How would you pair a chocolate dessert with a beer?
Let us think for a moment about how to pair a chocolate dessert with a beer – or for that matter, any chocolate anything with a beer, though there aren’t [..]
Month: January 2013
Favorite examples of a great beer/chocolate pairing
Today’s question for our guest panel is about beer and chocolate pairings. With the growing number of pairing dinners, where each course is served with the perfectly matched beverage, there [..]
Chocolate…and Beer?
I asked four questions of four diverse and interesting beer experts about chocolate in beer – not chocolate notes, or roasted malt notes that remind one of chocolate, but the [..]
Aroma and Bouquet in Wine and Beer, and Suggestion for Evaluating Beer
I got into a conversation with Peter Barclay last night on aroma vs. bouquet for wines and beers. For wines it’s relatively straightforward – well, defining it is; experiencing it [..]
Chicks and Beer: Beer is Marketed to Men
I’m looking at some of the reasons why the beer industry has had such a hard time selling more beer to women. Big, Big Problem: Traditional beer marketing has not [..]
Chicks and Beer: Chicks Watch Their Weight
I’m thinking about possible stumbling blocks that might explain why the beer industry has not been able to make inroads on the “women’s market”. One of them, of course, is [..]
Chicks and Beer: Chicks hate beer bloat
I’m taking a look at some possible reasons the beer industry is failing to entice more women into the fold. This one is significant enough that Molson Coors tried to [..]
Chicks and Beer: Chicks dig stouts and you stock IPA
I’m taking a look at some possible reasons the beer industry has failed so spectacularly to market beer to women, in an honest effort to increase market share. It’s a [..]
Chicks and Beer
Since I wrote this, the craft beer movement has done a lot to solve this problem, providing a wide range of flavors to enjoy. However, some of this is still, [..]
Cherry Blues
It’s going to be a tough year for cherry melomels, cherry wheat beer, cherry lambic, and (sob!) cherry pie. I have a cherry mel in secondary that needs a boost. [..]
Martyn Cornell on Anglo-Saxon Ale and Beer (Part II, mostly Beer)
In my last two posts: the Anglo-Saxon words beor, ealu, medu and wyn may not be what they seem. British beer blogger Martyn Cornell takes a crack at sorting out the word [..]
Martyn Cornell on Anglo-Saxon Ale and Beer (part I, mostly Ale)
As I started to say in my last post, the Anglo-Saxon words beor, ealu, medu and wyn may not be what they seem. It may be that we’ve been telling the wrong story [..]