August 2010
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Brookston says: The Anchor Brewery Sale is a Done... →
Rumor has it that Anchor’ll also be offering the hop luscious Humming Ale full-time starting yesterday, and that makes Cock Ale very happy indeed.
via Selectism
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Half Acre Brewing to Drop Long Thai Rainbow Rye,... →
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BU/GU Ratio + % Attenuation = A balanced beverage →
“I’m a former sniper. Brewing without knowing my efficiency would be like...”
– Totem Wolf from Homebrewtalk.com
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Sierra Nevada to team up with New Clairveaux Monks... →
How much do I love the kids from Chico?
“A strained homage…”
– said Hater, of Tie-Rack fame, in regards to Terrapin’s latest Wet Hop offering that appears to reference a beloved Outkast Jam.
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WatchA short film by Eran Hilleli who is from Tel Aviv.
I like it when I don’t really know what’s going on but a very compelling sentiment is somehow communicated to me via woodland creatures and hoods.
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WatchLocal Natives catch a mugger and catchy a tune @ Pitchfork Music Festival.
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Hunter S. Thompson Rises From the Dead to Inhabit... →
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“Life’s Gone Down Low” - The...
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“Flywheel Bright Lager goes great with hot dogs, guitar jams, stir fry, bowling,...”
– From the Metropolitan Brewing website description of beloved their german-inspired Bright lager.
My dear swilling friend, Pat…claims the Beer Advocate mom’s-basement troglodytes have it wrong yet again with their oh-so-low B+. He says this beer is a perfect session beer. We here at...
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"Can You Brew It" Terrapin Rye Pale Ale Clone...
If you don’t already know, CanYouBrewIt is homebrew white wizard Jamil Zanisheff’s podcast show on the Brewing Network that seeks to clone commercial brews. No one is more qualified to suss the nuances of seemingly impenetrable commercial beer, intuit what makes said beer so rad and reverse engineer the recipes. His palate is some psychic glory for shizz. He is joined in this endeavour...
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Today for Cockale Progeny's 1st Birthday, we make... →
“Pint after pint, just went down / Got so...
July 2010
23 posts
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Malting Your Own Grain is Hard. →
Alasdair Roberts - “Firewater”.
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Perfect Pairing #Indian Ecstasy: "10 Ragas to a... →
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“Just kegged ten gallons of New Albion Pale Ale. Every brew my wife touches turns...”
– I said this today to my dogs while auto-siphon pumped sweet nectar into my mouth.
Thanks to Jack McAuliffe, Don Barkley and 1976 for kicking so much proto-craft brew ass. Read the lore that got me here, here and here.
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Recipe for Jolly Rancher Lambic at BN Forum with... →
“Germans don’t like peanut butter or root beer! (They prefer butter and...”
– wrote Phillippe from Achewood.
“Somewhere over the Pacific, Pabst Blue Ribbon began putting on airs.”
– writes Evan Osnos, staff writer at the New Yorker, as he wonders how Pabst became a hipster phenomenon and now a Chinese status symbol. Read more about the weird Bill Murrayification of Pabst branding here. 44 bucks a bottle sounds a bit awesome, but Cock Ale knows that irony knows know price...
“As far away from a fizzy mass-produced lager as you can get”
– quipped Brewmaster Martin from Scottish Brew Dog Brewery.
He said it upon completion of “The End of History” a belgian blonde ale spiked with nettles and juniper which, at 55% abv, is now the strongest ‘beer’ in the world. Brewed using the eisbockian brewing method, the...
