What Three Floyds Brewing had on offer at the Great American Beer Festival.
Month: September 2010
Another reason to buy ‘Amber, Gold & Black’
Perhaps I’m picking a nit, but there’s a difference between being too serious about beer (as Stephen Beaumont points out here, and I must confess happens in these parts) and taking beer seriously.
Martyn Cornell illustrates that today when he answers the question, “So what IS the difference between barley wine and old ale?”
This is simply a brilliant bit of research, a classic illustration of looking beyond the obvious, and a superb piece of writing.
The bottom line: He tells us something new.
I realized as I started typing that I don’t think I’ve told you that Cornell’s Amber, Black & Gold — which I called the beer book of the year in 2008 (a more complete review) when it was available only in electronic form — is available Amazon’s U.S. site.
Now I have.
What’s wrong with this statement?
According to Outside magazine, “Like wine, beer mellows with age.”
A new description of beer hell
“. . . stuck in the timewarp of Tennent’s Lager, Belhaven Best and Guinness.”
From a simply brilliant post at I might have a glass of beer.
It’s about a pub outside of Glasgow (you know, Scotland), and includes this paragraph (the italics are mine): “It’s a 15 minute train journey and a 20 minute cycle from the nearest station to the pub. Not as far as it looks, though we got lost in the forest the first time. Once you know the way it’s easy.”
Go read it, please (the last word added after the original post in in deference to Mr. B).
Up close, personal, and signing books
The following could be considered an advertisement. As a small reward for reading on I’m offering a super secret Great American Beer Festival tip at the end. None of this matters at all if you won’t be in Denver next week for GABF.
I’ll be pouring few beers and signing books at GABF. If you own Brewing With Wheat or Brew Like a Monk bring your copy to the festival and I’ll sign your books (or books). Of course they’ll also be for sale. If you just want to stop by and just say hello that’s also OK. If you want a baseball card signed, well, I’ll be happy to. Maybe an Ernie Banks card — one of my favorites.
Check out the full schedule — lots of people signing in the bookstore. My times:
Thursday, 8-9 p.m.
Friday, 7-8 p.m.
Saturday, 3-3:30 p.m.
Saturday, 7-7:30 p.m.
The schedule says I’ll be there at 6:30 on Saturday, but that was changed because I’ll be sitting on the “Craft Beer in the Media” panel in the Brewers Studio Pavilion from 6:30 to 7.
Now to the matter of pouring beer and that super secret tip. About (that means don’t yell at me if I’m late) half an hour before I sign books Thursday and Friday and an hour earlier on Saturday evening I’ll be hanging out at the Support Your Local Brewery Pavilion, talking about and pouring wheat beers in the New Mexico Brewers booth. The tip: they will have artisan cheeses in the pavilion . . . “while samples last.”