Posts Tagged: Why Rye?
Why Did A Brewer In Kingston In 1815 Want Rye?
Posted by on Sunday, October 23, 2011 in - 13 comments
The ad is from page 4 of the Kingston Gazette, 6 January 1816. You can see at the bottom that it was placed on 15 December 1815. So many questions. What were Messrs Robinson and Gillespie up to? Why is rye placed between barley and hops in the large font while oats sit down there with the peas …
New York: Righteous Ale, Sixpoint Brewery, Brooklyn
Posted by on Friday, October 21, 2011 in - 2 comments
I don't really go much for packaging or even branding when it comes to beer. All that tiny writing on Stone bottles from some PR hack telling me I am not worthy? Yawn. All the millions wasted on design that gets unnecessarily added to the cost of my beer? Spare me. Yet... yet, there is this cube … read more »
Denmark: Helene Heather, Nørrebro Bryghus
Posted by on Thursday, June 3, 2010 in - leave a comment
You know that you've been hanging out with the wrong crowd when you have a sip of a new beer and think it tastes like Pimms or rather those cucumber sticks that sit soaking in Pimms. But it sort of does. The taste opens. Soon the aroma is like a lumber yard in a light damp rain. My guess at rye in …
Why Rye: Hop Rod, Bear Republic, Cloverdale, California
Posted by on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in - 3 comments
I've had a Bear Republic stout, the red and the brown as well as a pale ale and liked them all... but then there's this one made with, you know, rye. You have to wonder about rye beer, that less popular and less interesting cousin on beery family tree. The only one that ever blew me away was …
Why Rye: Rye Pale Ale, Terrapin Beer, Athens, Ga.
Posted by on Saturday, June 28, 2008 in - 4 comments
I've never loved rye beer a whole heck of a lot. I've mentioned it here and here, but there was a brewery in Pictou NS that made a rye ale that was a bit too much like drinking bark: rough and heavy. I don't much like the dark bread version or the hard liquor one either. But I live in hope and … read more »
The Week of He'brew
Posted by on Friday, December 15, 2006 in - leave a comment
OK, probably a weekend of He'Brew. But what a perfect one for it with the holidays upon us. I have to apologize for the picture, flashy and all as it is. Look at last year's single find of He'Brew 9 - that is a heck of a photo of a beer bottle. • What I like about this brewer is that, aside from …
Ontario: Two Seasonals, Heritage Brewing, Ottawa
Posted by on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 in - 2 comments
Heritage Brewing Limited in Ottawa is a small eastern Ontario brewery which has yet to get a review from me. Why? My brother buys it. So what! Well, its just one of those things. I visit from time to time and he has Heritage dark in the fridge. And probably Hoegaarden if its summer. Once he had a …
