Posts Tagged: Pubs and Tavs
My New Favorite Drinks Guy Is Fred Dell, Gardener, 94
Posted by on Monday, April 23, 2012 in - 6 comments
What is not to love about this story? • A man from Lancashire has been offered free beer for life at the pub where he has been a regular for 76 years. Fred Dell, 94, has been popping round to the Strawberry Gardens on Poulton Road in Fleetwood for a "swift half of mild", since he was 18 … read more »
New York: Freedom Wright's Inn, Denmark
Posted by on Saturday, April 14, 2012 in - leave a comment
Going through old blog posts at the sister station for this here blog, Gen X at 40, to reference something to Craig after yesterday's post, I realized that in 2005 I took photos of Denmark, NY, a village at the north end of Tug Hill. And in those where a couple of images related to Freedom … read more »
Albany Ale: Big News And An Old Tavern
Posted by on Friday, April 13, 2012 in - 4 comments
That's a 1937 photo found at the US Library of Congress online of 1937 entitled "Old Tavern, Feura Bush Vicinity, Houcks Corners, Albany County, NY." Sitting at a crossroad to the south west of Albany, the old tavern was built around 1845. Whatever Albany ale was, it's likely they served it here …
What's In A Beer's Name? Fun Or Suffering Or Both?
Posted by on Monday, March 26, 2012 in - 7 comments
We have seen government interventions when beers take on brand characters like Santa or the Easter Bunny. People throw up their hands in a combination of libertarian outrage and laughter. But what happens when the images are more directly hurtful even if the message presented is quite dislocated …
So Do We Now View Good Beer Drinkers As The Rock Stars?
Posted by on Saturday, March 24, 2012 in - 2 comments
Fortunately, the brewer as "rock star" stuff appears to have passed after much well deserved pointing at laughing at those who suggest it or, worse, accept it. But apparently the beer drinker might be legitimately treated like one if KISS bassist Gene Simmons has his way: • ...when the bar …
Quebec: Brasserie Le Reservoir, Rue Duluth, Montreal
Posted by on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 in - 5 comments
Had a great lunch with friends at this spot at the western fringe of the plateau near the corner of Duluth and Saint-Laurent. Le Reservoir is one of the smaller brew pubs I have ever been in, seating maybe 25 or 30 in a space of maybe 20 by 50 feet between the heavy wood bar and floor to ceiling …
Ontario: The Red Lion Inn, Yonge Street, Toronto
Posted by on Sunday, March 4, 2012 in - 12 comments
Came across this image of the Red Lion Inn in Toronto at the Archives of Ontario. The photo is from 1886 and shows a building well into its eighth decade according to this blog post of just a few months ago. Built in what was then the country, it was the first stage coach destination on the … read more »
Howe's Public Houses Of Entertainment In Nova Scotia
Posted by on Saturday, March 3, 2012 in - leave a comment
I picked up my copy of Western and Eastern Rambles: Travel Sketches of Nova Scotia by Joseph Howe this morning. The sketches are a series of essay's the later famous politician published in his newspaper, the Novascotian, from 1828 to 1831. His travels were largely not about the writing but …
What Do We Really Expect From Bar Staff - And Why?
Posted by on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 in - 16 comments
I go to pubs and bars far less than a lot of you. There are five kids in my house and I am 48 living in Canada. Why wouldn't that be the case? Yet when I read about the beer experiences of others like this one reported by Pete it makes me think about what I experience when I do go out - and also …
"Trucks Were Backing Up To Get The Stuff In"
Posted by on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in - 5 comments
Good article at OpenFile Halifax today touching on a few points of my old home town of Halifax's drinking history. Most neato of all is the click-able photo above of the 1948 version of the Sea Horse Tavern. The name of the place has continued in the underground bar that was my home away from home …
