"Here's to writing your own story" Staat er op het zwarte halve liter blik, onder de beeltenis van een bebaarde man met hoed met veer. Die zal voor Shakespeare door moeten gaan veronderstel ik. Op de achterzijde staat een tekst: "Three decades ago we brewed this award-winning stout to honor Ashland, the birthplace of Rogue and home of the celebrated Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It pours ebony in color with a rich, creamy head and a mellow chocolate malt finish." Vervolgens staat er een schenkinstructie op: meteen ondersteboven een glas om de bubbels te zien. Bij het openen van bet blik is er een stevige sis en ruikt het meteen naar het bier. Het bier smaakt goed. De typische koude thee afdronk, na een romige moutig bittere smaak.
Wat vinden anderen?
Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours a very dark mahogany brown, appearing opaque in the glass with a three finger, fine nitro, dark khaki head with great retention and nice lacing. Aroma of dark toasted malt, bakers chocolate and drip coffee. Flavor follows, with dark toasted malt with moderate char, bakers chocolate and fresh coffee and a hint of piney hops in the finish. Medium bodied with moderate, nitro-adjacent, creaminess. Well this one brought me back in time. Shakspeare stout was one of my all time go-to beers decades ago, available everywhere and memorably flavorful. I saw this nitro can and had to give it a try, and glad I did. I remember thinking this stout was like a chocolatey Guinness, but not quite as creamy as a Guinness pour; this can has that great flavor, but with a pleasant creaminess from the nitro can. Glad that the current version still has nice flavor depth for its ABV and a pleasing level of chocolate and coffee notes. I'll be getting this one again. Nice job, Rogue. Feb 19, 2024 https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/132/532319/
Can poured into a Mountain Rambler Brewery pint glass A: Pours cascading brown to nearly black with a creamy tawny brown head that hangs around and leaves some thick lacing. S: Toasty, char, a hint of smoke, earthy, coffee, a touch of pine, and a hint of burnt sugar. T: Roasted malt, char, earthy, black coffee, a little raw cacao, piney, a hint of vanilla, and a little burnt sugar. M: Medium body, mild carbonation, creamy smooth. O: It's been forever since I've had Shakespeare. Cool to try the nitro version. Really nice straight forward oatmeal stout. Apr 13, 2022 https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/132/532319/
Rogue Ales was originally founded in Ashland, a Southern Oregon college town home to the world-renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Inspired by this festival, we introduced this English-style oatmeal stout as one of our three original beers when our first pub opened in Ashland in 1988. It has remained in our product line ever since, earning the most awards and highest ratings of any of our beers. https://www.drinkrank.com/drinkbrands/rogue-ales-spirits/rogue-shakespeare-stout
Recipe: Rogue Shakespeare Stout Brewed since 1988, when Rogue Brewery got its start in Ashland, Oregon—home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival—here’s a homebrew-scale recipe for the OG of American oatmeal stouts. https://www.beerandbrewing.com/recipe-rogue-shakespeare-stout
Het bier is van Rogue.
6,5% Rogue Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout Rogue Ales Rogue Shakespreare Oatmeal Stout is een donker, volmondig bier met een prachtige crème-achtige schuimkraag. Deze Stout zit boordevol geroosterde smaken, zoals koffie, maar vooral ook chocolade. Deze Stout met havermout staat zeer hoog aangeschreven bij bierliefhebbers uit Europa en Amerika.... 5.7% Rogue Ales Shakespeare Stout Rogue Ales https://www.bierista.nl/brouwerij/rogue-ales
Als we kijken naar de bieren in hun assortiment is er geen woord gelogen van hun gezegde “altijd leuk en vol van smaak”. Rogue brouwt veel verschillende maar ook unieke bieren, met veel verschillende ingrediënten, ze weten er altijd weer een feestje van te maken. Daarnaast brouwen ze ook veel klassieke bieren zoals Pilsners en India Ales, en ook hier weten ze hun draai aan te geven dat het toch iets eigens wordt. Een paar ingrediënten die ze gebruiken voor hun bier verbouwen ze zelf op hun eigen stuk land, en dat is te proeven. https://www.bierista.nl/brouwerij/rogue-ales
Rogue Ales was a brewery founded in 1988 in Ashland, Oregon that is no longer in operation. Rogue had operated a handful of pub locations around Oregon under the parent company Oregon Brewing Company. All operations ceased in November 2025 with the company filing bankruptcy later the same month.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Ales
Ik ben verrast door het faillissement. Al valt het wel samen met andere faillissementen in het Nederlandse bierlandschap.
