A Chicago dining institution, the Berghoff Restaurant, will close in February after more than 100 years serving beer and German food in downtown Chicago.
The place was the first in Chicago to legally serve alcohol after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933; it holds city Liquor License No. 1. It fought long and hard […]
This just in from the New Belgium Brewing e-mail newsletter, NBBBuzz: Three new beers headed for wide distribution in 2006. Alas, they aren’t telling what they might be.
However, it’s official that distribution is headed east of the Mississippi. NBB is headed to Chicago (as well as San Diego).
Visions of Tour de Fat on Michigan Avenue […]
The creators of the German Museum of Hops (Deutsches Hopfenmuseum) in Wolnzach claim the cone below is the largest in the world.
My initial thought was “Is this bigger than the giant cone in the middle of a turnabout outside Poperinge in Belgium (pictured above). Upon further review, it seems it is. Keepers of […]
The small joys of life. Until today we didn’t have a single Montana beer store in our listings.
Now we do because a reader wrote us about Topper’s Cellar in Helena, with the message:
“Best selection of local and regional craft beers in town, as well as an excellent selection of world-wide premium beers. In addition, […]
So you’re in Philadelphia, want a beer but also desperately need a haircut or manicure (pretend, OK?) . . .
Turns out you can visit a salon called American Male and enjoy a beer while you get the other stuff taken care of.
The story is really about salons salons for men:
. . . seeking to put […]
We’ve written before about the problems surrounding Bert Grant’s Ales. Now word comes from Yakima that state of Washington has closed the doors at Grant’s brewery pub and they aren’t likely to reopen under the same ownership.
The Yakima-Herald Republic reports:
The restaurant and bar has closed after the state barred Yakima Brewing & Malting Co. from […]
No posts for the next 10 days. Yes, modern technology makes it relatively easy to blog remotely, but perhaps not from a beer hall or farmhouse brewery in Germany.
Sorry, but comments are turned off while I’m gone (hate those blog spammers). You’ll have to resist the notion of adding a comment that since Hooters has […]
