Monthly Archives: February 2016
Know Your Craft: Barleywine, another cold weather companion
My last column highlighted the “chicken-soup effect” a Russian Imperial Stout can have on a bleak winter day.
Another favorite — and potentially mood enhancing — cold weather go-to is the barleywine. Not actually a wine, it takes its name from being a strong beer with wine-like gravity (i.e. alcohol content).
This beer is another great sipper, and its big hop character combined with a deep, amber-red-brown maltiness can brighten up almost any dark day.
Generally between 8 to 12 percent ABV for a nice impression of warmth, it also has big malt sweetness balanced by moderate to heavy hoppiness.
Similar to, yet stronger than, an Old Ale, the barleywine is another English style represented by many great versions on each side of the Atlantic.
According to Dave Carpenter of Craft Beer and Brewing Magazine, an English barleywine “exhibits a chewy, complex malt body that evokes plums and toffee and…
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Shut Your Eyes
Blueberry: The Story of Our New Name.
Greetings! I thought I’d update our blog to share some exciting news. As of today, your friends and neighbors at Groovice have a new name: Blueberry! Why change our name, you ask? Well, who doesn’t love blueberries? Our real reasons actually run much deeper. We are on a mission to build a network for neighbors […]
The Wise Old Owl
The Wise Old Owl
Perched on the tree
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Still,
Silent,
Listening,
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Others loved the chatter
The hare, the deer
The badgers, the squirrels
All seeing themselves as superior to the others
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All want to be heard
All want to be seen
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But the owl
the wise old owl
perched quietly on the branch
Watched and Listened
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As they argued
Who was the best, the smartest
Who should be the leader
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The wise old old was silent
Not for lack of opinion or thought
He in fact had many ideas
Many thoughts and observations about the world
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But now was not the time
there was still so much learning to do
still so much observing to do
As he watched the world move
in all its faults and glory
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He did not feel the need to babble ideas
If he had not seen…
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Silly Japanese
A Limerick of Zelda
This is Zelda ready to rock
With beauty makes you shock
She dances in the street
With her beautiful bare feet
And she parties around the clock
Crazy Pasta Child 