Beer, Food, Life
From the category archives:
I just had my first French biere de garde. I don’t often come across styles of beer that I haven’t sampled, so it is really quite a treat to when I do.
The beer was a present from my sister who lives in Abu Dhabi and writes an urban planning blog, but spent the holidays in [...]
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For my first review under my new system, I’d like to do something special.
As everybody knows (because the world loves Canadian history), it is Quebec city’s 400th anniversary. It may not compare favourably to cities in Europe and Asia, but, in North America, Quebec is winning.
And beer drinkers are winning too. Unibroue, the Quebec-based Belgian-style [...]
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I created a reviews category, but I’m not really sure how I feel about reviewing beer. How is my opinion, or anyone else’s, relevant to your appreciation of beer? Maybe if I did more beer reviews and you realised that we like the same kinds of beer, then my reviews would be worthwhile. But why [...]
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One of the beers that survived the luggage handler’s fragile-baggage-toss competition from my trip to Belgium last summer was a 1999 Reserve Chimay Bleu.
I’m shocked that it has taken this long, but I finally cracked the Chimay last night and, just for comparison’s sake, I also had a couple of regular, non-aged Chimay Bleus on [...]
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