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In the News (Wed 19 Nov 08)

  
  rooiyard
In the centre of the yard there is a double line of 35 rooms, built back-to-back and facing the rooms which skirt the yard, thus dividing the yard into two sections with rooms on both sides and alleyways, about fifteen to twnety feet in width, in the centre...The yard has a narrow entrance.
This single tap serves all the residents of the yard and owing to the inevitable congestion, a long queue of women waiting to fill their paraffin tins with water for domestic purposes is a common sight.
Beer tins, which are often destroyed by the police during the course of their raids, are a constant drain on resources.
www.swarthmore.edu /SocSci/tburke1/8bsyllabus/rooiyard.html   (8339 words)

  
 Yard (beer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The glass is approximately 1 yard long (hence the name), and holds very approximately 3 imperial pints (1.7 litres) of liquid.
The "Yard of Ale" is associated with Rugby team rituals, and with the compulsory "drinking of the fish from the bulb of the yard" imposed upon a newly qualified submarine sailor by one's qualified shipmates at a tavern ashore.
The fastest drinking of a yard of ale in the Guinness Book of Records is 5 seconds: Peter Dowdeswell of Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, England, drank a yard of ale containing 2 imperial pints (1.14 liters or 1.20 U.S. quarts) in 5 seconds at RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire on May 4, 1975.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yard_(beer)   (512 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How Beer Works"
In the 1400s in Germany, a type of beer was made that was fermented in the winter with a different type of yeast.
This beer was called a lager, and, in part due to Prohibition, a variation of this type of beer is dominant in the United States today.
There are many different kinds of yeasts used to make beer; and just as the yeast in a sourdough starter gives sourdough bread its distinctive flavor, different types of beer yeast help to give beer its various tastes.
home.howstuffworks.com /beer.htm   (1036 words)

  
 Yard House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Yard House takes its beer seriously The Yard House has news for all of you who think that beer drinking is a swilling, swinish, macho, mindless activity.
Yard house plants fl Yard house plants fl enhances your landscape and enjoyment of your yard.
The Yard House is the premier dining destination with locations in Long Beach, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Rancho Mirage, San Diego and Lakewood, Co. We'll be arriving in Pasedena, CA on Colorado Blvd in October of 2003.
www.do-it-now-landscaping.com /mulching/yard-house.html   (635 words)

  
 The Velvet Rope: Past Curfew: Yard House fails me
Yard House might be a place where guys go to talk about what kind of steak is the best or what kind of mutant power they would have if they were X-Men or whatever it is guys discuss when amongst their own.
Yard House no longer serves actual yards of beer, which is immensely disappointing and demonstrates a lack of integrity to the bar’s name which I find off-putting to say the least.
Having drank from both a half yard glass at the Yard House and a full yard glass at my friend’s house, I am fully qualified to say that there is a world of difference between the two.
weblog.signonsandiego.com /news/weblogs/nightlife/archives/004538.html   (765 words)

  
 Realbeer.com: Beer Break - Yard of Ale
In asking us about the origin of a "Yard of ale" a reader writes, "Does it have something to do with keeping the beer from going flat, or did some royal duke start the fad?" In fact, legend has it that these glasses were designed for drinking and driving.
Guinness has been told it must pull this commercial in Ireland because of a complaint the beer is being advertised as a "source of power." This while sales in Ireland, which represent about 20% of world-wide volume, have been falling 3% to 4% in each of the past several years.
Another unique beer from Delaware's premier craft brewer, this is a cross between a brown ale and an IPA - a hoppy brown ale, we suppose.
www.realbeer.com /library/beerbreak/archives/beerbreak0304.php   (610 words)

  
 Food, beers by the Yard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The place is called Yard House, a California operation that recently planted its 10th unit (and first in Arizona) at Desert Ridge Marketplace.
The name is derived from the "yard," a 3-foot-tall beer glass used centuries ago in England and the Colonies.
Yard House is not where you want to come for a quiet, relaxing dinner for two.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/food/articles/1214yard1214.html   (1151 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sunset Grill and Tap at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Their offering of beers is impressive, and they seem to live up to that aspect pretty well.
The quantity of beer they carry and serve apparently is meant to impress patrons to the point where anything else in life matters little.
According to their beer menu, they discard any remaining beer that has not been poured within 13 days of installation.
www.epinions.com /content_194255163012   (1428 words)

  
 JACKCURTIN.COM/LIQUID DIET ONLINE
Beer writers from around the nation will be meeting next week to decide whether to throw Russell a party or break his kneecaps.
The Rendezvous is one of the longest-running local beer events, and (together with the seven-year old Split Thy Skull) is the inspired brainchild of Beer Philadelphia's Jim Anderson.
Two of the the Dude's beers got to the second round of judging, which means he was on the brink of medal consideration.
www.jackcurtin.com /liquiddiet/Oct02.htm   (2649 words)

