MAKE A MEME View Large Image Tomm Carroll.jpg Like most people Tomm Carroll tasted his first beer as a kid While growing up in Jersey his father offered him a sip of his favorite canned beverage “ “ in this case Piels a regional lager then brewed in Brooklyn And again ...
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Keywords: Tomm Carroll.jpg Like most people Tomm Carroll tasted his first beer as a kid While growing up in Jersey his father offered him a sip of his favorite canned beverage “ “ in this case Piels a regional lager then brewed in Brooklyn And again like most people young Carroll hated it Spit it out A bored beer drinker in late high school and college Carroll became interested in beer when beer became interesting First it was the imports from Europe and Asia coming in to these shores; then it was the nascent microbreweries and brewpubs popping up all over Beer was suddenly something different those different tastes and colors and styles This was not his father ™s Piels After moving to Los Angeles at the beginning of the 1980s Carroll became a frequent visitor to “ “ and champion of “ “ such early brewpubs as Gorky ™s Russian Café and Brewery downtown LA and Hollywood and later in the decade City of Angels in Santa Monica and Wolfgang Puck ™s trendy restaurant/microbrewery Eureka in West LA “ “ all of them sadly long gone By the 1990s Carroll a writer and editor by trade was reviewing bars and clubs for the Daily Breeze and the Santa Monica Outlook and began writing about their beer offerings He started visiting microbreweries and brewpubs around the region and the state and soon domestic and international travel begat even more beer knowledge “ “ and interest Belgium was a particular epiphany in beer appreciation Today Carroll is a feature writer and the LA correspondent for the Celebrator Beer News which at 20 years old in 2008 is the oldest beeriodical in the country He has also written about beer for the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Today He is a member of the Brewers Association the national organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of craft beer An experienced beer judge in both homebrew and commercial competitions Carroll is also a member of Pacific Gravity the award-winning Culver City-based homebrew club and serves on the club ™s Board of Directors as well as contributes to its monthly newsletter In addition he serves as an advisor to the La Quinta Arts Council for the desert city ™s Blues Brews and Barbecues festival in the Fall And when he has time he tries to get to Europe as often as he can Despite such an inauspicious initiation to tasting beer Carroll wound up becoming an avid beer drinker enthusiast collector writer judge and traveler He drinks locally and globally But he still never developed a taste for that fizzy yellow lager beerscribe earthlink net www celebrator com 2004-04-19 own assumed Somawally Journalists from the United States Magazine editors from the United States People drinking from glasses
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