Restaurant deadlines are inherently fungible.Thus, for Birch and Barley & Churchkey — the newest beer-centric restaurant of the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, creators of Virginia’s Rustico, Buzz Bakery, Tallula, EatBar, Vermilion and Evening Sta…
Always the biggest tasting session of the year, Belgian Beers at Cellar-Vate:
While some of the 45 keen people packed in the Cabinet Room at the Backbencher may have been marking the national day of Belgium, I suspect more were attracted by a top notc…
Hospodá?ské noviny is reporting today that a new Czech brewery is slated for construction in Chot?bo?, near Havlí?k?v Brod; here’s an English summary via the Prague Daily Monitor (subscription required). If completed, this would be the …
Okay I must confess…Oro de Calabaza is not my favorite Jolly Pumpkin beer. But I drank all my Bam Noire while working on the baby’s room so that review will have to wait for another day. I know that Bam Noire is released in September bu…
“Oh, Lisa, you and your stories: Bart’s a vampire. Beer kills brain cells. Now let’s go back to that… building… thingie… where our beds and TV… is.” – Homer Simpson
If you are unfamiliar with Magellan&…
It seems like every month a new conversation is struck on the most popular beer forums where people are looking for the best beer podcasts. As a semi-podcaster that’s been around for a few years, I feel like I can help a bit with the quest.Your first …
The city I live in is not the City of Angels, but it ain’t a bad town. The streets are generally safe,drug use is about the same as any other city in America and crime isn’t much of an issue – mainly idiots being idiots. That said the city of Rosevill…
risks, staff and steam engines
A long forgotten profession, the ale-conner (or ale-taster), was an important and upstanding member of society from at least the 1100s. Their job was to insure that all breweries were making quality beer. The position, in fact, persisted until the ea…
Just a quick note you might find interesting, something newsy I haven’t seen too much mention of this week. Roads in the United States are safer today than they have been in a decade. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration the…