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Hop Talk (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
© Hop Talk - Use of this feed on other sites without express permission is prohibited ©Hop Talk – Use of this feed on other sites without express permission is prohibited Beer-a-Day #326 Medium amber with a little chill haze. Big hop aroma, with grapefruit and toast. Big hop flavor and delicious. They should just call this “hop head’s delight”. Stone IPA submit_url...
The Bitten Bullet (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's been said before. The on-line beer community is a thriving little micro-cosm of generosity. Yesterday, a package arrived from Rick Kempen ( @eurodog on Twitter), the face of Bier & Co, the Dutch importers and wholesalers of the kinds of US craft beers that make beer geeks drool, and the suppliers of BeerTemple in Amsterdam, at which I had the pleasure of visiting on the opening night . The...
Brookston Beer Bulletin (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is another one of my rambling rants that’s not really beer-related, or at least not beer-centric. If heavy media discussions are not your bag, feel free to stop here and just ignore this one. Beer topics will resume in a few moments. This topic does effect beer insofar as it effects everything in the [...]
Wort's Going On Here? (Free subscription) | yesterday
After three months in secondary, I kegges the Saison d'Hiver . Clear amber/orange with bourbon and cinnamon notes. 9.4% abv. Should be awesome in a few weeks. Even better next year! Even though this in my employer's Christmas beer, I will bottle a six pack for Nationals, and 4 22 ounce bombers for next year. Part Cing will be the serving!
A Roughneck's Take On Beer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Samuel Adams Winter Lager Boston Beer Co. Boston, MA I get a lot queries on this blog but occasionally they tilt towards the odd and bizarre. Namely two recent ones "roughneck crossdresser" and "roughneck men with nice asses". So I did the normal thing and googled both phrases and found that the returns are #2 & #1 respectively for this blog. That knowledge and $2.99 will get...
Hop Talk (Free subscription) | yesterday
© Hop Talk - Use of this feed on other sites without express permission is prohibited ©Hop Talk – Use of this feed on other sites without express permission is prohibited Beer-a-Day #325 In the 14th Century, Sailors would rely on sheer skill to get from a starting point to a final destination. They called this Dead Reckoning. We see our beer the same way. We know where to begin and...
Brookston Beer Bulletin (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Monday before Thanksgiving is the traditional date that Anchor Brewery used to release their Christmas Ale (a.k.a. Our Special Ale), undoubtedly the first annual holiday beer in the silver age of brewing. For the last few years, it’s been released earlier, usually the first week of November. Last year I lamented that loss of [...]
Stonch's Beer Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I spent Saturday afternoon at Decanter magazine's grand tasting at the Landmark in Marylebone. Despite tasting scores of wines over four hours, I walked out sober and managed not to disgrace myself in front of the young lady's parents. That's what judicious spitting can do for you (although I did let some of the finer clarets and dessert wines slip down the hatch). But could you imagine doing that...
The Brew Site (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
My first Featured Article for Hop Press is up this morning: Pumpkin Beer Season. Go give it a look.
Brookston Beer Bulletin (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Originally, Iron City Brewing (f.k.a. Pittsburgh Brewing) claimed they were only closing the canning line, but it appears the whole kit and kaboodle is leaving Pittsburgh for the greener pastures of Latrobe. That’s another big loss of a historic brewery, one that’s been around since 1861. The Pittsburgh City Paper has a long, interesting article [...]
Brookston Beer Bulletin (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
If you’re like me, you love what I call “brewery porn,” which is photos of brewing equipment either installed or by themselves. So when I watched the film reboot of Star Trek, I was convinced that portions of the movie — the engineering deck — were filmed inside a large brewery. Sitting in the darkened [...]
Seen Through a Glass (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
There's been a holiday party at the big old brewery in Kensington every year Yards moved in, and now that it's Philadelphia Brewing, the tradition has not changed. Here's the deal: The festivities will be from 2 o'clock - 5 o'clock on Saturday November 28th. Santa will be here along with Delco Nightingale playing classic Christmas favorites and DJ DNA. We will also be debuting our new Winter Ale! In...
Brookston Beer Bulletin (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The artist for today’s ad was born in the Alsace, in 1873, in what is today part of France. But two years before he was born, it belonged to the German Empire, who had annexed it after the Franco-Prussian War that began in 1870. Why is that relevant? Because Jean-Jacques Waltz, better known as “Hansi,” [...]
Seen Through a Glass (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Pittsburgh trip I'm telling you about -- Red Star, Church, East End, Full Pint, an' 'at -- is, of course, not complete . It's because there are two huge holes in it: Iron City and Penn . I stopped and stared at the big, silent Iron City brewery Wednesday morning when I was visiting Church Brew Works: the huge graphics coming off the walls, the little sign still saying "Beer Gear Shop."...
The Brew Site (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
There was an interesting local article about beer and the economy this week: High Desert’s big beer biz: Bottoms up or bust? It includes some interesting and candid quotes from some of the beer folks here in Bend, including Deschutes Brewery’s Gary Fish and 10 Barrel’s Garrett Wales. “At Deschutes Brewery, our numbers are okay,”President and [...]
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