Worldofbeer.com this weekend has a feature which lists 10 food and beer pairings NOT to try (an interesting twist) and why. And nicely, below each non-pairing is a recommendation of what to try instead.
The 10 DON’Ts were:
10. spicy food and mai…
Spotted at the HyVee Wine and Spirits on Hamilton Blvd. in Sioux City:
* Flying Dog Brewery’s Dogtoberfest
* Stevens Point Brewery’s Oktoberfest
* Paulaner Oktoberfest
-Tim Hynds
Austin’s Ginger Man has found a new location for their landmark downtown beer pub. The new location is at 301 Lavaca, still in the historic Warehouse District and a mere block away from the current location on 4th St.The Austin Ginger Man has been sch…
Perfectly poured pints of stout. Attractive, but are theythe real thing?There are many types of stouts. There’s oatmeal stout, sweet stout, “foreign export” stout, British and American imperial stout, American-style stout…
My connecting flight to Chicago from Louisville got cancelled, and the Ryder Cup had all the other outbound flights jammed. Damn all golf, anyway. Everyone in front of me was screaming, and I just asked, “Is there any way to get to Philly today, or sh…
Before I get into what the newsfeed is, I have updated the Craft Beer Index. In case you have not been visiting regularly over the last 45 days, I have marked some of the new beers covered during that period as “New!” Also, I provided a …
I work my artisan butt off to make my wife this lovely stained glass window thingy, and she doesn’t appreciate it. Once again, I have to dismantle my decor. My self-expression. Me.
Oh, well. Time to start over.
Fullers Vintage Ale 2007
The thing about this festival is that it is so much MORE than a festival.
Yes, a huge part of being here is attending the Great Smokies Craft Brewers Brewgrass Festivalon the grounds of the Martin Luther King, Jr. ballfield, with (as parsed out by A…
So it’s next Saturday and you’ve had a fine afternoon at the new Philly Oktoberfest or the old favorite Victory FallFest, or maybe both, depending on your youth, enthusiasm and level of sanity. Comes to that, maybe you even squeezed in a v…