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America's Greatest Pubs
The September/October issue of Imbibe featured an article on the 100 best places to drink beer in the nation.
Since then, one helpful reader has entered all of the picks into Google Maps. He also noted the category they fell into from the magazine’s original story, like best beer shops, best bottle lists, best Irish pubs, etc. If you’re heading out of town for the holidays, it’s worth taking a look on the map to see if there’s good beer around your destination.
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Manatees, Pygmy Rabbits, and British Pubs: Three for the Endangered List
The Yorkshire Post is crying into its lager over the demise of the old-fashioned British pub, a victim of a two-headed trend monster that seems to be consuming all that is squarely old-fashioned and virtuous on the UK bar scene. The first head: the gastropub. The second: nightclubs for idiots. “People think it’s a joke, but the great British boozer has become an endangered species,” says Paul Moody, co-author of the The Rough Pub Guide. “Now everyone thinks they are Gordon Ramsay and they need to be selling guinea fowl sausages and parmesan crisps. Add to that the number of pubs which have been turned into refuges for binge-drinkers where the music is too loud and where ambulances take as many people home as taxis and the situation is dire.”
With up to 56 pubs closing each month (1,209 closed in 2007 alone), the situation is clearly more serious than old codgers wheezing about how things used to be different back when Churchill was prime minister.
Still, quality pubs are likely to hang on; there’s much affection for a way of socializing that’s as British as high tea or excellent diction. If the slow-motion demise of traditional pubs has got you down, a leisurely surf through a list of some of the UK’s best may pick your spirits back up.
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Getting Drunk on Nature's Bounty
A British pub has adopted a novel method of commerce: Customers, in lieu of cash, can trade fresh produce and game in return for a pint or three. British news source Metro reports:
Cloe Wasey, manager of The Pigs in Edgefield, near Holt, Norfolk, said customers had been offering apples and marrows, mackerel and pheasants. ‘If someone thinks it should be on our menu—and can produce it—we will do a deal,’ she said.
It’s not clear if there’s a -vore-suffixed word to describe trading a bundle of rhubarb stalks to the pub in return for a draft Guinness, but there probably should be.
Brewavore, maybe?
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