Posts Tagged: Regional Scenes
Twin Lakes Brewery, Buckley's Tavern tasting preview
Posted by on Thursday, April 13, 2006 in - leave a comment
I received the following press release of interest to those in the Delaware Valley area. • “Please mark your calendars and tell your friends to join you at Buckley’s Tavern this Thursday from 4 to 8 PM to sample the delicious new craft beers from Twin Lakes Brewing Company. • Samuel Hobbs …
Big News From Ithaca Beer Co.
Posted by on Thursday, April 13, 2006 in - 2 comments
I like press releases. They give me a strange sense that someone somewhere out there has thought about this blog for the seven seconds it takes to add me to their email circulation list. It's the little things that give joy, you know. • Well, this news has made me think that I may try to make a …
Long Island Beer Update
Posted by on Thursday, April 6, 2006 in - leave a comment
I finally made my first (long overdue) trip of the year out to the Southampton Publick House. I found a wonderfully refreshing Abbey Single on tap. It was a luminous yellow, hazy, and grassy tartness---a perfect way to welcome the arrival of Spring. I usually have two different pints when I head …
Beer Sure, Prizes No
Posted by on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 in - leave a comment
Competition law in Bulgaria apparently has a "no fun allowed" rule: • “Bulgaria's largest beer brewer Zagorka was imposed a EUR 50,000 fine over a promotional game, it appeared after the Supreme Administrative Court confirmed a ruling of the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC … read more »
Distilling Beer
Posted by on Sunday, April 2, 2006 in - 3 comments
Knut of Norway sent me an interesting email a few days ago: • “When I was in Bavaria last year, I bought a bottle of Bierlikör at the brewery tap at Weienstephan. I have seen on the web site of other German breweries that they have similar liquors, and I wonder what kind of drink this really is …
Traditional Values
Posted by on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 in - 1 comment
This story is only breaking in India and South Africa so far according to Google News: • “Spokesperson An Frankie said she was given beer at school as a child and called for a return to the old ways.” • Ah, the old ways...the 1606 ways...kids in the factory ways... • The Punjab in India …
St Paddy's Season at the Half Penny Pub, Sayville, NY
Posted by on Monday, March 27, 2006 in - leave a comment
While researching Irish beers and Irish pubs prior to St Patrick's Day, I started to think of this holiday not as just a day but a season. Then I noticed that in the beer company advertising for St Patrick's Day that the corporations too appear to have adopted this notion of the week prior to the …
Bending The Law
Posted by on Sunday, March 12, 2006 in - 2 comments
What an evil example for us all - a politician having a Guinness in public: • “Texas gubernatorial hopeful Kinky Friedman says there was an open beer in his hand as he rode in a parade car in Dallas with his trademark black hat and burning cigar. Friedman appeared to violate the state's open …
Dixie Brewing Company, New Orleans, USA
Posted by on Sunday, February 26, 2006 in - 43 comments
At my house Mardi Gras is the biggest celebration of the year. Bigger than Christmas. We go all out -- ordering boxes of beads and other purple, gold, and green baubles and silly hats. We spend hours cooking up pots of red beans and rice and jambalaya for all of our friends. And, of course, I …
Obituary For A Landlord
Posted by on Friday, February 24, 2006 in - leave a comment
A very good read is this obituary for the landlord of a pub: • “Mrs Martin continued: "I'm a Londoner and he was a country man. The green trees of the Heath suited him. He wouldn't have gone anywhere else in London. • "Once you were barred you stayed barred. One barred customer went to Spain …
