November 23, 2024
Exploring the intersections of craft beverage, travel and culture.
This here is a guest post by the enviably well-traveled Doug Brainard, long-time homebrewer and UNYHA (Upstate New York Homebrewers Association) member. Earlier in the year, he contributed How Long Would you Wait for a Pint?, on his award-winning framboise lambics. Rare and delicious, Doug’s lambics are a real treat for those lucky enough to taste them. Today, Doug’s not talking about his own brews; he’s back with a travel article and tasting notes from what might be the world’s smallest pub.
Away with your pumpkin ales and other portents of doom (or at least, of winter)! Temperatures are still in the 80s, most squash and gourds…
1st of August, 2015 We caught up to Christopher Bates—restaurateur, chef, Master Sommelier and vintner–at his Dundee New York establishment, FLX Wienery. It was a…
“We can’t stop here, this is bat country!” –Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas We arrived at what was allegedly “the best…
If you haven’t eaten at the American Burger Bar & Beer Boutique yet, you should. Combination foodie haven and bottle shop, the place (3208 Latta…
“The light music of whiskey falling into a glass—an agreeable interlude.” – James Joyce Is there anything more Irish than whiskey? Oh, fine, other than…
Last month I had the rare opportunity to help with a commercial brew. Doug Brainard—whose outstanding framboise lambic occasioned a three-article series earlier this year—engineered…
“The fact is new and seems strange to many that there should be in the northeastern part of New York a wilderness almost unbroken and…
“What are these towers of silver?” “They are lights to guide us in the land of shadow, were all other lights may fail, pale reflections…
This Independence Day weekend, it seems appropriate to feature a brewery that is as American as entrepreneurship and the Transcontinental Railroad, and as down-to-earth as…
