So, here I am feeling a little lazy watching these weekday warriors tackle 350 miles to Cooperstown. I decide to run 7 or so miles last night through the rolling hills of Zieglerville and Schwenksville and the like. Then, I see that our friends in spa…
I just read an interesting article on Time.com. Perhaps I’m a little late to respond, but I will anyway. I’m the one with the blog. The article itself is grossly misrepresented by its title, as E.S. points out here. In fact, the growth num…
A few weeks ago I had to travel to Champaign, IL for business. I’m not a huge fan of traveling for business, but I can usually make the best of it by finding some of the interesting beer stuff in other cities. While in Champaign I made sure to…
The 11th Annual Summer Beer Festival appears to have achieved record attendance numbers! Although the final numbers have not yet been reconciled, preliminary reports indicate total paid attendance for the 2-day event over 6,000 people. There was an …
I spent a lot of time on the telephone with brewers from around the country last week, talking about several topics for stories to be written as fast as I could turn them out and just for my own research purposes, and one of the more interesting inter…
I’m sure the pints will be on the house wherever Dermot Ahern chooses to drink tonight.– Twenty Major.Today, as you’re all no doubt aware, marks the coming into effect of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2008. This knee-jerk piece of legislation was rus…
Did you read the news yesterday? A glass factory in Toronto was forced to shut down due to a number of financial reasons, resulting in 430 people without employment. The company issued an international press release listing the reasons for the closure…
Filed under: Beer, Slashfood AteThere is usually a lot going on in the world of beer, and this week is no different. Here are some of the headlines from this week that I find most interesting. If you have some interesting beer news, I hope you’ll sh…
a bunch of clean bones
and seven sauce smeared bottles
are all that remain
Written by Captain Hops
Thing of the Day: Raichlen on Ribs, Ribs, Outrageous Ribs
I was contacted by someone from Awesomedeals911.com, and they’d really like to give something away to the readers of this blog. They offered up a lanyard, two choices of bottle openers, and glassware. I thought the glassware might be the most popula…