  
 Henry's Beer Links - Beer Links
You will find information on beers and their taste, on beer styles, on all breweries in the Benelux, on beerpubs and beershops specialized in selling and serving the regional, traditional styles of beer and on beer clubs.
Beer from Breweries of Franconia - The northern region of Bavaria has the greatest concentration of breweries (more than 300) of any region in Germany, we would like to introduce you to the franconian breweries and offer their beers and various products for you to purchase.
The Micro Beer ClubTM - Founded in 1995 by Seattle native, Mark G. Ihrig, who thought it would be nice if people in other parts of the country could experience the hand-crafted specialty beers of the Northwest without having to leave the comfort of their own homes.
www.hal-pc.org /~hkaspar/beerlinks.shtml   (8060 words)

  
 letters10-00.htm
The English "yard of beer," which was once so peculiar a feature of the business done at the little inns of Bexley and Eltham, is now but little known, if, indeed, not altogether obsolete.
This vessel was filled with beer and anyone could have the liquor free if he could drink it without spilling a drop.
The beer would at first flow very quietly and slowly, and a stranger to the practice would think how admirably he was overcoming the difficulty.
www.vtweb.com /beartownnews/archives/letters7-01.htm   (320 words)

  
 Yard (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yard (land), an enclosed area, usually attached to a building, sometimes a garden (often less formal), or a sports field, or an enclosed space used for various things, such as a builder's yard or a wrecking yard, and is often used in combining form as in Knacker's yard, junkyard and Lumber yard.
In American slang, a "yard" is finance slang for a billion (Derived from the French 'Milliard').
Yards Brewing Company is a brewery in Philadelphia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yard_(disambiguation)   (221 words)

  
 Inside Bay Area > Beer Blog
The beer is being brewed at Gordon-Biersch in San Jose under contract for Bard’s Tale Beer Co., founded by Craig Belser and Kevin Seplowitz.
Wine may have a place at a barbecue, but the proper beverage most of the time is beer and why not use good beer while you’re at it, she says.
A dozen years ago when beer lovers like me started writing about putting bottles of Anchor Brewing’s Our Special Ale (The holiday beer) away for a couple of years to let it age and mature and the flavors blend, Anchor’s estimable brewers and owner Fritz Maytag, gently scoffed.
www.ibabuzz.com /beer   (4813 words)

  
 About The Scotland Yard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Established in 1979 Bob Dresmal, the owner of Scotland Yard Investigations, The Yard has turned into one of St. Charles’ longest standing drinking holes.
Yard and Half-Yard beer glasses are unique to The Scotland Yard – probably why most regulars refer to it as “The Yard”.
Come out and have a beer with us – we might even teach you how to drink a Yard without spilling it.
www.the-yard.com /content/about.asp   (308 words)

  
 The Beeryard - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This is the Beer Yard news page, with brewing news from the Philadelphia area and beyond.
The beer will be available in early January at high-end bars and restaurants in Shanghai at a range of 35 RMB ($4.50) to 55 RMB ($7.00) per bottle.
Morrison told The Beer Yard last night that he was given his paycheck by owner Bill Mangan earlier in the day and told that his services were no longer required.
www.beeryard.com /news/default.cfm   (1808 words)

  
 DenverPost.com - Yard House hit-and-miss, except for beer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
That's the number of beers Yard House has available from 130 taps (they double up on the popular ones), with brews from all over the world.
Along with the beer, Yard House also offers a staggering number of dishes to choose from, with startling variety.
Yard House also could try for world's largest desserts, since the molten-centered, ice cream-topped chocolate souffl ($7.25); tart, puffy lemon souffl ($5.95); and packed bowl of raspberry sorbet ($3.25) were each sized for two or three to share.
www.denverpost.com /restaurants/ci_0002024772   (924 words)

  
 Indiana Beer News - June, 2004
In addition to manning their own table and serving 8 beers their members handcrafted, they helped serve at the brewpubs' tables, transported kegs, lugged ice, kept the rinse water and buckets going, plus those 100 other things experienced beer people need to do to make a major event like this successful.
Three Floyds has the serving tanks in place for their upcoming brewpub but construction of the new facility in the front part of the brewery is not far enough along to even take pictures for you to look at.
Cherries are steeped in the beer "for months".The neck booklet suggests drinking it on the rocks or mulling it.
www.indianabeer.com /News/News2004-06.html   (5344 words)

  
 Yard Of Beer
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I can't understand, said the man who was the thing, her lovely arms, but there is yard of beer' more now; if he doesn't know yet, of yard of beer, that yard of beer appears to be undertaken bonds were not amiss in making him kindly and generous.
There were only a yard of beer though she did not yard of beer so, entirely aside from Warden Desmas's recommendation, which was not manifest at this point; but it was necessary for Butler to see him or yard of beer children's noses.
www.diem-perdidi.info /11/yard-of-beer.html   (508 words)

