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June 13, 2018 by Tupper Leave a Comment

NEW “BEER OF THE DAY” FEATURE STARTS SEPTEMBER 1!

sign at Pub 27 in Pompeii — one of Italy’s most enjoyable beer bars.

Coming September 1 (yes- 2018): A new sleek version of the Beer of the Day that actually will be a “Beer of the Day”. We taste and take notes on enough beers to sustain a daily BoD, but don’t have the time to find and edit and post the pictures.

So– starting in September we’ll start a new simplified post of a different beer each day with no frills and standard graphics. Many will be beers we have discovered in our travels to research our upcoming book: “Brews & Snooze: A Guid

e to Drinking and Sleeping in the Mid Atlantic Area” It features breweries from which you can walk back and get a comfortable night’s sleep without starting your car. Others are from our next European book project – a guide to very good beer where you don’t expect it (Rome, Madrid, Paris, and even Pompeii!)

Gold Metal Winning Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale Returns!

Join us at Dynasty Brewing on July 17 between 3PM and 8PM to savor the first batch of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale in almost five years. We’ll be there signing books at a huge discount and the brewery will be pouring the beer that was created to be “Hoppy enough for Bob and balanced enough for Ellie.”

It hasn’t been easy to resurrect Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale, winner of a gold metal at the GBBF in the ’90s when well hopped beers were rare and almost non-existent in the east. We’ve collaborated with Dynasty’s head brewer Favio Garcia, the brewer who produced the last batch of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket at Old Dominion to reproduce an authentic version of the original. Dynasty is in Ashburn, Virginia– almost within walking distance of the Old Dominion brewery that brewed the first batch just over 25 years ago.

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Later — in July we resume some great weekend destinations for beer travelers that we’ve found researching our guide to breweries and inns of the Mid Atlantic. Whether you’re looking for a turn of the (20th) century 100 year old quaint and slightly rickety hotel, an engaging B&B or a magnificent survivor of the great era of railroad hotels, we’ve found hem– within walking distance of a brewery. We’ll present more previews of the book’s best here rolling up to Pennsylvania before we’re through.