Or as my link to the left notes…100 Shit Beers as all real beer in the States is considered ‘craft’ or too la-di-fucking-da to qualify.  That’s alright, I LIKE Carling and that shit is everywhere over here. Places can be pubs (got that one covered) or someplace cool (I see some mid-race lagers in my [...]

My office mate asked how to fix her PC and I gave some suggestions and offered to have a look myself if it all went tits up.  She wasn’t in Monday but had dropped the PC off and I went ahead and took the initiative and sorted it out.  Wednesday there was a bag on [...]

There was a beer and wine festival in Garth Park Saturday and included a couple of jazz combos (all part of a city wide jazz festival going on this weekend).  Quite a pleasant day and I tried out a Summer Glory from Vale Brewery and Marshmellow from the Oxfordshire Ales micro brewery.  Both were very [...]

The Horse and Groom is run by a Frenchman that loves English real ales and so this past weekend he, only a little belatedly, threw a Bastille Day celebration that included an ale fest.  We arrived a little after 1 pm and there were already a dozen folks working on at least their second round.  [...]

We had a lovely evening at the 7th Elysian Beer Festival.  I called Jackie from the bus and she caught the same one as it passed through on its way to Ely.  We had a salty meal of duck with black bean sauce and cashew chicken then doubled back to catch the shuttle out to [...]