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Events / Public Events at the Craft Brewers Conference

« on: March 29, 2010, 12:14:07 pm »

Happening in Chicago next week. Fritz Maytag pouring his beers sounds like fun.

http://craftbrewersconference.com/public_events.html

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Beer Travel / What are you're favorite online beer travel resources?

« on: November 13, 2009, 01:40:17 pm »

Beer Mapping has come up a couple of times and I really like it as it's easy to pinpoint things with their Google Maps mashup.
http://beermapping.com/city-beer-maps/

I don't have as much faith in Beerfly reviews on BeerAdvocate. I've seen places I really enjoyed dissed pretty hard but it is useful for putting a list together for further research. You also have to be registered to use its fancier features. But here's a tip: Enter this into Google to get a quick list:
city name beerfly site:beeradvocate.com

Fancy a Pint is a great UK based site. It's London centric, though. I used this on my last trip and found a great local pub that I would have otherwise missed.
http://www.fancyapint.com/

Beer in the Evening is another English site. It has broader coverage than Fancy a Pint. It also has a pub crawl generator, which is fun to play around with.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/


Now post your favorites.

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Beer Travel / My visit to an English Brewery

« on: November 10, 2009, 09:35:50 pm »

Two years ago my wife and I visited the Lake District in England. We spent one of our afternoons touring the Jennings Brewery in Cockermouth. The brewery has been on this site since the 1870's. It was quite a good time and the guide really knew about the beers. I forget %s but most of their beer goes out as cask conditioned, with some sent out by tanker truck to be bottled. I really liked all their beers other than Cumberland Ale, which I thought was a little bland, but it is a light bodied session beer.
http://www.jenningsbrewery.co.uk/

Some pictures:

30 barrel fermenter (I think) with yeast blowing off.



A peek in a fermenter



The kettle



The mash tun



The old mash tun. They couldn't remove it without tearing out a wall so there it stays.


A truckload of casks on their way out.



Here I am, pretending like I can pull a pint through a beer engine. Sneck Lifter is a fantastic beer, btw. Dark, malty, slightly sweet. Northern Brown, I guess, if I I had to peg it to a style. I've got a clone attempt fermenting right now.

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Questions about the forum? / Home link at the bottom of the page?

« on: November 07, 2009, 01:44:18 pm »

Most fora I browse have a link back to either the home page and/or the current forum you're in at the bottom of each page. It makes navigation easier, IMHO as it's easier to see where new posts have happened while you've been reading.

Thanks for listening and thanks for the new forum.