Rogue Ales was founded in Ashland, Oregon in 1988 by three Nike, Inc. executives: Jack Joyce, Rob Strasser, and Bob Woodell.[3] In 1987, Jack Joyce, Bob Woodell, past University of Oregon fraternity brothers, and another friend, Rob Strasser, were approached by Jeff Schultz, Woodell's accountant and avid home brewer, with an idea to open a brewpub. Construction began in June 1988 in Ashland, along the Lithia Creek. The 10 bbl brew system was set up in the basement with a 60-seat Pub above. The first brews were American Amber Ale, Oregon Golden Ale and Shakespeare Stout. The Brewery and Pub opened in October 1988 to moderate success and soon, the company started looking to expand. In February 1989, construction began on the Bay Front Brew Pub in Newport, Oregon. In March, John Maier, a former Hughes Aircraft F15 designer and Seibel Institute graduate, joined the company. Mair was previously a brewer at Alaskan Brewing before he was recruited by Joyce.[4] The pub opened in May 1989. By 2018, Rogue had eleven locations dispersed throughout Oregon, Washington, and California.[5] Rogue has sponsored the annual surfing event "The Gathering Longboard Classic" on Newport's South Beach.[6][7] At the end of 2018 Brett Joyce, (Jack Joyce's son) stepped down as company president and was replaced by general manager Dharma Tamm. Joyce retains an ownership stake and remains on the board.[8] In August 2023, Steven Garrett became the president, replacing Tamm.[9] On November 14th, 2025, Rogue Ales abruptly halted all operations in Newport, Oregon with no explanation.[10] It had filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on November 25, 2025 leaving behind over $16.7 million in unpaid debt. [11][2] The bankruptcy includes the subsidiary companies Rogue River Brewing Co. and Yaquina Bay Beverage Co.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Ales
Brewmaster John C. Maier joined the company in 1989 from Alaskan Brewing.[12] Rogue has produced more than 60 different ales. The company uses a proprietary yeast known as "Pacman".[12][13] Maier says that all of their beers are meant to go with food, and the company has worked with chefs,[14] brewing industry experts,[15] and restaurateurs.[16][17][18][19] Maier stepped down as brewmaster in July 2019,[20] and was replaced by Joel Shields.[21] ... Rogue has collaborated on brewing beers with Rogue Creamery, Portland State, Voodoo Doughnut, Dark Horse Comics,[22] and others. The brewery released Hot Sriracha Stout in 2013, made with the sauce of the same name.[23] ... The brewery once created a beer using a strain of yeast found in Brewmaster Maier's beard, known as their Beard Beer. Rogue has entered contests held by the Brewers Association multiple times, and has received several medals. Rogue has entered both the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) and the World Beer Cup (WBC).[24][25] In 2011, a group of employees from the Rogue Brewery in Newport, Oregon were unsuccessful in their attempt to unionize. Rogue was accused at the time for union-busting tactics at their Newport brewery, and has been questioned for their salary standards.[26] Rogue's Eugene Public House and Track Town Brewery was shut down in 2014. According to Northwest Brewing News, this was at least in part also due to Rogue's "cheapskate management tactics".[27] Rogue reportedly refused to let the brewers have an assistant, and some brewers were forced to carry heavy loads and spend their own money to work within the company's dollar-per-keg budget limits.[27] In July 2015, company president Brett Joyce dismissed those with complaints as having "an ax to grind".[28] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Ales
Tja, weer een prominente brouwerij weg; opgenomen in de bierhistorie. De Amerikaanse brouwerij kwam op eind jaren tachtig met de revival van de craft brewing beweging. Op https://brewpublic.com/beer-history/rogue-ales-turns-30-years-old-a-video-history/ is een filmpje te zien van ze, al is die niet te zien.
