Archive for September, 2009

A Walking Tour of the Reno / Sparks Beer Scene (Part 2)

Let’s say that Buckbean Brewing is Jupiter and Great Basin (the only brewery in Sparks) is Mars, and that the uncharted BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse twenty million miles south of downtown Reno is that occasional-planet Pluto. This would result in the remaining trio of tightly-packed breweries orbiting Reno’s casinos – Morandi’s Record Street Brewing, Brew [...]

A Walking Tour of the Reno / Sparks Beer Scene (Part 1)

Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.
Before lunchtime on a Saturday afternoon, my ever-forgiving wife and I are already headed south on McCarran Boulevard from northern Sparks. I’m driving a red Jeep Cherokee that we don’t own, following detour signs that originally hinted that anyone hoping to get from McCarran to Rock [...]