Everyone needs a local.
What’s a local? A “local” is that drinking establishment where you feel at home; great beer, great atmosphere, and perhaps most importantly, within walking distance of your actual home (hence the name “local”). Think Cheers, only suited to your personal tastes.
Everyone’s local will be different. A local has to fit your particular [...]
The Brewer’s Association today released mid-year growth statistics for the craft beer industry. Once again it seems all good news for small and mid-sized breweries. Dollar sales, production volume, and number of breweries are all up for the first half of 2010 and at greater levels of increase than the same period in 2009. Meanwhile [...]
I’m nursing a ten dollar beer in a bar called Beers of the World at St. Louis Lambert International Airport. My flight home to Minneapolis is delayed at least half an hour as storms move in from the southwest. I’ve already had one ten dollar beer, but what else is there to do? The knowledge [...]
I have been doing a lot of cellar clearing lately. A while back I realized that the cellaring situation had gotten out of hand. Surveying the eight cases of homebrew, four cases of big bottle commercials, case and a half of “beer for aging”, and miscellaneous sixpacks of stuff that I didn’t even know anymore [...]
With the Fourth of July freshly behind us, I thought I would take a moment to reflect on the role that beer played in the formation of the nation. It is a largely overlooked but nonetheless important part of our history. Beer was the reason many colonists first came ashore. The first buildings erected in [...]
The Eurovision Song Contest was first broadcast in 1956. In the age before satellites, the simultaneous linking of television outlets across all of Europe was a stunning technological achievement that foretold the future of the broadcast industry. It was also the beginning of a wonderfully peculiar and uniquely European institution.
The pan-European celebration of musical nationalism [...]
Where to begin? Between the National Homebrewers Conference and the St. Paul Summer Beer Fest, the last five days have been a whirlwind of beer in the Twin Cities.
It began on Wednesday with the pre-conference events. While I only participated in the Nightcrawler Pub Crawl, there were many on the bus that I chaperoned who [...]
The thirty-second annual National Homebrewers Conference, Chillin’ in Minnesota, takes place this week in my hometown of Minneapolis. Well nearly in my hometown. Bloomington, Minnesota is properly the place, a metro-area suburb about fifteen miles south of the Twin Cities. The actual conference runs from Thursday to Saturday. But there are plenty of activities both [...]
Beer geeks and craft beer drinkers (yes, there is a difference) are quick to disparage the macros. The yellow lagers brewed by these behemoths have been variously described as flavorless, watery, boring, bland, soulless, swill, and crap, along with a host of other even less flattering descriptors. We easily discount the argument that whether or [...]
Okay, call me lazy. Things have been a bit hectic, I have a lot of writing to get done before leaving on a trip, and here it is Monday all of a sudden and I have a post to put up. So I am doing what every good blogger does from time to time…I’m recycling [...]
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