Eastern States

Iron Hill to Highlight Local Belgian Beer

January 9, 2008

The Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant in West Chester, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia) will again highlight local Belgian-style beers. The Belgium Comes to West Chester event will take place on January 26 at 4:00 p.m. In addition to head brewer Chris LaPierre, several other brewers will be on hand to discuss their beers and there will [...]

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Iron City’s Solvency Plan

January 6, 2008

Last fall the bankrupt Pittsburgh Brewing got a new Plan of Reorganization confirmed which included new investors, a settlement with creditors, a new CEO and a new name: Iron City Brewing. The new boss, Tim Hickman, today outlines his four-prong plan to increase revenues this year by a staggering 35%, certainly an audacious goal. Perhaps [...]

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Dogfish Downtown Brooklyn

November 19, 2007

Downtown Bar & Grill, located in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York at 160 Court Street, will be hosting a pretty spectacular tasting of Dogfish Head beers on the 27th of November, including the debut releases for 2007 of World Wide Stout, Pangaea, and Golden Era, along with seven other Dogfish Head beers [...]

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Penny Wise and Pint Foolish

August 8, 2007

Seth Kugel, a travel writer for the New York Times who writes a regular column entitled “Weekend in New York,” tackles such Big Apple topics as where to take your dog, ice cream and where to picnic in Central Park. His most recent column (sent to me by my friend Maureen. Thanks Maureen.) is called [...]

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America’s Oldest Standing Brewery?

June 30, 2007

Don Russell, better known as Joe Sixpack, had another very interesting column yesterday about an unassuming pink stucco home in Burlington, New Jersey, which may — or may not — have at one time been part of a brewery. And not just any brewery, but because records seem to date part of the structure to [...]

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The PLCB Card

June 27, 2007

In my recent screed over Tennessee’s decision to make carding for off-premise beer purchases mandatory, I mentioned that I still have my Pennsylvania drinking card, or PLCB card. A couple of people called me on it and so while I knew I had it somewhere, laying my hands on it I knew might prove more [...]

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Real Hop-sicles

June 21, 2007

A friend and colleague sent me this story from his local area around Washington, D.C. (thanks Gregg). Rustico Restaurant & Bar, a great beer restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia, began serving “beer-sicles” last week. They make frozen beer pops shaped like the Popsicles you remember for $4 or a larger cone size for $6. They’re made [...]

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New IPA From Landmark

June 16, 2007

LANDMARK BEER COMPANY RELEASES ITS THIRD BEER, LANDMARK INDIA PALE ALE Syracuse, NY — Landmark Beer Company is proud to announce that it’s much anticipated India Pale Ale is now available. This beer is a full flavored American style India Pale Ale. We use Centennial, Columbus and Cascade hops to give it a bold hop [...]

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Canned Beer Dinner

June 7, 2007

Last month, Monk’s Cafe and Beer Emporium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania hosted a unique beer dinner with beer cook Lucy Saunders at the helm to support her new book, Grilling with Beer. All of the beers paired with each course was a craft beer in a can. A growing trend among small brewers, there are better [...]

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Canned Monk’s

May 10, 2007

This sounds like a fun one. Monk’s Belgian Beer Emporium and Restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will be hosting a beer dinner with an “All-American Cookout” theme. Lucy Saunders worked with Monk’s chef Adam Glickman to create the menu, inspired by recipes from her wonderful book, “Grilling with Beer.” (Did I mention I contributed a chapter [...]

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Good Beer Deserves the Right Glass

April 25, 2007

The Syracuse Post-Standard ran a nice article entitled “Good beer deserves the right glass” by staff writer Don Cazentre, who’s also a homebrewer. He provides a good rudimentary introduction to the importance of drinking beer not just from a glass, but from the proper glass. It’s another good example of better beer coverage by the [...]

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Sam Adams to Be Made in the Glass-Lined Tanks of Old Latrobe

April 4, 2007

The big story yesterday, reported by practically everybody, is that the Boston Beer Co. — makers of Samuel Adams beers — have signed a contract with City Brewing of Wisconsin to brew Sam Adams beer at the newly acquired Latrobe Brewery. It appears the relationship between Boston Beer Co. and City Brewing on this project [...]

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Alstroms Profiled in “The Pour”

March 28, 2007

A Bulletin reader in Hawaii sent me this link (thanks, Doug). Eric Asimov’s New York Times’ column The Pour, is one of the few columns in a big, mainstream paper to write about beer in a respectful tone, without the condescension so prevalent in much of the media’s mis-handling of better beer. I’ve always enjoyed [...]

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Savoring Beer

March 23, 2007

I generally eschew going out on the major holidays, primarily because America — and especially the business sector — has turned them into reasons to get drunk and sell crap that none of us need. Much is written about the commercialization of Christmas but, really, is there a single holiday that Hallmark isn’t trying to [...]

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Newsweek Discovers Vintage Beer

February 16, 2007

Alright, it didn’t make the magazine, but it is a “web exclusive” on the Newsweek website. It is an article by Andrew Romano entitled Beer By the Year (thanks to Joe in Florida for sending me the link). The article is about vintage beers and the 25 of them Gramercy Tavern in New York City [...]

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Dutch Wonderland to Join the Modern World?

February 4, 2007

Every state’s alcohol laws are arcane little systems of dysfunction and no two are exactly alike. I grew up with the laws in Pennsylvania, which have to be near the top, at least in terms of how seemingly bizarre and arbitrary they are. Until very recently, you couldn’t get a drink on Sundays, due to [...]

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