Say No to Style Loyalty in 2016
Ninety-nine styles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine styles of beer … Your Saturday Six-Pack Series is back. *** Coke or Pepsi. Bud, Miller, or Coors. Many a craft beer aficionado has railed against...
View ArticlePictures at a Czech Beer Exhibition: Pilsen, Budweis, Český Krumlov
Wooded hillsides, a hundred lakes mirroring the fleeting afternoon sunlight, emerald green pastures with the occasional dusting of snow. Stately Renaissance facades watching over magnificent squares...
View ArticleA World of Stouts for Your Weekend
The Lucky Seven Selection Blame Guinness for declaring St. Patrick’s Weekend. Not that I’m complaining. Stouts of all stripes are among my favourite beers, after all. Guinness has also given me an...
View ArticleWhere Did All the Märzen Go? Provisioning Oktoberfest Imbibers over the...
Nearly 40,000 people headed out to the horse race just beyond the Munich gates on that first Oktoberfest day in 1810. Families and groups of friends staked out places to sit on the meadowland heights...
View ArticleThe Colour of Fall Leaves: Tasting Notes on Märzen, Oktoberfestbier, and...
Wondering about the differences between Märzen, Oktoberfest Beer, and Vienna Lager? Check out “Autumn in a Glass: Märzen, Oktoberfest Beer, and Vienna Lager” before cracking open your first beer in...
View ArticleAutumn in a Glass: Märzen, Oktoberfest Beer, and Vienna Lager
As the leaves in the beer gardens begin to don their autumnal attire and the evenings hint of the harvest, my beer preferences turn to the kinds of beers whose colour reflects my surroundings. These...
View ArticleTempest’s Beer and Travel Highlights from 2015-2016
So much to do, so little time. With all those beers I’m sure you’ve been searching out and drinking over the course of the year, one or two Tempest articles may have slipped you by. Not to worry! On...
View ArticleTankards Everywhere: Tempest’s Beerscapes of 2016
I was at Schloss Belvedere a few days back, the famous Viennese museum that houses the even more famous Kiss by Gustav Klimt. Alongside some of his other iconic works such as Judith und Holofernes hung...
View ArticleThe Lost Abbey’s 10 Commandments: A Warming Beer for Winter Evenings
The last autumn leaves cling to the trees, holding out against the onslaught of wind and the first snowflakes of the season. A dense fog shrouds Vienna’s church spires in mystery. Night has descended,...
View ArticleBrown Beers (Still) Get No Luvin’
Brown beer has an image problem. Joe Tindall over at The Fatal Glass of Beer (host of this month’s “The Session: Beer Blogging Friday”) sums it up well: “The unglamorous brown middle ground is...
View ArticleA World of Stouts for Your Weekend
The Lucky Seven Selection Blame Guinness for declaring St. Patrick’s Weekend. Not that I’m complaining. Stouts of all stripes are among my favourite beers, after all. Guinness has also given me an...
View ArticleWhere Did All the Märzen Go? Provisioning Oktoberfest Imbibers over the...
Nearly 40,000 people headed out to the horse race just beyond the Munich gates on that first Oktoberfest day in 1810. Families and groups of friends staked out places to sit on the meadowland heights...
View ArticleThe Colour of Fall Leaves: Tasting Notes on Märzen, Oktoberfestbier, and...
Wondering about the differences between Märzen, Oktoberfest Beer, and Vienna Lager? Check out “Autumn in a Glass: Märzen, Oktoberfest Beer, and Vienna Lager” before cracking open your first beer in...
View ArticleAutumn in a Glass: Märzen, Oktoberfest Beer, and Vienna Lager
As the leaves in the beer gardens begin to don their autumnal attire and the evenings hint of the harvest, my beer preferences turn to the kinds of beers whose colour reflects my surroundings. These...
View ArticleTempest’s Beer and Travel Highlights from 2015-2016
So much to do, so little time. With all those beers I’m sure you’ve been searching out and drinking over the course of the year, one or two Tempest articles may have slipped you by. Not to worry! On...
View ArticleTankards Everywhere: Tempest’s Beerscapes of 2016
I was at Schloss Belvedere a few days back, the famous Viennese museum that houses the even more famous Kiss by Gustav Klimt. Alongside some of his other iconic works such as Judith und Holofernes hung...
View ArticleThe Lost Abbey’s 10 Commandments: A Warming Beer for Winter Evenings
The last autumn leaves cling to the trees, holding out against the onslaught of wind and the first snowflakes of the season. A dense fog shrouds Vienna’s church spires in mystery. Night has descended,...
View ArticleBrown Beers (Still) Get No Luvin’
Brown beer has an image problem. Joe Tindall over at The Fatal Glass of Beer (host of this month’s “The Session: Beer Blogging Friday”) sums it up well: “The unglamorous brown middle ground is...
View ArticleIn the Land of Flemish Red-Brown Ale
Only an hour by train from Brussels, West Flanders is renowned for its picturesque medieval towns replete with belfries and beguinages, sandy North Sea beaches, verdant open fields, and a harrowing...
View ArticlePicturing Beer
Greetings, all you fine readers of A Tempest in a Tankard! This post has nothing to do with beer and everything to do with beer. I’ve been meaning to update the layout of the site ever since, oh, 2013...
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