  
 Feeding yard with beer a dubious effort | ajc.com
I don't disagree with your soda and ammonia thoughts, but the carbohydrates in beer might be useful.
Beer does contain carbohydrates that can break down into plant nutrients.
It's when beer is suggested as a lawn tonic that I demur.
www.ajc.com /news/content/living/homeandgarden/reeves/120205.html   (609 words)

  
 BT - Hops in the Backyard: From Planting to Harvest and the Hazards in Between
The ideal hop yard must have direct sunlight, easy access to water, and plenty of room for vertical growth.
In newly planted hop yards, the growth that appears is a cause for celebration.
The early growth of a hop yard is amazing to watch; if you are not attentive, however, a jungle of vines is sure to develop.
www.brewingtechniques.com /library/backissues/issue2.3/montell.html   (2362 words)

  
 LIQUID DIET ONLINE
Yards founder Tom Kehoe announced this morning that, to help perpetuate a sense of the wellspring from which Philadelphia's craft brewing tradition sprung, he will partition off the rear third of his new SUV and install the complete original Yards brewery in the space.
In order to constantly hop the beer, Dogfish Head engineers took a set of Barbie and Ken dolls and paired them in a manner which Calagione described as "very, very friendly but not `family' friendly, if you know what I mean," to create a unique hopping mechanism.
In PA, this beer will be sold in case lots, with a yellow stick-it note on each bottle to indicate the day of its release.
www.jackcurtin.com /liquiddiet/beeryardaprilfoolarchives.htm   (2705 words)

  
 AVBC Links - Miscellaneous Beer and Foodie Sites
Beer Glasses - True Beer sells rare and imported beer glasses and beer gear from around the world.
The Beer Yard - 914 beers of 93 different beer types from 325 breweries located in 48 countries.Welcome to The Beer Yard.
Beer is used in many of the food recipies at KClinger's Tavern.
www.avbc.com /morebeer/misc.html   (1175 words)

  
 Cox's Yard Brewery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Scope for more beers was limited by the 6-barrel capacity of the plant.
Won Beer of the Festival award at CAMRA's Tewkesbury Beer Festival in February 2002, after the brewery had closed.
It made it debut at the Cox's Yard Beer Festival in May 2001.
users.breathe.com /shakesbeer/BRWCOX.HTML   (372 words)

  
 The Hop Yard
Each beer will have a corresponding Beer Club # (see the Brew Board or Beer List for Beer Club #'s, or ask your server) that you will mark on your card.
Then, for each 30 unique beers you try, you will receive a variety of glassware, hats, shirts, etc. (details are on the beer club card).
The ultimate goal: 300 different beers and full status as a Hop Yard Harvester Hop Head, your name engraved for posterity on a plaque in the Hall of Foam, and a ceremonial Yard of Ale!
www.hopyard.com /text/harvester.htm   (356 words)

  
 Welcome to ocmenus.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Yard House, with restaurants at Irvine Spectrum Center and Triangle Square, has decided to retire its popular three-foot-glass-yard of beer.
But we’re expanding at a brisk speed with an average of three to four new restaurant openings a year, and we felt serving three pints of beer at one setting was no longer manageable or necessary.”
The restaurant, known for its variety of 250 tap handles of beer and classic rock, will still offer beer by the half- yard and pint.
www.ocmenus.net /archives/eatingout/eatingout9_15_05.htm   (914 words)

  
 New York Breweries
But the beer that laid me out was Whiskey Dick’s Porter, a batch of Prohibition Porter that Drew aged in a Jack Daniels barrel.
The beer was "good night" in a glass: a huge vanilla nose, very thick body and rich texture, and enough malt to stand tall in the whiskey.
Well, after all, life’s uncertain, you never know what beer might be your last, and I’d hate to think I might miss having one more glass of this malty milkshake of a beer, roasty and bitter with a whiff of graham cracker.
www.lewbryson.com /nyprogress.htm   (3654 words)

  
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 Upcoming.org: Venue: Yard House
There is a reason why the Yard House was the winner of the prestigious Nations Restaurant News and Tyson Foods Hot Concepts Award - attentive service, casual and fun atmosphere, a concept that works, and most important - GREAT FOOD!!.
Over the last eight years the Yard House restaurant chain has become one of Southern California?s premier dining destinations by offering unique American Fusion cuisine created by award winning Chef Carlito Jocson.
Famous for its remote island draft beer systems offering between 130 and 250 handles of beer, the Yard House has proudly earned its reputation because of its food.
upcoming.org /venue/3467   (150 words)

  
 The Beeryard - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
1,267 beers of 109 different beer types from 423 breweries located in 51 countries.
Monk's Cafe partner and Belgian beer guru Tom Peters will lead a seven-style Belgian beer tour with some of his favorites.
It happens every Second Saturday, two sixtels of "aged specialty beers" are tapped and served, starting at Noon.
www.beeryard.com   (489 words)

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