Month: April 2008

New York pub crawls: Because your regular drinking dens are like following the spin-dry cycle

The American Craft Beer Festival

The guys at the BeerAdvocate are putting together a great Craft beer festival Boston on the weekend of June 20th and 21st. Check out the details and their site for tickets for a good time. Dates: June 20 & 21, 2008 The American Craft Beer Fest (ACBF), which is being hosted at the Seaport World …

Ballparks sell diluted beer

I moved to New York several years after the ban on drinking in the bleachers of Yankee Stadium, and to a fan of the game from when I could lift a bat through my legal drinking age, I didn’t understand the reasoning. I heard the fight stories and am very familiar with those as an …

Conservative convention will have liberal drinking rights

Reported in the Star Tribune out of Minneapolis, MN the city council will approve extending the hours of operation for bars during the Republican National Convention of 2008 to 4 am. The bill allows the city to extend its usual 2 a.m. bar closing and allows packaged liquor to be sold on Sundays during an …

I think this would be a good time for a beer

April 6, 1933. Midnight was approaching. A crowd of perhaps 25,000 milled around the Anheuser-Busch brewery on Pestalozzi Street. Inside the lobby of the Bevo packaging plant, August A. “Gussie” Busch Jr., grandson of the brewery’s patriarch, stepped up to a KMOX microphone. “April the seventh is here, and it is a real occasion for …

Sam Adams with glass? Delicious

You have to appreciate a brand that will make public announcements before an actual customer incident is found. In this case, quality control tests caught some chards in bottles of Sam Adams and they are recalling some beer. I can’t imagine that this bottle supplier only supplies bottles to Sam Adams… whom else is on …

Belgium Comes To Cooperstown 2008

Get your tickets early (like today) as this event sells out EARLY! August 01-03, 2008 Entry and camping fee. All tickets will go on sale April 1st to the pulic. Online purchase only! Friday night, 7-10pm VIP dinner with live music. 150 VIP tickets for sale. Saturday, 2-6pm beer tasting with live music and food …