Posts Tagged: Thinking About Beer
Albany Ale: In 1888 There Were Many Sorts Of Albany Ales
Posted by on Sunday, April 15, 2012 in - 16 comments
... and porters, too, as we read in an interesting reference to the state of brewing in Albany in the 1880s from a book titled The Empire State: its Industries and Wealth sitting over at Google books. At page 120 this is part of the florid description of the brewing business of Quinn & Nolan …
Session 62: What Drives Beer Bloggers?
Posted by on Friday, April 6, 2012 in - 4 comments
Jordan wrote an excellent post today about the purpose of brewing and the question of beer evangelism. In large part he answered the question posed by The Session this month when he wrote: • Consider this: There are something like 1400 non-brewery affiliated beer bloggers around the world, about …
Why Not Just State How Much Alcohol It Has?
Posted by on Saturday, March 31, 2012 in - 3 comments
I have a hard time with "units" and "drinks" and whatever measure is used to give guidance on the number of beers a fella ought to have in a day or a week or a life. Here is what I know so far: • ♦ UK - the measure is a "unit" and represents 10 ml of pure ethyl alcohol. • ♦ Australia - the …
In Defense Of Beppi Crosariol And Wine Reviewers
Posted by on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in - 5 comments
The Old and Male ran a column by its wine reviewer Beppi Crosariol [aka in my house "The Beppster" aka "Beppi-bepp-meister" aka... it goes on and on.] I have asked "WHY!!!!" when it comes to Beppi's beer reviews - but that was a long time ago and I was so taken by the headline "Why Wine Reviews … read more »
What Caused Steam Beer To Be Low End Then Not?
Posted by on Monday, March 19, 2012 in - 8 comments
A couple of reference to steam beer flitting around today. Anchor has a new web ad for a line of new beers leaning on its research of early California brewing. And it came up in the comments from Saturday's post about... what was Saturday's post about? I like the references cited at wikipedia from …
What Do You Do When You Just Don't Like A Beer?
Posted by on Saturday, March 17, 2012 in - 19 comments
Sometimes it may be nothing more than personal preference but what does the dedicated beer nerd do when you don't like a classic? • I bring the glass to my nose and slowly inhale, breathing her in. The first thing I think is, “This beer smells like balsamic vinegar.” Uh oh. I can also detect …
Welcome To Our New Beery Overlords!
Posted by on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 in - 8 comments
Over the last decade in Canadian politics we have witnessed the implementation of a new sort of social engineering aimed at specifically undoing what is claimed to be a former set of social engineering. We are asked to go along as part of the reversal of a pendulum swing or, worse, a resetting of …
So What About The Price Of Ales And Lagers?
Posted by on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 in - 16 comments
It's come up twice this morning's reading. Jordan posted this on Facebook: • Why is it that price figures into wine reviews but isn't mentioned at all in beer reviews? If a six pack of something is a 7.5/10 at $12, and another six pack is an 8/10 at $15, isn't that worth mentioning in discussion …
Late For Lent: Unsalted And Really Sober On Day Six
Posted by on Thursday, March 1, 2012 in - 1 comment
I don't know what there is really to report as I am so early on this experience of not experiencing. Keen readers will recall that last Saturday I decided to add to my recent passing on most salt intake to take a break on alcohol for Lent... and so far I have. Sure, I went beer shopping yesterday …
Why Would We Expect Brewers To Know It All?
Posted by on Monday, February 27, 2012 in - 12 comments
What a great paragraph over at Max's place this morning: • ...there's a problem. After having read much of what brewers publish on the internet I've got the impression that many of them don't seem to know too much about beer. Yes, they do know how to make beer (which is the most important thing …
