Murphy's Pubcast
That has it all now folks so come see us there and have a listen!
Monday, November 24, 2008
WE HAVE MOVED!!
For ease of use reasons we have conslidate all the posting links and podcasts on one site.
Murphy's Pubcast
That has it all now folks so come see us there and have a listen!
Murphy's Pubcast
That has it all now folks so come see us there and have a listen!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Weekend Beer Trip!!
OK this past weekend you know we went on a bit of a beer tating tour. It was quite a bit of fun.
I started out on Friday at the The Lodge in Lisle. The beers
Surly Bitter Brewer- Ok beer mostly just a bitter taste not much else in the way of depth
New Holland Existential Ale - Very nice deep and hoopy rich wine style beer with very nice spicy notes of hops with a good balance of malt.
Two Brothers Bare Tree wiess Wine- Great tasting deep rich beer. Complex flavors of wood fruit and malt are all at play in this great beer.
North Coast Le Merle Saison. I am a fan of this styel of beer and this one is a very good example of that style. Smooth and malty with a nice touch of black pepper and frutiy smoothness
Saturday
Mac's in Wicker Park Great place to hang out.
Lake Front organic ESB- overly sweet tasting ESB.. so though it is a good beer it is not an ESB to me.
Small Bar. Really cool bar with a great staff and an amazing beer list
Surly Saison- Yet another good example of this style. At one time this style was fading but thanks to the USA craft beer industry it is making a come back.
Moonshine This place rocks! The bartender Will is awesome and friendly with very good beer knowledge.
Peak Organic Amber Ale Not a bad beer. Nice american amber ale with a smooth clean taste.
Their own IPA Crips and clean with a nice refreshing hop bite. Great summer beer.
Porter- this is their take on a light porter. It is realy good easy drinking and smmooooth. Not very heavy on the roasted malts but a good rich flavor still comes out.
Wheat beer This beer is smoft and simple on the tounge and refreshing after a hot humid walk
Piece- DUDE!! go there this place has awesome pizza and the beers are really good to boot!
Big Black Miriah The wife had this beer she enjoyed the deep rich coffee tones and the thick and rich malts.
Worryn' Ale Great tasting and smooth english brown ale. They won gold with this and I can see why
Binny's South Loop Chicago
Prima Pills. Definitly one of the best examples of this beer style. Crisp clean and gloden in color the taste is the same. Crisp dry and light with a good malt to bring it all around.
Gnarly Wine- Lagunitas version of a barlywine. Rich and deep tastes of age with this beer. Malt heads win with this one for sure.
Fullers Vintage Ale '04 Super beer that is for sure. Bottle conditioned this beer ages to a deep thick flavor of thick malts and rich flavors
I started out on Friday at the The Lodge in Lisle. The beers
Surly Bitter Brewer- Ok beer mostly just a bitter taste not much else in the way of depth
New Holland Existential Ale - Very nice deep and hoopy rich wine style beer with very nice spicy notes of hops with a good balance of malt.
Two Brothers Bare Tree wiess Wine- Great tasting deep rich beer. Complex flavors of wood fruit and malt are all at play in this great beer.
North Coast Le Merle Saison. I am a fan of this styel of beer and this one is a very good example of that style. Smooth and malty with a nice touch of black pepper and frutiy smoothness
Saturday
Mac's in Wicker Park Great place to hang out.
Lake Front organic ESB- overly sweet tasting ESB.. so though it is a good beer it is not an ESB to me.
Small Bar. Really cool bar with a great staff and an amazing beer list
Surly Saison- Yet another good example of this style. At one time this style was fading but thanks to the USA craft beer industry it is making a come back.
Moonshine This place rocks! The bartender Will is awesome and friendly with very good beer knowledge.
Peak Organic Amber Ale Not a bad beer. Nice american amber ale with a smooth clean taste.
Their own IPA Crips and clean with a nice refreshing hop bite. Great summer beer.
Porter- this is their take on a light porter. It is realy good easy drinking and smmooooth. Not very heavy on the roasted malts but a good rich flavor still comes out.
Wheat beer This beer is smoft and simple on the tounge and refreshing after a hot humid walk
Piece- DUDE!! go there this place has awesome pizza and the beers are really good to boot!
Big Black Miriah The wife had this beer she enjoyed the deep rich coffee tones and the thick and rich malts.
Worryn' Ale Great tasting and smooth english brown ale. They won gold with this and I can see why
Binny's South Loop Chicago
Prima Pills. Definitly one of the best examples of this beer style. Crisp clean and gloden in color the taste is the same. Crisp dry and light with a good malt to bring it all around.
Gnarly Wine- Lagunitas version of a barlywine. Rich and deep tastes of age with this beer. Malt heads win with this one for sure.
