{"id":281,"date":"2007-08-02T06:32:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/looking-for-the-local-beer\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T06:32:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T13:32:30","slug":"looking-for-the-local-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/looking-for-the-local-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for the local beer"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re on the road right now – ah, the lengths we’ll go to to find just the right fruit beer for The Session<\/a> – but I took the time to read Lew Bryson’s monthly Buzz<\/a> so you should be able to as well.<\/p>\n

ESPN columnist Norm Chad is looking for a new regular beer, to replace Rolling Rock, and Lew has plenty of useful friendly advice. Nice and complete, so I don’t really want to add anything.<\/p>\n

However, one point of clarification. Chad has an these ABC’s for choosing beer and the first is:<\/p>\n

Availability. It can’t just be sold in some tri-county area of North Dakota. Couch Slouch has to travel a lot. And when I’m on the road, I don’t want to have to fall back on Michelob or Miller Lite. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lews writes, “I want to be able to get my choice of beer anywhere, because I travel a lot too” and later “I’ve got a beer philosophy that’s never failed me in 26 years, and I’m going to lay it on you: there is more than one beer in the world.”<\/p>\n

The way I connect the dots that means the best choice doesn’t have to mean exact same beer<\/em>. What’s best in Amherst, Mass., may not be best in Durango, Colo. I pick those two towns because both have bars known for their beer selections. The Moan and Dove<\/em> in Amherst and Lady Falconburgh’s<\/em> in Durango.<\/p>\n

I was shocked that the Moan and Dove doesn’t offer anything from nearby Berkshire Brewing – “Because we’re ‘the local beer,'” Berkshire co-founder Gary Bogoff explained, which sounded so counter-intuitive my brain briefly shut down. And that Lady Falconburgh’s recently had beer from only one regional brewer, Ska Brewing (good choice, though).<\/p>\n

I’m happy to find Victory HopDevil on tap only a few hours from our house and the selection at Moan and Dove will make anybody who appreciates beer drool, but those are beers I can find elsewhere. So credit goes to those proprietors for making this happen, but when the local beers are really good – and in these cases I know they are – they are going to be my first choice.<\/p>\n

I’ve likely wandered off topic, and there are tourist things to get to today, so to get back on track read Lew’s column<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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