Posts Tagged: Beer Stores and Beer Shopping
Scratch Bakery, South Portland, Maine
Posted by on Sunday, August 17, 2008 in - leave a comment
I should get a photo later this week (here is a good wintery one on Flickr) but just a note that it's nice to find a rental house five blocks from Scratch Bakery in South Portland Maine where you can buy fine cheese, fine wines, a whole whack of great breads and other backed goods - not to mention …
Heading To Maine And Not Stopping For Vermont Beer
Posted by on Saturday, August 16, 2008 in - 2 comments
I must be a homebody. A homer. A slug-a-bed. But, after a six hour drive from the east of Lake Ontario to beyond Lake Champlain, the last thing I want most times is a beer. Driving around Burlington at 9:30 pm last night trying to find a grocery store to lay in some breakfast, I passed any number …
Josh Freed On His Favorite Dep
Posted by on Saturday, July 26, 2008 in - 1 comment
Dep? Make that dépanneur. One of the great elements of eastern Canadian beerness is the Quebec dépanneur, the corner store that sells beer like the ever excellent Marche Jovi in Gatineau. To someone in many of the United States this may seem like nothing much but to an eastern Ontarian or Maritime …
All We Want Is A Free Beer Market...
Posted by on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 in - 13 comments
...or is it a beer free market? Not so sure. But one Ontario man - the interestingly named Mr. Forward - is. He has started a petition to free Ontarians from the two-headed monster that is the government owned LCBO and the macro-brewery owned Beer Store: • His petition says: "We the people of …
Following My Bliss In Oswego, New York
Posted by on Sunday, June 29, 2008 in - 6 comments
Have I mentioned I really dislike the idea of following your passion? It's so much based on the immediate and the result. "Follow your passion" is what people are told to entice them into entry position IT jobs that never pan out or pull out the credit card to act on the next spontaneous urge. And …
By The Beer Cooler of Wegmans I Laid Myself Down And Cried
Posted by on Sunday, March 30, 2008 in - 3 comments
A fantastically bad shot of the actual Wegmans from GooglePlex • Not really but there was a moment of near tears - of joy and frustration, that is. What else, after a sensible visit to Fort Stanwix, could make me feel this way other than a beer cooler room in a not particularly recently …
My Night As A Guest Roadie For Beau's All Natural Beer
Posted by on Thursday, March 6, 2008 in - 3 comments
The call came at 7:45 pm. For weeks I had been exchanging emails with Steve about Beau's All Natural Brewing's move into the Kingston market and the prospect of another great Ontario made craft beer showing up in my favorite pubs as well as the LCBO. Being the man of mortgage as well as offspring …
Another Visit To Finger Lake Beverages In Ithaca, NY
Posted by on Sunday, February 10, 2008 in - leave a comment
Just got back from a family weekend in Ithaca, NY that included (as they all do) another visit to the ever wonderful Finger Lake Beverages. I have met a lot of helpful, knowledgeable and friendly folk in the corner of the world of beer that I have found myself in but I have to admit I think of FLB …
Beer Shop: Bello Vino, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Posted by on Monday, November 12, 2007 in - 4 comments
Directions to Bello Vino. • When I realized I was going to be within a reasonable drive of a 24 hour zip into Michigan due to work requirements, I had no • understanding of what the place was like. When we crossed the border at Port Huron and got through the town, I thought that I had driven …
Michigan Update From The Road
Posted by on Saturday, November 10, 2007 in - 2 comments
Just a quick note to say we had an hour with Ron at Jolly Pumpkin late in the afternoon yesterday which was one of the most interesting hours I have spent in my life with beer. Plenty of photos of wooden casks will follow but on that whole beer pricing thing - picking up a case of 12 750 ml … read more »
