This website has just been linked to from a former utican who is now living in NC.  Any potential advertising is fine with me.  If anyone would like to link to the site or make any kind of reference to it, feel free.   Send me a note and I will make a link right back at you.

Check out the blog here...
http://poppinsponderings.blogspot.com/2007/08/nail-creek-pub-and-brewery.html

Some of those in the know were aware of this in the spring.  Personally, I just heard about this today.  There is also a chance I heard about it then magically forgot by morning.  I don't know... I do however know that this is great news for the local brewery here in Utica.  I am proud to be a Utican today! I personally love Lake Placid s Beers.  I have said on many occasions when explaining the business that I would like to follow a similar  model as Lake Placid Pub did.  I can see UBU on draft

Apparently, Matts and Lake Placid Brewing Companies are joining together.  The Matts have the option to buy Lake Placid at any time.  In the mean time though, they will be distributing their products.  I would imagine that the purchase of t

Since my girlfriend Tracey is going to be doing much of the cooking at the pub she has recently been working out her traditional pub food recipes.  I AM SUCH A HAPPY MAN RIGHT NOW!!!!!! I get to eat all of this awesome food and of course I don't feel any regret because after all... it's in the name of the business.  Over the last week here is what I was fortunate enough to eat.

The Nail Creek once ran next to Edward Street where the Matt's Brewing Company currently resides. The creek was a source of power and water for many breweries in West Utica.  At the beginning of the 20th century, Nail...

When I said that I liked to go to bars, I meant it. About 3 years after I moved back to the USA, I was walking back to my car from happy hour at my favorite local bar and I happened to come across a house for sale about 100 from the bar...