Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
Two Nations Joined By WaterWhy can’t we admit it? We are all sitting around drinking flavoured water. We craft beer lovers like to pretend it is like wine, an art based on the manipulation fruit juice – but it ain’t so. In a very real sense, fine beer is a far more crafted product than … Continue reading “CAMWA: The Campaign For Watery Ale”
With just six days to go until CNY Brewfest 2007 at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, the 11th annual, and preparations are being made – meaning that I have booked the hotel and have business cards being printed. Business cards? Me, too – I have no idea why. Anyway, I am going to post more … Continue reading “CNY Brewfest 2007 Update”
I have done a couple of sets of tastings of English pale ales before and with a guest about this is another good opportunity. Here are four more English ales: a 4.3% best bitter from Somerset to the left, then a 5.5% pale ale from East Sussex, next a 7.5% Burtonian IPA and to the … Continue reading “Four More English Pales Ales”
This beer from St. Peter’s is a ruby brown ale under an oddly ivory head. I’ve never seen an ivory head: tan plus hints of green-grey. This is old style, like Burton Bridge porter: barley candy plus molasses with lime and green hops. The yeast is sour cream or soured milk or something in between. … Continue reading “Quick Note: St. Peter’s Old Style Porter”
So there I am, in the last paragraph 14th story in The New York Times, Business Section, Media and Advertising page, web edition index at 6:37 am Monday morning with the precious URL, all live and linky: No seized web site or anything. No referrers yet as I can see. Oh well. Wait for the … Continue reading “Not The Cover Of The Rolling Stone”
So there I am, in the last paragraph 14th story in The New York Times, Business Section, Media and Advertising page, web edition index at 6:37 am Monday morning with the precious URL, all live and linky: No seized web site or anything. No referrers yet as I can see. Oh well. Wait for the … Continue reading “Not The Cover Of The Rolling Stone”
Ben at Tiger in Winter made me do this, though I hate the me-me thing. Number of books I own: about 12 shelves worth shelf being about 28 inches makes it about 336 inches worth. About 35 on beer. Books not inches. I have owned many more and sold them. Books are like water: they … Continue reading “A Cursed Bloggy Game Of Book Tag”
From The New York Times this morning: You’d think that seeing Osama looking fit as a fiddle and ready for hate would spark anger at the Bush administration’s cynical diversion of the war on Al Qaeda to the war on Saddam. It’s absurd that we’re mired in Iraq – an invasion the demented vice president … Continue reading “Know Thy Enemy”
Unlike my recent exposé on Belgian whites, this collection took at seven minute trip to the local LCBO and cost between $2.75 and $3.00 CND per 500 ml bottle. The seasonal selection of beers they bring in is quite good and you can find some nice choices in a single style to compare. These are … Continue reading “Five…Seven…err…Eight English Pales Ales”
Last July, I wrote a review of Pete Brown’s book Man Walks into a Pub. Over 7 weeks later, A reply was posted by Martyn Cornell: I had better declare a massive interest before I begin, since I’m the author of Beer: The Story of the Pint, which came out two months after Pete Brown’s … Continue reading “Book Review: Beer -The Story of the Pint by Martyn Cornell”