So I’m standing in a gas station in semi-rural Maine admiring three cooler doors wide of craft beers — mostly beers of the region — when a woman opens one of the doors and shakes her head.
“Did they get rid of all the regular beer for this specialty stuff?” she asks, apparently speaking to me.
I [...]

As Alan nicely reported in close to real time (complete with a photo of our RV in case you’ve been wondering what our 140 square foot home looks like) our family spent a lovely evening with his last week. There was a lot of talk of beer — and a few beers were consumed — [...]

Do you know where this picture was taken? I’ll give you a hint. It was collected during our current adventure (so since May 21) and in a province or state where you don’t usually think of stores and pubs offering much interesting beer.

This isn’t a contest, but there may eventually be prizes (as explained here).
So [...]

Andrew Mason, assistant brewer at Flossmoor Station in suburban Chicago, writes he got the strangest phone call yesterday from somebody who identified themselves as from MillerCoors.
The woman on the phone asked, “Are you or anyone you know interested in job opportunities with MillerCoors?” I very nearly laughed and I certainly didn’t take her seriously, but [...]

Since we are two months into our trip in which drinking local has become a matter of habit I’m particularly delighted when chatter about AB-InBev includes discussion about what this means for local (two examples are Jay Brooks here and Maureen Ogle here).
These discussions are likely to be all over the place because definitions of [...]

Do you know where this picture was taken? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not a bar. (Even if you don’t know, please read on.)

Since we’re traveling a bit for the next 15 months and I often have a camera in hand I thought I’d post a few photos (more are at Flickr, but I’m [...]

We’re traveling back across the border today (fourth time - Lew, no problems going into Canada first three times; but they did search our fruit on last return to the U.S.) so sadly can’t hook up with a brewer to properly participate in International Brewers Day, a fine idea cooked up by Jay Brooks.
Hope it [...]

Let’s start with the license plate on the back of production manager John Mallett’s truck (above).
Then there’s the collection of plates at the entrance of the Eccentric Pub, which is where Larry Bell started what was then called Kalamazoo Brewing. They still brew “downtown” but most of production — which will surpass 100,000 barrels this [...]

Our travels through Wisconsin allowed us to update our photo of the “World’s Largest Six Pack” i LaCrosse.
We’ve got a little collection of the “world’s largest . . .” going on this trip. We’ve seen the world’s largest cross country skis, the world’s largest fly fishing rod, America’s biggest mall and more. So an update [...]

I love the name of this store in Banff, Alberta.
Although I think the name is meant to imply it’s a place for locals rather than tourists the cooler included a few regional beers.
I grabbed Hop Head from Tree Brewing in Kelowna, B.C., located about half way between Vancouver and Banff. The clerk was less than [...]