Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
The more I get into the records referencing cream in 1800s New York brewing, the more obvious it is that the term was pervasive. It illustrates excellently, as a result, how branding existed independent of those claims to copyright we suffer from today. In law, there is an excellent and better word for such stuff that … Continue reading “Imperial, Yes, But Cream Ale Was Also Light As Well As…”
This ad in the Jewish Daily News of 30 November 1916 published out of New York has my wee brain spinning – and not only due to the works I can read and those I cannot read. I am starting to think “cream” is a nugget of a folk tale, an indigenous memory that keeps appearing … Continue reading “Cream Ale, Cream Beer And Creamy Goodness”
Look at that. Just look at that. It is a notice in the New York Gazette from 30 October 1821. James H. De Lamater had brought in a supply of Larer’s Superior Cream Beer. Imported by the sloop David. Shipping is not any sort of surprise. Beer and ale was shipped all over the place … Continue reading “Cream Beer Before Cream Ale In 1820s New York City”
Adjectives from another time. How irritating. I mentioned this the other day somewhere folk were discussing steam beer. One theory of the meaning is it’s a reference to the vapor from opening the bottle. Another says something else. Me, I think it’s the trendy word of the year of some point in the latter half … Continue reading “Cream Ale: I Hate Records Revisited…”
Over five years ago now I wrote the last of a few posts on the question of cream beer. It co-existed with cream ale and Imperial Cream Ales and all the other creamy drinks. I traced it from Ohio in the 1840s back to NYC and Pennsylvania in the 1820s. It has been referenced as … Continue reading “Addendum: Cream Beer Was Once Cream Beer”
One of the things about the world we live in is that Google Books is being updated constantly. When I co-authored the histories of brewing in Ontario and the Upper Hudson Valley with Jordan and Craig, now over five years ago, we were very aware of the horrors earlier pop historians faced putting together an … Continue reading “A Few Exciting New References To Albany Ale… Which I Looked Up Now That Baseball Season Is Over”
First conclusion of the experiment: the boxes are far less mould caked when not left in a corner of a cold room for a decade. OK, it wasn’t so bad. I was worried there for a bit but its gonna be OK. Turns out I have doubles. I have leeway. But, come to think of … Continue reading “That Musty Box Of Fuller’s Vintage Ales”
Ah, my least favorite glass ever meets my favourite brewery of 2016. I got the Kwak glass likely the best part of a decade ago and had to wash a decade’s worth of dust off it to celebrate or mark or mourn today’s news. I am not sure I deeply care as I have never liked … Continue reading “Ontario: Golden Beach Pale Ale, Sawdust City”
…by “handsome” I presume you mean the “other” one… Here’s the thing. There is only so much I can lay out to support this idea so I might as well do it and admit that it is something of a reasonable hypothesis. To be fair, I rarely take a position that I can’t later extract … Continue reading “Could Cream Beer Actually Be Cream Beer’s Ancestor?”
Before the curse that is social media was thrust upon us, one key promise of beer blogging was collective research. With the most welcome news that Lew is back into the beer blog game, he reminds us of the point of doing this day after day: A bit over two years ago, I stopped writing … Continue reading “So What Was Northdown Ale In The Later 1600s?”