Beer Giving Back A Welcome Sort Of Gas
Excellent. A gastro-intestinal pun based on this story:Adnams brewery in Southwold has opened its new biogas plant, which converts malted barley leftover from its ale production into purified methane...
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What To Drink With Canadian Thanksgiving Muskox?
OK, we don't actually eat Muskox for Thanksgiving in Canada. The world can't be that perfect apparently. We tend towards turkey with nods to joints of lamb and ham. We watch sports on TV, rake leaves...
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Book Review: Yeast, C. White and J. Zainasheff
This came in the mail last week and I have to tell you - there are a lot of really big words in there. It even comes with its own warning in the Introduction:This is not a book for the highly...
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Albany Ale: A Biography of John Taylor (1790 to 1863)
OK, so it wasn't salty. I blame the scientific principles of mathematics. Math blames me. You be the judge.But manic butterfly that I am, I am now past it, now on to the next thing and today the next...
View ArticleFinnish TV Newsman Fired For Holding Phoney Beer
I've told you my Finnish joke, haven't I. I heard it years ago on BBC shortwave when they were doing a half hour on Finland. I expect it was early on in the show:Two Finns go to a cabin in the woods...
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Aged Beer: Smashed Pumpkin Ale, Shipyard, Portland
Because I believe calling anything "world class" is quite unfortunate, I could not contribute productively to Stan's recent question "Can a Pumpkin Beer be World Class?" Usually "world class" - like...
View ArticleBeer And Ethics: Charges Not In The Public Interest
Remember that odd case last June when firefighters saved and then drained a keg they liberated from the scene of the fire? Well, the case is now closed:Oliver city council urged the RCMP to look into...
View ArticleAre These $170 A Pound Hops Worth Growing Or Not?
Who would have thought that the processes of mass agricultural production actually lead to a cheaper ingredient? Not me. But what do I know? And, well, is that the issue? Given the relatively small...
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Let Us All Forget The Simple Joys Of A Taxi...
How embarrassing. We all know there are certain truths. That, before cars, there was no drunk driving is one of them. Which leads me to this: what the heck sort of problem do people have with jumping...
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Canada: A 1970s Newfoundland Tavern
From a Facebook page for Port Aux Choix, Newfoundland. Dobernette Lounge. The next picture in the series shows just the gas pumps at the other end of the building, alone in the white blur of snow....
View ArticleNew York: Young Barley Wine Takes On Rotten Cold
A rotten cold has kept me from a snarky yet clever retort to the spree of posts in the UK beerblogoverse about styles. It's quite remarkable to read all the comments - even my telling, Jack...
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What Does It Mean When We All Talk About Style?
Now Stan has jumped into the fray on the usefulness of "style." It reminds me of all the little words we use to convey something other than the personal experience: expert, connoisseur, judge. There is...
View ArticleBeware Aficiandos: Utopian Soaking May Be Nigh!
I just about dropped my spoonful of Lucky Charms when I read this passage in Josh Rubin's column in the Toronto Star:News of the beer’s impending arrival has already created a stir among Toronto’s beer...
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The 2010 Christmas Photo Contest Is Coming!
I suppose I better gear up for another onslaught of Yuletide beer photography and copntest award gathering. Heck, it's two months to Christmas tomorrow. And this will be the fifth edition of the annual...
View ArticleIs This An Anti-"Pairing" Movement Starting?
Well, maybe it's an anti-mandatory pairing movement going on in my old home province of Nova Scotia:Restaurants on Quinpool Road in Halifax are being allowed to serve alcohol without food. Regional...
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Delaware: Theobroma, Dogfish Head, Milton
Mark Dredge has a piece in this morning's Guardian out of the UK entitled "The Beer of Yesteryear" which scans the range of recent brewing efforts to recreate beers older than, say, 500 years ago....
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Revisited: Do We Love The Beer Or Vagabond Brewers?
A few years ago now, in February 2007, I asked whether we should love the beer or the brewer. A post by the excellent Joe Stange last week led me to comment and majestic Stan Stan the Hieronymus Man to...
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CJ's And Big M: Beer Shopping in Potsdam, New York
The shore road running southeast along the St. Lawrence between Ogdensburg and Alexandria Bay New York is a pretty quiet time on a Friday evening in mid-autumn. Bottles clinked in the back. They and I...
View ArticleDiscussing Science Down At Your Local Brew Pub?
I have noticed a few stories from time to time about churches and other faiths getting into the pub to spread the good word... but now the scientists are up to it, too:Wouldn’t it be nice to just knock...
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One Of My Favorite Beer Blog Web Stats
Web states are the greatest of mugs game. I have no idea really how many of you are there out there reading this stuff. I know there are almost 9,000 readers via Google Reader, about a tenth of that on...
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