Posts Tagged: Pubs and Tavs
New York's Beer Gardens
Posted by on Friday, May 11, 2007 in - 1 comment
I have never been to a beer garden. I have a garden in which I have had beer but that is a different thing...and I don't think a Canadian thing given our 7 weeks of summer: • “Between 1820 and 1860, 1.5 million immigrants arrived in America from Germany, bringing with them their own cultural …
Buying the Rounds at Callahan's
Posted by on Thursday, May 10, 2007 in - 2 comments
Last month I started thinking (out loud) about reasons for drinking at a pub, as opposed to drinking by yourself at home. I promised to write more about the social aspects of pub-going, so here you go: • One of the regulars at Callahan's, Doug, likes to buy rounds for the other regulars. It only …
The Wynkoop in Denver
Posted by on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 in - 3 comments
A couple of weeks back I started telling you about my Denver pubcrawl. I got about as far as my first day in Denver and my realization that I wasn't going to have any problem finding Fat Tire. The second day of my trip was spent almost exclusively at what turned out to be my favorite Denver pub …
Sixpoint Craft Ales in Redhook, Brooklyn
Posted by on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 in - 2 comments
For the last year I've been seeing and sampling a new brand of beers on tap -- Sixpoint Craft Ales in Redhook, Brooklyn is turning out enough beer in their 15 barrel system to supply around 400 accounts from Manhattan out to one of my favorite places on Long Island, Bobbique in Patchogue. • Last …
In The Good Beer Blog Mailbag And Around The Internet
Posted by on Monday, April 16, 2007 in - leave a comment
Is this the best place to have a beer? • I get lots of email. Sure there is a lot of spam but some of it, like the picture above from Paul, is from the writers and plenty is from readers. Paul wrote to send me a bit of the trip he and herself to the village of which included a B+B and a pub …
Pubbing in Downtown Denver (Part One)
Posted by on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 in - leave a comment
I usually have pretty good luck on my beer trips. My recent trip out to Denver was no exception. I wish that I could say I was doing advance scouting for the National Homebrew Conference or the Great American Beer Festival, but my purpose was not so grand as that. I just happened to be in town and …
Why Do You Drink at a Pub?
Posted by on Thursday, April 5, 2007 in - 9 comments
“"You can get just so much out of bars and they won't go down anymore. They come up. People in bars were like people in 5 and dime stores: they were killing time and everything else." • -- Charles Bukowski in "Would You Suggest Writing as a Career?"” • Last year I heard a story on Graham …
Bartalk and Other Games at Callahan's
Posted by on Friday, March 30, 2007 in - leave a comment
I'd have to agree that proximity to one's house is very important for "a local." I'm at the age where I don't fit in at the college hang-outs (which in general do have a better beer selection) and at Callahan's I'm ten to fifteen years younger than the rest of the pub-goers (well, most of them …
Boston Beer Travels - The Publick House and Bukowski
Posted by on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 in - leave a comment
With the beer gone and no buzz to speak of after leaving the Night of the Barrels, it wasn't a hard decision to agree to head to a beer bar for an impromptu after party. We climbed into a couple of cabs and went over to Brookline to invade The Publick House near Washington Square on Beacon St …
Drinking in One Place - Blue Point
Posted by on Friday, March 23, 2007 in - leave a comment
Last year I spent my time driving (sometimes vast distances) in order to drink microbrewed beer. I spent a lot of time at brewpubs. Basically, I did a lot of beer chasing, and dare I say, beer hunting? This year I'm trying something different; I'm drinking in one place, a place I'm calling …
