Home Brewing Again

Started home brewing again. The beer on the left is a Belgian Golden Ale and the one on the right is an Orval Clone. Well, an ESB dry hopped with Styrian Golding and contaminated with Brettanomyces, which sounds like Orval to me.

Just a portion of the brewing library here at "The Guild". Some nice old books among the newer texts. Of course I've read them all :-)

Vermont Beers

Vermont Beers arranged for a photoshoot

Pedal powered bar

Sierra Nevada's pedal powered bar

Paulaner Brewery Capetown

Beer Laws

Beer cart on the street one Saturday in September in Koln (Cologne)

View from the hop house

How would you like to live somewhere where this is the view from your kitchen window?
Wolnzacher in Hallertau.

Brewers House in Brussels

In the center of Brussels this magnificent building appears to be some kind of Brewer's guild HQ. Maison des Brasseurs We've got a ways to go

Bush

The brewhouse at the Dubuisson brewery, brewers of Bush beer. The beer is called Scaldis in the USA.

Hop Harvest in Popperinge

Toasting the hop harvest with the farmer in a hop field. September 2008. The beer?
Westvleteren 12 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cantillon

While at the Cantillon brewery in Brussels, a famous lambic and gueze producer, I was lucky to get in on a sampling of a gueze from 1983. Thats 25 yrs old folks. It was incredible. It smelled like a stable (with lambics that's a good thing)

Rodenbach

About a month ago I visited Rodenbach Brewery in Roeselare Belgium. The Grand Cru is aged 3 yrs in wooden tuns. This beer is blended to produce the Rodenbach regular beer but left unblended as Grand Cru. Uniquely sour with a cherry flavor despite there being no cherries used in its production. The tour of the brewery was in Dutch so I only discerned a little of the story but the sample at the end was fabulous.

Patriotism

A better kind of patriotism.

George Will

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/the_essential_beer.html

Great picture

Great photograph whatever your politics.

Video

New video for the web and for the dvd's

Real Ale Cellarmanship

Real Ale advice

We got da fonk

Our barrel aged chocolate, raspberry sour brown drew gasps of appreciation (or violent wretching) from the crowd at the Beer Advocate "Night of the Funk" beer festival Friday. We were also ashamed we didn't add cherries to it instead of raspberries so we could call it Otter Kriek. To quote a line from one of my favorite movies Spinal Tap, "its a fine line between clever and stupid."

Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg

Christine and I went to NYC last weekend to see this guy again. We re-established our leftist credentials in one fell swoop. Now we can go back to listening to NPR, driving our volvo, eating French cheese and sipping chardonnay with the rest of the liberal elite Vermonters

Lobethal Bierhaus

Lobethal Bierhaus
is owned and operated by Guild Grads Phil and Alistair