Thirty years ago the late Jack Joyce co-founded a small brewery in the Southern Oregon town of Ashland that would gain worldwide notoriety through its ensuing years. Rogue Ales began its journey in 1988. https://brewpublic.com/beer-history/rogue-ales-turns-30-years-old-a-video-history/
Na dertig jaar is de rek eruit. Daar zit denk ik ook een clou voor brouwertijen: wat als de stichter er klaar mee is? Of met pensioen gaat?
The news hit like a rogue wave. Employees arrived at work to find “Closed Until Further Notice” signs plastered across locations from the flagship Newport headquarters to brewpubs in Portland, Astoria, and the newly opened Salem Public House. Rogue’s president, Steven Garrett, informed the Port of Newport that morning of the immediate shutdown, leaving a skeleton crew to pack up the remnants of a 47,000-square-foot facility that once buzzed with the alchemy of fermenting ales destined for shelves in all 50 states and over 50 countries. A Legacy Forged in Rebellion Rogue’s story is as bold and unfiltered as its flagship Dead Guy Ale. Founded in Ashland, Oregon, by University of Oregon alumni Jack Joyce and Bob Woodell, the brewery started as a defiant response to the bland lagers dominating the American beer landscape. Relocating to Newport in 1989, Rogue quickly became synonymous with innovation under the guidance of legendary brewmaster John Maier. Maier’s recipes—think Shakespeare Stout, Hazelnut Brown Nectar, and the malty Dead Guy Ale—garnered over 2,000 awards, turning Rogue into Oregon’s second-largest craft brewery at its peak and a national powerhouse. The brewery’s ethos was pure punk rock: self-reliance, eccentricity, and a touch of irreverence. They even brewed “Beard Beer” using yeast harvested from Maier’s famously unkempt facial hair. https://beerinfo.com/rogue-ales-closes-after-37-years-of-iconic-brewing/
The news that Rogue had suddenly slammed shut the doors on all their pubs and breweries is growing more shocking the longer we have to consider it. As recently as last year, Rogue was still one of the largest craft breweries in the US—50th, according to the Brewers Association’s most recent report. It had been declining a bit in relative numbers on that list, but apparently still selling quite a bit of beer. It wasn’t a new start-up managing risky gambles, either. Rogue has been around 37 years, over three decades of them in their large brewery in Newport. They were still functioning like a healthy brewery: a year ago, they penned a deal with the Portland Trailblazers to make a “Rip City” IPA, and this spring they opened a new pub in Salem. These kinds of breweries don’t just close up in the dark of night. And the way the announcement was handled, with nary a word to the press and crudely-scrawled “closed” signs on the doors of their properties made it all the more surreal. https://www.beervanablog.com/beervana/2025/11/17/rogue-ales-1988-2025
We still don’t have the full story, and it may be a while before we do. In the meantime, it’s worth considering Rogue’s legacy, which is suffering some recency bias. Had Rogue closed a decade ago, people would have had a very different impression of its status in the terrain of American brewing. But in the hours and days after the announcement, in addition to the usual expressions of shock and dismay, I noticed a number of dismissive criticisms: “brands that had grown stale over the years,” “even then [15 years ago], it was clear Rogue was declining,” “I can’t remember the last time I ordered one.” These may hint at the nature of Rogue’s declining sales: they had come to be seen as a legacy brewery in all the wrong ways. Their beers seemed out of date, despite a new “Dead Guy” line, and it’s been a long time since they were making beers on the leading edge of innovation. This is a curious coda, if this is indeed the end of the line, for a brewery that was for decades known largely for its innovation and experimentation. Well into the 21st century, Rogue was trying stuff no other brewery in the country was considering. If losing the latest incarnation of Rogue feels less like a loss than some of the other recent closures, at least in