What a road trip! There is a path you can take from eastern Lake Ontario to Maine that give lots of opportunity to have some great beer...and that was the one I took. Here are some up coming posts that I have in the hopper:
- More quick notes and longer stories from the stash. This trip saw the collection and the return to Canada of about 30 new beers for me including a Japanese sweet stout and a lime-blossom flavoured Belgian blond. Yowsa.
- The main source for these treats was Tully's in Wells, Maine one of the best beer shops I have come across to date even if it it only has about 20 by 15 feet worth of shelves. I'll be putting together a story review later this week.
- I expect to write about my review copy of The Good Beer Guide to New England by Andy Crouch which is apparently in the mail right now. I have looked forward to the publication of this book for some time and hope it will serve as a great compliment to the works of Lew Bryson which cover New York to Virginia. Is anyone doing a book on the beers of Ohio yet?
Comments
GR - April 20, 2006 8:56 AM
Told ya Tully's was good. I think that weekend trips to Tully's, Magic Bus style, for all Beer Blog readers from Eastern Ontario and NY should be arranged. Somehow, I imagine the trip back would be a bit merrier and more noisy.
Shopping tip from new home in Ithaca: Ithaca coffee company has it coming and going: roast their own coffees which are astounding and affordable (less than Starbucks!), cheese in the middle with lotsa samples, and a terrific selection of single beers and sixpacks from around the world. Desserts too. Coffee+cheese+dessert+beer=one stop shopping!
Alan - April 20, 2006 9:12 AM
Is that the coffee shop (slash) bakery near Purity Dairy? What manner of beer is this? And have you gone to Finger Lake Beverage yet?
gr - April 20, 2006 4:12 PM
Not near Purity, just off rte. 13 at Triphammer. What manner Beer? Lotsa beers! Maybe not as many as some places, but really good prices, and cheese cheese cheese and desserts and coffee and CHEESE and SAMPLES!!!!!!!
Lookup Ithacacoffee
gr - April 20, 2006 4:15 PM
http://www.ithacacoffee.com/beers.html
Nope, havn't got to Finger Lakes Bev. yet, or Ithaca brewery but that doesn't mean we havn't sampled some beers lately...