Fullers Vintage Ale '04 Super beer that is for sure. Bottle conditioned this beer ages to a deep thick flavor of thick malts and rich flavors
Monday, June 16, 2008
Ok I know its been a while sorry
The Newest Podcast about some nice things
Ok then I have other links here as well.
Pints For Prostates Its a way to get men awar of PSA testing and I think it is a good idea
Come on Miller do the right thing This is about some workers trying to make it in life
Ok then I have other links here as well.
Pints For Prostates Its a way to get men awar of PSA testing and I think it is a good idea
Come on Miller do the right thing This is about some workers trying to make it in life
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
15 beer myths explored
15 most popular beer myths
Check out our discussion of them as well.
I'll give you the text as well.
Myth #1 – Dark Beer is Heavy
Couldn’t be further from the truth, folks. Colour in beer comes purely from the grain used in its creation, with darker beers containing more toasted or roasted barley malt and paler beers containing less or no darker malts. And roasting malt doesn’t make it heavier or more caloric.
Myth #2 – Ale is Stronger than Lager
The funny thing about this popular North American myth is that Brits think the exact opposite, with the perception in the U.K. being that way because best bitters normally sit around 4% alcohol by volume and lagers generally come in around 5%. The truth is that alcohol comes from the amount of sugars provided for fermentation and has nothing to do with whether that fermentation takes place at warmer (ale) or cooler (lager) temperatures.
Myth #3 – Beer Makes You Fat
Inactivity and bad diet make you fat. Beer, when enjoyed in moderation and as part of balanced lifestyle, doesn’t.
Myth #4 – Stout is a “Meal in a Glass”
Most stouts are no more caloric or filling than the yellow lager many people knock back by the pint on a Saturday night. The reason we think otherwise is because we expect something that has a very dark colour to be richer than something that’s pale. See Myth #1.
Myth #5 – Bock is Brewed Each Spring After the Brewing Tanks are Cleaned
This one is so prevalent that it even made it into the pages of the landmark Time-Life book series, “Foods of the World,” in the “Wine and Spirits” volume. The idea is that the brewer cleans his or her tanks once a year and ferments the gunk scraped off the sides into a beer called bock. Suffice to say that any brewer who did this once wouldn’t be in business long enough to do it again. (Bock is simply a Germanic style of strong lager, likely originating in the town of Einbeck, from which the corruption “bock” was formed.)
Myth #6 – Cold-Filtering
Here’s one from the marketing geniuses behind the big breweries. Simply, all beer is cold-filtered, since only a fool would run their beer through a “hot filter,” even if such a thing did exist in a brewery. What the use of this phrase is really saying, usually, is that the beer is not pasteurized, as are many of the world’s biggest selling brands.
Myth #7 – Draught Gets You Drunk Faster than Bottled Beer (or Vice Versa)
Here’s what gets you drunk: Alcohol. Whether it comes from bottled or draught beer, wine, cocktails or straight spirits doesn’t matter.
Myth #8 – Imported Beer is Better than Domestic Beer
Almost every brewer exporting his or her beer to a foreign destination exploits this myth at one time or another, whether implicitly or explicitly. But that fact remains that beer from any given country is not necessarily going to be better than that from another, as witnessed by some of the great beers I’ve tasted from non-traditional brewing countries like Italy and Brazil, or some of the poor ones I’ve had from brewing powers like England and Belgium.
Myth #9 – Wine is More Complex Than Beer
Give me a break! I enjoy wine as much as the next drinker, and I appreciate the complexities and nuances of a truly fine zinfandel or sauvignon blanc, but how can a drink made from a single ingredient, grapes, be necessarily more complex in flavour than one made from a minimum of water, malt and hops and an almost limitless diversity of other ingredients? Ever find coriander or cumin notes in a wine? No? Well, you can in a beer.
Myth #10 – “That Beer I Had last Night Made Me Sick”
Maybe the scallops you ate at dinner made you sick, or perhaps you picked up a contaminant from somewhere else or simply drank too much. But being a boiled and fermented alcoholic beverage, the chances of a beer causing illness is very, very, very slight.
Myth #11 – Fruit Beers Are “Girly Beers”
Get it straight: Hops only started being used in brewing about 1,000 to 1,200 years ago. Up until then, for at least five millennia, beer was flavoured with a wide variety of spices, herbs and, yes, fruits. In fact, archeological research has shown that King Tut drank fruit beer, and he was one dude you could hardly consider “girly.”
Myth #12 – Ales Are Necessarily Better Than Lagers
This common though misguided beer aficionado myth stems largely from the fact that most major brewery brands are lagers, and the vast majority of those lie low on the flavour meter. But as many excellent lager brewers show, cold-fermented beers like Ontario’s King Pilsner, Live Oak Pilz from Texas and the classic Budweiser Budvar from the Czech Republic, sold in North America as Czechvar, can be every bit as flavourful, complex and rewarding as any ale.
