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Pairing Food with Town Hall’s Barrel-Aged Beer
Many brewery’s mark their birthday with a big, unique barrel-aged beer or two. But Town Hall does barrels differently, dedicating their taps to the specialty style for two weeks each February in an event called Barrel Aged Weeks. The brewpub, established in 1997, has a special…
KARL GERSTENBERGER OF EASTSIDE CO-OP
Photographs by Becca Dilley / Heavy Table This story originally appeared in the Feb. 16, 2024 edition of the Tap newsletter supported by Heavy Table’s Patreon backers. Subscribe on Patreon to keep the Heavy Table and get the newsletters. Getting Karl Gerstenberger to talk about…
Valentine’s Day Events 2024
In most years, Valentine’s Day is a little island of joy surrounded on all sides by a bleak white frozen wasteland; this year, it’s a little island of joy surrounded on all sides by a dry brown mostly thawed out wasteland. Either way, it’s a time to reboot, connect, and relax,…
Malfy Rosa Grapefruit Gin, Cole Porter, and Grand Opera
I forget how I heard about it, but somehow, I found out about an opera concert in Nairobi. This might sound unusual – and it is – but one of the things you learn pretty quickly about Nairobi, is that you can find anything there – anything – if you look hard enough. At one […]