Posts Tagged: Styles
Three Mid-Atlantic Brown Ales
Posted by on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 in - leave a comment
Brooklyn Brown Ale, Ithaca Nut Brown Ale, Tröegs Nut Brown Ale • Brown Ale is a difficult style. It is really a bunch of styles from England, Belgium, Scotland and the USA. When you think of it...pretty much all beer is brown. And, really, so it ever was until someone figured out how to dry pale …
Five From Penn And One New Yorker
Posted by on Monday, August 16, 2004 in - 3 comments
As part of a continuing tradition of investigative reporting, I present five Pennsylvanians and one south central New Yorker: • Click on the picture for, really, nothing more than a slightly larger picture of the same thing. • I've give some detail as I pop a few of these starting with the …
<strike>Five Seven</strike>...err...Eight Pales Ales
Posted by on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 in - 3 comments
Unlike my recent exposé on Belgian whites, this collection took at seven minute trip to the local LCBO and cost between $2.75 and $3.00 CND per 500 ml bottle. The seasonal selection of beers they bring in is quite good and you can find some nice choices in a single style to compare. These are all …
Belgium: Four Whites or Wittes or Wits
Posted by on Saturday, June 12, 2004 in - 1 comment
Hoegaarden, Ommegang Witte, Unibroue Blanche de Chambly, Brouwerij Sint-Jozef Brussels White • It's a tough job. Over the last month I assembled this collection of Belgian white beers which are cloudy wheat based ales flavoured with dried orange peel, corriander seed and other traditional spices …
Three American Brews
Posted by on Friday, May 14, 2004 in - leave a comment
I was going to call this post Three Summer Ales in homage to the winter version but what with the current Molson ad running on the TV about why would you drink an American beer any more than you would buy a Morrocan snowmobile, I am compelled to point out that most Molson products have a little …
At the LCBO, Kingston, Ontario
Posted by on Thursday, July 3, 2003 in - leave a comment
Directions to the Downtown LCBO in Kingston, Ontario. • I am a lucky guy. The main LCBO in Kingston sits between my work and my car park. When the snow is swirling, a half of East India Sherry might be just the thing. When, like today, Ohio's factories and the earth's axis conspire to make the …
