How’s this for perspective?
One of the provincial-run liquor stores in downtown Halifax has a nifty little display of “Beers of the World.”
One of the beers is Old Milwaukee.
Well, it is imported. Made me ask myself a different question: Where is Old Milwaukee the local beer?
Not sure if the seagull adding a pastoral note to this photo taken at Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia is the culprit, but yesterday we got dive bombed by a gull determined to eat some of our ice cream.
First it swept over me (and missed), but it doubled back and nailed Daria’s cone as well as a bit of her finger. Right near this spot.
She’s got the whole story on the Slow Travelers blog.
How bad do I feel I’ve missed the last two rounds of The Session?
Jim has announced the theme for #19 is Deutsches Bier, and we’re going to Germany to be in place Sept. 5.
OK, to be honest, we’ll be at Legoland in Ulm. The short version of a long story: As part of our family adventure entering Week 12 everybody got to pick 10 places in Europe to visit. Sierra chose Legoland (and saved up to pay the admission price for all three of us).
But I bet I can find a beer to write about.
The Internet connection to post from? Another challenge altogether.
Ray has posted the roundup for The Session #18: “Happy Anniversary.”
Nice turnout, although I must confess I was absent. We hiked up Mount Cadillac in Acadia National Park that day, saw nothing more than about 20 feet in front of us because of fog, got totally soaked (four days later and my boots are still drying) and had an absolutely terrific time.
I certainly would have liked to have participated. This is a wonderful year for beer anniversaries. Goose Island, Deschutes, Wynkoop, Great Lakes and Vermont Pub and Brewery are just a few marking two decades for brewing. Takes your breath away, doesn’t it?
I can tell you just where I was when I first (as well as second and third) had Goose Island Bourbon County Stout. Where I was when I tasted Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold, who I was talking to when I discovered Deschutes Black Butte Porter.
Do you think you know where in the beer world the photo above was taken?
I hope that Round Three of this not-a-contest (though there will be prizes, details) turns out to be pretty easy for some of you.
The second photo should guarantee that, so consider it your weekly hint.
Comment away. I hope to get back to you eventually, but online access is going to be continue to be hard for us to come by in the next week or so (no complaints – much to be said for national park campgrounds if you don’t covet electricity and Internet connections).
That’s why this post is a day late and why there will be no Monday musing this week.
Location revealed (Wednesday, Aug. 6). The photo is of the door on the building attached to Allagash Brewing that holds it coolship. I called attention to it last December and finally got to see it last week.
Allagash founder Rob Tod had shown somebody else the room just the day before, but an industrious spider had already spun this web less than 24 hours later. There were more spider webs inside.
Allagash has brewed four batches using the coolship, two last winter and two more this spring. They now reside in Allagash’s barrel room in various size French oak barrels and used bourbon barrels (just because). It will be a year or more, brewmaster Jason Perkins said, before it is clear what will come of the beer in progress.
There’s more to report from the Allagash barrel room. A new/used foder acquired from Bonny Doon in California. Perkins was preparing to put Allagash Tripel in it the next day, along with a special collection of brewing bugs just itching to get out of a grundy tank in the barrel room. Film at 10.