Happy Halloween from The Thirsty Wench. Tonight I’ll be watching something scary and cracking open some of my Pumpkin homebrew called Pumpkin Patch Panic. (The AMAZING label done by Robert Burrows)
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What a Night: Cask Days 2011
I’m still recovering from the lovely night that was Cask Days, the beer event with over 50 beers from around the country to sample. It was also my first ever large scale beer event. It was a LOT of fun and showed that the event, which originally started in the patio of Toronto’s Bar Volo, can…
Wish List: The Brooklyn Box Set
Today the Brooklyn Brewery just announced the release of the Brooklyn Box Set, which, at $80 includes a copy of the large and detailed book The Oxford Companion to Beer and a 750ml bottle of the Brewmaster’s Reserve “wheat wine” called “The Companion” (Take a moment to make a few Doctor Who jokes now if…
CURRENTLY DRINKING: Flying Monkeys SuperCollider Double IPA
This is a beer that I’ve been looking forward to try out for a while. Flying Monkeys Brewery up in Barrie, ON announced this beer over the summer and while it was supposed to be released with the Autumn seasonals in September…the LCBO, I guess, just didn’t feel like it and sent it out early…
The Coaster & The Pumpkin
Just wanted to mention two personal bits of awesomeness here. Firstly, look at this AMAZING custom beer coaster that the incredibly talented Mike Rooth did for me! The man knows I love my Ghostbusters and this is just…wow. And I’ve been told that the cool thing is that it was drawn with waterproof ink so…
The Autumn Beer Posts part 1 (with Alan Tyson)
For the month of October, I’ve been cooking up something special. I’ve been calling on some fellow beer-loving friends from land, sea and air (okay, from all over the world. Still impressive, but I don’t get to make dramatic hand gestures and you don’t get to read a post by a dolphin). So for the…
The Death of Summer
Well, September is here. The kids are back in school, the skies are getting a little more grey and (at least here, anyways) the wind is getting nice and chilly. I love Fall. But…most people I know don’t. Many of my friends are tragically lamenting the end of Summer and looking back on what made…
My First Beer Workshop
“Aaah! AAAHHHHH” That was mostly the sounds coming out of me when I got in to my house just 20 minutes before I was supposed to start my first ever Thirsty Wench Beer Workshop on Google+ (concept mentioned here) at 9pm with some folks from scattered parts of the globe in attendance. The hours leading up…
Beer Person of Note: Sam Calagione
I really have to give the founder of Dogfish Head Brewery credit for inspiring me lately. It’s not even his beer. To be honest, due to living in Canada, I haven’t tried any of Dogfish Head’s selection aside from Midas Touch, a beer based on a 2700 year-old recipe, when I visited NYC. The Raison D‘Etre? The Namaste?…
ADVENTURE! (In Homebrewing) 2: Rise of Audacity
So remember nearly a month ago when I alluded to some Adventure happening in the hiz-ouse? Well, after steeping, boiling, mixing, having a problem with some of my equipment, nearly having a few heart attacks and fermenting for four weeks in my ninja fermenter (seen above), it is finally BOTTLING DAY! This involved moving the beer…
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