March 2021 – Counterpoint Brewing and Blending

Ballantine’s Ale – Riffing on a Missing Link, Part 2

VIEW PART 1 – THE SPARK THE HISTORY Peter Ballantine, circa 1880 Ballantine holds a unique place in the history of American beer, and in the more recent story of American Craft Beer. The beginning of the Ballantine story sounds similar to many other breweries of the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries. First generation immigrant opensContinueContinue reading “Ballantine’s Ale – Riffing on a Missing Link, Part 2”

Ballantine’s Ale – Riffing on a Missing Link, Part 1

THE SPARK I’ve been a bit obsessed with Ballantine lately. Although this beer has always had a place in the periphery of my consciousness (as far back as I remember- all the way to my childhood) nothing about it ever sparked much interest for me until very recently. Even a few years ago when PabstContinueContinue reading “Ballantine’s Ale – Riffing on a Missing Link, Part 1”