Since the Beer Travelers’ charter is to help readers find interesting places to drink interesting beer, here’s a bit more about the bars in this column: Rich O’s 3312 Plaza Drive, New Albany, IN 812-949-2804 A particularly well-chosen 23 beers on taps, covering a spectrum of styles. Also about 160 to 170 beers by the... View Article
The chicken dance has become as essential to an American Oktoberfest celebration as beer. The tune for the song was written in the late 1950s by a Swiss accordion player named Werner Thomas, who at the time tended a flock of ducks and geese. Thomas, now 72 years old, began performing his unnamed song at... View Article
Consider these two very different scenes: In Munich, Germany, two weeks of celebration begin when the city’s mayor taps a ceremonial keg of beer. By the time it is over, more than 6 million visitors will have consumed about 6 million liters of local beer. In Cullman, AL, “The Fest of Two Worlds” opens October... View Article
Twenty-plus years ago, one of America’s favorite cult beers often was “smuggled” east of the Mississippi. “It was heavenly, like everything else in Colorado,” Jim Robertson wrote in his Connoisseur’s Guide to Beer in 1983.
Deep in the heart of Texas, San Antonio’s links with its rich brewing history are on display in some unlikely places—such as a noted art museum, a historic hotel, and a brewpub run by a local boy who learned the satisfaction of transforming raw ingredients into consumer product while managing his father’s tortilla factory.
Pennsylvania Breweries by Lew Bryson Stackpole Books $16.95, Soft cover, 240 pp. ISBN 0-8117-2898-6 If there were more books like Pennsylvania Breweries, we would never have compiled The Beer Lover’s Guide to the USA. That book began as our personal list of beer places to look for while traveling because there weren’t up-to-date guides to... View Article
D. G. Yuengling & Son had already been brewing beer for 45 years when the Kempton Hotel was built in 1874. Last summer we sat at the bar of the Kempton and drank draft Yuengling beer. The Kempton isn’t on any lists of historic inns, and the Institute for Brewing Studies doesn’t classify Yuengling as... View Article
The Beer Travelers recommend these St. Louis-area beer stops. Locations are in St. Louis unless otherwise noted. Bevo Mill 4749 Gravois, 314-481-2626 Blueberry Hill 6504 Delmar Ave., 314-727-0880 Cicero’s 6691 Delmar Ave., 314-862-0009 Dressel’s 419 N. Euclid Ave., 314-361-1060 Il Vicino 41 North Central, Clayton, 314-727-1333 King Louie’s 3800 Chouteau, 314-865-3662 Llywelyn’s Pub 4747 McPherson... View Article
Never has a trip to the library made us quite so thirsty for beer.
