February 8, 2016. Post 1013 Any travel plan that gets you off the average tourist route is likely to be a good one. We’ve run into people who search for sites referred to in works of fiction, people who “collect” waterfalls. Our search for beers has taken us to countless places that don’t see tourists and are delighted to see us. One such discovery was the Schloss Hotel Hirschau.
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Archives for February 2016
Hopping Around Europe In America – Rail Ale Adventures, Durham, N.C.
February 4, 2016, Post 1012 Traveling in Europe includes many joys: great food, fantastic beer, and, for us, riding the rails instead of driving a car. We take it for granted we’ll rail Europe, but sometimes we remember we can have those joys of Europe in our own back yard.
Durham has enough beer for a great weekend of exploring and tasting and you can get to it pretty easily from the big cities of the Mid Atlantic. Hop on the Carolinian in Washington at 10:53 AM and
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Hopping Around Europe: A European Answer to an Existential Question – A Brief Guide to Survival in a Brew Dog-Eat-Dog World.
Waiting anxiously for the Feb 4th post? It will appear in the afternoon today.
February 1, 2016. Post 1011. The past 30 years have seen twin trends simultaneously operating in Europe: new breweries and brew ventures growing like mushrooms and old traditional breweries dying like weeds. In the US the process was cleaner. In the 20th century our economy practiced brewericide and dropped the number of independent breweries from the thousands to a few dozen. From the ashes, the craft beer phoenix has blessed us with more choice than we’ve ever had.
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