Accounting for Taste

What would you do with these ingredients? Base malts: Muntons Marris Otter Dark Bohemian Pilsner Floor Malt CMC Superior Pale Specialty Malt Oak Smoked Wheat Malt Dark Bohemian Wheat Floor Malt OiO Barley Flakes OIO Wheat Flakes Toasted (Torrified) OIO Brewers Oat Flakes (Quick) OiO Rye Flakes Toasted Thomas Fawcett […]

Has He Lost His Mind: Iron Brewer 2012

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As regular reader, Darren Siddorn, that long haired lover from Liverpool, pointed out last week on Beer and Food Tuesday, the dish that you’d expect to see associated with Strasbourg and Kronenbourg is Tarte Flambee or Flammekeuche. It’s essentially an Alsatian flatbread dish that’s very close in makeup to being […]

Beer and Food Tuesday: Flammekueche

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I’d like to expound upon an idea that’s been kicking around at the back of my head for a while now. I suspect that it’s a touch inflammatory, so I want to point out to you that it’s not meant as an attack on anyone in particular, but as more […]

Craft Beer Evangelism or St. John’s Wort Unfolds The Mystery

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One of the things that we don’t talk about very much in the Ontario beer scene is the initial outbreak of craft brewing in the province. I have the feeling that the reason for this is that it was pretty depressing for a very large number of people. Over the […]

On The Likelihood Of Success OR Consider The Finches

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I was sitting on the couch, watching Guy Fieri tell Lou Diamond Phillips that his ribs were the “bomb diggity” or “winner winner, chicken dinner” or some other vaguely positive California white guy thing. He may have used the adjective “hella.” I’m not really sure. I was paying the sort […]

Molson M – Their New Commercial

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For a while now, I’ve been thinking about evolutionary biology. My understanding of the subject is not perfect, since it’s informed mostly by Stephen Jay Gould’s book Bully for Brontosaurus, the film Jurassic Park and Grade 12 biology. It’s probably because of this loose understanding of the subject that I […]

Bud Light Platinum OR Consider the Elephant

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