Posted in England, UK, beer, beer history, brewing, craft beer, pubs, travel on May 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The theme of The Session this month is how did it all start for you ?
Boak and Bailey have given us the following challenge: We’d like you to write about the moment when you saw the light. At what point did you realise you were a beer lover / geek / enthusiast? What beer(s) triggered [...]
Posted in UK, beer, beer history, craft beer, food, pubs, smoking, travel on February 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
From the Evening Standard about the changing face of London pubs, which is not as bleak as some portray it:
Bewilderingly, food is now considered as important as drink - pork scratchings do not count. The market is now increasingly about “food, family and females”.
A wail of lamentation can be heard from those diehards who are [...]
Posted in Norway, beer, beer history, brewing, craft beer, food, pubs, travel on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Photos for this post kindly provided by Lars Marius, as I left my camera at home!
The Lillehammer brewery was among the small Norwegian brewers that was bought up by Ringnes to be closed down in 1983. (This means that I have tasted their beers, but I am afraid they did not leave any lasting expression..)
A [...]
Posted in USA, beer, beer history, beer marketing, craft beer on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Business Week has a potted history of American micros:
The U.S. beer industry probably reached its post-World War II nadir in the late 1960s or early ’70s, at which point Smith’s “invisible hand” started to work its inevitable magic. Slowly at first, then in ever-increasing numbers, small, craft breweries began popping up. Started by people who [...]
Posted in Norway, beer, beer blogs, beer history, beer marketing, brewing, craft beer, food, pubs, travel on February 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »
We have had a rather confusing debate over at the Good Beer Blog over the question of whether Scottish & Newcastle can be perceived as a local brewer in Scotland. I will not repeat the arguments here, but it lead me to thinking about how beer drinkers perceive beers as local and how loyalty is used [...]
Posted in UK, beer, beer history, brewing, pubs on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not for the war, perhaps, but for British beer. Ron has recently shown how consumption peaked in 1914, and the Times fills in the dots between the figures by reprinting their editorial of 7 January 1915. It’s a war tax, of course:
The fall in the consumption of beer, as shown by the output of some [...]
Posted in USA, beer, beer history, beer marketing, brewing on January 4, 2008 | No Comments »
There are all kinds of blogs, one is reprinting articles from Popular Science, Modern Mechanix and other vintage magazines. I have a feeling beer cans were sturdier in 1936, or maybe the women were lighter. It is an early example of product placement, too - look who supplied the photo.
Posted in Belgium, beer, beer history, brewing, craft beer, travel, tagged Brussels, Cantillon, lambic on December 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I don’t know how long the good people over at mo’time will keep my inactive old blog up, so I’ll republish a few of the best posts of 2007 here. I haven’t found a clever way to migrate the whole blog. The first offering is from the end of February:
This micro brewery in Brussels also [...]
Posted in Christmas beer, Norway, UK, beer, beer history, craft beer on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
And everything is covered with a thin layer of ice. No skiing, then.
A time to stay indoors and drink what’s left of the Christmas ales. And you can always dream of Christmases past and Christmases yet to come…
Posted in Christmas beer, UK, beer, beer history, brewing, craft beer, pubs, travel, tagged London, LSE on December 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Judging by the details of the facade of the George IV, I’d say it’s about a hundred years old. I’m afraid I have no information about the Hoare Three Guinea Stout. It is located in a fairly quiet halfway between Holborn and Temple tube stations, more or less enclosed by the London School of Economics. According to fancyapint [...]
