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Last month my Beer 101 column introduced some of themore common beer faults, described how you can identify them and discussed their most likely causes.The latest Beer 101, which actually came out a week ago, offers a second look at the things that go wrong in beer. This time I look at some of the [...] Well, thank goodness I worked ahead before coming to Halifax, as my regular columns are providing me with ready content. The latest is May’s Beer 101 at sherbrookeliquor.com. This month I start a two-part series on beer flaws – the common off-flavours that can spoil your experience of a beer. Having already discussed oxidation and [...] In my latest Beer 101 I venture into the world of the controversial and unproven. I make an assertive and unapologetic claim that beer experiences travel shock (sometimes called bottle shock). I have very little proof for such a grandiose statement, but I stand by it. When beer travels, it loses its balance and character [...] The latest in my Beer 101 education series was posted this week over at sherbrookeliquor.com. It is the final installment of my look at serving vessels and how it affects flavour. Naturally I finish the unit with a look at cask ales. Now, I have talked up cask ales a dozen times around these parts, [...] For hardy rustlers and wranglers in the wild west, a dirty mug was all they required to appreciate the frothy goodness of beer. In today’s urban and increasingly cosmopolitan west, we have access to dozens of different shapes, sizes and forms of beer glass. It really leaves one with no excuse to drink straight from [...] I have been writing a fair bit lately here at onbeer.org about the effect of packaging, in particular about bottle vs. can. It is an issue that has captured my inquisitive nature. No matter at what level you discuss the issue – flavour, stability, environmental sustainability – there are opposing viewpoints and uncertain research. I [...] Nothing gets me hot under the collar like beer served too cold. That near freezing in a frosted mug thing that north Americans seem to like bugs me. I know on a hot summer day an ice cold beer seems refreshing and quenching – and it is – but that might be the only time [...] A few weeks ago the beer blog world was afire with a heated debate about the usefulness of beer styles. The commotion was started by one of my favourite beer writers, Pete Brown, with this post and this post. This sparked some response posts at other respected blog sites (including this one and this one).To [...] Okay, it is not a bug, it’s a fungus, but you can’t have beer without it. I am talking about yeast – the single celled miracle creature that turns boring barley juice into an elixir worthy of the Gods. My latest piece in the Beer 101 series over at the Sherbrooke Liquor website looks at [...] My latest Beer 101 is now live, and it takes a look at growing trend toward gluten-free beer. It was a scant few years ago when such a concept was a virtual impossibility in the beer world. Barley is the king of beer and it is chock full of gluten, and so the message was [...] |
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