Posts Tagged: New York
Galeville Grocery Shuts After 84... or 156 Years
Posted by on Thursday, December 30, 2010 in - 2 comments
My math is pretty bad but not as bad as the news out of Liverpool in central New York near Syracuse that the Galeville Grocery has shut after being a grocery store since 1926 and a building since 1854. Reader Jack forwarded me last Friday's news in an email earlier this week: • Even into this …
A Day In Watertown NY And Another Beery Big M
Posted by on Friday, December 17, 2010 in - 3 comments
Remember that Big M Mart in Potsdam New York that I helped stock better beer? Well, that is over in St. Lawrence County, down stream from us here in central Easlakia near where the big lake meets the big river. Click on the map. It will make more sense. Other near neighbours have good supply, too …
Ontario: My Peeps Seek The Land Of Beer Liberty
Posted by on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 in - 8 comments
Note: I did not write "lib-beer-ty" because I have standards. Nevertheless, good to see that so many of my brothers and sisters are crossing the border like me to exercise their right to a reasonable personal retail relationship with craft beer: • Two Saturdays ago, Troy Burtch settled into a …
A Trip To Northern New York And All I See Is Beer
Posted by on Saturday, November 27, 2010 in - 4 comments
A eleven hour Christmas shopping trip in northern New York has left the stash enhanced and found me a new favorite cafe. The Blackbird Cafe on the main drag of Canton, New York was a real treat after a drive east north east with the family, aiming to hit a few favorite stores, drive some great …
CJ's And Big M: Beer Shopping in Potsdam, New York
Posted by on Friday, October 29, 2010 in - 5 comments
The shore road running southeast along the St. Lawrence between Ogdensburg and Alexandria Bay New York is a pretty quiet time on a Friday evening in mid-autumn. Bottles clinked in the back. They and I were unaware that we were minutes from a duty free customs wave through. Joy. Bliss. Forty bucks …
New York: Young Barley Wine Takes On Rotten Cold
Posted by on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 in - 1 comment
A rotten cold has kept me from a snarky yet clever retort to the spree of posts in the UK beerblogoverse about styles. It's quite remarkable to read all the comments - even my telling, Jack Hughesian... nay, incisive contributions. Yet I have no energy and no appetite for such things jsust hours …
What To Drink With Canadian Thanksgiving Muskox?
Posted by on Sunday, October 10, 2010 in - 2 comments
OK, we don't actually eat Muskox for Thanksgiving in Canada. The world can't be that perfect apparently. We tend towards turkey with nods to joints of lamb and ham. We watch sports on TV, rake leaves if need be and, if I am indicative, have a nap after lunch after a morning in the pew. • All of …
Back From The Road And Did I Really Learn Anything?
Posted by on Sunday, August 29, 2010 in - leave a comment
I don't know if you can draw conclusions from a trip just a couple of hours and laundry loads after hitting the driveway. Especially when you haven't even pulled out the digital camera to pretty up the post or to see if there are are any ideas in the images. So far these come to what I might still …
New York: A Restaurant In Albany With A Beer List
Posted by on Saturday, August 28, 2010 in - leave a comment
OK, sure there are 700 wines at the subtitled restaurant dp, An American Brasserie - but they have Blue Point Lager, Dogfish 60 and Ommegang's Hennepin and others on tap as well as ten or twelve well selected bottles. The stash in the back of van might be better today at the end of our trip but I …
New York: Sometimes You Want To Bring Wine
Posted by on Saturday, August 21, 2010 in - leave a comment
Fifteen or more years ago, Ontario's wine, spirits and imported beer monopoly carried a few bottles of Millbrook for one brief shining season and it has been something of a holy grail - or maybe a lost Atlantis - for us ever since looking back on those pre-kid, pre-mortgage days. Reasonably priced …
