Posts Tagged: Styles
Extreme... X-Treme... X-Tre-m... XTRM... ?
Posted by on Sunday, March 29, 2009 in - 2 comments
Hub-bub. That is what is going on. There is hub-bub afoot these days about "extreme" beer. Here is what I know, though things may be changing on the fly, minute-by-minute as it were: • The Independent in England goes all yikes over BrewDog and other new strong beers even categorizing their …
Being A Beer Hound Without Any Sense Of Style
Posted by on Sunday, March 15, 2009 in - 7 comments
When I was a lad and knew a thing or two about hoofing a ball, we would arse around by playing "soccer without style" - playing the game without any of the conventions which quickly collapsed into just arsing around. I think I do the much the same thing when I think about beer as I am not really …
[Insert Beer] Wins [Insert Beer] Style Award
Posted by on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 in - 5 comments
I have no real complaint over the 12,474,832 awards that are handed out for beers every year. I have never paid any attention to these things when making beer selection decisions - though, to be fair, when a label mentions a claim to one of them I think of it as red flag worthy of further …
Craft Or Kraphtt: Sam Adams Scotch Ale, Boston Beer, MA, USA
Posted by on Monday, December 10, 2007 in - 3 comments
Stan was rightly giving me grief the other day or at least a lesson in life when I spoke of the Sam Adams line of beers. I didn't mean to be mean and I am a delicate flower in the face of such dressings down - but, as you all know, I am working with what I am thinking about beer pricing and value …
Josh Examines Pumpkin Ales Just In Time For Thanksgiving
Posted by on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 in - leave a comment
“"Let the Pompion be beaten in a Trough and pressed as Apples" - An anonymous recipe for pumpkin ale appeared in the papers of the American Philosophical Society in February, 1771¹” • Pumpkin Ale is a much maligned form of beer, but I doubt that any Belgian would deny it beerhood. My wife and I …
Porter Season: XII, Imperial Porter, Middle Ages, Syracuse, NY
Posted by on Sunday, October 21, 2007 in - 2 comments
My high school history teacher taught us when you want to use the word "very" try using "damn" to see if it worked better. Most times neither were necessary. Lately that's been one point underlying much of the discussion around the word "imperial" - like this post by Ron, this by Stan and this by …
Porter Season: Black Hole, Weyerbacher, PA, USA
Posted by on Thursday, September 20, 2007 in - 3 comments
If stinking hot July is the month for wheat beers and the end of summer is the time for sour fruit beers, then the end of September has to herald the slowing down of my sour beer studies and the beginning of the season of porters. Why? First, they go with stew and they go in stew and no one eats …
Beer Cocktails: Sign Of The Endtimes?
Posted by on Sunday, August 12, 2007 in - 9 comments
I think I have seen the future and I don't like it. It's not that I think that I am a particular cask-hugging purist or anything but this trend popping up at two Toronto beer bars just seems wrong somehow: • “At Bier Markt on the Esplanade, beer cocktails started to show up on the menu as a way …
Session 6: One Fruit Beer - Kriek De Ranke, Wevelgem, BE
Posted by on Friday, August 3, 2007 in - leave a comment
Greg had the power for today's version of The Session for August and he picked fruit beer as the topic. To be utterly fair, if you are going to pick this topic, it has to be in August when all the world is plump with the results of all that "tra-la it's May" of a few months ago. • It's not like … read more »
Grill, Shed, Steak, Rain, Bieres de Garde And Saisons
Posted by on Sunday, July 1, 2007 in - 4 comments
The trouble with charcoal grilling is that when the rain comes you can't turn it off. Propane, on the other hand, has a nice dial that has a "0" setting. But there is the garden shed and, when it rains and you have visitors, it can turn out to be a delightful place to while away a late afternoon …
