Welcome to the Virtual Pub!

This is a WWW server which is intended to be a place for network beer aficionados to gather information, about themselves and about other things related to the enjoyment of quaffing beer. If you have any suggestions for this server, let me (the janitor) know. If you would like to have your own page here, see the Rogue's Gallery Samuel Adams entry for more details.

What's New (updated March 29, 1995):

• Beer in Providence, who'd a thunk it?!

Activities

Access the Virtual Pub beer-tasting current brew(s) (a stout/porter compare/contrast, featuring Sierra Nevada brews) and archive. Next tasting: Barleywines!

Browse through the current Rogues Gallery (patrons list).

Read out about the Internet Chat Relay (IRC) beer tastings, compliments of Gillmer Derge.

Check out the archive for a collection of various potentially interesting files, including:

• BENEDUSS, Jay Hersh's comprehensive guide to beer in Belgium, Netherlands, and the Dusseldorf/Koln region.
• Depictions of some specific beer glasses.
• Great American Beer Festival results 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and policy.
• Read the text of Germany's Reinheitsgebot (Pure Beer Law of 1516) or the English translation, both compliments of John Dieter Stuewe.
• Some personal beer-tasting notes.
• View the Virtual Pub's usage statistics.

Beer Around the World

• Amble through Austria's beer offerings compliments of Keith Waclena.
• Check out the Cambridge, England pub scene with CityScape, Ltd.
• Dance through Dublin Pubs and Clubs, provided by Chris Zimmerman of Trinity College.
• Finger through Finland's Beer in Cyberspace server (in Finnish as well), by Kari Likovuori, including
  • a travelogue on beer in Belgium.
• Link into the London Pub description, with Mark Handley.
• Ogle at the Ontario, Canada beer scene, by Alan Marshall.

Beer Around the States

• All about Beer in Albuquerque, by Jeremy Worley.
• The Atlanta Beer Guide, by John Lock.
• Boogie through Baltimore brewpubs with Dave Kaufman.
• Bop to Beantown for:
  • Boston's beer offerings, compliments of the Open Software Foundation.
  • A Boston pub crawl, compliments of the Boston Wort Processors homebrew club.
• New York, New York (by Clay Irving)
• Nosh at Northern California brewpubs (and a few in Portland OR) with Ken Papai.
• Peruse the Pacific Northwest (and beyond!) with Gak (aka Richard Stueven).
• Get pissed in Providence, Rhode Island, with Joel Plutchak.
• Surf the Southern California beer scene with Scott Murphy.
• Two-step through the Texas beer scene with Eric Wooten.

Other related information servers, FTP sites, and documents:

• Alan Marshall's mini-FAQs, including
  • Beer Records FAQ
  • Beer Tasting FAQ
  • Guinness FAQt & Folklore (plus a local text only version)
  • Measures of Capacity FAQ
  • Ontario FAQ
• Beer and Brewing at the World-Wide Web Virtual Library.
• The Brewery, a homebrew-oriented site.
• Dan Brown's alt.beer info, including
  • The Alt.beer Charter
  • The Alt.beer FAQ
  • The Alt.beer FTP archive
• The Homebrew Archive FTP site.
• John Lock's rec.food.drink.beer FAQs:
  • The rec.food.drink.beer FAQ
  • The Beer Periodicals List
  • The Atlanta Beer Guide
• The Mead Brewer's Page
• The Real Page Page, about (what else?) beer.
• Spencer's Beer Page, oriented toward brewing, rather than drinking, beer.

Miscellanea

• What respectable pub would be without darts?

Weekly usage statistics

The Virtual Pub opened for business sometime around February 6, 1994. During the first year of operation, a total of 349777 total access requests were made to the server, of which at least 316418 (90%) were for the Virtual Pub (others were either misformed URLs or miscellaneous test documents I've experimented with during the course of my job duties).

Those 316418 Virtual Pub accesses represent approximately 41316 different computers and/or people.

All in all, not too bad for something I threw together primarily as a testbed for data access and WWW concepts!

Technical administration and document maintenance by Joel Plutchak (plutchak@lager.geo.brown.edu).
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