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Yes, your favorite team getting W’s is important but if you follow this link to Give Me Sport HERE, you will see what is even more important.
How many pubs are in walking distance from the stadium.
Chelsea FC land in 6th way behind league leaders Newcastle with a tremendous 131!
If you are in the market for a beer book that is less about the latest trends or economics or all those things about beer that make you want to have a beer and block social media, well then Ian Clayton’s book, It’s the Beer Talking might be for you.
“Author Ian Clayton embarked on a lifelong love affair with local pubs in the middle of the 1970s. He has raised a glass in neighbourhood bars around the world for more than forty years. His stories are intertwined with quests to find perfect pints and peoples’ palaces and about joining in with the joy he finds in the unique gathering place we call the public house.
He moves across the generations and boundaries to take a glimpse at what makes the pub tick. Humorous and poignant by turns, It’s The Beer Talking tells of the laughter, the tears, the cheers, the remembering and forgetting, but most of all the camaraderie we all crave. This book will resonate with anyone who as ever uttered that immortal phrase, ‘Do you fancy a pint?’”
Quite probably a bunch of social history to be found in these pages.
I am absolutely hooked on the Netflix streaming. To the point where I have watched a couple of atrocious movies just because I could. But this service isn’t just for kicking back and enjoying a flick. You can also get some beer learning in.
One of the travel documentaries from PBS that I have watched and can recommend is The Historic Pubs of Dublin.
Hosted by Frank McCourt of Angela’s Ashes fame, it is a fairly typical travelogue of pubs in Dublin with a smattering of history sprinkled in. Now you do not watch this for craft beer information. In fact you will be appalled to notice Bud tap handles next to Guinness ones. What you watch this for is to get a mini-history of pubs that you should at the very least walk through when you visit Dublin. And visit Dublin you should. My particular favorite is the pub next to the graveyard. I can so see myself walking into that on a cold and dark Irish night. And clocking in at one hour it is much better than Skyline or Prince of Persia.
If you out there in craft beer land have found any streaming worthy beer movies to watch, let me know and the world know through the lovely comments section.
….Pete Brown and his great videos of pubs and beers in Great Britain. You will learn something.
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If you haven’t read any of his books. Do yourself a favor and add them to your Christmas list. You can take my word for it or you can read his review of the Stella Black beer….“So what’s it taste like? I told you my expectations weren’t that high, but I was prepared to be open-minded. Well. No aroma whatsoever. I don’t know what they did with the Saaz hops, coriander and orange peel, but they didn’t put them in this beer. It’s so long since Stella has seen whole Saaz hops perhaps no one at the brewery knew what they were and they made a weird, bitter salad with them instead.
The taste has a very brief flash of malty sweetness, then a chalky dryness that disappears almost instantly, and that’s it – until the unpleasant aftertaste starts to build after a few sips. Then you need another beer to get rid of that. Stella Black is one of those special, rare beers that manage to be both tasteless and unpleasant. A beer that’s merely tasteless we can all understand, but this? It’s like a 4.1% standard lager with a weird, Special Brew type finish. The worst of all worlds. Utterly undrinkable”
With the proliferation of supermarkets that do double duty as restaurants, I should have guessed that adding beer should have been a no brainer. You can raise a pint at the Whole Foods in Pasadena so why not in one of the original beery colonies, Pennsylvania?
Click HERE to read about the latest Wegman’s and Whole Foods pub concepts.
Some websites are decidedly old school. The European Beer guide is one of those.
And that is not a bad thing. As long as you have a wealth of information then you can overcome some interesting color choices.
And this guide/website has loads of information. Check it out before your next trip abroad. You might find a great place to visit.