Lee at I Love Beer report that Austin’s Ginger Man has lost its lease and will be forced to move, although not necessarily for the next couple of years.
He writes:
I’m all for densifying Downtown and encouraging people to live there instead of the sprawling suburbs, but isn’t part of the deal to also have great [...]
Jack Curtin writes that Copa Too! in Philadelphia has closed.
The first draft beer from a Belgian specialty brewer was poured on June 13, 1995 at a beer dinner here. Kwak was soon followed by plenty of others, and by the next April Copa Too! hosted a mini-Belgian festival with 18 Belgian and Dutch specialties. The [...]
The first bars and restaurants offering speciality beers came to Helsinki just 15 years ago, but have quickly become entrenched.
From the Helsinki Sanomat:
Don’t laugh. Yes, Finland does have a quixotic relationship with alcohol, and yes, there are plans to jack up the price of a pint still further, but the plain fact of the matter [...]
Don Russell about writes that Philadelphia’s brewpub scene took two steps forward this summer and one giant step backward, meaning two new pubs opened but one closed rather suddenly.
Russell (aka Joe Sixpack)
“It’s anybody’s guess why it failed,” said (Independence) spokesman Frank Keel.
Well, here’s one guess: The owners didn’t have a clue.
Independence Brew Pub is owned [...]
