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I like the zine and I am a relatively new beer lover. Keep up the good work and I hope that I can get a hold of your cookbook.
-- Jason Straub

Thanks very much for your kind words, Jason. The Cookbook you seek -- that's my new Stephen Beaumont's Brewpub Cookbook -- is available in any Canadian bookstore or you can order it by clicking the cover to the left of this screen.

I am going insane trying to find how to get two beers from Panama here in the States...1. Panama brand beer. 2. Soberana brand beer. Any help would be GREATLY HELPFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THANX!!!!!!
-- chris williams

Parisian, Portuguese or Palo Alto brews I can help you with, but I'm a little rusty on Panamanian beers. Can anyone out there help Chris?

Stephen: Still a novice in the world of the net, but am having a wonderful time exploring it. I must say, you have one of the absolutely BEST web pages I have seen. Straight-forward, informative and witty with news that is relevant and intelligently presented. I truly enjoy and admire your work. Thanks for sharing your gift with us all.
-- Candy Schermerhorn.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Candy, she is the author of the Great American Beer Cookbook, a wonderful chef and one of the friendliest people I know. And now she and her husband have opened the Globe Brewery and Barbecue Company in Globe, Arizona, located on N. Broad Street in Globe, about 90 minutes from downtown Phoenix. If you're in the area, drop by and tell Candy that I said Hello.

Love your web site! I'm new and wondered what your reference to TOTM means?
-- David Britton

Sorry, David, I have a habit of using initials without first clarifying what they mean; TOTM is the Taste of the Month. (And before anyone asks, KTT is a reference to the Kitchen Table Tastings.)

I note in your May feedback column that one of your readers was looking for beer to try in Shanghai. One variety brewed in Shanghai itself is a pilsner-lager style known as Donghai. This would seem to be available throughout China, since I discovered it in (very) rural Yunnan Province on the border of Burma and Laos in 1996. A 650 ml bottle was selling for the equivalent of about 30 cents (Canadian) in this remote part of China; it's likely more costly in Shanghai, but I haven't been. Compared to the more local beers of this part of Yunnan Province, the Donghai was much more flavorable and drinkable, and less of the unique (and wonderful, once you get to appreciate it) "skunky" flavor that seems to permeate the local beers from southeastern Asia (such as those from Vietnam). Local beers in Yunnan sell for about 15 cents to 25 cents a 650 ml bottle, including Baoshan beer, which was undrinkable, and Lancang Beer (Mekong River Beer) which was less spectacular but still preferred over a Tsingtao pilsner-lager or Budweiser or Heineken.

Not sure if this sketchy information is a help, but I suspect that your reader's question is prompted by a general lack of information on Asian beer varieties in any of popular beer guide books.
-- David Sumner

I'm sure that it will be of assistance, David, and thank you for contributing it.

I'm looking for good info to include in our local homebrew club's monthly Newsletter
-- Rose Murphy

A few other people have contacted me about using SBWoB material for their newsletters, so I thought that perhaps I should address the issue here. I am happy to authorize the use of anything on this page for non-commercial newsletters and club magazines, and ask only that credit be given to SBWoB as the source. If anyone wishes reprint rights for commercial publications, I ask that they please contact me directly at worldofbeer@worldofbeer.com.

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