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Archives for February 2016
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Thanks, Chris Elliott:
Chris Elliott provides a wealth of useful information for travelers in his Washington Post column and other publications. Recently he included us in his article which you can read if you click here. His article talks about our time in Bologna- and you can read more about the beers there by clicking here.
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IPAs are the largest selling style within the craft beer segment. But not all IPAs are the same — some are barely recognizable within the style. We’re taking march to sample IPAs from Brut to brutal and dry to juicy. Dial in below for some insights into a style that’s grown far past its origin.
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When Is a Kölsch not a Kölsch? When it’s American. Even so, DuClaw’s version is true Gold.
A fresh keg of Kölsch slides into place at Sion
February 19, 2016 Post 0016 It looks simple, the taste is subtle, and most of the the basic ingredients are easy enough to obtain. Yet it may be the hardest beer in the world to brew well. Kölsch. Almost every brew pub has one, or what they think is one. However, the real Kölsch brewers of Cologne are so protective of their process that while we know much about the style, truly family-held secrets remain.
While some accounts link it to the 19th century, Kölsch as we know it today is almost an accidental style.
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How Could We Have Left This Pub Out of the Book?!?
February 15, 2016 Post 0015. Travelers who know us well have no qualms about berating us for omitting their favorite watering hole. One response is that some of our favorite pubs didn’t make the cut either. In London, our decision to restrict recommendations to the center area required us to ignore many nearby icons. The White Horse in Parsons Green is such an icon.
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Hopping Around Here: From a Bombshell to a Black Eye (PA) in North Carolina
February 11, 2016 Post 0014. The drive from Cary to Angier in North Carolina takes well less than an hour if you don’t stop at the seven craft breweries along the way. If you have a designated driver or a will of steel you can visit them all in a day. We took a couple of days so we could spend more time savoring their beers. The range of size, location and styles isn’t all that unusual in the States these days, but there is almost nothing equivalent in Europe except possibly in Italy.
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