chazwicke
02-20-2007, 10:54 AM
I saw this on DC-Beer. It is from the Washington Post.
Alan once hosted a tasting at the brickskeller and to this date, it was one of my favorite. he had wild stories about Viking Valhalla and other beer history not to mention his adventures in South America. The Obit does not mention that he was once married to the woman who owns / owned Latches brewpub in Brattleboro, VT. and is also the importer of Xingo Black Beer from Brazil. I met her once in Fla. It must not have been a nice parting.
the Obit:
From Todays Post Obituary's.
Alan D. Eames, 59, a beer historian and author whose
globe-trotting research into exotic brews and their
origins earned him the nickname "The Beer King,"
died of respiratory failure Feb. 10 at his home in
Dummerston, Vt.
Mr. Eames, author of "Secret Life of Beer" and "A Beer
Drinker's Companion," became interested in the
beverage in 1970s after he bought a country store
in Templeton, Mass., and began stocking exotic beers,
turning it into a kind of mecca for aficionados. His
expertise landed him work as a consultant to
beer companies, microbreweries and importers,
including Guinness, Beck's and Pete's Wicked Ale.
But he made his mark in publishing and travel, writing
about the role of beer in ancient and traditional
societies and traveling to Europe, Africa
and South America for his research.
Once, during a trip to South Africa, he taste-tested a
rare dark beer in a small village and liked it so much
he asked to see the brewer, who was said
to be a village grandfather. The women who served him
began laughing.
"My translator informed me that the beer wasn't made
by grandfather, it was made with grandfather," Mr.
Eames told the Rutland Herald in an interview in
October. "They put his cremated bone fragments in with
the rest of the ingredients."
Alan once hosted a tasting at the brickskeller and to this date, it was one of my favorite. he had wild stories about Viking Valhalla and other beer history not to mention his adventures in South America. The Obit does not mention that he was once married to the woman who owns / owned Latches brewpub in Brattleboro, VT. and is also the importer of Xingo Black Beer from Brazil. I met her once in Fla. It must not have been a nice parting.
the Obit:
From Todays Post Obituary's.
Alan D. Eames, 59, a beer historian and author whose
globe-trotting research into exotic brews and their
origins earned him the nickname "The Beer King,"
died of respiratory failure Feb. 10 at his home in
Dummerston, Vt.
Mr. Eames, author of "Secret Life of Beer" and "A Beer
Drinker's Companion," became interested in the
beverage in 1970s after he bought a country store
in Templeton, Mass., and began stocking exotic beers,
turning it into a kind of mecca for aficionados. His
expertise landed him work as a consultant to
beer companies, microbreweries and importers,
including Guinness, Beck's and Pete's Wicked Ale.
But he made his mark in publishing and travel, writing
about the role of beer in ancient and traditional
societies and traveling to Europe, Africa
and South America for his research.
Once, during a trip to South Africa, he taste-tested a
rare dark beer in a small village and liked it so much
he asked to see the brewer, who was said
to be a village grandfather. The women who served him
began laughing.
"My translator informed me that the beer wasn't made
by grandfather, it was made with grandfather," Mr.
Eames told the Rutland Herald in an interview in
October. "They put his cremated bone fragments in with
the rest of the ingredients."