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23-05-2015, 08:45
Visit the Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog site (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/05/news-nuggets-longreads-23052015/)
http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/breakfast_news_nuggets_waffle_diner_672.pngWe’re on our travels so this is a scheduled post. If a major British craft brewer got bought by a multi-national on Friday, apologies for the omission.http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/lars_map-300x177.jpg
→ Lars Marius Garshol continues to mine the data he’s been collecting on farmhouse brewing in Norway, this time looking at which grains were typically used in which parts of the country (http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/330.html)*in the 1950s.
→ Via @Ben_T_Johnson (https://twitter.com/Ben_T_Johnson), who is quoted in the article, Jason Proctor considered*everyone’s favourite faux craft beer Blue Moon and*what the recent class action suit brought against MillerCoors means (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/craft-beer-credentials-are-not-always-what-they-appear-1.3074913). This is the best bit:
“There is the question of ‘So what? They purchased the*beer, they received the beer, they drank the beer. What’s the big deal?'” says Parent’s lawyer, James Treglio.
“The big deal is: ‘Yeah, but they charged more for it.'”
The lawsuit claims identifying Blue Moon as a craft beer allows MillerCoors to charge up to 50 per cent more for the beer than its other products.
http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/arlington_bronx-300x261.jpgAdapted from an image at Flowing Data.→*Flowing Data (via @lisagrimm) has a script for generating beer recipe from US regional demographic data (http://flowingdata.com/2015/05/20/brewing-multivariate-beer/)*— a bit silly, but why not?
Bronx was lighter in color and really hoppy in an unbalanced sort of way, which translates to low income and high population density. An unbalanced beer.
→ There is a new edition of Des de Moor’s*CAMRA guide to London pubs out now and he’s accompanied it with a lengthy*post*surveying the brewing scene as it was in the city in 1971 (http://desdemoor.co.uk/london-brewers-1971/)*when CAMRA was founded.
→ Frequent blog commenter Gary Gillman*has written a 1000-word essay*recounting his career in beer drinking (http://www.bartowel.com/a-beer-gambol-from-the-1970s-to-the-2000s/)*in Canada and elsewhere:
The draft beer in taverns was just “draft”, no one cared or asked about the type or source. Some men ordered bottled beer “tablette”, meaning not chilled, which I found odd but it wasn’t uncommon especially in the long winters there. Some added salt to the beer, which magically raised the head.
→ Alan McLeod highlighted the existence of a beer brewed using water harvested from fog (http://beerblog.genx40.com/archive/2015/may/unlikemost)*— wonder if it’s cloudy?
→ And, finally, one of our own Tweets:
Here's a mission: visit Adrian Bailey's top twelve London pubs as listed in 'Len Deighton's London Dossier', 1967. pic.twitter.com/O2oyegu88Q (http://t.co/O2oyegu88Q)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) May 18, 2015 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/600194305643405312)
Pssst! Our short ebook Gambrinus Waltz — a true labour of love on our part — is on sale at both*Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gambrinus-Waltz-German-Victorian-Edwardian-ebook/dp/B00PIJUH1A/)*(99p)*and*Amazon US (http://www.amazon.com/Gambrinus-Waltz-German-Victorian-Edwardian-ebook/dp/B00PIJUH1A/)*($1.53) for the next few days. You don’t need a Kindle to read it — there are free apps for Android, iOS and PC. Get on it, and tell your pals!
News, Nuggets & Longreads 23/05/2015 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/05/news-nuggets-longreads-23052015/) from Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Over-thinking beer, pubs and the meaning of craft since 2007 (http://boakandbailey.com)
More... (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/05/news-nuggets-longreads-23052015/)
http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/breakfast_news_nuggets_waffle_diner_672.pngWe’re on our travels so this is a scheduled post. If a major British craft brewer got bought by a multi-national on Friday, apologies for the omission.http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/lars_map-300x177.jpg
→ Lars Marius Garshol continues to mine the data he’s been collecting on farmhouse brewing in Norway, this time looking at which grains were typically used in which parts of the country (http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/330.html)*in the 1950s.
→ Via @Ben_T_Johnson (https://twitter.com/Ben_T_Johnson), who is quoted in the article, Jason Proctor considered*everyone’s favourite faux craft beer Blue Moon and*what the recent class action suit brought against MillerCoors means (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/craft-beer-credentials-are-not-always-what-they-appear-1.3074913). This is the best bit:
“There is the question of ‘So what? They purchased the*beer, they received the beer, they drank the beer. What’s the big deal?'” says Parent’s lawyer, James Treglio.
“The big deal is: ‘Yeah, but they charged more for it.'”
The lawsuit claims identifying Blue Moon as a craft beer allows MillerCoors to charge up to 50 per cent more for the beer than its other products.
http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/arlington_bronx-300x261.jpgAdapted from an image at Flowing Data.→*Flowing Data (via @lisagrimm) has a script for generating beer recipe from US regional demographic data (http://flowingdata.com/2015/05/20/brewing-multivariate-beer/)*— a bit silly, but why not?
Bronx was lighter in color and really hoppy in an unbalanced sort of way, which translates to low income and high population density. An unbalanced beer.
→ There is a new edition of Des de Moor’s*CAMRA guide to London pubs out now and he’s accompanied it with a lengthy*post*surveying the brewing scene as it was in the city in 1971 (http://desdemoor.co.uk/london-brewers-1971/)*when CAMRA was founded.
→ Frequent blog commenter Gary Gillman*has written a 1000-word essay*recounting his career in beer drinking (http://www.bartowel.com/a-beer-gambol-from-the-1970s-to-the-2000s/)*in Canada and elsewhere:
The draft beer in taverns was just “draft”, no one cared or asked about the type or source. Some men ordered bottled beer “tablette”, meaning not chilled, which I found odd but it wasn’t uncommon especially in the long winters there. Some added salt to the beer, which magically raised the head.
→ Alan McLeod highlighted the existence of a beer brewed using water harvested from fog (http://beerblog.genx40.com/archive/2015/may/unlikemost)*— wonder if it’s cloudy?
→ And, finally, one of our own Tweets:
Here's a mission: visit Adrian Bailey's top twelve London pubs as listed in 'Len Deighton's London Dossier', 1967. pic.twitter.com/O2oyegu88Q (http://t.co/O2oyegu88Q)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) May 18, 2015 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/600194305643405312)
Pssst! Our short ebook Gambrinus Waltz — a true labour of love on our part — is on sale at both*Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gambrinus-Waltz-German-Victorian-Edwardian-ebook/dp/B00PIJUH1A/)*(99p)*and*Amazon US (http://www.amazon.com/Gambrinus-Waltz-German-Victorian-Edwardian-ebook/dp/B00PIJUH1A/)*($1.53) for the next few days. You don’t need a Kindle to read it — there are free apps for Android, iOS and PC. Get on it, and tell your pals!
News, Nuggets & Longreads 23/05/2015 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/05/news-nuggets-longreads-23052015/) from Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Over-thinking beer, pubs and the meaning of craft since 2007 (http://boakandbailey.com)
More... (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/05/news-nuggets-longreads-23052015/)