Beer, bluegrass, occasional other stuff
Originally posted on courogen.com, August 21, 2016 The usual tricks to get to the front of the stage go out the window at the Gettsyburg Bluegrass Festival. You can’t hope to snake your way through gaps in the crowd, patiently surveying the sways and shifts in the human sea, looking for an opening, like a slow motion game of human frogger. And you can’t time your move for the end of the opening act’s set,[…]
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A conversation with Mountain Ride’s classically trained fiddle player extraordinaire, Scott Matlock It’s an old joke, with multiple punchlines. What’s the difference between a fiddle and a violin? Some say it is that nobody minds if you spill beer on a fiddle. Others say it is the number of teeth the guy playing it has. My personal favorite — about $10,000. Or as a similar version goes, when you are buying one it is a[…]
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Back in 2009 or 2010, I first got the idea in my head of starting a beer site. I made a road trip to Milheim, Pa. to do a story that was supposed to be the start of the project. This is that story: Tim Yarrington makes beer. Good beer. If he didn’t, people would probably only stop in Milheim if they caught the red light. Yarrington is the head brewer for Elk Creek Cafe[…]
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Welcome to The Brewgrass Chronicle, my new “project” focused mostly on the interconnected worlds of good beer and good bluegrass. If you should come to like this site, credit (or if you don’t like it, blame) for this coming to be goes at least in part to the folks at the company where this, and other sites I have run, are hosted. Had they not sent me an e-mail promoting a Cyber-Monday sale, offering new[…]
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