Okay, call me lazy. Things have been a bit hectic, I have a lot of writing to get done before leaving on a trip, and here it is Monday all of a sudden and I have a post to put up. So I am doing what every good blogger does from time to time…I’m recycling [...]
When I’m teaching beer appreciation classes, one question I am frequently asked is, “What do you look for in a great beer?” What makes a beer great? What separates the “best of the best” from the “also very goods.” It’s a good question, one worth pondering. The first things that I look for are balance [...]
Look out for the bull. The Schlitz Malt Liquor bull. Nobody makes malt liquor like Schlitz. Look out for the bull. I woke up with this dusty old commercial jingle looping in my head this morning. I don’t know why. But it got me thinking about malt liquor. Not something I do very often. Recently, [...]
In the 19th century, before the advent of refrigeration, one of the first tasks of starting a new brewery was digging caves for cold-storage. And so when the Casanova Beverage Company started operations in Hudson, Wisconsin in 1896, they burrowed 150 feet into the limestone cliffs overlooking the St. Croix River. The brewery continued to [...]
