Travel Stories: The City Edition
Bryan at HomeBrewBeer.net posts an epilogue to his family’s excursion to Maine, where they paid a a visit to Gritty McDuff’s in Portland….The Beer Brotha has another installment of his beer tour to Toronto, where he visited two Yonge Street establishments: 3 Brasseurs and Volo….Matt Hokinson, guest blogging at A Blog About Beer, celebrates his 200th different beer at The Chalice Room, the inner sanctum of Portland (OR)’s Novare Res Beer Garden.
The Friday Mash
Here are some stories that attracted our attention this past week:
Two members of Washington State’s brewing community have passed away: Dick Young, the founder of the eponymous Dick’s Brewing Company, and Brian Sollenberger, the co-founder of Diamond Knot Brewery….Toronado, the famous beer bar in San Francisco, has opened a second location in San Diego….If you live in the Bay Area, check out Beer by BART, a listing of bars and brewpubs within walking distance of a BART station. Now if only the trains would run past midnight….The Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation is putting Pabst Brewing up for sale. If you’ve got $300 million lying around, you could be the proud new owner.
Follow-ups on a couple of stories we’ve blogged:
Now that Rock Art has settled its trademark dispute, it has released its winter ale. And Volo, a Toronto beer bar, has announced the winners of its Cask Days festival.
What is it Like to Volunteer at a Beer Festival?
Rob Symes, a frequent guest writer at the Great Canadian Beer and Pubs blog, enlisted as a volunteer at Bar Volo’s fifth annual Cask Days festival in Toronto. A challenging ten-plus-hour shift left Rob with a new-found appreciation for the people who made the festival possible in the first place. He also dispensed this baseball-flavored description of festival work:
The first thing you should know about planning an event is that however much groundwork and preparation you do, there is almost always a crunch period at the end as life starts to mix curve balls and changeups into what had been a steady diet of fastballs.