Posts Tagged: Pubs and Tavs
Knut Goes To The World's Northernmost Bar
Posted by on Thursday, January 25, 2007 in - 2 comments
Kroa, Spitzbergen • Three hours by plane straight north from Oslo, excluding 45 minutes stopover in Tromsø, and you arrive at Longyearbyen airport. It is minus 20 degrees Celsius, but the gale hits you as you exit from the plane and run for the terminal building. It is pitch dark, which …
The Ladies And Escorts Door
Posted by on Saturday, January 13, 2007 in - 4 comments
I have only encountered the vestiges of this movement twice. Once with the LBR (or Lady's Beverage Room) on Spring Garden Road in Halifax, NS and again at the Douglas Tavern in Renfrew Co., Ontario according to the sign at one end saying "Ladies and Escorts" - the separation of the Canadian sexes …
Paul Goes to Nottingham
Posted by on Thursday, January 11, 2007 in - 1 comment
To the green wood, men! • Well, not really...but a few days before Christmas I was lucky enough to make a trip to Nottingham on business, and stop over there. The company I work for owns a factory in Beeston, so first port of call after finishing work was a visit to the Victoria Hotel there …
Best Beer Headine Of 2006
Posted by on Saturday, December 30, 2006 in - leave a comment
There are a lot of ugly headlines about dumb and nasty things done with some passing connection to beer. Then there are others that make you smile: • “Thirsty German sells beagle to buy beer • A thirsty German sold his 6-year-old step-daughter's pet beagle to the owner of a bar to pay for beer …
Good Pub Working Hard
Posted by on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 in - leave a comment
I've never been there but once every once in a while I get an email from Troy R. Kirkby, Publican of The Spitfire Arms Alehouse in Windsor in my old home province of Nova Scotia telling me what is going on - and this one is too good not to share. Look at how they are working hard to help their …
Paul Goes To Dublin
Posted by on Monday, November 20, 2006 in - leave a comment
Dublin is a fantastic city. Founded on the banks of the Liffey by the Vikings in about 841, further developed by the Normans after the conquest of the English in 1066, made even grander during the days of the British Empire, before finally returning to the Irish in 1922. Sadly the beer in Dublin …
BeerBistro!, Toronto, Ontario
Posted by on Thursday, November 9, 2006 in - 3 comments
I had the occasion to visit BeerBistro! near the corner of King and Yonge Streets in Toronto today...ok, twice today...which in itself tells you something. I had to meet a friend for a quick lunch in that area of town and later took the time to have another beer as I waited for the train back home …
Paul Visits Beerhouse in Funchal, Madeira
Posted by on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 in - 4 comments
Madeira is a jewel of an emerald isle set equidistant from Portugal (the territory that it’s part of) and Morocco. It’s famous for its fortified wine, most of which is sweet and sticky. It’s generally not a particularly palatable desert wine, although if you look hard enough there are some very …
Mill Street Brewpub, Toronto, Ontario
Posted by on Monday, October 30, 2006 in - 8 comments
The picture above is the best of this set. We visited the Mill Street Brewery's new brewpub which has just opened last week in Toronto's Distillery District and were very impressed, first of all with the facility - one of the nicest laid out bars I have been in. It was pretty dark so the photos …
Tap Handles As Art
Posted by on Sunday, October 29, 2006 in - 5 comments
Here is an interesting story about the growth of tap handle art concurrent to the growth in US craft beer sales: • “Breweries have tried for decades to attract attention by making tap handles larger and more colorful, but the microbrewery movement has brought a proliferation of artsy and exotic …