beer terms, we shouldn’t lose sight of its legacy as one of the most important breweries in the early craft era, or why people once thought it was so special. Rogue was fundamentally an expression of two very different minds: cofounder and business leader Jack Joyce and longtime head brewer John Maier. They were in some ways contrasting figures; Joyce was a corporate lawyer who understood brands while Maier was one of those homebrewer-turned pro tinkerers who understood beer but not business. In many breweries, the impulse to market and sell the beer undermines work in the brewhouse, but Rogue achieved a strange harmony as the visions of the two men converged. ... Dead Guy would become Rogue’s flagship, but only later—in the early days they were making beers like Shakespeare, an early oatmeal stout, the impossibly hoppy Old Crustacean Barleywine, Rogue ‘n Berry (made with marionberries), and Mexicali, a very early pepper beer—among many others. It’s also an irony that Rogue is no longer associated with hops, because in the early Maier years, pushing the envelope on bitterness was part of the brewery’s DNA. Maier’s nickname was “More Hops,” and he played a big role in developing the hoppy beers that would define the Pacific Northwest. Today average consumers are so much more educated about beer, even if they’re just casual fans. They may not have a deep understanding of styles, but they recognize words like “lager” and “IPA.” In the late eighties and early nineties, drinkers had no concept of the beer world. In response, most breweries tried to stay within eyesight of consumer expectation, hoping to lure them into a new world with beers that weren’t too much of a departure from their expectation. Rogue went the opposite direction, making beer that no one recognized. It was a brewery for the adventuresome. It was also a “craft” brewery in the sense that John Maier was very transparent about how he made the beer, and shared his info with homebrewers as a way of empowering them to take chances as well. This gave Rogue a grassroots cred it could never have achieved through branding. In many ways, Maier was a practitioner of outsider art, an irony given that, outside the brewhouse, Rogue had the most sophisticated marketing and branding of any brewery on the west coast. Somehow, though, the name and the branding supported rather than undermined Maier’s work. In 2025, Rogue suffered from the impression of being lame and uncool. Thirty years ago, Maier created the beers that helped define cool in the Northwest. ... Rogue was a member of the class of ‘88, that famous year when the not-quite founding generation that included Goose Island, Brooklyn, Deschutes, Vermont Pub & Brewery, Great Lakes and more. It was still early enough that breweries might have hoped to have some success, but none came into the world envisioning 50-state distribution or planning to get there—except Rogue. Joyce was at the forefront of creating a vehicle he could sell, perhaps like athletic shoes, to people around the country. Throughout his nearly twenty-year tenure at the head of the brewery, he was both the engine powering the company and its irascible, amusing face. The brewery’s name is shrouded apocrypha—I have heard at least three origin stories—but is a big part of what tied everything together. The first American craft breweries saw and sold themselves as rebels fighting the giant Borg of industrial beer, and the “Rogue” name fit right into that. It was also the bridge to Maier’s strange brews, prepping people right from the start to expect something unusual. Rogue was also one of the pioneers of the 22-ounce bottles, which aside from retailing at premium prices allowed for their large, silk-screened images. Here again, marketing and brewing came together. In the late-80s and early-90s, a packaging brewery focused on a core line with some seasonal offerings. Because it was focused on 22s, Rogue could and did spin off what was then a dazzling line of beers. https://www.beervanablog.com/beervana/2025/11/17/rogue-ales-1988-2025
De rebelse pionier die mainstream wordt, wordt als minder cool gezien en wat als dat het bestaansrecht gaf?
