5 comments
I just about dropped my spoonful of Lucky Charms when I read this passage in Josh Rubin's column in the Toronto Star: • News of the beer’s impending arrival has already created a stir among Toronto’s beer aficionados. “I’ve been waiting six years to get this in,” says Brian Morin, owner/chef of …
Are These $170 A Pound Hops Worth Growing Or Not?
Posted by on Monday, October 18, 2010 in - 7 comments
Who would have thought that the processes of mass agricultural production actually lead to a cheaper ingredient? Not me. But what do I know? And, well, is that the issue? Given the relatively small percentage hops represent in a craft brewer's overall costs, isn't it worth the difference to eek … read more »
Maine: Sea Smoke, Manly Men Beer Club, Bah Ha-Bah
Posted by on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 in - leave a comment
A smoked barley wine. It pours deep orange chestnut under a light pale cream froth and rim. At first, it tastes like something I would have made as a fairly unreliable home brewer getting rid of ends of specialty malts. Yet it's not unattractive. In fact, as sips are sipped it gets a little more …
Back From The Road And Did I Really Learn Anything?
Posted by on Sunday, August 29, 2010 in - leave a comment
I don't know if you can draw conclusions from a trip just a couple of hours and laundry loads after hitting the driveway. Especially when you haven't even pulled out the digital camera to pretty up the post or to see if there are are any ideas in the images. So far these come to what I might still …
Is Giving Up Imported Beer A Good Thing?
Posted by on Thursday, August 19, 2010 in - 9 comments
My old desk top Dell gave up yesterday. I am a couple of days away from a vacation and I feel like doing much the same. But what about giving up imported beer not for the cause of slackerdom but for a higher cause? • A majority of Canadians would give up imported beer or wine to reduce shipping …
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 »
Is A Beer Price Crisis Coming? Will You Notice?
Posted by on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 in - leave a comment
Bad news with the impending Russian crop failure: • It is the latest high cost of living to hit families that are reeling from the recession. Prices have already more than doubled in the past two decades, with the average cost of a pint of lager climbing from £1.08 in 1989 to £2.81 in 2009, the …
Session 41: What About The Homebrewers Anyway?
Posted by on Saturday, July 3, 2010 in - 4 comments
I have a hard time with this month's topic for The Session. Not because I have no experience with home brewing but because I assume everyone involved with beer has had a hand in it. It's like I assume everyone who went to college went to high school first. • That being said, I am a bad brewer. I …
New York: Rare Vos, Ommegang, Cooperstown
Posted by on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 in - 3 comments
I haven't mentioned Ommegang's Rare Vos in something like seven years of being aware of it. I haven't mentioned other things but I keep them to myself. It is called a Belgian-Style Amber Ale on the neck label. Sad that the regulators of such things couldn't have settled on Belgianesque instead of …
Is Gin Lane Being Rebuilt With "Kamikaze" Prices?
Posted by on Thursday, May 6, 2010 in - 1 comment
Shock and outrage in Scotland with prices for beer dropping to, frankly, insanely low levels: • Nationalist backbencher Ian McKee said: “What’s being reported as a kamikaze supermarket beer war has started in advance of the World Cup.” Caseloads of 24 cans of popular brands are being sold for as …
