http://www.post-gazette.com/food/libations/ en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:17:38 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014501-388.stm?cmpid=libations.xml A new beer aims to be as cool as Donnie Iris. In fact, the local rocker is part of the business that's marketing the brew, which takes on his "King of Cool" nickname: King Cool Light. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014507-389.stm?cmpid=libations.xml How about a bottle of green wine for your Thanksgiving dinner table? Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1010705-389.stm?cmpid=libations.xml It is an estate libation, made entirely from bounty grown on a single estate in California's Central Valley, and it sells for about $8 a bottle. And it's not a wine, but a beer. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1010711-389.stm?cmpid=libations.xml With the holiday season upon us, calendars are sure to be filling up with shopping trips, parties and the usual chores. ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09316/1012632-389.stm?cmpid=libations.xml Pittsburgh has been the beneficiary of the national housing implosion in some less obvious ways. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09316/1012701-389.stm?cmpid=libations.xml Join me for a beery bike ride on Sat., Nov. 21. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010826-389.stm?cmpid=libations.xml Finally: You can buy beer in a supermarket in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09295/1007257-389.stm?cmpid=libations.xml WASHINGTON -- "Last year, they had a great crop of Kingston Black," home-brewer Rick Garvin says as he plucks purplish-red fruit from one of 3,000 semi-dwarf apple trees at the Distillery Lane Ciderworks in Jefferson, Va. ... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09295/1007258-389.stm?cmpid=libations.xml Pasta is a passion at our house, so we are always delighted to find a great pasta wine at an attractive price. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09295/1007265-389.stm?cmpid=libations.xml You readers have flooded my mailbox this past week with stories of the wines listed in last week's column on new Chairman's Selections (see also post-gazette.com/food) being unavailable. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400