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Drink Orval Vert At The Monastery One Of The World’s Most Revered Beers

editor — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

There are around a dozen Trappist breweries in the world and drinking a beer from each of them should definitely be on your Beer Bucket List. Even better is to visit all the monasteries that are open and drink the beers where they’re made. However, the monasteries are not exactly like your local brewpub. I want them to be dark, churchy places, reverential and quiet, but they are bright cafés that could belong to any national park—it just doesn’t match my expected vision. But they are still essential stops on the world beer map. In Belgium, you can visit Achel,

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Drink In Thanet’s Micropubs Micropubs, Massive Atmospheres

editor — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:20:00 +0000

In 2005, Martyn Hillier was the owner of a small florist’s in what was previously a butcher’s store, in the village of Herne, in Kent. He’d run a bottle store in nearby Canterbury and kept a few beers behind the flowers so he could continue selling bottled real ale, but things weren’t going too well. Thankfully for him, the Licencing Act of 2003 had recently been implemented, making it easier for any building to get a freehouse license to sell beer—even a tiny old butcher’s store which was now a failing florist’s (by tiny, I’m not exaggerating: it’s one of

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Drink At Brooklyn Brewery The Borough’s Flagship Beer Destination

editor — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:30:00 +0000

Brooklyn Brewery is important for brightening its borough and returning brewing to the neighborhood, as well as for being a must-visit beer destination—and a must-visit for everyone, from locals to beer geeks to city tourists. Blaring beats on the stereo, bold and bright designs all around, and the kind of atmosphere that’s formed by shared bench seating and great brews are what to expect at Brooklyn Brewery. There are around 14 taps, plus special bottle pours, with some brews only to be found in the taproom. When you enter, you’ll swap dollars for tokens, with most beers costing one token

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Visit Yuengling Brewery America’s Oldest Brewery

editor — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Yuengling Brewery’s beers might not excite most drinkers, but the brewery has a worthy and relevant place in the Beer Bucket List for its history as America’s oldest brewery still in operation and for being one of its largest breweries today. Established in 1829 by German émigré brewer David Gottlieb Jüngling —who vaguely Americanized his surname to Yuengling—as The Eagle Brewery, it’s been in the same family ever since, with the fifth-generation David due to pass it on to the sixth-generation in coming years. Their Traditional Lager is the beer to try, a toasty, simple brew with some caramel-y malts

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