Second
Half 2005 I strike a blow for freedom;
Weyerbacher turns 10, and I do a beer dinner in Newburgh, NY.
February
2005 Running hard across Pennsylvania to put
away some of the unexplored bars on my list, on the way to the grand --
finally!! -- opening of North Country Brewing in Slippery Rock, and the
smoky ride home.
Fall/Winter
2004 A trip to Oklahoma City and Wichita that
involves a lot of iffy beer, good beer, and some great beer, old friends
and new, and Prairie Beauty. Plus two really great days of beer
enjoyment.
Summer
2004 We all get silly at the Royal Stumble,
and I take my kids and my parents on a sentimentally multi-generational
visit to central Pennsylvania for a bunch of roller coaster ridin' and
beer drinkin'. Any parent would be proud.
Early
Winter
2004 What was now apparently the last Barker
Brew Fest, two more new PA brewpubs, and another Friday the
Firkinteenth, at which your hero has too much to drink, but lives to
regret it.
Winter
2003/04 (In which I get sick and don't write
much, but still manage to get to two new PA brewpubs and taste booze,
turn a hat-buying trip into a productive beerhunt, and watch the tanks
go into the newest Iron Hill.)
Fall
2003 (contains two great Monk's dinners: Dave
Buhler of the Elysian brewpubs in Seattle, and Stephen Beaumont, who
paired beers (and sake) with exotic meats. Some good laughs. Tasting
note on my "non-bourbon spirit of the year.")
August
2003 (contains Adventures in the Adirondacks,
and what I was doing while I wasn't signing books in Syracuse and
Rochester)
June
2003 (contains My Great Beer Day, much too
much time with Jack Curtin in Pittsburgh, and Friday the Firkinteenth)
May
2003 (contains the tale of the sparsely
populated Sunnybrook beer festival and the Great Sly Fox Goat Race)
April
2003 (contains Iron Hill Brewer's Reserve
Night at West Chester, hoisting a-plenty at the TAP New York festival,
and my bike ride to the Jim Anderson-less Split Thy Skull strong beer
festival)
February
and March 2003 (contains the Golden Age of
Beer Philly bar voyage, Stephen Beaumont's beer dinner at Monk's, the
Stone Brewing Manhattan Launch party and our subsequent wanderings in
Greenwich Village and Brooklyn, my birthday pub crawl, family-style beer
travel at Victory and Sly Fox, and Groundhog Day at the Grey Lodge)
