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Archives for February 2016

New Features on the Way

February 22, 2016 by Tupper Leave a Comment

We’re in the process of some redesigning that should make the site more informative and interactive.  Stay tuned.   Still working –( Sunday Feb 28)   –new posts coming soon! Meanwhile, all the posts for the past several weeks are available — just click around in the blog section.  Cheers!

Filed Under: Just Go

What’s New

February 22, 2016 by Tupper Leave a Comment

What’s New

 Gold Metal Winning Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale Returns!

Join us at Dynasty Brewing on July 17 between 3PM and 8PM to savor the first batch of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale in almost five years.  We’ll be there signing books at a huge discount and the brewery will be pouring the beer that was created to be “Hoppy enough for Bob and balanced enough for Ellie.”

It hasn’t been easy to resurrect Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale, winner of a gold metal at the GBBF in the ’90s when well hopped beers were rare and almost non-existent in the east.  We’ve collaborated with Dynasty’s head brewer Favio Garcia, the brewer who produced the last batch of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket at Old Dominion to reproduce an authentic version of the original.    Dynasty is in Ashburn, Virginia– almost within walking distance of the Old Dominion brewery that brewed the first batch just over 25 years ago.

NOW PLAYING: on Beer of the Day—  Some great beers in the San Francisco Bay area.  Scroll down below this entry to find the featured beer of the day.   >>>>>

Later — in July we resume some great weekend destinations for beer travelers that we’ve found researching our guide to breweries and inns of the Mid Atlantic.  Whether you’re looking for a turn of the (20th) century 100 year old quaint and slightly rickety hotel, an engaging B&B or a magnificent survivor of the great era of railroad hotels, we’ve found hem– within walking distance of a brewery.   We’ll present more previews of the book’s best here rolling up to Pennsylvania before we’re through.

 

 

 

Filed Under: What's New Tagged With: Beer of the Day, Chris Elliott, Tuppers

When Is a Kölsch not a Kölsch? When it’s American. Even so, DuClaw’s version is true Gold.

February 19, 2016 by Tupper Leave a Comment

When Is a Kölsch not a Kölsch?  When it’s American.  Even so, DuClaw’s version is true Gold.
A fresh keg of Kölsch slides into place at Sion

A fresh keg of Kölsch slides into place at Sion

February 19, 2016 Post 0016         It looks simple, the taste is subtle, and most of the the basic ingredients are easy enough to obtain.  Yet it may be the hardest beer in the world to brew well.   Kölsch.  Almost every brew pub has one, or what they think is one.   However, the real Kölsch brewers of Cologne are so protective of their process that while we know much about the style, truly family-held secrets remain.

While some accounts link it to the 19th century, Kölsch as we know it today is almost an accidental style. 
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Filed Under: Just Go

How Could We Have Left This Pub Out of the Book?!?

February 15, 2016 by Tupper 1 Comment

How Could We Have Left This Pub Out of the Book?!?

February 15, 2016 Post 0015.  Travelers who know us well have no qualms about berating us for omitting their favorite watering hole.  One response is that some of our favorite pubs didn’t make the cut either.   In London, our decision to restrict recommendations to the center area required us to ignore many nearby icons.   The White Horse in Parsons Green is such an icon.
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Filed Under: Hopping Around

Hopping Around Here: From a Bombshell to a Black Eye (PA) in North Carolina

February 11, 2016 by Tupper Leave a Comment

Hopping Around Here:  From a Bombshell to a Black Eye (PA) in North Carolina

February 11, 2016  Post 0014.   The drive from Cary to Angier in North Carolina takes well less than an hour if you don’t stop at the seven craft breweries along the way.   If you have a designated driver or a will of steel you can visit them all in a day.   We took a couple of days so we could spend more time savoring their beers.   The range of size, location and styles isn’t all that unusual in the States these days, but there is almost nothing equivalent in Europe except possibly in Italy. 
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Filed Under: Hopping Around

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What’s New Inside

 Gold Metal Winning Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale Returns!

Join us at Dynasty Brewing on July 17 between 3PM and 8PM to savor the first batch of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale in almost five years.  We’ll be there signing books at a huge discount and the brewery will be pouring the beer that was created to be “Hoppy enough for Bob and balanced enough for Ellie.”

It hasn’t been easy to resurrect Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale, winner of a gold metal at the GBBF in the ’90s when well hopped beers were rare and almost non-existent in the east.  We’ve collaborated with Dynasty’s head brewer Favio Garcia, the brewer who produced the last batch of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket at Old Dominion to reproduce an authentic version of the original.    Dynasty is in Ashburn, Virginia– almost within walking distance of the Old Dominion brewery that brewed the first batch just over 25 years ago.

NOW PLAYING: on Beer of the Day—  Some great beers in the San Francisco Bay area.  Scroll down below this entry to find the featured beer of the day.   >>>>>

Later — in July we resume some great weekend destinations for beer travelers that we’ve found researching our guide to breweries and inns of the Mid Atlantic.  Whether you’re looking for a turn of the (20th) century 100 year old quaint and slightly rickety hotel, an engaging B&B or a magnificent survivor of the great era of railroad hotels, we’ve found hem– within walking distance of a brewery.   We’ll present more previews of the book’s best here rolling up to Pennsylvania before we’re through.

 

 

 

Beer of the Day

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 At Pub 27 in Pompeii

Far From India: India Pale Ales in the 21st Century.

Date:  March, 2019

The Story—

The Beer—

Value —

Values:  “fair” is a good beer at an above market price, “good” is worth the money, “very good” is a bargain, and “excellent” is a steal.

In mid-March we’re taking a look at the incredible variety of IPAs.   The style is by far the biggest seller among craft beers in the US and probably in Europe as well.   Even century-old breweries in Reinheitsgebot-narrowed Germany are brewing IPAs (if the brewer calls it “ale” it doesn’t have to conform to the strict purity law).   But you have to ask these days: What is an IPA”?  We’ll take a look at almost a dozen recognized and semi-recognized styles of IPAs in the next couple of weeks.

 We’re often asked to share our tasting notes on over 33,000 beers; this blog is in answer to those requests.   Not all our notes, though.  The great beer writer Michael Jackson admirably followed the Thumper Rule, and we’ll try to do the same.  (“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nuthin’ at all.”)   All the beers we post are from the top half of our ratings and most are from the top quarter.   Of greater value, we think, are the stories behind the beers,   and we try to give you enough about the brewery, the style and the places to find great beer to help you on your own beer journeys.   At CulturAle Press we try to write books and publish posts that will help you “Drink Well and Travel Safely.”

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