Archive for June, 2008

Musing: Hold the lemon, hold the shakers

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Hey, nobody asked us if we wanted lemon. We had a couple of sample-size servings yesterday when we stopped for just a few minutes at Granville Island Brewing in Vancouver. (We were much more interested in exploring the market area.) And — because I’m paying attention to all things related to wheat beers these days [...]

Drinking local: Damn fine in Seattle

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Seattle deserves to be in any discussion about the nation’s best beer drinking cities, but we’re not going there again. Our recent brief stay in the region wasn’t about beer — in stark contrast, for instance, to 1995 when we visited dozens of places while working on the “The Beer Lovers Guide,” sometimes feeling frantic [...]