Archive for October, 2007

Rough Rider: Coming, but maybe not too soon

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Heading home from the Great American Beer Festival last week I swung through the town of Las Vegas (New Mexico, that is) to look again for the Rough Rider Brewery. It was supposed to open in the spring, and by mid-simmer one local brewer asked me if I’d had the beer.
We drove through Las Vegas […]

Old Taco Mac location has a new name

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

The former Taco Mac in Sandy Springs, Ga., has reopened in the hands of new management and been renamed Charlie Mopps.
That Taco Mac was one of America’s first multi-taps, featuring nearly 100 beers.
The first time we visited for all the bartender new we were just customers - rather than undercover beer sleuths asking a […]

A weekend in the ‘other’ Portland

Monday, October 1st, 2007

The New York Times goes brewery hopping around Portland, Maine.
At times an adventure.
The directions Steve Gorrill gave me to Sheepscot Valley Brewing Company, which he runs in Whitefield, 60 miles out of Portland, were the first clue it was a different kind of place. We followed them through Wiscasset, past the Alna Store, over a […]