Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
I recently came across these images of the old Backus & Johnston brewery in Lima. The Backus and Johnston brewery and ice manufacturing plant was founded in 1879 by the Americans Jacob Backus and John Howard Johnston in Lima’s Rímac District. In 1889, they incorporated “The Backus and Johnston’s Brewery Company Ltd” in London in…
Bucket of Flowers is a Belgian witbier (5% abv) brewed Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co. of Charleston, South Carolina. It was also one of the beers brought to me by my daughter and son-in-law. In appearance, Bucket of Flowers is golden and translucent, with a slight haze. Its initially abundant bright white head soon subsides to…
I’ve receive a very nice gift, from my daughter and son-in-law, of a selection of beers from North and South Carolina. I look forward to trying them all!
A brewery that I’ve been meaning to write about for some months, but somehow never got to it, is Donner Creek Brewing in Truckee, California. Donner Creek –which classes itself as a pico-brewery, meaning that it is smaller than a micro-brewery, and smaller, even, than a nano-brewery– is located in a storefront near a business…