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Tag: ale

What’s an Ale?

July 21, 2025 Thomas Short Leave a comment
What’s an Ale? How are ales made

In some places around the world, people might ask for an ale when they really want to get any type…

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Posted in: Beer Filed under: ale, barleywine, IPA

Food That Goes With Beer

May 27, 2023 Thomas Short Leave a comment
beer and food pairing

Forget about pairing your white wines with whatever type of food goes with white wine. We’re here to talk beer!…

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Posted in: Beer Filed under: ale, barleywine, Beer, hefeweizen, IPA, pilsner, porter, stout, Types Of Beer

Yeasts In Beer: What Does Yeast Do?

May 23, 2023 Thomas Short Leave a comment
Yeasts and beer, how they make beer

At one point during in this blog I delineated all beer types into two distinct groups: ales and lagers. Is…

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Posted in: Beer Filed under: ale, Beer, lager, yeast

What Is A Farmhouse Ale?

January 31, 2020 Thomas Short Leave a comment
farmhouse ale

Perhaps you recall a long time ago when I wrote an article about saisons and used an image of a…

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Posted in: Beer, Let's Learn Filed under: ale, Beer, farmhouse

Tripel and Quadrupel Ales

December 19, 2017 Thomas Short Leave a comment
Rochefort, Belgium, home to the OG Trappist Brewery

Beers are always trying to one-up each other, and the tripel and quadrupel styles are (sort of) results of that…

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Posted in: Beer Filed under: ABV, ale, quadrupel, tripel

What are Saisons?

September 26, 2017 Thomas Short Leave a comment
Not a Belgian farmhouse probably, but you get the idea, right?

There are plenty of rad craft breweries that brew saisons. Coming from the French word for “season,” saisons are not…

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Posted in: Let's Learn Filed under: ale, Belgian, saisone

What’s a Lager?

September 11, 2017 Thomas Short Leave a comment
What’s a Lager? How are lagers made

In the past, I went over the basics of an ale. Because there really are only two main types of…

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Posted in: Beer Filed under: ale, hops, lager, yeast

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