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Woman fights off robber with beer

Posted by admin | News | Posted on February 24th, 2008

The News Review:

- Woman fights off robber with beer
- Hops costs tapping beer lovers
- Coleman’s celebrates “Green Beer Day”
- The concentric circles of Regent Square
- Eating Bugs in Northern Thailand

Woman fights off robber with beer
BBC News – Feb 24, 2008
A man wearing a balaclava entered the shop in Chesterton on Friday evening and demanded money as he threatened staff with a knife police said. However he escaped after a female customer who was in the Beasley Place shop threw a full can of beer at him hitting him on the head. Police urged anyone with information about the incident to contact them.

Hops costs tapping beer lovers
phillyBurbs.com – Feb 24, 2008
Beer is costing more at distributors these days thanks to a worldwide hops shortage and a spike in the price of barley malt. The increases are hitting smaller craft breweries harder because many use recipes that call for larger quantities of more expensive hops. And smaller operations aren’t able to achieve the economies of scale that big players like Anheuser-Busch Companies and Miller Brewing Co.

Coleman’s celebrates “Green Beer Day”
News 10 Now – Feb 24, 2008
– Irish spirit filled the air on Tipperary Hill Sunday with music and dance as revelers came out to watch a lot of green beer make its way to Coleman’s Irish Pub. ?This is a great neighborhood and they like to get going. Everybody looks at when the green beer comes it’s like a passage of spring. You know here it comes the right of spring. The beer is coming but also the nice weather the flowers and everything is following” said Coleman?s Irish Pub owner Peter Coleman.

The concentric circles of Regent Square
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Feb 24, 2008
Patrick Fallon a resident of the Square for over three decades and Mr. Armstrong’s co-worker in selling municipal bonds came in a few minutes after us and led us through the establishment as locals and other regulars arrived. Think of a beer and it’s probably in D’s. In its back room you can assemble your own unique six-pack of bottles from Belgium the United Kingdom and about any other country with a word for “hops. ”In a sense beer brought Fallon to Regent Square. In 1974 he was in graduate school at Pitt having an extracurricular beverage with his professor at a campus hangout when the guy said he’d be leaving for Germany in six weeks and needed to sell his house. Fallon and his wife were looking… Fallon can give you 10 minutes on the neighborhood deli the bakery or who’s currently filling the pizza niche. He says Regent Square is not so much a neighborhood as “a feeling that encompasses all four municipalities. ”That wasn’t his Belgian beer talking. He was only on his first and we left after two with him less than 100 steps from home. By then I was not at all surprised that the Fallons have purchased spots in nearby Homewood Cemetery. “I’m not leaving the Square. ”I was reminded that no community is more democratic than a neighborhood.

Eating Bugs in Northern Thailand
FXNews – Feb 24, 2008
Jitsophit said she was the first in the family to open a restaurant a decade ago and the customers had clearly rewarded her. Tables were full of ogling couples and extended families. A Heineken girl made the rounds serving up beer. Hawkers strolled through offering garlands of lavender. Waiters rushed in and out of the kitchen with herb salad fish and vegetable soup and of course insects _ mostly soups with ant eggs which were in season. The place had a lived-in feel similar to a local bar in an American city. n the walls were covered photos of relatives prominent Buddhist monks and Thailand’s royal family as displayed in almost every Thai business… The place had a lived-in feel similar to a local bar in an American city. n the walls were covered photos of relatives prominent Buddhist monks and Thailand’s royal family as displayed in almost every Thai business. Signs advertising local beer competed for space with red and gold Buddhist prayer banners. My order quickly arrived and I found myself again surrounded by cooked bugs. I figured the worst would be the water bugs. Black and brown and almost two inches long with small claws they smelled liked used socks. I took one bite and swallowed hard.