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July 12, 2005
Why beer?
When I reached legal drinking age in PA way back in the early 70s (and for a few years before that) our choices in beer were pretty grim. The industry was starting to consolidate toward Anhueser-Coors-Millerization. We considered PBR to be a premium brand.
There were some small, local brews that had some character: Duquesne in Pittsburgh; Natty Boh in Baltimore. Others?
Today, we are in beer heaven. Central Pennsylvania, where Aqua Cura has founded it's world headquarters, has many small brewers turning out ranges of excellent brews. Appalachian, Lancaster, Stoudts, and Troegs, to mention a few. Go east to Weyerbacher and Victory and one could spend a long time savoring beers from this corner of PA.
A little farther gets us to Baltimore, where Clipper City turns our beers for their own labels as well as others. And at the pinnacle (this is risky) we have Sierra Nevada -- particularly the annual batch of Celebration Ale.
So let this corner of the Aqua Cura weblog be your place to alert your colleagues to great brews as you find them.
BTW, to answer my initial question, beer is essentially water, right?
Posted by aquacura.com at July 12, 2005 05:38 PM
Comments
I couldn't agree more on your comments on the great beers available in the Mid-Atlantic area. It must be the water here.
Clipper City made a great Winter beer this past year - Winter Storm.
Posted by: Gary Fisher at July 12, 2005 08:48 PM
Are you proposing a triple pipe system? One for potable water, one for treated waste water and one for local brew? Just installing the third pipe for future use should be worth a LEED point!
Posted by: Gunnar Baldwin at July 12, 2005 10:27 PM