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Earlier this year, I announced proudly that The Wine Case was going to move from its wordpress.com incarnation to its own domain and location: winecase.ca. It took a little longer than expected, but now, thanks to David Honig of Palatepress, the address is now active and the posts have moved to their new location.
We’re still [...]
Earlier this year, I announced proudly that The Wine Case was going to move from its wordpress.com incarnation to its own domain and location: winecase.ca. It took a little longer than expected, but now, thanks to David Honig of Palatepress, the address is now active and the posts have moved to their new location.
We’re still [...]
Creekside is one interesting winery. They can make some very straightforward, accessible wines with a great quality-price ratio, as shown not only by their Estate series of wines (like that nice, pepper-strawberry driven shiraz), but also by the 60,000 some odd cases the same winemaking team makes for No. 99 Estates Winery, generally known as [...]
An article on the Wine Law web site, an extremely interesting source on everything legal about how wine is sold (or not sold) within Canada, caused a bit of excitement among Canadian wine tweeps, today, as it revealed that FedEx has begun shipping wine directly from the United States to Canada – or at least, [...]
It’s nice when social media pushes the idea of social forward, encouraging collective thinking and group efforts. Like this Ontario riesling project that was proposed to a small group of wine writers and professionals by Rick Van Sickle, of the St Catharines Standard, and Suresh Doss, of Spotlight Toronto.
Six writers, including this guy who does [...]
It seemed like an easy theme, what Rob Bralow proposed for Wine Blogging Wednesday. Find your Muse. That’s easy, here it is:
There, done. And there’s plenty of other songs from that band available on the Internet.
Oh, wait. That’s not what he meant?
All right. Enough with the silly musical asides. But it is a wicked, inspiring [...]
In this video I review Sierra Nevada’s Barleywine Style Ale. Very strong stuff!
6.6 lbs Dark malt extract
3 lbs dry dark malt extract
2 lbs wildflower honey
1/2 lb choc malt
1/2 lb black malt
1/2 lb Munich malt
1/2 lb flaked barley
1/2 lb malto dextrin
7 cloves
3 oranges
3 sticks of cinnamon
2 whole nutmegs
2 oz grated ginger
1/3 cup molasses
2oz cascade hops (whole leaf)
1oz Galena hops
Mash all the grains for 30 min
Boil the malt extract, honey, molasses and the galena hops for 30 minutes
Add 1oz cascade hops along with all the herbs and oranges to the boil for another 25 minutes, adding the remaining 1oz cascade hops during the last 10 minutes of the boil, for aromatics.
Cool the wort down, strained the oranges and hops and everything before dumping into the primary fermenter.
Pitch yeast.
Adapted from a recipe found on foodandwineblog.com
The Catena family is one of the major and one of the most interesting players in the world of Argentinian wine. They produce a wide range of wines in all sorts of price range, with consistent quality at all levels, from the more generic Alamos label to the Catena Zapata wines, the top cuvées created [...]
Brewing special seasonal beers predates modern history and has its origin in the pagan celebrations of winter solstice. Later, as monasteries often functioned as the local brewery, some monks made the the first holiday commemorative beers to celebrate the birth of Christ. Winter beers are as much a state of mind as a style, but beers best for fending off the cold of a long winter night — such as old ales, strong ales, barleywines and strong lagers — are often associated with winter.
Fruitcake, the most feared of holiday gifts, who eats it, certainly not beer drinkers. They hope for six packs of beer. If very good over the past year their reward will be a ‘big beer,’ one with sufficient body and alcohol to ward off the cold chill of winter. You can almost hear them say “Give me a big beer, not some wimpy fruit cake.” Surprisingly, it was fruitcake that gave mid-winter brews such distinctive character.
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