October 30 – Paris, France It is an unusually warm fall morning as I walk the quiet streets of Paris on my way to mass at Notre Dame. The streets are damp from rain the night before but this morning the sky is blue and cloudless. Paris mornings are typically slow, but this Sunday is even more tranquil as I navigate metro closures and join the stream of tourists crowding buses towards the cathedral. I worry I have missed the early mass until someone tells me Europe has “fallen back.” Suddenly I have a full hour to grab a coffee and croissant and look at souvenir stands. Soon the bells announce the...

The polling is closed and the votes have been counted. Beer Search Party won the CANFEST Blogger Contest this year in a close race. Congratulations to Sean! I had a lot of fun putting my post together, discovering other beer blogs and getting to know the CANFEST crew. They are all some creative and friendly people. The best part about being a travel AND beer blogger is that I have no problem making the trip to Reno on my own dime. I’m looking forward to sharing some canned drinks with some new social media friends in a couple months. Cheers until then! Related Posts:True LoveA Month of...

Or Send the GFA to CANFEST 2011 The Third Annual CANFEST hits the rough and ready town of Reno, Nevada in November to celebrate just what you’d think – the best of craft beer available in the aluminum can. They’re sending one blogger to the festivities on their dime. While I don’t consider myself a beer blogger proper, they said it was open to all types of writers, so here it goes. Besides, how could CANFEST deny true love!   I ♥ canned beer Anyone who reads this blog or knows me in real life knows that I love canned beer. OK – maybe not as much as these guys. Well, yeah. Probably as...

I’ve navigated strange lands before using instinct to roam streets without maps and deciphering directions in foreign tongues. But I never thought I’d be such a fish out of water as I was on a long summer weekend south of the Mason-Dixon line. Thankfully, Twitter and some good ole’ fashioned southern hospitality led me to the doors of all I needed: food, beer and coffee. Moon River Brewing Even though there is a giant bridge that drops out of North Carolina into Savannah, Georgia, I completely missed it and ended up driving through the seedy underbelly of this pictorial town. So much for those...

On a rainy Sunday in an Italian café, life in a new country continues to strangely parallel the one I’ve left behind. As I think of my friends and clients who certainly spent a sunny spring day meandering through the courtyard of the Phoenix Art Musuem, wine glass in hand for Devour Phoenix, I spent my day circling the courtyard of the FinalBorgo castle for Salone Agrialimentare Ligura. Devour has quickly become the harbinger of Spring and food festivals in Phoenix. Local chefs and restaurants celebrate the season with a two-day feast of menu samples, recipe demos, and wine tasting. It’s the...