beer travel – A Beer For Strange Climates

My Top 5 US Craft Beers, 2018

Posted onJanuary 5, 2019January 5, 2019Leave a comment

Happy New Year! Now that we’ve all celebrated with espumante on the beach, slept it off, and woken up to coffee & 2019… I’d like to run through my top 5 favorite US beers of 2018 before we launch into Read More …

Taj in India Kitchen

Posted onMarch 14, 2018March 20, 2019Leave a comment

Returning home from travel, we come back mostly to things that we find comfortable and familiar. The foods, the scenery, the air, even the bed that we know best, to which our bodies have adapted, often over the course of Read More …

Thank Goodness For Elephants

Posted onJanuary 24, 2018January 24, 2019Leave a comment

The drive from Port Alfred to George took us along South Africa’s dramatic eastern Cape towards the more well known Garden Route. We hugged emerald-clad cliffs dropping into the wild ocean on a road weaving along grades originally carved for Read More …

Windhoek in Port Alfred

Posted onJanuary 17, 2018January 17, 2019Leave a comment

Unless you have an airplane, it’s not exactly easy to get to Port Alfred, on South Africa’s windswept Eastern Cape coast. On this trip, at least, it felt like a test of will. The flight school we’d visit suggested a Read More …

Pubs: My First Real Pint

Posted onJanuary 11, 2018January 17, 2019Leave a comment

Pubs in England showed one face to me at first contact, like the “oldest pub in Oxford” where I went back in 2009–that had to be authentic, right? With its low ceilings and timbers so shellacked over the years by Read More …

Yi, Er, Tsing Tao

Posted onDecember 13, 2017December 13, 2018Leave a comment

Towered over by giant cans of the distinctive green, we made our way past tour busses into the shrine of Tsing Tao. The Germans brought beer to the city of Qingdao (the more streamlined Westernization of the name) in 1903, Read More …

Colorado Native

Posted onNovember 15, 2017December 5, 2018Leave a comment

Oh the bluebird-sky days of winter have returned as I sneak away to the slopes on a buddy pass and stolen time. The joy of living in Colorado versus traveling there to ski lies in choosing your mid-week day to escape, Read More …

Kölsch: The Beer That’s A Language Too

Posted onNovember 2, 2017November 1, 2018Leave a comment

I took a late run in the day, when the train from Frankfurt dropped me off earlier than I expected in Köln (Cologne to the Francophiles and Englishmen). The rain had darkened the plaza and the Dom itself, not just Read More …