RV Travelers Driven to Craft Beer
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Published September 2013, Volume 34, Number 4
Maria Scarpello and Brian Devine have driven to more than 300 breweries aboard their RV. Photo courtesy of Maria Scarpello.
By Gerard Walen
Ben and Karen Willmore experienced their first earthquake while in the parking lot of Stone Brewing Co. in Escondido, CA. Though not a major temblor, it shook enough to make cautious patrons move away from the alarming vibration of the massive glass doors in the brewery.
But the Willmores had no reason to go home and check for any damage. They were already home, relaxing in the recreational vehicle that has been their primary residence for several years. And they were at Stone because craft breweries sit high on their list of destinations for a life lived on the road.
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Craft Joins Tradition in the Capital City
By Adrian Tierney-Jones
Published March 2013, Volume 34, Number 1
In the city where porter emerged as the first beer of the industrial age, London is poised for a bigger surge in craft brewing.
It’s Friday lunchtime at the Dean Swift, a smart but casual corner pub on the south side of the Thames and a few minutes’ stroll from Tower Bridge. Inside the open-space bar, the lunchtime crowd of young professionals and serious barflies scuff the battered oak floorboards as they enter in search of good food and drink. The beer is flowing: The pub has a comprehensive selection of cask, keg and bottles from both home and abroad.
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Craft Breweries Bring Diversity to the Emerald Isle
By Roger Protz
Published January 2013, Volume 33, Number 6
In Ireland, history catches you by the coattails at every turn. Towns, cities and countryside reflect centuries of invasion, foreign domination and massacre, the unbearable horror of the Great Hunger of the 19th century, and the long and bloody struggle for Home Rule in the 20th.
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By Randy Mosher
Published September 2011, Volume 32, Number 4
Our image of Brazil is exotic, tropical, and utterly wild, but there is a good deal more to this huge and varied country. There is jungle, but there is lots of rich agricultural land. It snows in the South. The world’s second largest Oktoberfest is held in Blumenau. Despite abundant poverty, there is a large and growing middle class, and amidst the exotic vegetation, much of Brazil looks very familiar to us: jobs, traffic, shopping, neighborhoods, and Internet cafés. Read More…
By Owen Ogletree
Published September 2011, Volume 32, Number 4
Twenty craft beer lovers, all wearing the same T-shirts, walk into a bar. No, this isn’t the beginning of a joke―it describes an organized pub-crawl for charity. Across America, people are realizing that craft beer can form the impetus for switching off the TV, getting off the couch, heading out of the house and bringing people together with informative, entertaining, beer-centered activities. Read More…
The Land of the Long White Cloud is starting to cast a shadow on the craft beer scene.
By Matt Kirkegaard
Published July 2011, Volume 32, Number 3
New Zealand is small. It is small and it is a long way from just about everywhere. Its largest city, Auckland, is more than 1,300 miles from the nearest similar-sized city, making it the most remote major city in the world. Its capital, Wellington, is also the world’s southernmost capital city.
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