As everywhere in the fickle world of popular taste, beer styles come and go. Today’s IPA is yesterday’s Pale Ale, tomorrow’s Saison might be today’s IPA, etc., etc. One of the once-lost styles that seems to have made a comeback in the last year or so is Gose. So what’s a Gose? And how do you even pronounce it? Second question first. It’s pronounced “goes-uh.” Yeah, I’d … [Read more...] about Beerversity: And so it Gose…
Masters of the Beerverse: Fal Allen
Admit it, you thought this day would never come. Truth told, neither did I. Presenting our first Master of the Beerverse: Fal Allen, Brewmaster at Anderson Valley Brewing Co., Boonville, CA Fal grew up in Hilo, Hawaii, and left the Islands to attend college in Oregon, where he first encountered Northwest craft beers. After graduation and a couple of years honing … [Read more...] about Masters of the Beerverse: Fal Allen
Back to Beerversity.
It's a new year (well, new-ish). I'm not much on resolutions, which is a cop-out way of admitting I never stick to them. Still, as I'm sure you've noticed, The Beerverse has been dark for a while. Now, I could hand you a lot of excuses, but they'd be lies. I've just been lame. For whatever reason, the thought of coming up with ideas for posts, much less actually … [Read more...] about Back to Beerversity.
The Road to Perdition. And Other Places.
Along with the boom in local breweries comes a boom in cool places that serve them. Here's a few I've checked out recently. Perdition Smokehouse, Berkeley When you're Mike O’Brien and Chuck Stilphen and you already run The Trappist in Oakland and Mikkeller in San Francisco, you've set the bar pretty high. Fortunately, they deliver. I got there right at opening time on … [Read more...] about The Road to Perdition. And Other Places.
Beer Camp ’14 Update: Yonder Bock & Chico King
Slowly sipping my way through the Beer Camps. Here's a couple more. Yonder Bock Tropical Maibock w/Cigar City Brewing, Tampa, FL After establishing his beer creed with a column in the St. Petersburg Times, Joe Radner realized his dream of owning his own brewery in 2009 with the opening of Cigar City Brewing in Tampa. He quickly developed a reputation of brewing great … [Read more...] about Beer Camp ’14 Update: Yonder Bock & Chico King