BEER TRAVELERS

From the Beer Travelers archives

Great Beer in the Green Mountain State
"Vermont ranks number one in breweries per capita, and its residents spend almost one-fifth of their beer money on in-state products."

Brewing Tours
"Fort Collins provides a unique opportunity to visit four diverse breweries only minutes apart."

Red Letter Dates
"It was loud, it was rowdy and not everybody was stone cold sober."

Finding Sanctuary on September 11
"In the hours immediately after terrorists flew airplanes into the Pentagon and New York City’s twin towers on September 11, Rich O’s Public House publican Roger Baylor paced anxiously between his pub and Pizza Time, the restaurant/bar next door that he also owns. Pizza Time has television sets; his pub does not...."

East-to-West Fest
"In Munich, Germany, two weeks of celebration begin when the city’s mayor taps a ceremonial keg of beer. By the time it is over, more than 6 million visitors will have consumed about 6 million liters of local beer...."

Where Real People Drink Real Beer
"Twenty-plus years ago, one of America’s favorite cult beers often was "smuggled" east of the Mississippi. "It was heavenly, like everything else in Colorado," Jim Robertson wrote in his Connoisseur’s Guide to Beer in 1983. Today, tourists to the Rockies often go with instructions to bring back a beer with similar cache. It isn’t Coors, which long ago initiated national distribution, but the coincidence leads to a fair question: Has anything really changed about drinking beer in America?"

Beer in the Heart of Texas
"Deep in the heart of Texas, San Antonio’s links with its rich brewing history are on display in some unlikely places--such as a noted art museum, a historic hotel, and a brewpub run by a local boy who learned the satisfaction of transforming raw ingredients into consumer product while managing his father’s tortilla factory...."

Brew-Ski
"If you were going to build a Victorian mountain town to add historic charm to the valley below a ski conglomerate of hotels and condominiums, it would probably look just about like Crested Butte, CO....."

Back Roads Pennsylvania
"D. G. Yuengling & Son had already been brewing beer for 45 years when the Kempton Hotel was built in 1874. Last summer we sat at the bar of the Kempton and drank draft Yuengling beer. The Kempton isn’t on any lists of historic inns, and the Institute for Brewing Studies doesn’t classify Yuengling as "craft" beer because of adjuncts the brewery uses, but that doesn’t make either less distinctive....."

Take him out to the brewpub
Philadelphia baseball announcer Andy Musser had taken advantage of his time on the road to visit hundreds of brewpubs.

All dressed up for the holidays
From Thanksgiving until after Christmas, from the Northwest to the mid-Atlantic, bars celebrate the holidays in style.

They put the keg in kegling
Many smaller bowling venues have survived by being distinctive -- and often that means serving distinctive beer.

Beer and romance
It's a fact: Flavorful beer and romantic settings do mix.

Historic taverns
Some taverns survived the failed experiment of Prohibition and offer history up along with flavorful beer.