Hey, nobody asked us if we wanted lemon.
We had a couple of sample-size servings yesterday when we stopped for just a few minutes at Granville Island Brewing in Vancouver. (We were much more interested in exploring the market area.)
And — because I’m paying attention to all things related to wheat beers these days — I’d filed this from Granville Island brewmaster Verne Lambourne when it appeared in Imbibe magazine.
“To me the beer has enough flavor without it,” he says. Customers at the brewery’s Taproom, however, have the choice. “We do serve it with lemon, but we ask people if they have a preference. We get a lot of tourists from the States, and they’ll definitely want a lemon. German tourists don’t.”
Our hefe arrived with no questions asked but one lemon slice included.
– Please, bar owners, brewpub operators and brewers who have a say in how your beer is served: Lose the shaker pint glasses. Want to get more hop character to come through? Then use glassware shaped to treat the aromatics better. And glass with less weight (yep, that means a few more will break). We had tumblers one place in Vancouver that were as heavy empty as most glasses are full.
– A beef about blogs, rather than beer. I hate rss feeds that default to html. That means you can’t read them offline. We don’t see the Internet every day in our travels, and often in short spurts. I subscribe to a number of blogs via Thunderbird, with the idea I can collect them like email and read posts offline in the evening.
When a blog offers a text feed (like A Good Beer Blog or Shut Up About Barclay Perkins) I can do that. When it is html like Beer Examiner I cannot. I’m shedding those html subscriptions.
What they;re doing is trying to accelerate page views Stan. If you only get a graf, then you have to go to the web page to read it, adding to page views. It’s kind of a scam isn’t it.
By the way, are you going to Victoria? There were a couple of brewpubs over there that I really liked. best.
Thanks, Bill. We had planned to visit Victoria, but decided to cut that out and give ourselves a little more time to get to Prince Rupert before we catch the ferry.
I had no idea my RSS feed was so useful!
My feeling on the shaker glasses (and heftier) differ from yours. If folks want more aroma, should they not be lobbying for warmer beer? I am always dismayed by how cold beer is when I buy it at a pub or restaurant. Plus not all beers are about highlighting the aroma – I would presume beer is often brewed to the shaker glass experience. Personally, I like the honking Hoegaarten glasses for example. Like drinking a beer felt to my teenaged me. But at home when I want plenty of beery waft as part of the experience, I do use a glass with a narrowing glass.
What is your ETA for Easlakia?
“We do serve it with lemon, but we ask people if they have a preference. We get a lot of tourists from the States, and they’ll definitely want a lemon. German tourists don’t.”
Very telling.
And I agree with you on the shakers Stan. A local has the correct glasses for Franziskaner, but when I ordered a Pilsner Urquell it was served in a Guinness Imperial pint. The next one in a shaker. the bar tender looked at me sideways when I told her the Impy was actually 20 ounces!
Alan – July 21 if we stay on schedule. Could be a day or two later.
And agreed on many beers needing to be served warmer to better show aroma and flavor.
I hope mine isn’t such an issue, but I use blogware so I don’t know.
Should be around but…I/we have a big commitment that will be ended at a date to be fixed sometime hopefully soon and if it ends we are hitting the road on holidays ourselves immediately.
I also have no idea what kind of RSS feed WordPress uses. I do know it tracks hits via syndication, so I hope no one is forcing users to view via html.
Seriously, Stan, you know me: if you think anything I’m doing on RSS is of nefarious purpose, well…let’s just say that “purpose” is a word that comes nowhere near anything I do on my blog except putting words in it. If you want my RSS fixed, you’re gonna have to tell me how to fix it. I thought it stood for “Really Simple”?
I don’t even know what RSS is. Stan, am I doing the right or wrong thing? Or am I not doing anything? Am I on your blacklist? You’ve opened up a whole new world of self doubt. I feel bullied. Help. Stan I thought you were a nice man. Now you seem all mean.
Goodness gracious.
I apologize for causing such a ruckus. As well as a variety of comments I’ve received several emails and looked at a bunch of feeds.
So far everybody using WordPress has had easy-to-read text feeds (but I also subscribe to non-beer WordPress hosted blogs this is not true).
The blogger (Google) blogs are about 50-50. For easy-to-use text feeds see:
http://petebrown.blogspot.com
or
http://flossmoorstation.blogspot.com
But since I don’t use blogger I can’t tell you how to make that happen.
Stonch, Lew, I’m not trying to be “mean.” Truth is the only blog I’ve dropped from my reader is Beer Examiner.
I’m not suggesting this so much as an old-timer who learned to use the Internet via text-only usenet, but thinking about the younger crowd (that would be you, Stonch) who want feeds that are easy to read on their phones.
So here’s an rss primer:
http://www.whatisrss.com/