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I travel a lot, as do many beer enthusiasts. So to help travellers novice and veteran alike understand what they are up against beer-wise around the world, I have categorized the world’s nations according to their beer scenes, for your reading pleasure.
The Old World – Centuries old brewing traditions lead to tremendous respect for [...]
Do I really need to say any more? News of this upcoming Christmas release is slowly getting out. I for one couldn’t be happier. It’s not that I think Schlenkerla needs to do any tinkering to improve its product – Märzen from the wood is a perfect 5.0 beer for me. [...]
I don’t like being without beer. After the embarrassment of riches that is Franconia, we have spent the last month in Turkey. The macrobrewers here are sketchy, making beer victories few and far between. When you get excited about a place with Tuborg Gold on tap simply because it’s not that vile [...]
There is an article in today’s Vancouver Sun and while the subject is wine it has direct corollaries with one of the most contentious issues we have on Ratebeer. The article is here: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Consumers+deceived+cost+imports+being+sold+wines/2009339/story.html
In case this link goes away, the story discusses wines that Canadian macrowineries are buying in bulk, bottling in BC [...]
Uzbekistan. Cuba. Laos. Saint Lucia. China. Kyrgyzstan. Yeah, I’m not known for traveling to beer meccas. I’m a global wanderer, and to a certain extent I style myself more in the Marco Polo/Ibn Battuta vein, rambling on and mostly just figuring out when I get to a place [...]
It was some with sadness, but also some optimism, that we ended up at the Nürnberg airport in the middle of the night for our flight to Istanbul. We ran out of room on our visas, so we had no choice, and Turkey is an appealing destination by all rights. With a month [...]
As many of you will know, Beershine and I have gone wandering. We left Miami Beach in late May, had a couple of days in Paris and then ended up at the Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation. From there, it was summer in Bamberg. And while we’ve moved on from Germany for the time [...]
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