Archive for August, 2007

Beltian White - That’s really the beer’s name

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Harvest Moon Brewing in Belt, Mont., opened in 1997 and began brewing a beer it calls Beltian White shortly thereafter. That’s not a typo. Beltian, as in Belt, get it?
And it is brewed in the manner of a Belgian White Ale, or witbier, although apparently without any signature unmalted wheat.
It popped above the radar because […]

NY Times samples a paler shade of Belgians

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

The headline for a New York Times (free registration) tasting pretty well summarizes the Belgian approach to “styles”: More or Less Pale but All Belgian.
Eric Asimov writes:
Whoa, I can hear beer connoisseurs saying. I’ve heard of Trappist ales and lambics, Belgian wheat beers and even Belgian red and brown ales, but pale ale?
They have a […]

Toasting Toronado’s 20th

Friday, August 10th, 2007

The San Francisco Chronicle offers a little love to David Keene and the venerable Toronado because the San Francisco pub/bier-cafe/multi-tap is turning 20 years old.
I wasn’t sure in which blog to put the link in, but I picked here because Keene’s devotion to Belgian-inspired beer surely has meant that those of us in far-flung parts […]