Myth #13 – Canadian Beer is Stronger Than American Beer
A popular perception from the bad old days of major brewery domination, this one stemmed from the fact that, until recently, American breweries measured their alcohol contents by weight while Canadians used volume measures. Since 4% alcohol by weight is equal to 5% by volume, north-of-the-border brews were thought to be more potent than their southern cousins. Today, with 1,400 breweries in the States and another couple of hundred in Canada, this shouldn’t even be remotely considered as valid.
Myth #14 – German Wheat Beers Are Flavoured With Bananas and Cloves
The Bavarian Purity Law of 1516, called the Reinheitsgebot, mandates that beer be made from only malted grain, hops and water, with yeast as a given. So no, there are no fruits or spices in the Bavarian style of wheat beer variously known as hefeweizen, weissbier or hefeweissbier. What causes the banana and clove flavours and aromas normally associated with these brews are the particular yeasts used to ferment them.
Myth #15 – Beer and Fine Dining Don’t Mix
With its wealth of flavours and finely nuanced characters, the world of beer has a style to pair with any food, from the commonplace to the extravagant. (See Myth #9 for more on this.) The reason we tend to place wine at the table rather than beer is because that’s what the French do, and the western world learned much of what it knows about fine dining from the French.
Check out our discussion of them as well.
I'll give you the text as well.
Myth #1 – Dark Beer is Heavy
Couldn’t be further from the truth, folks. Colour in beer comes purely from the grain used in its creation, with darker beers containing more toasted or roasted barley malt and paler beers containing less or no darker malts. And roasting malt doesn’t make it heavier or more caloric.
Myth #2 – Ale is Stronger than Lager
The funny thing about this popular North American myth is that Brits think the exact opposite, with the perception in the U.K. being that way because best bitters normally sit around 4% alcohol by volume and lagers generally come in around 5%. The truth is that alcohol comes from the amount of sugars provided for fermentation and has nothing to do with whether that fermentation takes place at warmer (ale) or cooler (lager) temperatures.
Myth #3 – Beer Makes You Fat
Inactivity and bad diet make you fat. Beer, when enjoyed in moderation and as part of balanced lifestyle, doesn’t.
Myth #4 – Stout is a “Meal in a Glass”
Most stouts are no more caloric or filling than the yellow lager many people knock back by the pint on a Saturday night. The reason we think otherwise is because we expect something that has a very dark colour to be richer than something that’s pale. See Myth #1.
Myth #5 – Bock is Brewed Each Spring After the Brewing Tanks are Cleaned
This one is so prevalent that it even made it into the pages of the landmark Time-Life book series, “Foods of the World,” in the “Wine and Spirits” volume. The idea is that the brewer cleans his or her tanks once a year and ferments the gunk scraped off the sides into a beer called bock. Suffice to say that any brewer who did this once wouldn’t be in business long enough to do it again. (Bock is simply a Germanic style of strong lager, likely originating in the town of Einbeck, from which the corruption “bock” was formed.)
Myth #6 – Cold-Filtering
Here’s one from the marketing geniuses behind the big breweries. Simply, all beer is cold-filtered, since only a fool would run their beer through a “hot filter,” even if such a thing did exist in a brewery. What the use of this phrase is really saying, usually, is that the beer is not pasteurized, as are many of the world’s biggest selling brands.
Myth #7 – Draught Gets You Drunk Faster than Bottled Beer (or Vice Versa)
Here’s what gets you drunk: Alcohol. Whether it comes from bottled or draught beer, wine, cocktails or straight spirits doesn’t matter.
Myth #8 – Imported Beer is Better than Domestic Beer
Almost every brewer exporting his or her beer to a foreign destination exploits this myth at one time or another, whether implicitly or explicitly. But that fact remains that beer from any given country is not necessarily going to be better than that from another, as witnessed by some of the great beers I’ve tasted from non-traditional brewing countries like Italy and Brazil, or some of the poor ones I’ve had from brewing powers like England and Belgium.
Myth #9 – Wine is More Complex Than Beer
Give me a break! I enjoy wine as much as the next drinker, and I appreciate the complexities and nuances of a truly fine zinfandel or sauvignon blanc, but how can a drink made from a single ingredient, grapes, be necessarily more complex in flavour than one made from a minimum of water, malt and hops and an almost limitless diversity of other ingredients? Ever find coriander or cumin notes in a wine? No? Well, you can in a beer.
Myth #10 – “That Beer I Had last Night Made Me Sick”
Maybe the scallops you ate at dinner made you sick, or perhaps you picked up a contaminant from somewhere else or simply drank too much. But being a boiled and fermented alcoholic beverage, the chances of a beer causing illness is very, very, very slight.
