Posts Tagged: Regional Scenes
Queensland's Fourex Heritage
Posted by on Tuesday, January 4, 2005 in - leave a comment
Apparently the Australian state of Queensland, through its National Trust, has chosen its top 12 heritage icons and #2 is...Mr. Fourex of Castlemaine's XXXX beer. Seems slightly odd as a heritage symbol but I guess Queenslanders like their beer or at least this one.
The Drink in Hungary
Posted by on Monday, January 3, 2005 in - leave a comment
As far as I can make out Hungarian social culture is much like Russian social culture. It may also be a pan-European thing that when you socialize you should be prepared to devote a lot of time. I still remember visiting with one family at their place in the Buda Hills. She spoke some English. He …
Last of the Speakeasies?
Posted by on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 in - 4 comments
Big news from a little place. One of the last vestiges of the prohibition-era speakeasies of the first half of the last century has left the scene in Canada's smallest province. CBC PEI reports: • “In 1900 Prince Edward Island became the first province to ban alcohol. It was the last to end …
Five from Scotland
Posted by on Sunday, December 19, 2004 in - 1 comment
Jim Barr, our correspondent from Ayrshire Scotland, has forwarded some great notes on five brews from the old country, three of which are organic. • Harviestoun Bitter and Twisted: Apparently Champion Beer of Britain, 2003 in its cask conditioned form. This is a honey coloured beer with a lot of …
Homebrewing In Singapore In The News
Posted by on Sunday, December 19, 2004 in - 5 comments
Homebrewing has received a welcome endorsement from an unlikely source. In its Sunday editorial, Singapore's state-controlled Straits Times newspaper (reg' req') has praised homebrewing as a hobby - noting that drinking at home may have an added advantage in reducing rates of drunk driving …
Homebrewing in Singapore
Posted by on Saturday, December 11, 2004 in - 7 comments
The recent • legalization of home brewing by Singapore authorities has hit the • shopping malls. Previously, prospective home-brewers needed to turn to on-line supplier I-brew. However, yesterday at Carrefour, I was pleased to see this:
An Introduction to Singapore's Beers
Posted by on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 in - 2 comments
Alan kindly invited me to join the league of good-beer bloggers. I quickly accepted. Regrettably, Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia are not the best places to find good local brews. Most regional beers are uninspiring international lagers or worse - such as the syrupy-sweet and metallic …
The Dark Beers of Red Beijing
Posted by on Monday, December 6, 2004 in - 13 comments
Beer aficionados who plan to visit Beijing should not expect to find a great variety of local products. All restaurants will invariably provide you with bottled or draft pale lagers such as locally brewed Yanjing Beer (燕京啤酒) and much familiar Tsingtao Beer (青岛啤酒) and their countless variations. A …
Belgium: Thinking About Four Sorts Of Brown
Posted by on Monday, December 6, 2004 in - 5 comments
Continuing in the style of Four Belgian Blondes and Four Wittes, I am going to try to work through the Belgians I have squirrelled away over the last few months style by style. I also want to avoid one problem that arises doing a side-by-side, especially when you are looking at triples and strong …
Pennsylvanian Distributors
Posted by on Friday, August 6, 2004 in - 22 comments
One thing to note from any trip to Pennsylvania by a beer fan are some of the strange laws of vending said beverage. Simply put, they try to deter you from doing so by making it difficult and taboo. To buy a six-pack or a 12 pack you have to go to a bar with a sign that says "six to go" or some …
