Posts Tagged: Thinking About Beer
Utah: Detour Double IPA, Uinta Brewing, Salt Lake City
Posted by on Thursday, May 17, 2012 in - 6 comments
I am staring at an empty bottle of Detour Double IPA from Uinta Brewing of Salt Lake City. It's a big bottle and I think it was emptied at about 2:20 am this morning. My first beer from Utah and it got drained over a mid-week middle of the night family bonding fest of Kids in the Hall DVDs. The …
When Whatever You Do Is Normal It Just Might Not Be
Posted by on Monday, May 7, 2012 in - 8 comments
This is one of the weirder quotes of the day: • I like beer. I like the way it calms me, and I like the taste of it. I’m 38 and have been drinking around 10 beers a day for five years. I pace my drinking so that I am quite sober even with this amount of beer. I can carry on a conversation and …
As I Consider 2012 World Beer Cup Awards I Wonder...
Posted by on Sunday, May 6, 2012 in - 18 comments
I have to admit that I have not given two seconds thought to the World Beer Cup in all the years since I began writing about beer. Not that I have anything against the idea of a mass sipping and note taking exercise - but a long time ago, I came across a brewery that claimed it had won certain …
Session 63: Just A Moment If You Please
Posted by on Friday, May 4, 2012 in - 13 comments
Further to my recent admission of an understanding gap, Pete Brown has been given the keys to today's Session #63, The Beer Moment: • I’ve been thinking about this quite a lot recently, because I’ve been talking about it to various people who are working hard to try to improve the image of beer …
What Are The Corporate Values Of Beer?
Posted by on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in - 1 comment
I found this at Forbes entitled "Why More CEOs Should Drink Beer", a column about about that guy who said he had too much beer a bit, odd or at least unusual: • Mason is 31 years old and running a hot tech company in Chicago. Hot tech companies are filled with smart, young people like Mason who …
A Great Example of A Good Review Of A Poor Beer
Posted by on Sunday, April 29, 2012 in - 13 comments
Have a look at this review over at Ding's: • Almost immediately it feels as though one is drinking a sickly sweet, sugar solution that has been infused with honey and molasses. There are very brief glimpses of a little liquor/barrel notes and even a hint of acid funk, but within fractions of a …
Two Beer Folk Lists With Two Different Purposes
Posted by on Thursday, April 26, 2012 in - 3 comments
I was scratching my head a little over two lists that floated by upon the beer-o-sphere ether this week. Jeff was mildly curious about one spammy PR list that popped into his inbox and extracted out the beer people. Ashley, on the other hand, created her own list of "very important women who have …
Book Review: But Are These Really Beer Books?
Posted by on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 in - 12 comments
Beer books. I have read enough of them but they are not the whole extent of the books I read related to my interest in beer. One of the most interesting things for me about my interest in beer is how is it woven though the community and through time. On top up there is my recently acquired copy of …
Listen To "The New Beer Frontier" On BBC 4 Online
Posted by on Sunday, April 22, 2012 in - 3 comments
Not sure how long this program will remain available to worldwide listeners so you might want to listen in now: • From barrel ageing beer to sourcing intensely bitter hops, Dan Saladino reports on the latest trends in American brewing that are starting to influence British beer styles. The US …
Do I Really Want to Show You How Good Beer Can Taste?
Posted by on Friday, April 20, 2012 in - 19 comments
Really? I mean I am a fan of good beer as much as the next guy but do I really want to show you how good beer can taste as suggested by this article entitled "Craft beer aficionados want to show you how good beer can taste. Trust them."? • Those friends who sold me on craft beers are now trying …