Here’s how I characterized it fifteen years ago: Rogue shifted their design to highlight the revolution through overtly socialist/communist symbolism. The art style is socialist realism, popularized during the cold war when the Soviets used art to support the revolution. It tends to focus on the strength and glory of the worker. Rogue, using these themes, features a variety of muscular men on the labels--a nod to the steel workers and farmers the Soviets employed. But Rogue doesn't stop at allusion. They also incorporate overtly communist symbols: the red star and the upraised fist. The star appears everywhere, and if you look carefully, you'll notice that it's always the left fist that comes up--a particular Trostkyite flavor. This dissident theme led naturally to the “Rogue Nation” concept—one of the earliest loyalty programs. Join and you became a card-carrying member of Rogue Nation, and those who engaged with the program would earn titles like “quartermaster.” On the one hand, the whole thing was deeply perverse—a large company using the symbolism and consciousness of leftist politics to support their capitalist ambitions—but with Maier’s beer, it somehow worked. It also gave them a platform for encouraging people to visit one of the pubs in their expanding chain. https://www.beervanablog.com/beervana/2025/11/17/rogue-ales-1988-2025
Tja, dat kan ook nog. Dat de (jongeren)cultuur waarin Sovjet-memorabilia cool waren is vervaagd. Dat de huidige sfeer van het Trump-regime juist fascistische imperialistische denkbeelden verheerlijkt. In die 'zeotgeist' past geen socialoistische anarchistische tolerantie en autarkische rebellie.
One of their more interesting projects isn’t well-remembered, but it was kind of bonkers in its ambition. Starting in the mid-2000s, Rogue began growing their own hops on a 42-acre property near Independence, along with a 256-acre farm in the Tygh Valley near Maupin. A few years later, they started a floor-malting operation and later introduced beers made with their ingredients (unfortunately labeled “Chatoe”). That venture didn’t pan out commercially, and they later divested themselves from agriculture, but it demonstrates what impressive ambition the brewery possessed. Sometimes when you take a big swing, you strike out. https://www.beervanablog.com/beervana/2025/11/17/rogue-ales-1988-2025
Tja, dat is ook weer zoiets. Duitse en Nederlandse (en Belgische) brouwers doen dat al gewoon; eogen hop telen. In goede relatie met de telers. Dus als kleine brouwer is het misschien rebels D-I-Y, maar commercieel niet echt logisch.
It has been very hard for once-large founding-era breweries to survive the craft era. That’s particularly true of the Pacific Northwest, where names like Pyramid, BridgePort, Portland Brewing, and Redhook have completely or functionally vanished. Each one of those breweries pursued different strategies that led them to different forms of failure. Rogue, which always remained independent, seemed like it might avoid their fate. We don’t quite know yet what were the immediate factors that caused Rogue’s collapse, but it’s almost a sure bet that it will look different than any of the others. Like families, unhappy—or failing—breweries fail in their own way. https://www.beervanablog.com/beervana/2025/11/17/rogue-ales-1988-2025
Rogue Ales takes their name seriously. Their dedication to being a unique brewery and producing amazing craft beers makes their name more appropriate than most. Rogue Ales started back in 1988, when saying the term “craft beer” would get you some funny looks. There really wasn’t craft beer back then per se, but instead there were the standard macro breweries, and then there were these…well…rogues. People that wanted better beer and didn’t want to accept the current status as quo, so to speak. Rogue listened and opened their first brewpub in October of 1988 in beautiful Ashland, Oregon. The first beers they beers they brewed were American Amber and Oregon Golden. Over the years Rogue opened a second brewpub in Newport, Oregon as well as staring Rogue Farms where they grow many of the ingredients used in their beers. All in all, a very “Rogue” way of looking at the beer industry.
