The Spirit World

Last Brewsday, I told you about a couple of beer/cola mixes: Black Bart and Diesel/Broadway. I struggled with what exact beers to mix with what cola. My gut told me to start with ingredients I would actually drink and combine those to make a drink that I could appreciate on more than just a gustatory […]

Do you know where all your local beer is brewed and served? Have you traveled around the U.S. or Canada and thirsted for a local beer?
Where do you turn when you are on a quest for an excellent craft brew? 
PubQuest is the result of two people who share a passion for good beer and travel. When […]

Last weekend Long Island had a serious ice storm. I didn’t know it was serious until Saturday morning when I went to step out into what I thought was about four inches of snow only to find myself slipping and skating around on top of a four inch thick layer of ice!
We live on […]

On Long Island St Patrick’s Day is not just a day, it’s a season. Starting the weekend before and sometimes running until the week after March 17th are the community parades commemorating… what? St Patrick? The Irish? One would almost think it was the time of year for people to stand around Main Street and […]

As you know, I just got back from a week in Denver, drinking Denver brewed beer and sipping (not so wee) drams of single malt scotch. On my last day in Denver I walked over to Flying Dog for their weekday afternoon tour (4 pm). I wish that I had found the Flying Dog tasting […]

I took the Brewsday road show to Denver for a little recreational drinking last week. Since I’m working on this beer cocktail series I thought I would chat up the Denver bartenders about the sort of stuff they put in their beer, but instead of blends and mixes, I found a city where it’s fairly […]

Recently, I took my family into Manhattan for a long weekend and, of course, some beer research. The first night we decided to get some barbecue at Virgil’s (152 West 44th Street, just off Broadway in the Times Square vicinity). Of course, I had a couple of beers (Brooklyn Pilsner and a Mardi Gras Ale […]

My original plan was to have recovered from the flu soon enough to do some experimenting with one of Unibroue’s more interesting offerings, a cherry based brew called (what else?) Quelque Chose. But since the microorganisms have conspired against me, I’ll do some sociological reporting rather than rhapsodizing about gustatory concoctions.
Last month I attended […]

Saturday, March 3 marks the inaugural Philly Craft Beer Festival. According to the organizers:
The PHILLY CRAFT BEER FEST is a true craft beer tasting featuring an incredible variety of beers from some of the finest brewers in the country.
And from the information on the site it looks as if they mean business. […]

Previously, I wrote about mixing cassis with stout to produce what’s called a Liverpool Kiss. There are a couple of other beer cocktails that use stout as a base. The Bee Sting is a mix of stout with orange juice. A Broadway (also sometimes called a Diesel) is a mix of stout […]