daughtersofbeer:

Today our afternoon beer is Meantime IPA @meantimebrewing sourced from the local Sainsbury’s. This 750 ml corked and wired champagne bottled beer has been described as hop wine, packed with as many fuggles and goldings as they could get into the copper. It has a slight fruity nose and a mild biscuity bitter flavour, with a lingering heat that reveals its 7.4% abv.

“Excellent drunk now, even better drunk tomorrow; this is one for laying down - both you and the beer will benefit from it”.

We couldn’t agree more.

(Source: brokenenglish)

daughtersofbeer:

Sometimes when we visit Seattle we think we are living in a dream; a big beer dream where convenience stores have taps, chapels are pubs and Starbucks has a liquor license. It’s not a dream, it’s just a civilized place to live. Here are some new discoveries on a recent trip.

The candy store for beer is Super Deli Mart in West Seattle. It’s like a 7-Eleven but with kegs stacked up by the door, coolers and shelves stocked with craft beer, boxes of beer stacked up by the check-out and 6 rotating taps behind the counter. There are also some loaves of bread, milk, kleenex and smokes. As you shop you can enjoy a pint of whatever happens to be tapped (recent offerings were Skagit River Brewing Scullers IPA, Fort George Vortex IPA, Boulder Beer Company Mojo IPA, Redhook Brewery No Equal Sounder’s Amber Lager, Great Divide Brewing Colette Farmhouse Ale, and Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA). As we sat drinking our beer and enjoying our hoagies I nervously eyed a four-pack of Sierra Nevada Hoptimum Whole Cone IPA and quickly grabbed it for fear someone else would discover it. They also host special events and recently held a sold-out tasting of Russian River Brewing Co’s line up including Pliny the Younger on tap. We made sure to stock up on provisions which included Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary series Jack and Ken’s Ale Black Barleywine and Brewers Reserve Grand Cru, Boulevard Brewing Double-Wide IPA, Crooked Line Detour Double IPA, Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout and Fremont Organic Hop Lab.

Another great find is the recently opened Pine Box Bar in Capitol Hill. 30 taps have breathed new life into what was formerly a Chapel and most recently a night club. The Pine Box is run by Ian Roberts one of the founders of Seattle Beer Week and former manager of Brouwer’s Cafe. We enjoyed a Fish Tale Brewing Organic IPA cask and a Sierra Nevada Hoptimum Whole Cone Imperial IPA. We chatted with some lovely beer-forward locals, Jason and Leelee, who gave us some tips on other hots spots to check out including “Barbucks” - a Starbucks on East Olive Way in the neighbourhood that serves beer and wine after 4pm. Unbelievable!

creemoresprings:

So it’s been a few weeks that we have been back now, but our work on bringing the Altbier to fruition hasn’t slowed at all. We’ve spent a fair amount of time with the yeast samples we brought back with us. It took a couple of weeks of growing, plating, re-growing, and re-plating, but we finally…

uneamericaine:

christopherdickey:

Did we miss the party? Recycling bin filled to overflowing — and then some —on Ave Wagram in Paris this afternoon.

Oh my.

Check out France, doing it right.

(via newsweek-paris-france)

iloveoldmagazines:

Texas Monthly

1975 Vol. 3, No. 1

This seems important.

theeconomist:

Daily chart: wine consumption by country. America glugged more still and sparkling wine than any other country last year. Together with the Chinese and Russians, Americans are driving growth in global wine consumption, which has increased by 3.5% since 2007.

Go France go! Canada needs to buck up, it seems. At least we made the list.

If you haven’t been to Cossab then you have to go! This awesome brew pub has two locations — one in Boedo and one in Urquiza.

Read my interview with Juan Ignacio, the owner.

Cossab deserves more prominence
on the online lists you tend to find when searching for English info on beer in
Buenos Aires. Sadly, it doesn’t always make an appearance. Sometimes I suspect that they might not
have even gone and tried any of the beer they are writing about!

Boedo is not as famous as Palermo or as busy as the
Microcentro, but it isn’t a neighbourhod that is hard to find. It