{"id":2727,"date":"2018-02-16T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2018-02-16T17:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T01:00:54","slug":"beyond-bottle-old-osborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-old-osborne\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: As Old As Osborne"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The glossary of Martyn Cornell\u2019s authoritative Amber Gold & Black <\/em>is kind, especially for this particular reader, in its clear definition of old ale. Cornell puts it as follows: \u201ca name given to any strong aged pale or brown beer.\u201d Things vary, as they tend to. What constituted old ale often depended on one\u2019s time and location, and Cornell unpacks some relations between old ales and other historical strong groups\u2014Burton ales, stock ales, etc.\u2014in the chapter \u201cBarley Wine and Old Ale.\u201d The chapter also highlights a scene from the book Wives and Daughters<\/em> by Elizabeth Gaskell, wherein a certain Squire Hamley offers his visiting physician a glass of old ale, from a cask that he had been cellaring since the birth of his first son, Osborne.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou must have a glass full,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s old ale, such as we don\u2019t brew now-a-days. It\u2019s as old as Osborne. We brewed it that autumn and we called it the young Squire\u2019s ale.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting Osborne was over 21 at this time, and that the physician \u201chad to sip it very carefully as he ate his cold roast beef\u201d due to the aged beer\u2019s potency. It\u2019s interesting to think just how long we have been able to create beers that can last for decades… At RateBeer.com, the old-ale style descriptions (presumably still overseen by the well-traveled Josh Oakes) note there are at least three or four styles coalescing under the \u2018old ale\u2019 umbrella. But I particularly dig the last sentence, which reflects my own skewed experience stateside: \u201cFor me, these are robustly malty beers, akin to a top-fermented version of a dopplebock.\u201d And they often are.<\/p>\n

Have you gotten to check out any old-ale releases? AleSmith, Kuhnhenn, The Bruery, North Coast and Harviestoun are all reliable spots to check for cellarable examples. Any hitting the spot? Sampled a beer as old as Osborne? Join the conversation on Twitter @RareBeerClub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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