“Sometimes, it’s all about the bike. Sometimes it’s all about the beer. But more often these days, it’s about both,” reports The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, WA, this past week. Like beer and running, the intersection of beer and cycling has recently seen a resurgence that doesn’t appear to downshift anytime soon.
Hardly anyone can say they’ve been to an authentic Icelandic farmhouse brewery. Including me. But I’ve come closer than most.
Think Norwegian imported beers are expensive? Try buying them there. Norwegians enjoy a tremendous standard of living with the third highest GDP per capita. There are few places you might expect to spend more on vacation.
There’s a lot of beer out there. Like, more than you can ever try. I know because a few years ago, I wrote about some of the guys who bust their (backs) trying to try them all and discovered that the most dedicated among them are “Ratebeerians” living in Copenhagen.
I found myself last week underground and beneath the warm, sticky East Village streets at a dimly lit and crowded high-top table with a pack of beer journalists. Snifters clinked, half-opened bottles littered the wooden table and half a dozen conversations filled the cool air while our host, Jimmy Carbone of Jimmy’s No. 43, kept... View Article
As you may have guessed from my tweets and Facebook posts this past weekend, I attended the third annual Beer Bloggers Conference in Indianapolis. I had the extreme pleasure, along with Daniel Bradford, publisher of All About Beer Magazine, to meet and to share beers with industry bloggers, those who blog in their free time... View Article
Two non-beer-related pieces of journalism this week drew me back to the craft that consumes much of our headspace. Tim Kreider opined in the Times about The ‘Busy’ Trap, or what he called “the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing,” and Samiel Fromartz wrote a fascinating article in March about the fall and... View Article
Dropping an old friend off at the airport after not seeing each other for a long time he said, “It’s good to see you living 180 degrees differently.”
Kentucky. Straight. Bourbon. Three words that when said together are music to the ears of whiskey devotees.
