Posts Tagged: Styles
Where Are The Alternative Beer Classification Systems?
Posted by on Friday, April 19, 2013 in - 14 comments
I saw this article by Crystal Luxmore the other day and it got me thinking. It starts this way: • Grapes are the inspiration behind a trendy beer style that is bringing the worlds of wine and beer together: new hybrids that are seducing hopheads and oenophiles alike. Beer-wine hybrids – or …
Book Review: IPA, Brewing Techniques, Etc., Mitch Steele
Posted by on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 in - 8 comments
This is another book from Brewers Publications that bridges the worlds of brewers and drinkers. As with Stan's excellent For The Love of Hops, the book provides context, history, categorizations, practical application of the topic in brewing and plenty of evidence of sheer enthusiasm. That being …
What Do You Call It When A Beer Style Bullies?
Posted by on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 in - 18 comments
An interesting flurry of ideas on Twitter this afternoon triggered originally by this statement by Halifax, Nova Scotia's Propeller Brewing Co.: • It was a tough decision. We can only sustain 1 brand (full time) at the @lcbo-Our IPA is our best selling brew... • It was part of a conversation …
British Columbia: Three Beers Sent From Cannery Brewing
Posted by on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 in - 1 comment
Not Canary Brewing. That is what the email said. Not Kan Airy, either, I suppose. Good advice but not information I needed as I've enjoyed a couple of their beers before, the ones placed in the local government store. Local in the sense that it serves about 12 million souls. The beer is brewed …
What's On The Drinks Menu In 1378 Or So
Posted by on Saturday, September 8, 2012 in - 2 comments
It is not often that I get to write that I was flipping the pages of Piers The Poughman the other day but in fact I was flipping the pages of Piers The Poughman the other day and noticed a lot of references to drinking in Book 6. I pulled it from the back corner of the bookshelf after watching the …
California: Back In Black, 21st Amendment Brewing
Posted by on Monday, August 13, 2012 in - 4 comments
Velky Al today has pointed quite directly to the question that has been in my mind since I opened this six the other week: • Clearly then, while roast is an element in the beer it shouldn't be the dominant flavour or aroma, and in opinion that has been the problem with pretty much every Black … read more »
Are Beers Really My Favorite Styles?
Posted by on Monday, July 23, 2012 in - 4 comments
Interesting comments in passing on Twitter just now. Win was praising a style of beer when Stan wrote: • Just how many favorite styles do you have? Should there be a limit? MT @winbassett "one of my fav. styles" • Quips ensued. Lord, how they ensued. But the point is an interesting one - to …
Whatever Beer Is - It Only Is What It Is
Posted by on Thursday, June 21, 2012 in - 17 comments
I am a lazy blogger. I love nothing better than taking the work of another and filling space with it. Or is that redundant? Isn't that all that blogging really is? But enough about me. Jeff made an excellent point today that needs further airing: • I've been thinking of why "style" fails, and I …
How Do We Experience A Classic Beer?
Posted by on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 in - 3 comments
A very brief question. If Jordan is right, do we still not have the obligation to give proper respect and maybe even homage to those beers which were classic in the sense that they are the parents of a style in the early Jacksonian sense? This post from earlier this spring describes the same idea …
Session 64: Pale Ale Was What I Drank When...
Posted by on Friday, June 1, 2012 in - 3 comments
I am not that old but, I guess, I am really not all that young either. I am not sure that I every went into a bar to have a beer in the 70s but know I was doing that by the fall of 1981 in Nova Scotia. Before that, there was drinking in friends' basements, drinking out by the reservoir, drinking …
