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Monday, November 22, 2004

Jonah Goldberg To Visit Great Lakes Brewing?

National Review's blog "The Corner" has recently been pondering a tour of authors in the prospect that loyal raders would put up for food, and of course booze. The following post appeared at noon today:

Ok, I promise not to post things about wine and beer all day, but I'm still getting loads of e-mails, and do want to share some (if not the actual bottles): Here's another e-mail:

I appreciate your effort to focus on good wines from the Anglosphere, but most of your recommendations came from California, Oregon and Washington. Ohio produces some great wines in the region along the Lake Erie shore. Ferrante Winery probably is the best I've tried. The specialty for the region is ice-wines (dessert stuff) which is not really my thing, but there are some very good Ohio reds.

Also, for Jonah (Goldberg)-- Ohio produces some great beers-- notably Great Lakes Brewing Company (try the Edmund Fitzgeral Porter, and Burning River Pale Ale).

All these places have web sites- and the products are available, if not nationally, at least in the industrial midwest. (Although I hear that Great Lakes is available in New York).

After all, shouldn't everyone be a little thankful for Ohio this year?

Ahh, so true. Actually I didn't know all that about the wines, but past experience engendered present trepidation. Speaking of sloshed in the Buckeye state, the Tri-City Beer Club will be holding a tasting around Thanksgiving. The preliminary category is low-carb but whatever we do I'll try and get the results up here for the Beer Blog. Because the taste category is predicted to be a watery wash, there may be a second competition to discern "consumptibility". Are the French cloning livers yet?

6:37:40 PM

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