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Here’s a war worth fighting
- Category: Walkable Communities
- Published on Friday, 22 May 2009 16:48
We have yet to catch a screening of “Beer Wars,” but this trailer sure whets our thirst.
One of the greatest developments in our lifetimes besides Al Gore’s invention of the intertoobs has to be the rebirth of craft-made ales. Hardly a community in the country worth its salt doesn’t have some kind of brewpub or at least a tavern that features a wide variety of ales made by small brewers who actually care about the taste of what they make.
We featured the Yuengling brewery in a 1996 issue of the magazine, but we’ve since raved on and on about countless number of other small breweries that dot the landscape. Thanks to the ubiquity of brewpubs, we can offer you this one bit of important roadside dining advice: When driving coast to coast, make a point of stopping in towns with big state universities. Almost all of them will have a brewpub, and almost all of those will serve you great food.
When we actually see this movie, we’ll post our thoughts.
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