Author: Roger Protz
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IPA: The Impact
September 1, 2007 - Roger Protz In the early 19th century, Gabriel Sedlmayr of the Spaten Brewery in Munich, and Anton Dreher from Vienna, embarked on a six-year grand tour of the leading brewing nations. The technical and scientific advances in Burton left a deep impression. The two brewers even engaged in industrial espionage. They used thermometers to measure the temperature... View Article -
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IPA: Truly Pale
September 1, 2007 - Roger Protz As can be seen from the Bass beer brewed for the White Horse, the original IPAs were truly pale in color. Such stewed and colored malts as crystal and caramalt didn’t exist at the time. The first IPA brewers used only pale malt and brewing sugar. In some cases, lager malt was imported from central... View Article -
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IPA Master Class
September 1, 2007 - Roger Protz If cats have nine lives, then India pale ale can certainly lay claim to two. Its first span was relatively brief, not more than a hundred years. But during that time, this beer style refashioned 19th century brewing, not only in Britain but also on a world scale. -
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An Unlikely Alliance
May 1, 2007 - Roger Protz When the news broke that Anheuser-Busch had agreed to market its Czech rival’s Budweiser Budvar brand in the United States, one grizzled observer of the beer scene in Britain observed: “This is the Hitler-Stalin pact of the 21st century.” A tad over the top, perhaps: beer is unlikely to be the catalyst for World War... View Article -
Beer Talk
Weizen Doppelbock
January 1, 2007 - Roger Protz Buzzards Bay Brewery Westport, MA Available: MA, RI Buzzards Bay Brewery is a sister company to Westport Rivers Vinyards and Winery, family-run by two generations of the Russell family. The location, Long Acre Farm, is devoted to sustainable agriculture and natural resource education. Alcohol (vol.): 8.5 Color: deep copper Bitterness: 17 Original Gravity: 17.8 p... View Article -
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Stout in a Slump
January 1, 2007 - Roger Protz There’s an old saying in England that when the ravens leave the Tower of London, the monarchy will fall. Is there, I wonder, a similar maxim in Ireland when sales of Guinness slump: the Blarney Stone turning to dust, perhaps? -
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Raising a White Flag
September 1, 2006 - Roger Protz In the small Belgian town of Hoegaarden the windows of stores and offices are decked out with posters that say in Flemish “Hoegaarden Brews Hoegaarden.” The town is about to lose its brewery and the citizens are deeply angered by the decision to close a plant that revived the “white” spiced wheat beers of the... View Article -
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Celebrating a Trappist Triumph
May 1, 2006 - Roger Protz The Trappist ales of Belgium and the Netherlands, produced in breweries attached to abbeys, are world famous. They include Chimay, La Trappe and Orval, the most widely exported beers. They are produced by monks who help maintain their churches and fund their work in the community with the sales of their beer.