When three friends who love craft beer turn 40, what better way to celebrate than by exploring the San Diego craft beer scene? The region is home to some of America’s largest and most renowned craft breweries, and we Canadians rarely get the chance to taste San Diego’s craft beer offerings. Over 5 days in […]
Zagreb has a nice craft beer scene, and visitors to the city’s downtown core will find a number of places to drink local beer. Many of the restaurants where we dined offered craft brews as well and unlike in a lot of European cities, the beer is reasonably priced. A few locally based brewers operate […]
“Well, in Amsterdam, you can buy beer in a movie theatre. And I don’t mean in a paper cup either. They give you a glass of beer, like in a bar.” Vincent Vega, Pulp Fiction I didn’t realize just how much I would enjoy Amsterdam until I saw it for myself. Its compact downtown streets […]
Have you heard of the German Purity Law? Essentially, it refers to a series of regulations introduced in 16th century Bavaria that limit the ingredients brewers are allowed to use in beer production to water, barley, and hops. Yeast was added later. 500 years later and most German beermakers still follow these regulations. If you […]
Madrid is one of the greatest cities I have ever visited. It’s also one of the most walkable. With numerous pedestrian only streets and a downtown core that includes dozens of museums, monuments, and even an enormous public park, it’s a city that is worth exploring from early morning to late at night. Of course, […]
The best craft beer scene I found in Spain lies in San Sebastián, which was the last city our family visited during a 42 day trip to Spain. The city contains a number of great pubs and is small enough to allow beer lovers to visit them all, an adventure we partook during an evening […]
Barcelona is a city overflowing with options. Its restaurants offer a range of cuisines for all tastes and the city’s many landmarks include architectural masterpieces and the remnants of a very successful Olympic Games, but I secretly came for the beer. After spending three weeks in Morocco, where beer is a tasteless, yellow concoction foreigners overpay to […]
On some days, I feel like the last 5 years of my life has been one long search for beer. When I travel, my only must visit destinations are always breweries or specialty beer stores, and the only thing I usually bring back home is beer. For Christmas and on my birthday, if family asks […]
Definitive Guide to Craft Beer in Toronto If you are like me, and you always worry that you won’t have enough time to cover every must-visit craft beer destination when travelling to a new city, then you know how difficult it is to map out an efficient beer discovery plan. No matter how hard I try, […]
A couple months ago, I lamented that fact that I was unable to find even one good craft beer store in downtown Pittsburgh. On our recent trip to Boston with Porter Escapes, I had the opposite problem, an enviable list of options that I had to narrow down, lest I buy too many beer to […]
