Posted in Belgium, beer, beer marketing, craft beer, food, pubs, travel on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I won’t be in Brussels on 7 June, but if I were, I would go for a birthday celebration! Happy birthday, Bier Circus, one of my favourite bars in the world! Sorry about the poster, I can’t get it right here.
Posted in Denmark, beer, beer festivals, craft beer, travel on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The European beer festival in Copenhagen is getting closer, and tickets are now on sale. So far the only option has been to buy one ticket for each day, which makes for hefty service and postage fees for those who do not reside in Denmark.
I’m happy to report that the organisers will be offering a [...]
Posted in UK, beer, pubs, travel on May 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The Morning Advertiser is a goldmine of information:
A former Punch leaseholder has locked himself inside the pub after claiming the pubco owes him £8,000 for fixtures and fittings.
David Williams has been locked in the Highwood in Gledhow, Leeds since 31 March over a row with Punch.
Posted in England, Ireland, UK, beer, beer marketing, travel on May 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
By Herschell Hershey. From the Londonist.
Posted in USA, beer, beer blogs on May 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I received an e-mail from a woman named Maria in Arizona just before the weekend, which was very flattering:
I’m looking for WordPress-hosted blogs to show as examples in a training video I’ll be recording next week……..
I’m going to show off 4 to 6 blogs that have a nice look and interesting content as a way [...]
Posted in Italy, beer, brewing, craft beer, pubs, travel on May 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The notes from my last stop in Bologna have been lying around - I never got around to typing them out. What I had hoped to be the highlight of my visit turned out to be quite a disappointment.
It was a warm day, but it was getting chillier, even if a visiting Northerner could be [...]
Posted in beer, travel on May 3, 2008 | No Comments »
From Terry Durack’s Eat blog at the Indy:
It appears that everyone but me knows that the Thai government has increased the number of days in the year in which the sale of alcohol is illegal at all bars, restaurants, supermarkets and convenience stores. In the past, this applied to a number of Buddhist holidays, auspicious [...]
Posted in England, UK, beer, beer history, brewing, craft beer, pubs, travel on May 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The theme of The Session this month is how did it all start for you ?
Boak and Bailey have given us the following challenge: We’d like you to write about the moment when you saw the light. At what point did you realise you were a beer lover / geek / enthusiast? What beer(s) triggered [...]
Posted in UK, beer, pubs, smoking, travel on May 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Northern Ireland’s pubs and bars are facing a “bleak outlook” a year on from the smoking ban, according to the Publican.
Stephen Kelly, chief executive of the Federation of the Retail Licensed Trade Northern Ireland, said he expects the country to lose seven per cent of its pubs over the next two years.
Figures released earlier this [...]
Posted in Ireland, beer, pubs, travel on May 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I learned a new word when in Dublin. Well, two if you count the fact that a hooker is a fishing vessel.
The word is shebeen. There was media coverage about a splendid excample, and it was easy to understand what it was all about. I looked it up in wikipedia anyway:
Chiefly in Ireland, Scotland, South [...]
