The Chillier Yet Toastier Beer News Notes For A Mid-November Thursday

Here we are. The day after Remembrance Day. The beginning of the happier weeks. Remembrance Day is a fairly significant thing here in Canada which bookends with our Thanksgiving a month ago, Halloween sitting in the middle. Sort of a unspoken serious stretch in the civic calendar. Largely apolitical even now well past a century after the end of WW1. The image to the right is a photo I took in 2005 at the naval memorial downtown. As a younger man, I attended at that service once and stood next to a Dunkirk evacuation boat captain. Beer news. First, on NPR I caught a news item the other day about a new hop breeding effort in the Czech Republic aimed at addressing the effects of climate change. Here’s the transcript including this snippet about new breeds of Saaz: BARTON: Miko Havrda is the owner and brew master of Pioneer. He brews with both Saaz Comfort and Saaz Shine. And he says they make good beer. HAVRDA: The Saaz Comfort has a little bit stronger and sharper bitterness than the…

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