Beertopia

November 25, 2008 · Posted in Beer · Comment 

Thanks to Jeff, I have been to Beertopia, part of Beer Corner USA. On Jeff’s recommendation, I picked up a Boulevard Saison-Brett, which was very good. I also picked up a bottle of Brigand (which I’ve never had before), a bottle of Old Foghorn (which a beer seller in NC tried to tell me was discontinued, one of the many reasons I’ve come to believe NC is a beer wasteland),1 and a Tommyknocker Cocoa Porter (which I’ve yet to try but now see hasn’t gotten great reviews at BeerAdvocate.). Beertopia is a nice little shop and I’ll definately be back, but they didn’t have most of the barley wines I was looking for nor Orkney Brewery’s SkullSplitter (named for Thorfinn Hausakluif, the seventh Viking earl of Orkney).

  1. To be fair to NC, I should note that the Duck-Rabbit Brewery makes an awesome Milk Stout. [↩]

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Gueuze in Omaha

April 6, 2007 · Posted in Beer, Conferences, Coolness, Trips · Comment 

I was up in Omaha last weekend to attend the Jacobson Symposium on Teaching with Technology at Creighton Univeristy. Cheryl Ball was this year’s Jacobson Lecturer (Steven Krause was the Jacobson Lecturer last year). This year’s theme was From Word to Image: The New Literacy and my talk, “Old Practices and New Literacies: Composing with Words and Images,” began with a discussion of the Franks Casket (well, really, I began with Hrothgar reading the hilt in Beowulf) and ended with a discussion of two student new media projects,1 tied together through Mary Carruthers’ discussions of monastic rhetoric (with a particular focus on ruminatio and the distinction between memoria verborum and memoria rerum) and Kristie Fleckenstein’s concept of imageword. (More on this later, I think. Inspired by Kathie’s recording of our CCCC round table, I used my iPod and iTalk to record my presentation.)

What I’m really writing about is a visit to Dario’s Brasserie in the Dundee neighborhood of Omaha. Well familiar with my love of Belgian beer, Gina and her husband took me to Dario’s. We thought about going for dinner, but since Cheryl had dinner plans and we were really going for the beer, we went to Dario’s about 9:00 PM. Story has it that Dario, the chef and owner, opened his own place in January because he wanted a restaurant that featured beer. Belgian beer. Read more

  1. Nothing fancy, we’re not set up to do fancy stuff at SLU and the audience ranged from high school teachers to Creighton and U of Nebraska Omaha faculty from various disciplines — I spent much of lunch talking with a Creighton law librarian. [↩]

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