I spent a few days this week at the same cottage where I was last August. Once again, we had a ridiculously bright moon while there. I visited some of the same sites as last time (County Cider Company, Buddha Dog, the cigar store, the Sandbanks) and a couple new places (Fifth Town Cheese, Duke [...]
|
||||
|
Very cool documentary about the American beer industry. Covers the rise of craft brewing as well as the underhanded business tactics engaged in by the BMC (Bud/Miller/Coors) swill merchants to try to maintain their market share. Sam Calagione from Dogfish Head is featured prominently and to a lesser extent, the always amusing Greg Koch from [...] I hadn’t been to GRB since the spring for Curmudgeon IPA (my mouth waters just thinking about it). I finally gave up on their website as an information delivery vehicle…it hasn’t been updated in six months. However, I noticed a new beer on their profile page on BA so I gave them a call and [...] Not content with holding positions #2 and #4 on the “strongest beers” list (Sink the Bismarck!: 41% and Tactical Nuclear Penguin: 32%), Scottish outfit Brewdog has upped the ante with 55% The End of History. This will not only be the world’s strongest beer as well as the most expensive (at £500 per bottle), but [...] I’ve now sampled all three DIPAs from the recent haul so some brief thoughts on them: 2XIPA (American Double / Imperial IPA) My mother made a trip stateside recently with my nieces and sister-in-law to visit a Sesame St. theme park in Pennsylvania. She kindly offered to go beer shopping for me. My mom is the best! As Matt once said to me in library school while admiring a pair of handknit socks from her, “You don’t [...] Ah, beer + tech = the best! I could really go for one of these… Via cnet Well since there’s no local distribution of ABA and I have little interest in crossing the border these days, I decided to take a whack at brewing something like it myself. I found a few homebrew clone recipes online and took them to the Brew House and asked about adapting them (here’s one of the [...] Fitting that just in time for Ontario Craft Beer Week, I would receive a growler of this very fine pale ale from my brother and sister-in-law from their local brewery. I’d previously tried their House Ale which did not make a big impression on me. However this beer has everything a good pale ale should: [...] Some more beer “reviews”: Devil’s Pale Ale (English Pale Ale) |
listeningshootingreading |
|||
