Today’s New York Times has an article about artisinal ice cream. There’s that word again. The story focuses on the price of high-end (as in expensive) ice cream. Read both pages, and not only because I guarantee Taos Cow makes great ice cream. Think about it in terms of our previous discussion. In case you [...]

The Mint Bar in Sheridan, Wyoming, is as impressive inside as the cowboy neon out front. Although not as expansive as The Million Dollar Cowboy Bar across the state in Jackson and certainly not fancy, it holds its own on a per capita basis. The place was hopping Monday evening. People come here to drink [...]

We’re headed north in the morning (attention burglars: somebody will be watching our house), eventually to Montana and Wyoming because my brother’s son is getting married in a week. While we’re off looking for cowboy neon signs hanging on old bars (maybe even old saloons) here are a few links I’ve been meaning to pass [...]

The headline across the bottom of Details magazine caught my eye today at Borders. “Artisanal America: How Handmade and Homegrown Became the New Consumer Religion.” The story itself is even online. Sure enough, the cute timeline that runs above the story has a picture of beers from Anchor Brewing and a note that in 1965 [...]

I think the Lagunitas glassware pictured on the left has been around a while. However it’s just now that I’m looking at a press release dated 3.5.10. It arrived yesterday and it made me laugh out loud. So I will pass it along without comment, other than to note I hope you enjoy it as [...]

This week New Orleans hosts Tales of the Cocktail. We went last week. Not because we have anything against cocktails, but because that’s when the birthdays fall. In fact, we drank hurricanes at Pat O’Brien’s and cocktails at the Carousel Bar in the Hotel Monteleone. We also had pretty good wine with dinner at Irene’s [...]

Perhaps Vince Cottone was not the first to use the words “craft” and “beer” together, but in his 1986 “Good Beer Guide: Brewers and Pubs of the Pacific Northwest” he put definitions of “craft brewery” and “true beer” into words when nobody else did. Cottone — who today runs Sound Systems, a company that offers [...]

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The Wallace Brothers have posted the recap for Session #41: Craft Beer Inpsired by Homebrewing. And Derrick Peterman, who these days is calling his blog “Ramblings of a Beer Runner,” has issued marching orders for #42: “A Special Place, A Special Beer.” I ask that you write about a special place in your life, and [...]

What does “craft beer” mean to you? Probably no need to start that discussion again. These links are just the tip of the iceberg. But Charlie Papazian has a new poll and you should go vote your conscience. Related, in my mind, are posts from Kelly Ryan and Mario Rubio. Rubio writes about recent recalls [...]