Soon be setting off for today's Cask Marque visits and a couple of cellars to audit. Quick reminder, especially as we're coming into the festive season, don't use the cellar as an extra fridge. Ta.
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I've put together a glossary of over 800 useful terms in wine and wine service with concise explanations for somms, students of wine and anyone who works in wine.
Hope they're handy! Enjoy
An excellent article on the demise of a classic and historical British beer from @petebrownbeer.bsky.social in @pelliclemag.bsky.social . The mighty Worthington White Shield IPA.
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He has more issues than the National Geographic
"The way the English do"
Walk down the road and someone will pronounce it differently!!
We can hope!
Watching Star Trek Strange New Worlds...
Humans punching Klingons in the head like they're hitting a pillow.
That looks like it would do lots more damage to their fist than a Klingon.
Starting a Grow up?
If I throw a bucket of water on her I'm going to bet he turns into an evil gremlin....
I think i must be a hardline traditionalist, although I've not had a white negroni and want one!
Also what are you if it must be 1:1:1 trad ingredients but served 'up' in a coupe....
I do like the old Guinness founts
Managing large systems requires more time, money, and staff, none of which is well-spent on ten kegs slowly falling out of code in the cold room.
Very happy with fewer lines of well kept fresh beer as long as they're different! Too many bars have 24 versions of IPA and not enough other options.
Kudos to Ron for sticking to his story throughout, even agreeing to a pic in the local paper.
A modern day hero
If there isn't a bicycle tied to the ceiling it's not a genuine Irish pub
Valuable read for students of beer!
Great post Jeff! As a wine and beer educator i would love to see more geographical identity with hops researched and taught, so we can better understand climate, topography and soil's effect on hops as we do with grapes and wine.
Last year I posted an extensive glossary of terms for the Front of House in restaurants so this year i have written one just for bars and pubs. From Cocktails to Cask ale here's over 350 terms to know if you sling drinks for a living!
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Always found them weird for beer, probably all psychological
Dating breweries, like counting them, is an act of interpretation. Once a brewery’s age passes into the centuries, interruptions are certain. Sometimes breweries take advantage of those gaps to push their founding date backward. So let’s take the most famous date of all, Weihenstephan and 1040 CE.
The Stella date is one of the worst offenders. I trained a team of Stella sales people once and they all were convinced that Stella Artois had been brewed unchanged since the 14th C
You can ask for a 'pint' in Amsterdam and get a 500ml beer in some bars.
Strong owl game
Maybe I've just missed them!
Just coming off Dry January and this tasted bloody lovely!!!
Quality not quantity.
Go science!💪
These don't exist in the UK.
Yet to be discovered
Storm Isha?
Storm Josephine?
Or an angry Londoner fed up of Lime bikes etc being parked everywhere 🙄
