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The Nineteenth Hole
by Dave GausepohlSporting events and activities have long been toasted, celebrated and sponsored by beer. The Super Bowl commercials are a testament to this popular relationship, as are the many articles written about beer and baseball. Now it seems that brewers are climbing onto the golf cart as golf has become a sport more accessible to all.
Montréal by Bière
by Stephen BeaumontBy car or train, it takes about four or five hours to get from Toronto to Montréal. By the VIA Rail train that transported me on my most recent trip—which actually stops and sits for a time en route, allowing its passengers to sleep and arrive fully rested in the morning—the journey lasts eight hours... View Article
Great Food Beers
by Charles FinkelInstruction for pairing food with beer is a little like scripting sex. In both, “common senses” should prevail. Each is a lot of fun with little direction, yet The Joy of Sex and the Playboy Advisor vie in readership with the Koran, Torah and New Testament. Similarly, books about the appetizing subject of food and... View Article
Curiouser and Curiouser
by Randy MosherThe first thing one notices when surveying the vast landscape of beer is how much it is all the same. Like a great sandy desert, vast swaths of it have a numbing sameness. Well over 90 percent of modern beer is brewed from the same handful of ingredients, to about the same strength, with more... View Article
Beer and the Constitution
by Greg KitsockLast year, the war in Iraq forced the cancellation of the annual National Beer Wholesalers/Brewers Joint Legislative Conference in Washington, DC. As this year’s gathering approaches, National Beer Wholesalers Association president David Rehr has plenty of forest fires to put out.
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Dry Stout: Nourishment for Body, Mind and Soul
by K. Florian KlempNo beer style is more identified with a single country than are dry stouts with Ireland. So synonymous are they that the style name often includes the word “Irish.” Though not originally from Ireland, dry stouts were nurtured and defined there, and the style owes much to Ireland’s independent and devout disposition. The deepest colored... View Article
Burton-upon-Trent
by Paul RuschmannIn the entire world, only a handful of cities both defined and popularized a great beer style. One of them is Burton-upon-Trent, a town of 50,000 in west-central England.
Beer Talk
Thomas Hardy’s Ale, Vintage 2003
by - -O’Hanlon’s Brewing Co. Devon, England Imported by: Phoenix Imports Ellicott City, MD Available: CA, CO, CT, IL, IN, LA, MD, MA, MI, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA, WA, WI This famous barley wine, first brewed in 1968 by the Eldridge Pope brewery to commemorate the poet Thomas Hardy, was discontinued in 2000. This... View Article
Affligem Blond
by - -Affligem Brouwerij Opwijk, Belgium Imported by: Star Brand Imports White Plains, NY Available: CA, NY, TX, PA, IL, MA, DE, DC, KY, MD, MI, NJ, OH, VA, MN, AZ, CO, CT, GA, IN, LA, OR, WA Founded in 1074 by Benedictine monks, Affligem is the oldest abbey in Flanders. Since 2001, the brewery has been... View Article
Snake Pit Porter
by - -Oaken Barrel Brewing Co. Place: Greenwood, IN Available: IN This porter is brewed with chocolate, crystal and black malts. Alcohol (wt.): 3.93 Alcohol (vol.): 4.93 Color: 32 Bitterness: 40 Gravity: 1056
New River Pale Ale
by - -New River Brewing Co. Ashburn, VA Available: NC, GA, VA, DC, MD This pale ale is brewed from pale, caramel, Munich and wheat malts, with Amarillo, Cascade, Centennial and Columbus hops. Alcohol (wt.): 6.9 (vol.): 5.5 Color: deep gold Bitterness: 34 Gravity: 1054
Aviator Red Ale
by - -Flying Bison Brewing Co. Buffalo, NY Available: NY Flying Bison Brewing Co. derives its name from the historical importance of both brewing and aviation to the city of Buffalo—as well as the popularity of Buffalo Wings. Alcohol (wt.): 4.38 Alcohol (vol.): 5.5 Color: n/a Bitterness: 35 Gravity: 1056
Bitter Woman IPA
by - -Tyranena Brewing Co. Lake Mills, WI Available: WI Named for Aunt Cal, “an early resident of Lake Mills,” said to have been the disappointed sweetheart of the Henry Wasdworth Longfellow. The beer brewed in her honor is “very fruity and intensely bitter.” It is brewed with two-row, Vienna, carapils, wheat and caramel malts, and Amarillo... View Article
Puget Sound Vanilla Porter
by - -Harmon Brewing Co. Tacoma, WA Available: WA, now on draft; in bottles later this year The Harmon Brewing Co. opened in 1997 in a disused 1927 furniture manufacturing company. Each keg of this porter is aged for ten days with two whole vanilla beans. Alcohol (wt.): 4.2 Alcohol (vol.): 5.3 Color: 21 Bitterness: 40 Gravity:... View Article
Four Ale
by - -Allagash Brewing Co. Portland, ME Available: CA, CO, CT, FL, IN, IL, ME, MD, MA, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TX, VT, VA Allagash Four was brewed with four malts, four hop varieties, and four sugars (light candy, dark candy, light golden molasses and date sugar). It undergoes four fermentations, each with a different... View Article