Thursday, September 6, 2012

New Ontario craft brewer?

A story in the Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin recently mentioned there is a group of people that is in the process of starting a new brewery in the Ontario tourist town.

It's called Side Launch Brewing Company and the ambitious group says it would be nice to open by 2014.

They said they were inspired to do more craft beer after seeing the industry grow by leaps and bounds, and also because the now Molson-owned Creemore Springs does so well.

"We basically started out as a group talking about this four or five years ago, after Creemore Springs was purchased by Molson's," company president Garnet Pratt Siddall told the newspaper.

"Creemore was the pioneer of craft brewers, and under Molson's they have been able to retain a degree of autonomy," he said. "The area could easily support (another) craft beer."

Agreed.

There is also a microbrewery opening in Delhi, Ont. Ramblin' Road Brewery is owned by the same family that runs Picard's Peanuts (those blue "barns" filled with peanutty goodness and special treats). The website calls it Ontario's first brewery farm (not 100% sure what that means) and says they should be serving soon (they will be launching around the time of the Norfolk County Fair - which runs over the Thanksgiving weekend).

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Liqourice Stout


Brewed by Svaneke for the licorice company Lakrids, Jeff picked up this "liqourice stout" on another recent trip to Denmark.

"It's interesting," he wrote in an email. "It's almost at room temperature since I have no fridge or ice. It has a pretty rounded taste. The licorice flavour is pretty subdued with roasted malt and coffee being the major flavours."


Saturday, September 1, 2012

White House releases beer recipes

The White House has released two recipes for beers produced on site: the honey brown ale and the honey porter.

"Inspired by home brewers from across the country, last year President (Barack) Obama bought a home brewing kit for the kitchen. After the few first drafts we landed on some great recipes that came from a local brew shop. We received some tips from a couple of home brewers who work in the White House who helped us amend it and make it our own. To be honest, we were surprised that the beer turned out so well since none of us had brewed beer before," chef Sam Kass wrote on the White House blog Saturday.

The beers use honey collected from a beehive on the south lawn of the White House.

The recipe for this summer's honey blonde was not released.

Watch the video about how the beer is made: