This is a niche in the world of beer that I never knew existed. Now that I do I’m sure there are some people who are really, really into it. Zymurgical heraldry […]
Z is for zymurgical heraldry
Y is for Yakima Valley
Beer geeks know that the Yakima Valley in Washington state is the main hop-growing region of the United States. But what I didn’t know is the region wasn’t naturally suited for hop […]
X is for xanthohumol
So X is another one of those letters where there isn’t a lot going on in the Oxford Companion to Beer. There are just three entries – and one of them (xerogel) […]
W is for Westvleteren
In the world of the beer geek a beer from Westvleteren is the Holy Grail. Which is not hard to understand why when you look at the hoops those monks make people […]
V is for Vapeur Brewery
The Vapeur Brewery in the town of Pipaix, Belgium, isn’t in the Oxford Companion to Beer because they needed something to put in the V section. It actually is worthy of note. […]
U is for Umami
The older I get the more things I learned at school become superceded. For instance, when I was a kid, Pluto was a planet but now, when my five-year-old daughter recites the […]
T is for Trappist breweries
The thing I find most fascinating about Trappist breweries that there is a “Trappist police” of sorts who closely monitor who is calling themselves that. If you look at a bottle from […]
S is for Snakebite
Being a guy who always has a book on the go, from time to time I’ve been reading a British novel and come a drink called Snakebite, and another one called a […]
R is for Reinheitsgebot
Okay, I’ll confess my ignorance here. I figured the Reinheitsgebot (which I’ll call Reiny because it’s easier to type) was an olde worlde recommendation for beer with no legislative muscle at all. […]
Q is for quarter
Devoting one blog post a day to a different letter in the Oxford Companion to Beer has its drawbacks. The biggest one is when you hit one of those high-scoring letters in […]
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