Comments on: On the Road: Beer in Bogota http://blogs.wvgazette.com/beerstoyou/2008/12/21/on-the-road-beer-in-bogota/ Just another Gazette blogs weblog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:19:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Rob Absten http://blogs.wvgazette.com/beerstoyou/2008/12/21/on-the-road-beer-in-bogota/comment-page-1/#comment-3398 Rob Absten Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:54:36 +0000 http://thegazz.com/gblogs/beerstoyou/2008/12/21/on-the-road-beer-in-bogota/#comment-3398 Sounds exactly like the late Chiodo's in Homestead, PA. Here's this bar sitting in a mill town, working class as possible, and inside was a beer drinker's nirvana. You'd fully expect nothing more than the basic "shot-and-a-beer" fare, Bud, Iron City, maybe Yuengling, but what you got was a dozen craft taps and a hundred different bottles. All priced reasonably in a comfortable, homey atmosphere. College kids, beer snobs, and local [former, the Homestead Works shut down for good in '86] steelworkers mixing without conflict. Think Mario's Fishbowl, but with good beer and no gimicky glassware. Old man Chiodo sold out a few years ago and has since passed. There's a Walgreens there now. But man, it was a great bar. Someday, perhaps someday, WV will have something like this. Sounds exactly like the late Chiodo’s in Homestead, PA. Here’s this bar sitting in a mill town, working class as possible, and inside was a beer drinker’s nirvana. You’d fully expect nothing more than the basic “shot-and-a-beer” fare, Bud, Iron City, maybe Yuengling, but what you got was a dozen craft taps and a hundred different bottles. All priced reasonably in a comfortable, homey atmosphere. College kids, beer snobs, and local [former, the Homestead Works shut down for good in '86] steelworkers mixing without conflict. Think Mario’s Fishbowl, but with good beer and no gimicky glassware.

Old man Chiodo sold out a few years ago and has since passed. There’s a Walgreens there now. But man, it was a great bar. Someday, perhaps someday, WV will have something like this.

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