August 2004
Three Mid-Atlantic Brown Ales
Posted by on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 in - leave a comment
Brooklyn Brown Ale, Ithaca Nut Brown Ale, Tröegs Nut Brown Ale • Brown Ale is a difficult style. It is really a bunch of styles from England, Belgium, Scotland and the USA. When you think of it...pretty much all beer is brown. And, really, so it ever was until someone figured out how to dry pale …
Beer Shop: Galeville Grocery, Liverpool, NY
Posted by on Sunday, August 29, 2004 in - 11 comments
Directions to the Galeville Grocery • So we hit the road at 8:00 am and were at the fair at 10:30 am after a few stops - one of which was the Galeville Grocery. Unlike Pennsylvania and its restrictive distributor system, New Yorkers have some of the most civilized laws relating to the purchasing …
Beer Heist!
Posted by on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in - 3 comments
From CBC in the Maritimes: • “RCMP officers in Woodstock, N.B., have discovered • more than 5,000 of the 50,400 cans of Moosehead beer that went missing en route • to Mexico last week. Police were investigating a crash involving a trailer that • went off the road at East Newbridge, near …
Five Foot Square Brewery
Posted by on Monday, August 23, 2004 in - leave a comment
Happy news from Wales where they have the common sense to allow tiny batch breweries to exist - the smallest in the world in a former outhouse has just reopened. Practically impossible in Canada where a whacking excise fee has to be paid unless you fall into section 172(1) of the Excise Act …
Five From Penn And One New Yorker
Posted by on Monday, August 16, 2004 in - 3 comments
As part of a continuing tradition of investigative reporting, I present five Pennsylvanians and one south central New Yorker: • Click on the picture for, really, nothing more than a slightly larger picture of the same thing. • I've give some detail as I pop a few of these starting with the …
Pennsylvanian Distributors
Posted by on Friday, August 6, 2004 in - 18 comments
One thing to note from any trip to Pennsylvania by a beer fan are some of the strange laws of vending said beverage. Simply put, they try to deter you from doing so by making it difficult and taboo. To buy a six-pack or a 12 pack you have to go to a bar with a sign that says "six to go" or some …
Parkview Hotel, Lititz, Pennsylvania
Posted by on Thursday, August 5, 2004 in - leave a comment
In Lititz amongst the good and early to bed set. Festooned. All I could think of was "festooned". And of cold beer. Mighty fine looking.