But even the strongest brews can sour. Rogue’s closure wasn’t a bolt from the blue; it was the bitter culmination of years of industry headwinds. Craft beer sales have been flatlining since the pandemic, squeezed by inflation, shifting consumer preferences toward low- and no-alcohol options, and fierce competition from Big Beer conglomerates snapping up independents. According to the Brewers Association, six of Oregon’s 10 largest craft breweries saw sales dips in 2024, with Rogue suffering an 18% plunge—one of the steepest. Financial red flags had been waving for months. In August 2025, Rogue outsourced its national sales to U.S. Beverage LLC, a desperate pivot to stem bleeding margins. Yet debts mounted: $545,000 in back rent to the Port of Newport, plus up to $30,000 in unpaid taxes to Lincoln County, including interest. The Port had been negotiating payment plans, but the brewery’s 37-year tenancy ended in eviction-like fashion. “We’ve been working with them on debt for a while,” Port Executive Director Don Mann told local reporters, his tone laced with regret. The craft sector’s woes are emblematic of broader economic tremors. Post-COVID, on-premise sales at bars and restaurants—Rogue’s lifeblood—never fully rebounded. Younger drinkers are sipping hard seltzers and mocktails over hazy IPAs, and grocery aisles are flooded with cheap imports. Rogue, once the 50th largest U.S. craft brewer, had already retrenched: closing its Pearl District pub in 2020, a tasting room in Independence in 2021, and listing its Astoria property for sale last summer. The Salem pub’s spring 2025 debut now feels like a final, futile flourish. https://beerinfo.com/rogue-ales-closes-after-37-years-of-iconic-brewing/
Maar goed, dat is een hoop brouwerijnieuws, terwijl er ook ruimte is voor andere schrijfselonderwerpen.
William Shakespeare (Stratford-upon-Avon, ± 23 april OS 1564, gedoopt 26 april 1564 – aldaar, 23 april OS 1616) was een Engels toneelschrijver, dichter en acteur. Shakespeare wordt gezien als de grootste schrijver die Engeland ooit heeft voortgebracht; niet alleen vanwege de kwaliteit van zijn werken, maar ook vanwege zijn enorme invloed op de Engelse taal, waarin nog steeds honderden woorden, uitdrukkingen en citaten aan hem zijn toe te schrijven. Hij schreef 154 sonnetten en een aantal langere gedichten en kan beschouwd worden als de eerste moderne toneelschrijver. Zijn toneeloeuvre bestaat uit 38 werken, verdeeld over drie genres: tragedies, historische stukken en komedies over tijdloze, universele thema's die tot op de dag van vandaag gebruikt worden voor theaterbewerkingen, opera's, musicals en films. ... William Shakespeare (ook gespeld Shakspere, Shaksper en Shake-speare, in Nederland vroeger ook veelvuldig Shakespear,[9] omdat de spelling in de elizabethaanse periode niet vaststond) werd geboren in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, in april 1564. William was de zoon van John Shakespeare, een succesvolle handelaar en wethouder en Mary Arden, een dochter uit een adellijke familie. De Shakespeares woonden toen in Henley Street. ... De naam Shakespeare zelf heeft mogelijk een militaire oorsprong, waarbij "shake spear" verwijst naar een speerwerper of krijger.[11] Het lijkt waarschijnlijk dat de familie oorspronkelijk uit Normandië komt. Le Chastelain de Couci, een Frans verhaal uit de 12e eeuw dat behoort tot het genre van de Trouvère (Noord-Franse dichters-zangers uit de Middeleeuwen), wordt toegeschreven aan Jakemes Sakesep. Ook het feit dat in de Normandische "Pipe Rolls" uit het jaar 1195 een zekere "William Sakeespee" voorkomt, duidt op de waarschijnlijkheid dat de familie van de dichter afkomstig was uit het noorden van Frankrijk en na de Normandische verovering van Engeland het Kanaal is overgestoken.[12] In Engelstalige documenten wordt de naam "William Sakspeer" voor het eerst vermeld in 1248. In de 13e en 14e eeuw duikt de naam Shakespere herhaaldelijk op in verslagen uit Warwickshire (West Midlands). Het betreft vermoedelijk een uitgebreide katholieke familie die soms op enkele kilometers afstand van elkaar woonden. ... Shakespeare kreeg eenmaal in Londen al snel naamsbekendheid als acteur en schrijver. Acteergezelschappen waartoe Shakespeare kon hebben behoord, nadat hij in Londen was aangekomen, zijn Lord Strange's Men, the Lord Admiral's Men, the Earl of Pembroke's Men en the Earl of Sussex's Men. Onderzoekers hebben er vroeger op gespeculeerd dat hij tot het gezelschap van Ferdinando Stanley (Lord Strange) was toegetreden, maar daarvoor ontbreekt enig bewijs. Shakespeares vroege eigen werken lijken duidelijke imitaties van en parodieën op werken van Christopher Marlowe en Thomas Kyd (zoals het in die tijd zeer populaire The Spanish Tragedy).