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Lawmakers seek to create New York beer trail

“ALBANY, New York (AP) -- Lawmakers are encouraging residents and visitors alike to enjoy a tall, cold one.
A bill making its way through the Legislature aims to create a New York state beer trail, similar to those the wine industry has successfully used to attract millions of oenophiles to the Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley and eastern Long Island.
Sponsors of the legislation say it will highlight the reemergence of breweries in New York and help brewers cash-in on the popularity of their oatmeal stouts, India pale ales and bitters.
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who doesn't drink, is sponsoring the bill not only to attract beer drinkers to the state, but also to honor New York's rich brewing heritage, which dates back to the 1630s when the Dutch West India Company established the country's first public brewery in New York City, he said.
A century ago, there were more than 40 breweries in the Brooklyn borough alone. Currently there are more than 60 breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs in all of New York state, according to the Brewers Association, a nonprofit trade association.
"Such a rich history of the brewing industry is here and we ought to be exploiting that if we can," said Lentol, whose district was the home of original Schaeffer brewery and currently hosts the Brooklyn Brewery, a regional outfit. "I can't think of any other state except Wisconsin that has as much brewing tradition as New York. It's part of our heritage."
Under the bill, which has already passed the Senate, the Empire State Brewery Trails Program would create an "I Love NY Beer" promotion that will include a brewery trail, vacation itineraries, and "brewery passports" with information on breweries and surrounding attractions as well as discounts and other incentives.
"We're delighted that the Legislature has recognized the importance of the brewing industry in New York state," said Stephen Hindy, Brooklyn Brewery's founder and president. "We think the promotion of the breweries will be good for tourism and good for sales of New York state beer."
Ed Kane, co-owner of the Great Adirondack Brewing Co., a microbrewery in Lake Placid that makes six or seven different beers, also toasted the idea.
"Anything to enhance 'I Love NY' tourism, why not?" he said. "Even if you only got a few extra people a year, you can't sneeze at business. Having a trail would be marvelous."
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.”

lumberzac
8:49:32 PM
6/21/05

“Sort of like a state-sized pub crawl?”

Ruby
8:54:30 PM
6/21/05

“Slavery was once a great business in New York too, and has a tradition there.

Perhaps the legislative parasites in Albany should create a Slave Trail for new slaves of alcohol.

Bon Aperitif.
last edited: 6/22/05 6:58:09 AM”

precision
6:50:05 AM
6/22/05

“Zac, we have both a wine trail beginning near my place and a 'peasant's cicuit' offering local products - mostly organic - like gewe's milk cheeses, herbs, meat and vegetables.

A beer trail might be a good idea.”

Gremlin
8:30:48 AM
6/22/05

“NEW YORK � An attempt to erect the world's largest popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film � but much stickier.

The 25-foot-tall, 17 1/2-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted faster than expected Tuesday, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that sent pedestrians scurrying for higher ground.

Firefighters closed off several streets and used hoses to wash away the sugary goo.

Snapple had been trying to promote a new line of frozen treats by setting a record for the world's largest popsicle, but called off the stunt before the it was pulled fully upright by a construction crane. Authorities said they were worried the thing would collapse in the 80-degree, first-day-of-summer heat.

"What was unsettling was that the fluid just kept coming," Stuart Claxton of the Guinness Book of World Records told the Daily News. "It was quite a lot of fluid. On a hot day like this, you have to move fast."

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3236754”

VioLiN
1:59:51 PM
6/23/05

“I read that in the local papers yesterday! Nice sticky streets. And they don't know if they are going to charge Snapple for the clean-up.”

Treebeard
2:03:25 PM
6/23/05

“Dumb asses. Why not attempt it in March?”

Limpy
2:03:56 PM
6/23/05

“Its perfect publicity for them, sure they aren't in the record book but you think any of us would have heard of the stupid thing if it hadn't melted?”

littlebenlost
2:20:54 PM
6/23/05

“hey
i dont see anyone else trying it

leave them alone...your all just jealous cause NY rocks!!!

(sitting at my desk laughing at the dummies)”

mapleleaf
2:27:53 PM
6/23/05

“New York.......I'll see it again some day.....”

MarkO
2:30:20 PM
6/23/05

“New York was hopping....

not only did we have one, but we had two guys scale a building without any safty rope

It was daredevil deja vu.

Just fives hours after the French Spiderman scaled the New York Times building on Eighth Avenue Thursday, a man from Brooklyn matched his death-defying feat by climbing to the tower's roof, raising questions about the skyscraper 's security.

Fueled by anger that hours earlier, Alain Robert, 45, had scaled his way barehanded up the facade of the 52-story Times building, Clarke took on the Times building that he had been planning to climb for two years,
friends said

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-times0606,0,6782441.story

ok I am done with the news, carry on”

Dutchess Of Road Ki11
4:46:19 AM
6/06/08

“That second photo is good. With my luck, I'd take the dudes photo, the flash would catch him off guard, he'd fall to his death and I'd be arrested for manslaughter. Still, it would be better than the climbers luck.”

dayhiker
4:49:12 AM
6/06/08

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