Beverage News
"I've been on every day since April of '78 & five original shows a week."
"The people at Saturday School are my people; I keep it to groups of 12."
"They say in Napa Valley, 'The best fertilizer for the vineyard is the owner's footsteps.'"
"Women are a bit more adventurous when it comes to trying different varietals."
Some excerpts from online venue reviews written by patrons: The Aero Club: "The owner, Bill, is meticulous about his beer lines. He uses a mix of nitrogen and CO2. He uses a special dishwashing detergent …
"We go back to '59 on Burgundy, '61 on Bordeaux, '74 on California."
"If you're filling the vines with chemicals they become lazy. They don't explore the soil."
"In the early evening, at least, most sales were half-bottles of Beaujolais to solitary ladies."
Hi, Matt: When my boyfriend drinks beer out of a glass, he puts a paper coaster or the like on top of the glass to cover the opening. He says it keeps his beer colder …
"Perhaps the Merrie Englanders and the Puritans are not so far apart as each imagines."
"We have to get back to the visceral love, pleasure, seduction, sensuality of it."
"Old school vs. new school, Bob Hope vs. Adam Sandler, dirt vs. fruit."
"[To] buy a bottle of wine from me makes me a bootlegger. That's not right."
"The ethos," says Norby, "was to blend in and respect nature, be part of it."
MA of Reader: I have a cabin in Julian that has a collection of nine bottles of beer in the fridge. Two Budweisers were left over from a housewarming party in April of '04, two …