Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
That’s my new favorite quote about sulfurous brewing waters from around Burton. It’s from The Natural History of Staffordshire from 1686 by Robert Plot. It’s slightly misleading as the beer was brewed as a local health tonic but I love that it was available at the Brimstone Alehouse. I want a black t-shirt from that place. What’s … Continue reading “What The Heck Was Going On in 1680s Staffordshire?”
Attentive readers will recall that I have a slow side project in figuring out what I can about Taunton ale. It was a bit of a by-catch to the whole Albany ale thing with references to it showing up in central New York around the time of the American Revolution. When I got to the … Continue reading “More References To That Shadowy Taunton Ale”
This is another book from Brewers Publications that bridges the worlds of brewers and drinkers. As with Stan’s excellent For The Love of Hops, the book provides context, history, categorizations, practical application of the topic in brewing and plenty of evidence of sheer enthusiasm. That being said, a few initial quibbles: ⇒ The advent of … Continue reading “Book Review: IPA, Brewing Techniques, Etc., Mitch Steele”
I have been thinking more about this pre-1850 invention called “Albany ale” and I am a bit surprised to find so many references to it of one sort and so few references of another. The stuff was made in volume, transported and traded over great distances but now seemingly forgotten to memory. As we will … Continue reading “More Thoughts On That Pesky Albany Ale Question”
Well, I am up to page 145 of 451 and believe we have a romp on our hands. Hops and Glory (now 50% off at Amazon.co.uk) is a very entertaining read as well as a better introduction to larger questions of British history in India than I had expected. The format of a chapter on … Continue reading “Book Review: Hops And Glory, Pete Brown (Part 2)”
Is that not the most repetitive title to a post yet? I wonder if New Glarus is in New Glarus County…or maybe Wisconsin county. Anyway, this is simply an incredible beer. Stan and Daria brought it to us when they visited this summer. Once upon a time, I had a small old farmhouse and it … Continue reading “Wisconsin: Wisconsin Belgian Red, New Glarus Brewing, New Glarus”
It’s always a big day when Eric Asimov writes a beer article for The New York Times. Being Canadian, a culture with a deep seam of neediness running through it¹, you glow when you feel like you are noticed just as when the beer nerd’s nerdiness gets the MSM treatment. But in today’s article all … Continue reading “Big Hop Bombs: Extreme Beer And Your Personal Limits”
A very strange thing has been happening lately. I am going out to a store in my own town and buying the same Ontario-made beer week after week. I wrote about Lake Ontario’s (not Lake Erie’s) Great Lake Brewing’s take on a winter ale a few weeks ago. That beer was a bit frustrating as, … Continue reading “Ontario: 666, Devil’s Pale Ale, Great Lakes Brewing, Etobicoke”
I took no notes. I had the camera but I took no pictures. The photo is from two years ago. Even though you can blog about pretty much anything if you have a deft eye for the moment, I felt only a little guilty but blogging can get in the way of enjoying and I … Continue reading “When Is It Right Not To Blog About Your Beer?”
When I was in undergrad in the early 1980’s, just before New Brunswick’s Hans Haus sorta failed at lift-off and Nova Scotia’s Granite Brewery took off, I mainly drank beer made by two breweries that made beers that were pretty much like beers in the rest of Canada, except they were made by Moosehead’s Dartmouth brewery … Continue reading “Ten-Penny: Another Maritime Canadian Beer Disappears”