The following is an article I put together during my time in Halifax about one of my absolute favourite pubs: The Henry House. It was supposed to run in the Summer issue of TAPS; however, due to space restrictions of the new edition it had to be remov…
Once upon a time, I had a beer called Frosty Frog. It was a winter warmer from Rogue’s Issaquah brewery. And it was delicious. Since then, I’ve wanted to try other beers from Issaquah. If the winter warmer is that good, certainly the others are too, r…
As Alan nicely reported in close to real time (complete with a photo of our RV in case you’ve been wondering what our 140 square foot home looks like) our family spent a lovely evening with his last week. There was a lot of talk of beer — …
I mentioned a few weeks back the unveiling of Furthermore’s newest beer, the Oscura. Perhaps it isn’t fair for me to review it, to be honest. Its almost like brewer Aran Madden got into my head and picked the two things that I love only slightly less …
I did not go far enough to see the midnight sun, but even blow the Arctic Circle the nights are brighter than a December day. If you sit outside, you can easily read a newpaper even at midnight.
And, if there is no interesting beer to be had locally, …
The Jacobsen range from Danish megabrewer Carlsberg is, I’m told, distributed exclusively to the restaurant trade in Ireland. The classy 75cl bottles are intended for diners to sip with their meals as an alternative to wine, a strategy I wholeheartedl…
Science lessons and our newest beer
Couple beer-related pieces in the Pioneer Press today, one on the expansion of the craft beer scene, especially “big brews,” and what I thought was a more interesting (and relevant to mnbeer.com) piece on the recently-opened National Br…
The task of updating the bottled beer menu at NABC/Rich O’s/Sportstime began about the same time as Gravity Head (i.e., February 29), and proceeded through so many false starts, revisions and reboots that it seemed as though I’d passed into another di…
Ok folks, not about beer tonight, but I certainly couldn’t pass up the opportunity to brag about my princess. This would be my first installment of “Non-beer Blog of the Day”.My friend Todd who I mentioned in a previous post who is an outstanding chil…