Posts Tagged: Regional Scenes
Session #4 Announced: Local Brews
Posted by on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 in - 5 comments
The next edition of The Session has been announced by snekse over at Gastronomic Fight Club and it is all about local brews: • “The idea here is to be as helpful as possible for visitors to your area. What is the beer/brewery/brewpub that you feel is quintessential to your city? What do the …
Paul Tells A Tale Of Two Beer Festivals
Posted by on Monday, May 7, 2007 in - 2 comments
Bury St Edmunds Corn Exchange, home of the East Anglian Beer Festival • The East Anglian Beer Festival takes place in my hometown of Bury St Edmunds at the end of April. As it is on my doorstep, so to speak, it's a must visit event. I normally pay a visit everyday, but this year was different …
Three New Czech Brews
Posted by on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 in - 2 comments
The launch of two new beers from Pilsner Urquell • It's great news for beer fans (and tough breaks for beer writers): so many new brewpubs and new • beers are showing up here in the Czech Republic that keeping track is an almost impossible task. When researching my Czech beer guide, I tasted …
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 …
Your Real Ale Is In The Mail
Posted by on Sunday, April 22, 2007 in - 1 comment
...or really in the back of a courier's van if you opt to buy your beer in the UK from a new firm called Cellarmandirect: • “Cellarmandirect's beer is sold in nine pint barrels which cost from around £20, making it competitive with premium beer in off licences. The company has a distribution …
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 …
"Gourmet Beer" In Alabama
Posted by on Friday, April 13, 2007 in - 2 comments
Alabama seems to be leading the world in the call for "gourmet beer." It even made the floor of the state legislature: • “Jackson, an associate pastor in the Church of God in Christ and an Upward Bound teacher at Alabama Southern Community College in Thomasville, said the bill would allow the …
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 …
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 …
Knut Pays The Taxman
Posted by on Friday, March 23, 2007 in - 5 comments
The wait is over. But the picture of the package on my doormat is not quite how it went. No, there was a new slip of paper in my mailbox, telling me there was a package to be picked up at the post office. So, what was the tab? • The alcohol tax was about 100 Norwegian kroner. • The value added …
