Posts Tagged: Regional Scenes
Beer Tourism in West Virginia
Posted by on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 in - 3 comments
With things like the New York Beer Trail and its more hesitant cousin Ontario's Craft Beer Route, North American legislators are waking up to the potential for craft beer tourism these days and it is sometimes a bit of a shock for them to learn that they and the legacy of their elected … read more »
Kisz Bier, Prazske Pivovary, Czech Republic
Posted by on Sunday, February 12, 2006 in - 4 comments
A new guest writer joins us today. Donavan Hall lives on Long Island in New York, USA. He is an editor and freelance writer. He writes a weekly column about beer for The Spirit World. He also writes a blog called Catch & Release. • “I am a beer writer and I live right on the border of Long … read more »
"Here's To Beer!" Starts Sunday
Posted by on Saturday, February 4, 2006 in - 6 comments
Sounds like our consultancy pal Scott took every word we said down and added it to the "Here's to Beer" ad campaign set to start during the Super Bowl: • “The new ad and Web site were developed by Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD) and are supported by the Beer Institute. Anheuser-Busch is donating 30 …
Beer Maps For The USA
Posted by on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 in - 5 comments
Beer Map showing breweries (green), homebrew clubs (red) • and the pop up for Middle Ages Brewing. • I have been introduced by email to Michael, maker of a map of most things beer related in the USA called...well I don't think he has a name yet: • “You have a great web site! I wanted to … read more »
Three US Doubles
Posted by on Saturday, January 28, 2006 in - 2 comments
Art by John Neville • A weekend's worth of work, these three large format Belgian Abbey style doubles brewed in Pennsylvania, California and New York from left to right above. I wrote a bit about four doubles just a little over a year ago, including the Ommegang. I repeat it here as the standard …
The History of Beer In Yemen
Posted by on Monday, January 23, 2006 in - leave a comment
This is quite an interesting short history from a somewhat moderate Islamic point of view: • “As people in Yemen undergo many changes in their way of life, and the country eagerly tries to accept from other cultures the good they may possess, something goes unexpected. Not long ago, and during …
Four Northeast US Winter Ales
Posted by on Saturday, January 14, 2006 in - 8 comments
What is a winter beer? A beer brewed for winter? Is it that simple? CAMRA's annual National Winter Ales Festival is aimed at old ales, stouts and porters but that is not what the US understands by the term. As the Magic Hat offering is called "a dark wheat ale" on the label you can expect to find …
131 Years Dry
Posted by on Friday, January 13, 2006 in - 1 comment
It must be odd that beer is such a large part of one's view of the world's ills that you maintain this sort of record: • “The central Ohio city of Westerville, once known as the "dry capital of the world," is dry no more. A pizza parlor on Thursday became the first establishment in Westerville's …
Ontario: Stratford Brewing Company, Stratford, Perth County
Posted by on Sunday, January 8, 2006 in - 4 comments
This weekend I made a discovery while looking for things to do while visiting family...OK, my in-laws. Right there in little Stratford Ontario was the Stratford Brewing Company. At the south end of town in a small industrial park area at the back of a building there it was...a van, a man and a set …
Festival! Festival!!!
Posted by on Monday, January 2, 2006 in - 4 comments
Once again, it is National Winter Ales Festival in the UK. I hadn't realized the basis for this really good idea before: • “Now in its 10th year, NWAF began because brewers of old ales, stouts and porters could not enter the Champion Beer of Britain Competition – held in August when most winter …
