Froth Cometh: Local craft beer, food, and music at The Froth Awards on St.Pat’s Day
Brewers in arms: Henry Nguyen, Thomas Kelley, Rich Marcello, Brian Brewer, and Rob Croxall. All five local breweries will take part in this Sunday’s Froth Awards: the Easy Reader Beer Experience and Gastropub Challenge. Photo Some years ago I returned to the U.S.A. after two years in Ireland. I’d arrived there via the Irish ferry from Northern France and intended, through hitchhiking the length and width of the entire green island, to investigate the history and culture of the nation my family had left, under duress, in 1832. I was the first of my family to return. I’d visit ruins and countless little village libraries. I’d discover the stories of our family’s namesake and the deep old Irish poets not well known outside Ireland. (“Kavanaugh is yer man,” a hairy-eared old fellow told me in a pub one day. “Yeats, he was a rich little British fecker.”) I’d learn the rudiments of the magnificent, dying Irish language, Gaelic. I’d hear world-class musicians play in the front of pubs ‘til the wee hours for nothing more than the honor of taking their place in the centuries-old Irish musical tradition and the pints patrons put on the table in front of them. I’d fall in love with an Irish…
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