Posts Tagged: Regional Scenes
Two Days Of Beer In Lviv
Posted by on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 in - leave a comment
How to get to Lviv • In the Kyiv Post (my usual source for all beer related news from the Ukraine) there is a story about a beer drinking trip to Lviv, the city they call the Vienna of the Ukraine, including this scene when you enter one restaurant: • “...there is a young man dressed as a monk …
Book Review: <i>Best Bars of New York</i> by Jef Klein
Posted by on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 in - leave a comment
I received this book in the mail last week from Turner Publishing and I think it makes a good addition to the beer library. In a nutshell, it is a coffee table book with black and white photos of thirty great bars in the Big Apple. Some are historic places like McSorley's Old Ale House, with those …
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 …
Knut Goes To The British National Archives
Posted by on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 in - 1 comment
It is Monday morning, late November, and I luckily found a tattered umbrella at my bed and breakfast in North London before setting out for my destination. This is the (British) National Archives in Kew, five minute's walk from Kew Gardens tube station. There is a greasy spoon type of cafe next to …
Canadian Christmas Breakfast Beer?
Posted by on Thursday, December 14, 2006 in - 8 comments
Britain's CAMRA apparently has a great idea for this Yule - start early. As part of their "Christmas Cheer With Beer" campaign they include suggestions for different meals including this one: • “BREAKFAST: Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs • TRY: An English style wheat beer • WHY: The beer …
Paul Goes To A Winter Beer Festival
Posted by on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 in - leave a comment
Before we set off to the Dove Street Inn winter beer festival in Ipswich, my friend who I attend most beer festivals with, and for the purposes of this article we shall call John, had insisted that it was a pub that we had been to before. I had no recollection of this. As soon as I got there I …
EU Beer Disputes
Posted by on Thursday, November 30, 2006 in - leave a comment
Interesting news this morning with a decision by the EU to take Canada to task for unfair tax practices: • “In the May 2 federal budget, the Tories announced tax relief for beer and wine makers -- the sort of small-business vote the Conservatives like to court -- and on June 30 they announced …
Quick Note: Autumn Ale, Nethergate, Suffolk, England
Posted by on Monday, November 27, 2006 in - 2 comments
Suffolk is a gem of a brewing county, with such class names as Adnams, St Peters, the controversial Greene King plus a whole host of small and micro • breweries - and I live here. Fantastic! One of our better kept secrets is the Nethergate Brewery who brew a range of fine Suffolk ales that …
Beer And Party Delivery Service
Posted by on Thursday, November 23, 2006 in - 4 comments
When I was a high school kid in Nova Scotia, the bootlegger¹ was the guy who could get you, say, a pizza, two big bottles of Coke, a case of beer and a pack of smokes all delivered somewhere all illegally after hours or on a Sunday usually by a taxi driven by a very ugly guy. Apparently, a …
