Author: Brian Yaeger
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Beer TravelersSearching for the Perfect Pint in Dublin and Belfast
March 17, 2015 - Brian Yaeger The Irish not only gave us dry stout porter, they also gave us classic drinking songs to sing whilst hoisting proper imperial pints (buy the MP3 of the Clancy Brothers’ “Beer, Beer, Beer”) and the full Irish breakfast (with “black pudding,” aka blood sausage, among the four breakfast meats on the plate) to sop up all... View Article -
Beer TravelersGreat Towns for Pizza and Beer
March 1, 2015 - Brian Yaeger The following article ran alongside “Pizza and Beer in Milan and New Haven,” which was published in our March 2015 issue. Don’t miss these pizza and beer combos around the country. New York: Nowhere is more synonymous with pizza. If that’s your sole objective, Brooklyn’s Di Fara enjoys consensus as sliced nirvana. Most slice joints don’t... View Article -
Beer Travelers
Pizza and Beer in Milan and New Haven
March 1, 2015 - Brian Yaeger What with airplanes and social media, the world is one big cultural exchange program. Ideas, like people, ebb and flow like the tides, but even faster now that we don’t actually rely on ocean travel that much. A recent visit to Italy got me thinking about such things and how, blessedly, Italians gave America pizza... View Article -
A Closer Look - TravelBeer in the Grand Duchy: The Breweries of Luxembourg
March 1, 2015 - Brian Yaeger Frank Zappa famously said, “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” Luxembourg, ergo, qualifies as a real country. Then again, Luxembourgers refer to it... View Article -
Beer Travelers - TravelDrinking Near European Christmas Markets
November 25, 2014 - Brian Yaeger ‘Tis the season for folks named Old St. Nick, Rudolph, Frosty and Jack Frost. Contrary to what some people say about Christmas being a way bigger event in America than it is in Europe—and while it’s true that you don’t see nearly as much commercialism splattered in each store aisle, painted on all shop windows... View Article -
Beer TravelersBeer Counterpoints: Copenhagen & Oklahoma City
November 22, 2014 - Brian Yaeger The annual Copenhagen Beer Celebration parades 40 of the world’s top brewers in front of a limited number of dedicated beer geeks, who are in fact the ones who do the marching from brewer to brewer. The grand marshal is Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, the prominent roving brewer behind Mikkeller, whose brands, it can be said,... View Article -
Beer TravelersSister Cities: Berlin and Los Angeles
August 20, 2014 - Brian Yaeger I was born in Los Angeles, but unless you polled only my mom, my absence is hardly felt. Nearly 4 million people call it home, and if you include the suburbs that make up the Greater Los Angeles Metro—and some say that all of LA is just an unceasing smattering of suburbs even though they’re wrong—then... View Article -
What's BrewingRogue Ales Co-founder Jack Joyce Passes Away
July 26, 2014 - Brian Yaeger Jack Joyce, 71, who in 1988 co-founded Rogue Ales, which now distributes to 50 states and 30 countries, died on May 27. Joyce was a VP at Nike near Portland,OR. (“I’m famous for running the Air Jordan project,” he once said) when he left to start a brewpub in the Southern Oregon town of Ashland... View Article