tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post4715771973614923759..comments2023-11-02T07:13:53.064-07:00Comments on Beervana: What's a Pub?Jeff Alworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-25442610022169649822012-07-02T12:08:15.662-07:002012-07-02T12:08:15.662-07:00Erlangernick, this is actually a topic I've di...Erlangernick, this is actually a topic I've discussed on the blog (try <a href="http://beervana.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-is-craft-beer.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> for starters). I've <a href="http://beervana.blogspot.com/2011/12/friday-flick-john-bexon-and-greene.html" rel="nofollow">discussed Greene King</a> as well, though <a href="http://beervana.blogspot.com/2011/11/Jeff Alworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-25429293057184678942012-07-02T09:03:25.539-07:002012-07-02T09:03:25.539-07:00Is this a good time to bring up the Beer Depot.
T...Is this a good time to bring up the Beer Depot.<br /><br />This would have been a place to buy beer by the case and bring back your returnable bottles.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05517937508601507605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-53417258068893453662012-07-02T00:44:33.056-07:002012-07-02T00:44:33.056-07:00Or hell, call it "Oregon-style beer", si...Or hell, call it "Oregon-style beer", since all beer brewed in Oregon is brewed at brewpubs, micro's, nano's, or grown-up micro's. That I could agree with and evangelise. Evangelize.<br /><br />(RIP Henry's.)Erlangernickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09564871714656285737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-73903541790133065752012-07-02T00:41:32.255-07:002012-07-02T00:41:32.255-07:00@Jack R.
I wouldn't limit "tap room"...@Jack R.<br /><br />I wouldn't limit "tap room" to being part of a restaurant. What about Anchor's famous tap room? Just a room with taps.<br /><br />And yes, I'm well aware that the industry group (not a consumer's group, if that's of interest to anyone) Craft Brewing Association or whatever they're called defines "craft beer" in a way that's Erlangernickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09564871714656285737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-52558025040020915562012-06-30T20:43:47.273-07:002012-06-30T20:43:47.273-07:00Jeff
RE: Alehouse v Taphouse
To my disappoint, the...Jeff<br />RE: Alehouse v Taphouse<br />To my disappoint, the number of 'results' of Google search significantly favors <br /> "ale house" over "tap house" [4.9X]<br />and<br /> "alehouse" over "taphouse" [1.8X].<br />And, "alehouse [before 1100]" and "tap room [circa 1807]" are defined by Merriam-Webster.com; "taphouse' Jack R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07625645308707849072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-78966344016045908702012-06-30T18:42:54.547-07:002012-06-30T18:42:54.547-07:00@Jack R. -- really Erlangernick's 'new'...@Jack R. -- really Erlangernick's 'new' brewing has been around for 35+ years (granted that's 20+, but so much more impressive), since New Albion Brewing Company, ets. 1976.a non-mousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-50560424210410258172012-06-30T11:36:34.218-07:002012-06-30T11:36:34.218-07:00If you're passing through London on your way t...If you're passing through London on your way to the Continent in November we could have a pint at the Gunmakers. Wouldn't that be a hoot.Brewers Union Local 180https://www.blogger.com/profile/05786517873195170945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-62261980321933845002012-06-30T09:05:29.688-07:002012-06-30T09:05:29.688-07:00Alan, I must have kept landing in improper pubs, t...Alan, I must have kept landing in improper pubs, then--fish and chips were everywhere. (Worst meal, by a mile, curry in an Edinburgh hotel. I asked for it.) I also echo others who point out the antiquity of cask ale--which, a thousand years ago, was all there was. In Britain and elsewhere. <br /><br />Ted, you're beautiful, babe. <br /><br />Erl, there's no winning on the "craft Jeff Alworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-32343381735221372562012-06-30T07:17:27.483-07:002012-06-30T07:17:27.483-07:00Just my 2 penneth Alan, from someone who lives and...Just my 2 penneth Alan, from someone who lives and drinks in the UK:<br /><br />1. Cask Ale is not a "modern phenomena".'Real Ale' IS a relatively modern concept and we get that you have an axe to grind with CAMRA, but conflating the two is disingenuous.<br /><br />2. "a theoretical few may have a continuous offering" This is misleading.<br /> Cask ale, good, bad and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-71309082192135064292012-06-30T06:58:56.143-07:002012-06-30T06:58:56.143-07:00I suggest you add 'taprooms / taphouses' t...I suggest you add 'taprooms / taphouses' to your list of where Americans drink craft beer. For me, a taproom/taphouse [or tap room/tap house] is defined as a bar within a restaurant with at least [arbitrarily] 20 taps of craft/artisan beer. These 20 taps are exclusive of BMC variants and AB-InBev and MolsonCoors foreign and regional brands.<br /><br />@Erlangernick <br />RE: 'craft Jack R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07625645308707849072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-76228819207474491162012-06-30T05:45:12.599-07:002012-06-30T05:45:12.599-07:00Much to agree with here, but then I'm an expat...Much to agree with here, but then I'm an expat Oregonian and late-comer to proper pubs, only having visited the UK less than a dozen times in the last several years. You are spot on with the bit about drinking places being dens of iniquity in the puritan US, as well as how this has been changing with the new beer movement of the last few decades.<br /><br />I take exception to two tangential Erlangernickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09564871714656285737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-11782750009163798782012-06-29T18:53:20.959-07:002012-06-29T18:53:20.959-07:00I really need to get working on Part the Third, in...I really need to get working on Part the Third, in which I will state that I don't think a pub necessarily has to have real ale and fish and chips. There are other factors that make a pub a pub.<br /><br />And, that unflattering profile of me in the third picture is not a beer gut but rather my passport and cash hanging around my neck in a pouch. I'm trim and svelte under normal Brewers Union Local 180https://www.blogger.com/profile/05786517873195170945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-1976769329618428202012-06-29T13:01:27.358-07:002012-06-29T13:01:27.358-07:002 cents from a kid of ex-pats. No proper pub serve...2 cents from a kid of ex-pats. No proper pub serves fish and chips. That is bought down the road from the chippie. Who wants the stink of fried food in the pub which should only reek of the wall of cigarette smoke? <br /><br />Also, cask ale is a modern phenomena and its requirement a fiction of CAMRA. It is preferred for sure. And a theoretical few may have a continuous offering of it through Alanhttp://agoodbeerblog.comnoreply@blogger.com