I can name that tune in… probably never, as I am terrible at that game. However, many of the rest of you will recognize the first part of that phase as the first line in the theme song nearly immortalized by Julie Andrews in the 1965 movie “The Sound of Music”. The movie portrayed a [...]
What’s that you say?! I have talked before about how statistics can be manipulated to produce the desired results, but that is certainly not what I am attempting here. Vermont is truly “beer country” and the World Beer Cup is the perfect place to showcase the talent of the brewers and the quality of the beer which they produce here in this small state.
A while back I had the very great pleasure of again visiting the Magic Hat Brewery in South Burlington, Vermont. I say again, but you should understand that my visits to their facility were about 15 years apart. Though not first on the Vermont beer scene, Magic Hat embodies the essence of what is “right” [...]
In today’s world of chronic information overload, it is often quite easy to find a study or report that supports a “pro” or “con” position on just about any topic. The relative healthiness of beer drinking is not immune to this infuriating phenomenon and there are many recent examples which proclaim that either beer is good for you or bad for you.
When I was growing up in southern Indiana with my three siblings, our mother was both an excellent and very creative cook. I won’t say that we were “experimented” on, but she was a master at constructing new and different meals from a very wide variety of ingredients in interesting ways and sometimes you just [...]
I have talked before about the planning work being done for my May vacation this year. Work has been super busy for the last 9 months or so and I am really looking forward to the break; though it is still about 6 weeks away. As we discussed what might be on the travel itinerary [...]
Until the advent of the 21st century, beer brewers went to great lengths to protect their beer from the flavors that storage in wooden vessels might impart. In a definite reversal of these traditions, modern brewers have acknowledged what wine makers and distillers have known for centuries and are embracing the wooden vessel (barrel, cask, etc) as an enticing way to add unique and delicious flavors to their beers.
All around you can begin to see signs of the impending end of the long Vermont winter. While this has been a comparatively mild winter, by Vermont standards, the cold, the cloudiness and the shorter days wear on you after a few months. Lately we have been experiencing warmer weather (it always amazes me how [...]
I recently interviewed Jeff Baker, the wine and beer manager for one of my favorite Vermont beer stores, The Beverage Warehouse , and when I asked him about his favorite beer he was very quick to let me know that there where really just two classes of beer; “Belgians and non-Belgians and the Belgians are [...]
It is fairly common these days for all sorts of businesses to maintain that they include a “socially responsible mission” as a part of doing business with the rest of the world. Beer brewing businesses, of course, are among those which participate in this and some provide outstanding examples of companies altering their business practices [...]
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