Abita Brewing in Louisiana seems to be going out of its way to make it Christmas pub crawl a festival New Orleans event.
The crawl begins Dec. 8 (next Friday) at 6 p.m., and the first 400 people who register at d.b.a. and R-Bar get free limited edition T-shirts.
Then Abita Christmas Ale will cost just $1 [...]
The New York Times (free registration) gives some attention to many breweries in its region you might not have heard of, focuses on the importance of beer as a local products.
It was quite a different scene on a Friday night at the New England Brewing Company in Woodbridge, Conn., where a few dozen people — [...]
Old Arch Brewing Co. has opened as an upscale restaurant with a full bar in Downtown Lodi. Old Arch, in the old Woolworth building at 115 S. School St., is a block from Lodi’s other brewery and restaurant, Lodi Beer Co. The Lodi News-Sentinel reports.
New from the Blind Tiger in Manhattan, one of the nation’s great beer bars. If you’ve been following the story you know the Blind Tiger closed its doors last year to move to a new location, then when it reopened its doors it ran into problems getting a liquor license.
After months of hassling the [...]
About 15 years ago at an emphemera show (featuring stuff like old maps, movie magazines, brochures, etc.) I came across a postcards featuring the Beer Hunt in Fond du Lac, Wis. (pictured to the right).
Alas, it closed in 1972 and today it’s a mall.
This year it is being memorialized by a Christmas ornament, one in [...]
The San Francisco Chronicle offers a guide to finding craft beer in wine country.
Artisan brewers thrive in the Wine Country may not get all the beer facts right – hops aren’t roasted and the six Trappist monasteries don’t make 400 different beers, and Jay Brooks offers a longer list – but it includes the [...]
Here’s an alarming number. Research the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) shows 26 pubs a month are lost in Britain, and that
figures may actually be much higher – and that pubs at the heart of the local community are in particular danger.
Thus CAMRA plans its first Community Pubs Week Feb. 17-24, designed to raise the [...]
