Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 30, 2009, 5:54 pm
I got a great gift in the mail today. Copy 8 of 10 of Ron Pattinson's new book, WAR! He wrote about the book's release this very morning from his home in The Netherlands and by suppertime a c...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 29, 2009, 8:42 am
Nothing like nicking an idea from a smarter beer blogger. Pete Brown has waxed about George Orwell by way of introduction to his post about that beer movie called Beertickers: Beyond The Ale. While th...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 28, 2009, 1:04 pm
I am a little less than pleased with the idea of Xmas beer today. I did the math and realized that one bottle out of the six - usually a sensible session - overwhelmed the others, sneaking an extra 38...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 27, 2009, 5:15 pm
The heart cheers at the appropriateness of this news: The service, which begins at 7.30pm, will reflect on the church's past, celebrate its present role and look to the next 750 years. The church ...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 25, 2009, 6:26 pm
It was a day of reading about new things in beer. Not just new new things but things that introduce newness in beer. And not just experimentation either: Lew was not struck dumb about the new porter f...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 25, 2009, 6:06 am
Things are moving along with the 2009 edition of the Yule and Sundry Holiday Beer Photo Extravaganza. Need more UK entrants. Not teaming with Jeff in London this year has meant a real hit given his hu...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 24, 2009, 8:49 pm
I hadn't heard this before but a sudden drop in bar attendance was discussed in today's Chronicle Herald: It could be fear of catching H1N1 or perhaps it’s a sign of the recession, but whate...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 23, 2009, 9:10 pm
Beer culture is is such a delicate and hopefully early state of development in Canada - even after all these years - that there are only a few places you hope to find an important work related trainin...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 22, 2009, 1:11 pm
Last week there was a bit of a burst of blog posts about innovation and value. Mr. B. even expanded on his views with a follow up post. All good. People are thinking about what is in the glass. One s...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 21, 2009, 6:39 am
I forgot a rule. What is the point of having rules if you forget them? It's not a bad rule. And it is sensible. Make sure your photos are not gia-nor-mous. See, I have a 2003 coal fired computer...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 20, 2009, 5:39 pm
Sipping a moderately good San Marino amber ale, I am all a giggle on a Friday evening. The first entries are coming in and we have a big prize announcement. Once lucky winner in the world will receive...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 20, 2009, 7:00 am
Interesting to read about the state of beer and... err... other beverages which have spent decades below the sea in shipwrecks: Take the case of the divers who opened and drank one of eight bottles of...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 18, 2009, 6:06 pm
Was it something I said? Did you all have photos of that beer and that dinner you had back last March some place and you are really ticked off at the photo context prohibition on your art form? For so...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 17, 2009, 6:57 am
I must say that when Martyn and Ron both decide that enough is enough on one day, well, that is a day to be noted. First, Martyn: I paired Atlantic IPA with another beer I knew would be towards the ho...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 16, 2009, 7:33 pm
It was 12 months today that I last wrote those words... except for the 2009 of course. Hard to believe that this is the fourth annual photo contest. Here are the 2008 winners, here are the best from 2...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 16, 2009, 5:50 pm
... and that is people writing about "pairing" beer and food. Normal folk eat food and drink beer along with it - but few who do that would recognize themselves in this description: "...beer is also g...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 15, 2009, 5:11 pm
Subtitled, "An Intemperate History of Beer in Canada" this book really isn't a history. And it isn't always limited to Canada or even speaks to all of Canada. It is really a collection of pers...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 13, 2009, 7:16 pm
I hoard Christmas ales. Buying more than I open every year, building a surplus of aging 10% Yuletide bombs that I dip into after time does its job. Halloween beer? Not so much. There is something abou...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 12, 2009, 6:29 pm
It is ad renewal time at A Good Beer Blog. You will have noticed some tasteful and subdued notices scattered to the left, quietly doing their job and helping the beer blog do its business. Emails are ...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 11, 2009, 4:33 pm
It does warm the heart when the buyer is noted as a player in the marketplace for beer. We have heard calls from certain brewers that the public should pay more and that the brewer should have the rig...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 10, 2009, 7:20 pm
I must have picked this up at Finger Lake Beverage last February. Lovely new web site. $3.50 USD with as cheery a small bottle as ever there was. Well, to be fair, the 375 ml cork top from Girardin is...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 9, 2009, 7:24 pm
I got my review copy of The Naked Pint by Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune the other day. Didn't get twelve emails telling me to get it, either. Didn't get co-opted into the battle against ...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 8, 2009, 9:00 am
Two possessives in a headline? Pete wouldn't allow that sort of thing for sure - even if I am a bit puzzled at him having the title of "former beer marketing guru" given that it hovers over his ar...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 6, 2009, 6:18 pm
The most squandered meme in beer blogging is back with a question that leaves me a little confused and a little disinterested. Here is the heart of the question posed by Andy Couch who is not Andy Cro...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 5, 2009, 6:50 pm
Knut mocked me. I have never been mocked by a Norwegian. It stung. But Lew had me thinking. It pours the orange amber of Syracuse Pale Ale or London Special Ale. On the sniff, a whiff of mute orange...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 4, 2009, 7:14 pm
So, I was on the road for 24 to take in the 23rd NY special election with pals across the border... which means I could fit in a shopping spree. A few days ago, we were exploring relative value as wel...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 2, 2009, 5:30 pm
It really is embarrassing sometimes, you know, explaining you are... errr... Canadian. Nice people, not ever really going to do anything too crazy people, the sort of people you can leave your car key...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Nov 1, 2009, 9:57 am
"Enemy"? That's a strong word. Eric Asimov used it in the NYT last week and it got me thinking about me and good beer: What unites this team is the striving for real wine, real beer, and real food...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 31, 2009, 7:27 pm
What to pop on Halloween waiting for the kids to come home and the Yankees - Phillies rain delay to end? I have no pumpkin ale in the stash. At least this oatmeal stout is called a beastie. It pours...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 25, 2009, 6:31 pm
I have a confession. The Xmas photo contest got a wee bit out of hand last year. Over 500 hundred photos to sort through. I think it is a great thing to do and am happy to help those who need more be...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 24, 2009, 3:05 pm
Oh, happy day. Oh, happy happy day when there are two boxes from Deschutes waiting for me. And on a Friday. Excellent. One of the wee gifties floating in the styrophome chip was this fresh hop pale al...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 22, 2009, 8:53 pm
I wish I was handy. I can do many things. I do laundry well, for example. But there is no money in doing laundry. And no beer. I am unlike the guy behind Aviator Brewing located in North Carolina USA....
