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Differing Interpretations Of Half-Robed Lassies With Beer
Evan tweeted about a photo this morning of a poster of a breastfeeding French mother from maybe the last of the 1800s or the first bit of the 1900s. It's the one up there to the left. It got me...
View ArticleAttribution, Copyright Infringement And Plagiarism!!!
Yike-ee doodles. Hot stuff going on in the wine world. Long knives, too. And it is all centered around the otherwise dull and a little frowsy province of Ontario... where I live. What is it all about?...
View ArticleMy Own Loose And Recycled Thoughts At Year End
Max of Pivnà Filosof fame has got to have the most interesting mind which is aimed at good beer these days. That or he just says things others think... I think. Today, he posted his loose and recycled...
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New Years Eve 2012: Indiana Jones, Cava And White Hots
Surprising how well a reasonable Segura Viudas Brut Reserva Cava goes with Rochester NNY's finest - the white hot. A Snappy Griller to be precise. All of Iberia may weep at the thought but I tell you...
View ArticleGiving It Up For January... Or Tuesdays... Or...
While I am not in the set that sees neo-prohibitionists behind every hedge and, frankly, do believe talk of a good beer break is a way of deferring one or two ills, I never thought it would come to...
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Session 71: What If We All Brewed Our Own?
For this month's edition of The Session, John of Home Brewing Manual asked questions about a drinker's understanding of brewing. A lot of questions:Do you brew? If so why? If not, why not? How does...
View ArticleMore New Words For Things Beer and Beery
Out of all the fuss over the foolish "craft v. crafty" PR embarrassment for the Brewers Association has come some amazingly level heading thinking about terms and terminology in response. Just look at...
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Ideas, Analogies And Observations From Other Places
The world of beer thought is a bit of an echo chamber. This is natural given how, until relatively recently, few have written about good beer in a way that actually invites consideration and...
View ArticlePlease Treat Your Beer Only As You Are Told
It's like a new sort of temperance - making sure you treat good beer with the deference we are told is clearly due... and only the deference we are told it is due - as this article preciously...
View ArticleA Call For Beeronomics 2013 Papers Announced
I don't often just cut and paste PR news releases but one of the few gathering of beery people I truly wish I could attend is that of Beeronomics 2013, a conference on the economics of beer and...
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Ruins of Army & Navy Brewery, Halifax Breweries, 1917
A great image from the Nova Scotia Archives exposition on the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917. My old hometown of Halifax lost much of its harbour front during the First World War when a cargo...
View ArticleYour Friday Night Beery Thoughts And Links
I was going to write some half-baked post about comparing that beer to that other beer but I don't have the heart. I am a third of the way through and really enjoying How to Love Wine by Eric Asimov...
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Ontario: Headstock IPA, Nickel Brook, Burlington
I suppose I should write from time to time about what is actually in my fridge. I suppose I should also check out what is in that brown paper bag back there.Nickel Brook's Headstock IPA has become my...
View ArticleBut What Is "Influence" When It Comes To Beer?
Martyn has cornered the market. As I noted on Facebook, he is attempting to suck all beer knowledge into one singularity of a comments thread. I now dub this "black hole" blogging. But it is of the...
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Pass Peter's Pewter Pottle Pot, Please!
In my quest for objects out of which to drink ale, I have a 1940s ceramic part pint, an 1840s pewter quart pot and have declared 2013 the year of the 1700s etched ale glass. But, what ho! Something...
View ArticleWhat Is "Upscale" And Why Do I Want It?
Surfing around the beer news articles on Google News I came across the odd headline "BEER: Raleigh’s New Yardhouse Is Pricy But Upscale". I would have thought the "but" might have been an "and" and the...
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Book Review: How To Love Wine, Eric Asimov
I picked this book up in the pre-Christmas self-gifting spree and, as I mentioned, am glad I did. I have followed Eric Asimov for sometime probably starting with some of his studies of beer styles...
View ArticleWhat Does A Critique Of Beer Culture Look Like?
I've been thinking more and more about the framework of the beery discourse and what has gotten us to this point. Still no comprehensive US history of beer. Still we live with the very language of beer...
View ArticleHaving A Go At Beery Long Writing With Max
I have a few things burbling away. First in line, as you know, Albany ale needs to be properly addressed - especially given Craig's more detailed research and clearer organization of the topic. Having...
View ArticleAre Contract Brewers Posing As Gypsy Brewers?
Because we are having so much fun with terminology and meaning, I thought I would mention this:As the name suggests, all the breweries involved, save for one (the host), are gypsy brewers. The Brewers...
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