Myth #11 – Fruit Beers Are “Girly Beers”
Get it straight: Hops only started being used in brewing about 1,000 to 1,200 years ago. Up until then, for at least five millennia, beer was flavoured with a wide variety of spices, herbs and, yes, fruits. In fact, archeological research has shown that King Tut drank fruit beer, and he was one dude you could hardly consider “girly.”
Myth #12 – Ales Are Necessarily Better Than Lagers
This common though misguided beer aficionado myth stems largely from the fact that most major brewery brands are lagers, and the vast majority of those lie low on the flavour meter. But as many excellent lager brewers show, cold-fermented beers like Ontario’s King Pilsner, Live Oak Pilz from Texas and the classic Budweiser Budvar from the Czech Republic, sold in North America as Czechvar, can be every bit as flavourful, complex and rewarding as any ale.
Myth #13 – Canadian Beer is Stronger Than American Beer
A popular perception from the bad old days of major brewery domination, this one stemmed from the fact that, until recently, American breweries measured their alcohol contents by weight while Canadians used volume measures. Since 4% alcohol by weight is equal to 5% by volume, north-of-the-border brews were thought to be more potent than their southern cousins. Today, with 1,400 breweries in the States and another couple of hundred in Canada, this shouldn’t even be remotely considered as valid.
Myth #14 – German Wheat Beers Are Flavoured With Bananas and Cloves
The Bavarian Purity Law of 1516, called the Reinheitsgebot, mandates that beer be made from only malted grain, hops and water, with yeast as a given. So no, there are no fruits or spices in the Bavarian style of wheat beer variously known as hefeweizen, weissbier or hefeweissbier. What causes the banana and clove flavours and aromas normally associated with these brews are the particular yeasts used to ferment them.
Myth #15 – Beer and Fine Dining Don’t Mix
With its wealth of flavours and finely nuanced characters, the world of beer has a style to pair with any food, from the commonplace to the extravagant. (See Myth #9 for more on this.) The reason we tend to place wine at the table rather than beer is because that’s what the French do, and the western world learned much of what it knows about fine dining from the French.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Beer Winners and Losers
For the Winners check out the results of theGreat American Beer Fest
For Losers well you heard the pubcast. Lombard Ale house counts as a loser
Also losing is Chicago because the Goose Island Clayborn is closing. 20 years they have been there but nothing is more powerful than the greed of the all mighty dollar.
We will miss you... but maybe a closer one to me will open up!!!
Goose Island to lose lease Sad times for sure. Well lets hope the get something they deserve... Like Wal-mart for losers
Thanks for checking us out.
For Losers well you heard the pubcast. Lombard Ale house counts as a loser
Also losing is Chicago because the Goose Island Clayborn is closing. 20 years they have been there but nothing is more powerful than the greed of the all mighty dollar.
We will miss you... but maybe a closer one to me will open up!!!
Goose Island to lose lease Sad times for sure. Well lets hope the get something they deserve... Like Wal-mart for losers
Thanks for checking us out.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
New Pubcast Opener!
Thanks again Matt for the opener. I hope you all like it
Ok important news from Boston Beer Co. About the bottle recall. Click on their name and find out what you need to know
New Holland Bottle Cap Poetry Check it out it looks like it could be fun!!
Now go help Phil win with his Quack-a-dillas! On Bobby Flay's Grill it! Its a good video and looks like great food as well!
Not much else is going on in the world for us right now. Just trying to enjoy the few brief moments of sunshine we get this weekend and just being glad that we are off work!
thanks for st oping by!!
Ok important news from Boston Beer Co. About the bottle recall. Click on their name and find out what you need to know
New Holland Bottle Cap Poetry Check it out it looks like it could be fun!!
Now go help Phil win with his Quack-a-dillas! On Bobby Flay's Grill it! Its a good video and looks like great food as well!
Not much else is going on in the world for us right now. Just trying to enjoy the few brief moments of sunshine we get this weekend and just being glad that we are off work!
thanks for st oping by!!
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Pubcast #27 OOGY WAWA!
Ok so here are some links and what not
Draft Magazine
All about Beer
The Beer Magazine
Find Your State's Laws on Liquor
Flossmoor Station 21st Amendment celebration beers
Here's To Beer
Beer Rainbow!
I'd like to thank all of you who come to listen and read the mayhem that is my pubcast. You guys make it all worth while
I say Cheers and Oogy Wawa to you all and if you like pick one of your own
Cheers Around the World!
Oh yeah the Wife wanted this added
LET ME IN!
Draft Magazine
All about Beer
The Beer Magazine
Find Your State's Laws on Liquor
Flossmoor Station 21st Amendment celebration beers
Here's To Beer
Beer Rainbow!
I'd like to thank all of you who come to listen and read the mayhem that is my pubcast. You guys make it all worth while
I say Cheers and Oogy Wawa to you all and if you like pick one of your own
Cheers Around the World!
Oh yeah the Wife wanted this added
LET ME IN!
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