BEER TRAVELERS

NY Craft Beer Week Sept. 12-21.
Beer Exposed Sept. 25-27 in London.
A few more thoughts at Appellation Beer.

Just kidding. Once you get past the sticker shock Manhattan has plenty to offer a beer drinker.
It all becomes easier to with the rollout of the website Beer Menus – Find Great Beer in New York City. That’s where, as I type, are beer listings for 177 bars and 1210 beers.
So you are wondering where [...]

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 [...]

Time Out Chicago distributed its beer issue last week.
Some of the stories you’d expect – tips, interviews with breweries, etc. – but overall a surprising amount of fun. Suns Swap profiles drinkers moving from one beer to another, such as from Miller High Life to Stella Artois (got think Andrew might manage another step soon).
The [...]

Raise a mug to honor Dave Jaques, a UK pub landlord so determined to seve local beer he faces a fine from the chain that owns his pub.
Jaques, who runs The Cock in Henham, stocks Saffron Brewery’s Essex Pale Ale although that violates his tenancy agreement, which states all beer, lager and cider purchases must [...]

Don Russell, a.k.a., Joe Sixpack visits Vorchdorf, Austria to watched the birth of the next batch of Samichlaus. The renowned beer, whose name is the Swiss-German word for Santa Claus, is made only one day each year, St. Nicholas Day.
As well as seeing the beer blessed, Russell was able to taste several vintages.
Where the ‘05 [...]

This article – Traveling with wine: Dealing with the new airline regulations – is really about flying with wine, and packing it well in your shipped luggage. But bottles of alcohol are bottles of alcohol . . .
The gritty details start several paragraphs from the lead. All the tips are terrific, and some are things [...]