Author: Jonathan Thompson
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Beer of the Month-Town Brewery Outside Jokes Pale Ale
No Joke I’m so serious about this beer that I waited until after April Fools to publish it. Pale ales these days tend to be a bit thin and underwhelming. It’s not the beer’s fault. It’s our fault. The mystic lupulin threshold shift and the consistent practice of palette abuse has left us a little Read more
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Beer of the Week-Henderson Group of Season’s Greetings
A Bitter…. Bitter Wow, that head disappeared quickly! And what is a Canadian Pub Ale Anyway? It’s a Bitter. It’s a bitter Bitter. The amber colour looks lovely in the glass, and would be lovely in a dimpled mug, but a standard pint glass is equally appropriate. A big nose of floral hops and pome Read more
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Beer of the Week – Indie Alehouse Marco Polo Italian Pilsner
A hop forward Italian style pilsner with clean flavours and a dry finish. A light gold pour with a persistent, pillowy white head. The hops make themselves immediately known with dominant floral notes along with light hints of citrus. A grainy malt background prevents the beer from being a total hop bomb, and reminds us that it Read more
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Beer of the Week- Henderson Export Stout
Henderson Brewing Export Stout Dark and opaque, with a lovely, but short lived, tan head. The nose is a wonderful bouquet of bittersweet chocolate, overlaying light coffee notes and hints of alcohol. The chocolate and coffee carry on into the flavour along with some roast and a noticeable yet appropriate bitterness. Medium-full bodied with moderate Read more
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Gulden Draak Brewmaster
A Fireplace Sipper A deep amber liquid poured into the tulip glass, capped by a medium-low white head of loose bubbles. The low level of carbonation was unexpected from a bottle conditioned beer, but it worked. The high alcohol rapidly destroyed the head leaving only traces of lacy foam clinging to the side of the Read more
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How Beer is Made
From Field to Glass Beer can be produced from a variety of grains, but the barley kernel contains all of the indigenous enzymes required to fully convert the starch reserves into fermentable sugars, and so it is the dominant grain in beer making. It’s almost as if barley’s very existence was designed for producing beer! Read more
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A Brief History of Beer
In the beginning It has been proposed, by beer people of course, that humans settled down so they could make and drink beer. It’s a nice story. Similar arguments have been made with a focus on bread. We can generally agree however, that it was the birth of agriculture that set the foundations for human settlement and civilization. It Read more