Pennsylvania Girl Abroad

Our trip to Copenhagen in December was perfectly timed with the shortest days of the year, but well worth the trip to explore the sprawling Christmas markets and undertake a pilgramage to Jim’s favorite European beer maker – Mikkeller! Mikkeller Where:  In Vesterbro neighborhood of Copenhagen. See map. Why you should visit:  The Mikkeller brewery […]

 CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) The “Campaign for Real Ale” (CAMRA) began in 1971, inspired by four English “blokes” (guys) with a mission to “campaign for real ale, pubs and drinkers rights.” Today CAMRA has approximately 146,000 members, hosts more than 100 beer & cider festivals each year, and has a beer publishing arm that […]

The never-ending mission to uncover and visit all-things-beer  led us to The Bull in north London this past Sunday afternoon. Having thought that we’d mapped all breweries (and micros) in town, we were pleasantly surprised to find that The Bull has a small 2bbl brewery embedded within their kitchen, brewing under the name of London Brewing Company. […]

Be active and take a long walk: that was our plan for the last Saturday in January.  Jim and I managed to get off to a good start. We woke up, showered, and walked approximately 2 miles before we threw this plan out the window and replaced it with a non-active trip on the London […]

My husband Jim and I spent a large portion of our afternoon at Craft Beer Co. yesterday – a great place to hang out to avoid the snowy cold day in London! Where:  In Central London in the Clerkenwell neighborhood. The location I’ve linked to is the original location, which is what my review this […]

Where:  Como, Italy.  A few minutes off the Como Sud exit on the A9 highway.  See map. Why you should visit:  In a description I read online, they call themselves the “beer kingdom” (Il Birrificio di Como) and I can understand why after visiting the brewery and restaurant. The massive space inside could fit every […]

During the Christmas holiday visiting my family back in the U.S., my husband and I felt obligated to take a break from the last minute Christmas shopping and stop in the Troegs Brewery tasting room in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Where:  Nearby to the Hershey Outlet shopping center and Hersheypark. See map. Why you should visit:  This […]

Kernel Brewery – I remember how excited my husband and I were when we first discovered the Kernel Brewery beer.  We were walking around what we thought was a fairly quiet, deserted area near our neighborhood, below the railtracks, when we stumbled upon a Saturday market, Matlby Street. See picture below of the Maltby street market […]