[20] Uiteindelijk werd William Shakespeare mede-eigenaar van The Lord Chamberlain's Men.[noot 4] Uit verschillende documenten uit die tijd blijkt dat Shakespeare een rijk man werd in de jaren dat hij in Londen woonde en werkte. Hij bleef in deze jaren heen en weer reizen tussen Londen en zijn geboorteplaats Stratford, waarbij hij geregeld in Oxford verbleef. Dit blijkt uit aantekeningen van onder meer Alexander Pope en de oudheidkundige Thomas Hearne.[21]... Hij ligt begraven in de Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, waar jaarlijks miljoenen bezoekers het gedicht op zijn grafsteen lezen. .... In 1623, zeven jaar na Shakespeares dood, werden al zijn stukken (op twee na) uitgegeven in wat nu bekendstaat als de First Folio-uitgave. Deze bijzonder waardevolle uitgave wordt meestal als basistekst gebruikt.... In de First Folio van 1623 werden Shakespeares toneelstukken ingedeeld in blijspelen, treurspelen en historiespelen (in het Engels Comedies, Tragedies and History Plays. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. William Shakespeare https://www.azquotes.com/author/13382-William_Shakespeare/tag/beer
I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety. William Shakespeare https://www.azquotes.com/author/13382-William_Shakespeare/tag/beer
Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale. William Shakespeare https://www.azquotes.com/author/13382-William_Shakespeare/tag/beer
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? William Shakespeare https://www.azquotes.com/author/13382-William_Shakespeare/tag/beer
Would I were in an alehouse in London. William Shakespeare https://www.azquotes.com/author/13382-William_Shakespeare/tag/beer
And I will make it felony to drink small beer. William Shakespeare https://www.azquotes.com/author/13382-William_Shakespeare/tag/beer
Ale (beer made with a top fermenting yeast) was the drink of choice in Shakespeare's day. Everyone from the poorest farmer to the Queen herself drank the brew made from malt, and a mini brewery was an essential part of every household. Shakespeare's own father was an official ale taster in Stratford – an important and respected job which involved monitoring the ingredients used by professional brewers and ensuring they sold their ale at Crown regulated prices. Beer, however, eventually became more popular than ale. "In 1574, there were still 58 ale brewers to 33 beer brewers in the City [London], but beer gradually replaced ale as the national drink over the course of the century" (Picard, 187). https://shakespeare-online.com/faq/shakespearedrinking.html
Naast bier is er zelfs een brouwerij naar hem vernoemd:
Shakespeare Brewing Co is a family-run brewery, based in the heart of Shakespeare Country, that has been inspired by the great Bard himself. Our passion is brewing quality ales, the traditional way, using only the finest natural ingredients. https://www.shakespearebrewingco.com/
Ale was a key component in many of William Shakespeare’s plays and it is documented that the great Bard was partial to the odd tipple or two! In honour of what would have been Shakespeare’s birthday and the 400th anniversary of his death, Joe Holiday, Head Brewer at the North Cotswold Brewery, decided to set up a new brewery inspired by the great Bard himself. Brewing with only the finest malts from Warminster Maltings and English hops from Charles Farams, Shakespeare Brewing Co has crafted a range of premium ales. It is the aim that this range of superb ales captures the imagination of both locals and visitors alike; Stratford-upon-Avon is known for its plethora of events throughout the year, celebrating England’s greatest and most celebrated playwrite. ... Did you know... Head Brewer Joe has lived in Warwickshire all his life and even attended the same school as William Shakespeare, King Edward VI Grammar, in Stratford-upon-Avon. https://www.shakespearebrewingco.com/ourstory
