USA Today Feature Dockyard Brewing Company
Bermuda’s Dockyard Brewing Company has been featured in a USA Today story that focuses on “the best Caribbean beers and breweries,” with the adjacent Frog & Onion Pub also highlighted.
The story says, “The island’s only microbrewery, Dockyard Brewing Company in the Royal Naval Dockyard is also the only producer of an adult beverage made on the island.
“Producing 550 barrels every year, five varieties of the beer are poured in the adjacent Frog & Onion Pub and at a few other spots around the island.
“The pub and brewery in one of the original buildings that the British Navy built in the early 1800′s is also where the big cruise ships dock and tourists check out the craft market and take five on the manicured lawns.
“The pub is cavernous with old stone walls decorated with flags from all over the world, but it’s anything but quiet with TV screens tuned to whatever big game is on, local performer Wayne Davis playing his funky repertoire of Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder and shoppers perusing the frog-themed souvenirs in the gift shop.
“Tours of the brewery are a big hit with groups of ten or more and come with a five-course dinner pairing fish and chips and bacon-topped burgers with the five beers brewed at the Distillery.”
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Maybe not on the scale of the Frog and Onion, but I’m currently running at a production rate of 10 barrels of year, albeit not for commercial reasons. There are many others I know of too who brew their own, either from imported ingredients or from Miles’ homebrew kits.
What I would like to know is why the Frog & Onion, and all other Bermudian bars come to that, keep their ales just a touch above freezing. That’s fine for lagers and wheat beers, but it destroys the rich flavours of an ale, which should be stored at a temperature similar to that of a red wine. I have cried after being served a Black Sheep which was so cold my tongue stuck to the bottle when I licked it.
It’s the murdering by freezing of perfectly good ales (included bottled ones in pubs), which is the primary reason I started brewing my own, and frankly, at 60 cents a pint, compared with $9 in a bar, it’s saving me a small fortune.