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 22, 2009, 6:36 pm
I checked out the US Patent and Trademark Office again and see that Rock Art's application for trademark has been amended on a "proposed" preliminary basis on the same day that the confidential se...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 21, 2009, 7:20 pm
There seems to be some news happening this suppertime around the Vermonster saga-ette with news today from the website of Rock Art Brewery and via their Twitter account. Vermont Public Radio seems to ...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 20, 2009, 6:38 pm
Equipment? We don't need no secondary! Beer styles?? We don't need no stinking beer styles!! We have recipes with names like Apple Crisp Ale and Grapefruit Honey Ale. It's like rereading...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 19, 2009, 6:06 pm
I am thinking of my dream pub again. Something more interesting than the faux Irish pub at the mini-mall.You know, having a Munich beer hall nearby might be all well and good - but am I going to go al...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 18, 2009, 8:00 am
The label lists both the Washington and New Hampshire Redhook breweries but I received this last week in the mail from Craft Brands Alliance of Portland Oregon. Bet it's a west coast brew. You kno...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 17, 2009, 2:44 pm
Not exactly a good beer news item but a good item in the news with a beer angle: a child porn ring was located due to a can of Yuengling Black and Tan appearing in one photo: "There were clues in thos...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 15, 2009, 7:46 pm
You know, it's fun to learn new things. Today, for example, I learned how to use the search tool at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A great example of open government, you can even...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 14, 2009, 6:35 pm
This is one of those elemental questions that in the end may well lead to not that much. It may be a personality test. It may speak to your experience or innate preferences. It arose from the article ...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 13, 2009, 8:08 pm
Much is being made of a legal claim being brought against Rock Art, a small Vermont brewer, who makes "Vermonster" beer by a premium soda pop maker whose brands include "Monster" energy pop for confus...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 12, 2009, 8:48 am
Very sad news this morning of the passing of Greg Noonan, founder of the Vermont Pub and Brewery as well as author of a number of important books on brewing. There is a thread of condolences over at B...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 11, 2009, 7:04 pm
Yes, the verdict on beer and health is all over the place. Seems like it'll help if you want to keep your ticker going so that you have a better chance of facing that cancer it cause. If that'...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 3, 2009, 9:04 pm
I had a Het Anker Margriet after supper, a beer that is on the shelves in Ontario at a incredibly reasonable price for the quality. With the Red Sox winning their last Saturday night regular season ga...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 3, 2009, 9:31 am
This month's edition of The Session is about beer to the east. I had worried for a while about making sure I had the right be, the most easterly. But to heck with that. I am going to write about m...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Oct 1, 2009, 7:21 pm
Don't forget that tomorrow is the thirty-second edition of The Session. This month is being hosted at Girl Likes Beer and we are supposed to pick a beer from the nation to the east. As you can see...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Sep 30, 2009, 5:51 pm
750 ml for $4.79 Canadian. How would that rate on a Beer Price Index (BPI)? Stan gave me the nod about the BPI. I think it needs to have a BAI factored into it - Beer Advocate Index - as this brew got...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Sep 29, 2009, 7:01 am
One of the great things about a niche interest is that you can hug it and call it your own. You can define it anyway you want and no one is around to tell you that you are wrong. Yesterday, Mr. Delia ...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Sep 28, 2009, 8:04 pm
As I thought back about a year ago, I am happy enough to see that the government in the UK is allowing a new 2/3s pint - if only because more choice is better, right? But it is a little odd that the m...
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Alan M. posted an article on A Good Beer Blog - Sep 27, 2009, 8:58 am
The arc of the making and consumption of ribs lasts at least 48 hours in our house. Slabs, usually pulled from the freezer after being collected over a number of weeks, are lowered into pineapple juic...
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