smallbeerblog.blogspot.com
small beer: June 2011
http://smallbeerblog.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html
Monday, June 27, 2011. I feel suitably recovered from becoming a dad for the second time to get back to important activities once again. A slow start perhaps, as I will just be posting a collection of recent beer photographs just now. But this doesn't mean I've been slacking — why, we brewed our own espresso dunkelweisse and wrote an article about it and got a double spread feature for Monday Magazine's beer issue. Not bad for a dude covered in babypoo. On with the show:. From front to back:. Beer On The...
smallbeerblog.blogspot.com
small beer: September 2011
http://smallbeerblog.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html
Tuesday, September 20, 2011. When beer gets in the way of writing about beer. Too often a blogger slips in from an absence with a credible excuse about being busy with real life. I have not written in close to two weeks for much better reasons, and all of them to do with beer. 1 Great Canadian Beer Festival. I am one of the "founding members" of Victoria's new home brewers' association/guild "BrewVIC". The website is in advanced beta. Well, I don't…. 3 Building a homebrew setup. Readers may remember that...
smallbeerblog.blogspot.com
small beer: April 2011
http://smallbeerblog.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html
Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Sumpin's Up with the Wacky Hops. Last time I had a Lagunitas it was the weird Brown Shugga. Lovely stuff, but I'm a cantankerous type and I'm going to whine about the label. There's a trend these days to add a jaunty twist to ingredient lists, and it is cheesy and boring. "Hops, Malt, Hops, Hops, Yeast, Hops, Water, and Hops" reads the label. Haha. How WACKY! To their cute ingredient icons. But for every Perpetual IPA. There's a dozen that are less-than-inspired: Hop Circle.
smallbeerblog.blogspot.com
small beer: Moving over to the Dark Side
http://smallbeerblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/moving-over-to-dark-side.html
Tuesday, November 15, 2011. Moving over to the Dark Side. One of the reasons I haven't written much here recently is my new hobby of homebrewing. No, I am not so absorbed in improving brewhouse efficiency and mastering recipe-crafting that I have no time to write (although these are very absorbing subjects). Here are a few observations gleaned from my young homebrewing career that have changed my perspective on beer. 1 It is not easy to make good beer. 2 Someone makes beer. Does he look hygienic? My firs...
smallbeerblog.blogspot.com
small beer: January 2012
http://smallbeerblog.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html
Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Review: Lighthouse Belgian Black. Lighthouse gave me a bottle of Belgian Black to review this week. This doesn't happen to me very often. I have long harboured a fantasy of utterly panning a freebie just to prove I have integrity. Maybe that's why I don't get too many. On this occasion, I'm happy to risk looking like a sell-out, because I really like this beer. Series. Deckhand was a lovely saison and Uncharted is practically the only "Belgian IPA" worth drinking. Not only is...
smallbeerblog.blogspot.com
small beer: May 2011
http://smallbeerblog.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html
Thursday, May 5, 2011. Pliny Proves a Point. What dreadful timing, and how annoying: a bottle of Pliny the Elder made itself available to me today. This is sincerely not good. The reason I'm probably the least excited beer drinker ever to anticipate his first taste of what some people consider to be the finest IPA. Indeed, beer) currently made, is because of my last blog post. In it, I whined. No sense beating myself up about it, let's drink this thing. Tuesday, May 3, 2011. I was round Dave. No, you'll ...
smallbeerblog.blogspot.com
small beer: November 2011
http://smallbeerblog.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html
Tuesday, November 15, 2011. Moving over to the Dark Side. One of the reasons I haven't written much here recently is my new hobby of homebrewing. No, I am not so absorbed in improving brewhouse efficiency and mastering recipe-crafting that I have no time to write (although these are very absorbing subjects). Here are a few observations gleaned from my young homebrewing career that have changed my perspective on beer. 1 It is not easy to make good beer. 2 Someone makes beer. Does he look hygienic? My firs...
smallbeerblog.blogspot.com
small beer: May 2012
http://smallbeerblog.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html
Monday, May 28, 2012. Halifax, NS Beer Scene Roundup. I am in Halifax for work. Rather than process my notes, it is probably just as instructive to post them in their entirety:-. Halifax beer notes: Day One. 3oz samplers followed by a pint of the red). Decent, malty, casked with usual character. Bit thin. Not bitter. As above but dry-hopped with fuggles. Not overly detectable in this small sampler. A larger glass might have opened the aromas, but otherwise identical. Bitter. Light side of orange....Haddo...
smallbeerblog.blogspot.com
small beer: Review: Lighthouse Belgian Black
http://smallbeerblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/review-lighthouse-belgian-black.html
Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Review: Lighthouse Belgian Black. Lighthouse gave me a bottle of Belgian Black to review this week. This doesn't happen to me very often. I have long harboured a fantasy of utterly panning a freebie just to prove I have integrity. Maybe that's why I don't get too many. On this occasion, I'm happy to risk looking like a sell-out, because I really like this beer. Series. Deckhand was a lovely saison and Uncharted is practically the only "Belgian IPA" worth drinking. Not only is...
smallbeerblog.blogspot.com
small beer: My Favourite Beer Glass
http://smallbeerblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-favourite-beer-glass.html
Thursday, September 1, 2011. My Favourite Beer Glass. Is aroused by a variety of glassware; I am more monogamous. If I had to drink every beer from only one glass I would choose the O-Riedel Cabernet/Merlot "wine" glass. My usual drinking glass is a Unibroue standard. Which falls somewhere between a tulip and a flute, and is elegant. And suitable for many styles. I was recently gifted a nice fat Duvel tulip. Which is grandiose but a little much for most occasions. Even ordinary wine glasses. Also, a coup...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT