Posts Tagged: Beer Stores and Beer Shopping
Beer Shop + Beer Club + Local Brewery = Good Idea
Posted by on Saturday, February 28, 2009 in - 1 comment
What a great concept! This article that popped up on Google news this evening shows how an imaginative beer shopkeeper can connect fans of great beer with the local brewers who make it. Here is how the deal works at the Sherbrooke Liquor Store in Edmonton Alberta: • ...Customers can sign up for …
When Best Before Is Just Not Good Enough
Posted by on Saturday, February 14, 2009 in - 1 comment
I don't know what you were doing last night but I was watching six episodes of Doctor Who with the boy. The 1978 version. As we watched Sontarans come this close to taking out the Time Lords and marveled at the state of British dental care of thrity years ago, I sipped a Kerst Pater Special Winter …
More On The State Of Beer In Ithaca, New York
Posted by on Monday, January 26, 2009 in - 4 comments
You have to realize that I do not really get out to bars that much. Having three little kids in tow as well as an agenda that makes as much time for Purity Dairy as beer shopping provides little opportunity for spending hours in a tap room. We were even staying across a parking lot from the Scale …
Is That A Spark Of Revolution In New Brunswick?
Posted by on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 in - 3 comments
Backlash. That is what the world is really fueled by. People get so ticked off with this or that that they lift themselves out of their comfortable chairs, their offices without the view or their garden rows and say no way, enough is enough. Is this maybe what we are witnessing in Canada's eastern …
Finally, A Trip To A CNY Beer Store Planned
Posted by on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 in - 3 comments
It has been brutal recently. Having little kids around can really trip up your plans to get some fine beer shopping in while traveling to foreign countries. It's hard on me not to have a foolish amount of corked bottles in the stash. You know how it is. Fortunately, the stars have aligned and we …
Road Stories: A Tale Of Two Liquor Commissions
Posted by on Monday, October 20, 2008 in - 4 comments
So it was not quite the same trip I had imagined. Not only did I not get across the bridge at Sarnia last weekend but, as if this weekend, I officially encourage you to think very carefully next time you get that feeling that it would good to travel from Levis, Quebec to PEI. There are nicely …
There Is A Limit To What I Will Do For Great Beer
Posted by on Monday, October 13, 2008 in - 4 comments
I had no idea such a limit existed. But there it was. Last Friday afternoon, I was heading to the Ontario-Michigan border with that plan to hit up nearby a shop or two for at least three cases of various craft beers when, whammo, traffic stopped. Almost two miles from the border, everything stood …
Beer Hunting in Michigan and Quebec
Posted by on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 in - 5 comments
I have a couple of big trips coming up in October. Circumstances place me to the west in London, Ontario relieved of duties before noon on a Friday which means I have an hour to head further west still to the border at Sarnia and the afternoon to shop in Michigan. Having been there before, I have … read more »
Maine: Shopping At Allagash Brewing Co., Portland
Posted by on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 in - 3 comments
We stopped in at Allagash to pick up some supplies yesterday, three hours early for the tour but that was fine. I was really looking just to shop on the one rainy morning during our week in southern Maine. I plan to be on the beach most days at 3 pm. Not that I usually mention landscaping but …
Maine Update: The Grocery Store Question
Posted by on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 in - 1 comment
One of the many great things about Maine is you can buy beer at a grocery store - and wine and what they call "haaaard liqaaaah" around here. So far I have only hit two stores in South Portland, Shaw's and Hannaford, but it is interesting to note the different treatment. At clean and bright and …
