Posts Tagged: Thinking About Beer
What Are The New Best Beery Hackneyed Ideas?
Posted by on Sunday, August 19, 2012 in - 10 comments
You've seen them before, right? Pairing beer with food? That is so 2009-10. Five years before that, wet hop beers were the innovation that rose up, promised much and settled back down again. Reading this article about a new nearby fest - and one that by all accounts was great - made me wonder if … read more »
Is There Anything About Beer That Is Actually True?
Posted by on Saturday, August 11, 2012 in - 5 comments
Two monkey heads in a row. What is going on? Well, for starters, I was messing around on these internets this week and, as is usually the case with ideas beery, I have come to realize again that the asides are the thing that are most interesting. I wondered whether beer really warranted beer nerds …
Planet Earth Leads Universe In Beer Sales
Posted by on Thursday, August 9, 2012 in - 5 comments
Just as I find it a wee bit boring to praise every statistical interpretation that marks craft beer's march from 5% to 5.87% of the US beer market, so too does this sort of story sound a lot like the story I have read more than a few times before: • It has been a popular tipple for centuries … read more »
The Session #66: The One Beer to Rule Them All
Posted by on Saturday, August 4, 2012 in - 5 comments
Craig asked the question: • What if you were to design the perfect brew—a Tolkien-esque One Beer to Rule Them All. The perfect beer for you, personally. Would it be hoppy and dark or strong and light? Is it augmented with exotic ingredients or traditionally crafted? Would your One Beer be a …
Maryland: A Day With Kids In Baltimore
Posted by on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 in - 1 comment
There is a madness when one travels with kids. The need to keep them entertained and the need to keep yourself entertained. Above is the menus from Phillips on Baltimore's Inner Harbor which was part of the day's happy happy joy joy efforts and I was happy to see a couple of things. Notice the not …
New York: Brown and Liquid Gold, Captain Lawrence
Posted by on Sunday, July 29, 2012 in - leave a comment
You will recall that I have family in southern upstate New York and that one member of the family, Mike Malone, is a writer who has turned his mind to the beers of Captain Lawrence. Well, despite the rotten map, you will see that we have made the trip and spent a happy evening watching cousins …
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 …
By Wednesday's National Post I Lay Down And Wept
Posted by on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 in - 1 comment
I don't think I have ever read a backhanded positive review of a beer so I can only assume the author is serious: • It flattens quickly when warm, so chill in the freezer to a minimum low (i.e. as close to freezing as you dare to go), and then feel free to guzzle. The lower alcohol and 95 …
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 …
Can You Graph Your Own Relationship With Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, June 10, 2012 in - 5 comments
Zak has taken up the Boak and Bailey challenge or at least example and posted a graphical representation of data.¹ What I found most interesting was the choice of data points. The way Zak illustrated the classes of beer. I don't agree that "ordinary good", "craft" and "fancy special" are actually …
