There. Vacation. That’s better. Not vacating. Stay-cating. Hopefully play-catin’ but there are chores that have been deferred. Weed-cation. A trippy jaunt to the hardware store to check out bathroom faucet repair options. Others in beer have been thinking about a bigger world of beer this week, far bigger than any I expect to see. I’ll … Continue reading “Your Beery News For A Holiday Thursday With Plenty Of Jingoism Stats And Other Fibs”
Remember? These Thursday news headlines are getting longer. I wonder what Stan would say about my lack of control. I write that because last Monday’s musings from Stan were so well managed. Made me think about how plunking down this weekly post speaks as much or more to my interesting in writing as my interest … Continue reading “It Is August So Make The Best Of What Is Left Guided By These Tidbits Of Thursday Beer News”
Quiet. So quiet Stan is taking a month off. You know what he does in these little gaps of his? Not judging. No. Not me. It’s election time in Ontario all of a sudden but, again like in 2014, I expect a quiet sleepy time for beer as debating point on public policy. That is … Continue reading “Finally – A Quiet Week In Beer Thursday Links”
Matters? None of this really matters all that much. Fine. Maybe posts like this are just the stuff you need to get you to – or through – the stuff that matters. Let’s go with that. It’s OK. A quiet week now and then is nice. No need to puff it up with claiming this post … Continue reading “All The Beer News That Matters For The Middle Third Of April”
Starting with more Olympic beer news, apparently Team USA has jumped into the spirit led by Canada with it’s own variation, Olympian’s drunk Dad. Well played. Speaking of drunk Dads, Ben has written extensively and not without a bit of flair on the endearing awful bars which he insists can be distinguished from the more … Continue reading “This Mid-February’s Beery News Stories The Cool Kids Are Talking About”
For this month’s edition of The Session, host Jon Abernathy of The Brew Site has asked us to consider home brewing. This is an interesting thing as we do not often get to consider, to reflect. To dwell upon. OK, who is kidding who? That is all I do. I have had three phases of home brewing, the last … Continue reading “Session 132: A Homebrewing Conversation”
A LITTLE BEER – MICROBREWERIES, PRODUCING SPECIALTY BEERS IN SMALL QUANTITIES, ARE – THE TALK OF THE INDUSTRY. The Buffalo News, November 8, 1991, by Dale Anderson/News Critic, City Edition, Page G22 NO MATTER how many times the Swedish Bikini Team materializes, the brewing industry has gone a little flat this year. With one notable … Continue reading ““A Little Beer…” Buffalo News, 8 November 1991″
Not much inclined to write for the last week or so. Late 1970s nuclear fear retro followed quickly by 1930s Nazi fear retro. Seems our neighbours to the south hired a moron and he is turning out to be a fabulous moron attracting other morons to flit about his flame. Like last summer, one barely … Continue reading “Fascists, Racists, Pinkos, Brewers And…”
P “Pabst Brewing Company” entry at page 637 states by “the 1950’s Pabst, although selling nearly 11 million barrels of beer per year…” Pabst began the decade of the 1950’s as the #4 brewery with 4.3 million barrels in sales. They would slide down to #11 with 2.3m bbl. by 1958, the year they bought … Continue reading “Articles – P”
A “Abbey beers” entry at page 1 states they: “… are produced in the styles made famous by Belgian Trappist monks…” Two pages later, the author (Garrett Oliver) writes: “… the term Trappist does not describe a single style and neither does the term abbey.” Following this, the article proceeds to describe in great detail … Continue reading “Articles – A”
