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Maps of New York State wine regions.
Friday, June 21, 2002
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Astronomy UpdateThe earliest sunrise this year (at 40 N latitude) was June 14, the longest day, of course, is tomorrow, June 21 (the summer solstice); the latest sunset doesn't come until June 28.
Comet Ikeya-Zhang (a little dim for the naked eye around here) moves past the globular cluster M 5 the last few days of this month,
too.
Thursday, June 20, 2002
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Stopped in at the very plesant Rose and Thistle in Huntington on Friday. About 10 good taps, including Sierra Nevada and Sammy Summer Brew.
9:48 AM
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America's Beer History The terrific American Heritage article on the history of beer in American includes a sidebar on the rise of the micro-brews:
"Some beer drinkers, tired of a steady diet of near-tasteless lagers and one or two imports with only slightly more emphatic flavor, were discovering an alternative...
In this, the commercial craft brewers were building on, and cashing in on, a trend that had begun in the West in the late seventies: a new generation of flavorful American ales, carefully brewed in small batches with all malt and no additives, by a group of dedicated amateurs, many of whom had started as home-brew hobbyists. Inspiration may have come from Fritz Maytag, of the washing-machine-and-blue-cheese family, who took over San Francisco's old and ailing Anchor Steam and in 1975 created the first of the new breed, Liberty Ale, in commemoration of the bicentennial of Paul Revere's ride. Huge in flavor, intensely aromatic, and bursting with the delectable bitterness of hops, it bore the same relation to subtle, understated European beers as California wine did to French.
In a second sidebar, beer writer Michael Jackson identifies ten great American micro-brews. Seven are regional brews I'll have to try and track down, but three are classics in every decent beer distributor: Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, Anchor Steam, and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Not a bad shopping list.
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
2:15 PM
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Happy Birthday! Happy 20th today to Tara Lipinski AND Leelee Sobieski!
Monday, June 10, 2002
11:39 AM
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Another Stony Brook Press reader makes good: Scientific American profiles former Stony Brook President and now presidential science advisor John Marburger.
Thursday, June 06, 2002
1:57 PM
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Beer Blog: RealBeer.com has a daily updated BeerLog.
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
3:11 PM
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The Drink of Democracy I'm working my way through this wonderful article on the history of American beer. At one point, it describes how pilsner/lagers caused the popularity of beer (previously overshadowed by whiskey and rum) to skyrocket in the mid-1800's, and led to the establishment of many big American brewers in a twenty-year span. Heard of any of these?
In 1842 the Prussian Schaefer brothers, Frederick and Maximilian, set up the first commercial lager brewery in New York City, and two years later Philadelphia had one, the forerunner of C. Schmidt and Sons. In Milwaukee the daughter of the brewer Jacob Best married the steamboat captain Frederick Pabst; her brother Charles set up a lager brewery in 1848 and seven years later sold out to a young brewer fresh from Germany named Frederick Miller. In 1856 in the same city the brewer August Krug died, and his widow married the bookkeeper Joseph Schlitz. Eberhard Anheuser, a St. Louis soap manufacturer, acquired a small brewery in 1860 and then had the good fortune to acquire a son-in-law as a partner, a talented salesman named Adolphus Busch.
Don't worry, the good stuff's still to come...
2:22 PM
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Consolidation: Wine.com, eVineyard, and VirtualVin all go to the same page.
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