Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
“Ah!” That’s what I hear you all say… “aaaaaahhhh!” Feet go up. Glasses get adjusted and you tuck yourself in for another fabulous edition of the unscheduled beer news roundup. See, Stan may post a round up every Monday while Boak and Bailey do the same most Saturdays. But it’s that unscheduled aspect that brings … Continue reading “A Good Beer News Roundup For An October Tuesday”
This is either just a bit weird or I have completely missed something. Apparently some scientists have been looking to find the yeast strain that started lager… and they think they have found it: When the team brought the yeast to a lab at the University of Colorado and analyzed its genome, they discovered that … Continue reading “So – When Was Lager Invented… Discovered… Evolved?”
I knew this. I think I knew this anyway: “This process is much like how you would do in a fourth-grade germination science project, where the grains would be soaked in water for about 24 hours, drained and then laid between sheets of cloth until they sprouted,” said Amanda Mummert, an anthropology graduate student helping … Continue reading “Mmm… What I Need Is A Big Bowl Of Thick Beer!”
Anyone interested in beer in Canada – or even colonial North America – really ought to have this book on the shelf. 2009’s In Mixed Company: Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada is a series of essays on topics related to the structure, regulation and use of taverns in what later became Ontario but … Continue reading “Book Review: In Mixed Company, Julia Roberts”
It seems like just a couple of weeks ago that I was learning about yeast history through science. Oh. It was just a couple of weeks ago. Now, instead of reaching back just four centuries, science is taking us back through over 400,000 centuries of yeastiness: Why is it, even though there are 38,000 results … Continue reading “More Yeasty History, More Yeasty Science”
Troy has the story today about who Weihenstephaner is coming to Ontario for a seasonal release. The importer, Beer Barons, is new on the scene but (t)he(y) was good enough at the end of last year allowing the panel here at A Good Beer Blog study both the weisse and the dunkel carefully. We were … Continue reading “Germany: Vitus, Weihenstephaner, Freising, Bavaria”
I have been a bad beer blogger. I just got a copy of Garrett Oliver’s The Brewmaster’s Table. One baaad beer blogger. And not bad like ManRam says either. The fact is, I thought it was really more like The Brewmaster’s “Kitchen” and had expected it was more like a recipe book. Not that there … Continue reading “Sour Beer Studies: Sweet, Sour And… The Brewmaster’s Table”
Writing about what is on other people’s beer blogs is a quick way to fill a day’s obligation to fill up one’s own sheet. But seeing as I have been trying to lead Ron Pattinson and his excellent library of brewing records into figuring out stuff that has piqued my idle sort of curiosity, I … Continue reading “Sour Beer Studies: Why Did Sour Arise In The First Place?”
I started reading my copy of A History of Brewing in Holland 900-1900: Economy, Technology and the State by UBC professor Richard W. Unger, published in 2001. Careful readers will recall that I had ached after this book ever since I reviewed his 2004 publication Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance but was a … Continue reading “Book Review: A History of Brewing in Holland 900 – 1900”