Archive for October, 2008

Lyke 2 Drink: Thanks for Your Support

As most of the regular readers of this blog know, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this year and had successful surgery in April. I discovered the disease because a friend who is fighting prostate cancer urged me to get a PSA test. As a re…

Shut up about Barclay Perkins: More museums, no pies

We all get to pick at least one activity when on holiday. Dolores’s choice was the Victoria and Albert. She’d wanted to visit it for years. Unsure that it would impress the kids much, I decided to take them to the Science Museum over the road.Our day …

Knut Albert’s Beer Blog: New beers for the hard times ahead

I was getting worried. Sure, I could always set up a plan b, but I was not sure when I’m going to London next.
I asked when I checked into the high rise hotel on Edgware road if there was a package waiting for me, but there was nothing. I asked agai…

Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Zavvi, pie, but no peas

Two items were on the agenda for our first day. The Imperial War Museum and Zavvi on Tottenham Court Road.Unwisely, we changed from the Bakerloo to the Northern Line at Charing Cross. It’s about a two-mile walk along a winding, underground passage. It…

: October update from RRBC

October is the busiest month of the year for us!  GABF has fallen in October for the past 2 years, AND it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month!  GABF aside, we are quite busy raising money and awareness in October.  There is still time to buy our…

Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home: How many beer blogs are there, anyway?

Holy rss feed, Batman, there are 500 to 800 wine blogs.
Enough that more than 100 participants have gathered in Sonoma County for the first American Wine Bloggers Conference. Take a minute to check out their agenda.
Alan, it might be time to get serio…

Summer of Beer: TAPS Pumpkin Ale

That’s all you get. A blurry picture. And I’m going to bed now. The beer was not bad. Dogfish Head Punkin’ Ale was better.

Beer Snob, The : Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale

I tried three beers I had never tried before when I was in Panama City Beach recently, thanks to Chan’s Wine World, and Dogfish Head’s Indian Brown Ale was probably my favorite of the three. Dogfish Head is a brewery out of Milton, Delawa…

My Beer Pix: Secret beer blend revealed

Decipher this and you have the secret to Truth number 4

Opinionated Beer Page, The: Mahou Classico

Tim: Cold and on tap this can be a light tasting beer that’s a decent enough accompaniment to good food….