Of all the beers from Trappist breweries, Orval is definitely my favourite. Firstly, how can you go past that lovely art deco-style bottle? Then there’s the beer itself, pale and with far […]
O is for Orval
N is for near beer
While the idea of an almost totally alcohol-free beer-like substance is largely mocked, it saved a number of breweries during the dark days of Prohibition. Called “non-alcoholic beer” in Australia, near beer […]
I is for imperial
There are a few beer adjectives that cause me some confusion. ‘‘Premium’’ is one of them, as in ‘‘premium lager’’. Firstly, it implies there has been some sort of special treatment given […]
Porn and the definition of craft beer
In 1964, the US Supreme Court was hearing the obscenity case of Jacobellis vs Ohio. Nico Jacobellis, a cinema owner, was in trouble for screening the French film Les Amants, which the […]
A piece of beer history
For a long time – even longer than I’ve been of beer-drinking age – I’ve loved those old painted posters that would feature both in and outside pubs between the 1950s through […]
Siding with a mega brewer
I really never expected to side with the mega brewers CUB. More so, I never expected to feel sorry for them. But it do – and it’s all the fault of craft […]
The history of beer
This is just one page of a fascinating graphic history of beer I found over here. Wish I had the internet – and graphic – smarts to do anything as cool as […]
