Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
So, last October I posted about the location of Rutgers’ 1700s brewery in New York that seems to have ended its days in a fire in the 1780s – and then went off looking at other stuff from the same era related to other families and other breweries. But I got to wondering about when … Continue reading “Yesterday The Rutgers Motherlode Fell Into My Lap”
A pubby sort of place It was a short visit. Twenty-two hours. Nine of which were used up at a conference. A very interesting one. Ten of which were the worst hotel stay that I have had in a very good hotel in my entire life.* And three of which I hung out with Jordan. … Continue reading “The “I’m Just Back From Toronto And Boy Are My Arms Tired” Edition Of Thursday Beer News”
What a fabulous notice in The New-York Gazette of December 11, 1752. Edward Antill was a man of means, merchant, eccentric and gentleman agriculturalist as well as a member of the Loyalist leadership in colonial New Jersey who passed away in 1770. He was better known for his experiments in planting wine grapes* and being raised … Continue reading “The Fabulous Estate Brewery Of Edward Antill (1701-1770)”
It will soon be two years since I posted about the porter store house of Caleb Haviland at 77 John Street in the New York City of 1798. For some reason, I am very fond of the guy and his fabulous range of drinks from both the old and new homelands. Six … Continue reading “Caleb Haviland: A Brief Prequel Of A Tailor And Beer Merchant”
As I was going through the blog posts shifting them over to the new platform for the past few months I realized that I’ve had tight waves of writing enthusiastically separated by other phases of, you know, treading water. If I had a topic to run with, a new database to explore I got at … Continue reading “Issac Bobin’s Letter, 6 September 1720”
I hate… yet love… the small nuggets of information I come across when scanning the news reports from the 1700s. That’s a report from the New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury of 24 July 1780 describing a debate in the House of Commons in London on a committee report on the taxation of malt. The regional … Continue reading “Burton Ale: “…They Brewed Not For Home Consumption…””
This month’s edition of The Session sees host Stan Hieronymus of asking everyone to write about their doomed dream dinner plans: If you could invite four people dead or alive to a beer dinner who would they be? What four beers would you serve? Elephant in the room: I have been to one beer dinner … Continue reading “Session 118: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?”
I buried the grape vines the other day. Gave the lawn one last mow. The Red Sox have been gone from my TV for about five weeks now. Winter is coming. Thank God that there is the hunt for beer and brewing history to fill the dark cold nights. Craig forwarded me this one image … Continue reading “Reaching Back Into 1780s Hudson History”
A portion of a 1640s lease to Philip Gerritsen of a house to be used as a tavern. Click. On the 22nd of March 1639, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary in New Netherland on behalf of the General Chartered West India Company received Gillis Pietersen van der Gouw, a 27 year old master carpenter who … Continue reading “The Sensible Regulation Of Beer In New Netherlands”
What a sad image to come across. A human for sale. It’s from from the 15 April 1734 edition of the New York Weekly Journal. Apparently the sale didn’t come to pass as she was still for sale half a year later. Unless that is another unnamed woman for sale with the same skills. The … Continue reading “Slavery, Servitude and The Interests of Patroons”