Posts Tagged: Beer Stores and Beer Shopping
Paul Has Too Much Beer
Posted by on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 in - 5 comments
A terrible problem to have. • Too much beer. Can you have too much beer? • As I’m writing this I hear a resounding NO!!! But it's sort of a predicament that I’m in. When we closed our beer shop at the end of 2005 we had some stock left over. It wasn't much in terms of weekly turn over, but it …
Where To Shop In South East Michigan?
Posted by on Monday, November 5, 2007 in - 11 comments
It looks like I will be in the Ann Arbor area this weekend for about 18 hours. My plan is to try to hit Jolly Pumpkin in nearby Dexter for their 12 to 6 pm store hours. But what else? Any recommendations?
When Is It Right Not To Blog About Your Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, October 21, 2007 in - 1 comment
I took no notes. I had the camera but I took no pictures. The photo is from two years ago. • Even though you can blog about pretty much anything if you have a deft eye for the moment, I felt only a little guilty but blogging can get in the way of enjoying and I had such a day of craft beer and …
Ontario: Grand River Brewing, Cambridge, RMW
Posted by on Sunday, August 26, 2007 in - 6 comments
If Canada has a hub of microbrewing, a very good argument could be made that it is in the cluster of smaller cities around Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph about an hour west of Toronto. Off the top of my head I can think of seven or eight breweries in the area. Maybe there are more but …
Best Bitter, St. Peter's, Bungay, Suffolk, UK
Posted by on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 in - 6 comments
This is why it is so great to have the LCBO in my life - they use science. It actually came up in the Globe and Mail today in relation to some recent wine forgeries: • “The quality assurance process undertaken for every single alcoholic beverage sold by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the …
Cape Fear Wine and Beer, Wilmington, North Carolina
Posted by on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 in - 1 comment
How does one graciously respond when you ask the waitress what style a beer is that you’ve not heard of and you’re trying to pick a pitcher for three people and her response is, "it’s an ale." All I could think was that doesn’t help me and I ordered it anyways. • This scenario would never have …
Beer Shop: Beers of the World, Rochester, New York
Posted by on Friday, August 10, 2007 in - 6 comments
One of the beery treats of the trip was my first stop at Beers of the World on the south side of Rochester. It is actually in the community of Henrietta the question of whose separate legal existence as a separate jurisdiction is beyond the scope of this blog's mandate. Either way, the shop is …
The Stash Is Once Again Renewed
Posted by on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 in - 3 comments
It is a good clean feeling knowing (or vainly expecting, at least) that I have a better selection in the house than is available pretty much anywhere, say, north of the US, east of Toronto and somewhere in the west of England. For a family trip, three new microbreweries and two beer stores is a …
Big Hop Bombs: Is Saranac Imperial IPA The Best Value In Beer?
Posted by on Saturday, June 23, 2007 in - 4 comments
I popped over the border yesterday with the family for a US shopping spree. Nothing over the top but seeing as we have Watertown NY, a neighbouring a small US City with a college league baseball team, a place with good ribs, a mall with good hoodies for 15 bucks and a 94 cent dollar, why not …
The Expansion Of Tully's Beer and Wine, Wells, Maine
Posted by on Sunday, June 3, 2007 in - 5 comments
Before I headed to Maine last week, I was on the email to the ever helpful Amy of Tully's. Careful readers with time to browse the archives will remember that I wrote about Tully's at Wells in Southern Maine and declared it one of my favorite shops. Well, this time there was more great news from …
