So The Wife and I attended a tasting session at a new brewery in Pittsburgh’s East End — the appropriately named East End Brewing Co. — on Saturday afternoon. While we were there, I picked up a couple of specialty tabs that cover craft brewing in the East and Midwest. I just got about to paging through the June/July copy of Ale Street News and discovered that one of their writers had taken a beer trip through Columbus and Cleveland, culminating with a stop at Cleveland’s Ale Fest a few weeks ago.

The story was favorable to both cities, and the author, Bobby Smolinski, was especially impressed with Ale Fest. An excerpt:

All told, over 150 different offerings were poured. The famous Bass “trailer truck bar” was the centerpiece. Over 1,000 aficionados filtered in and the fun began. The band Skinny Moo rocked the place all day in various sets and you could just sense the euphoria.

And you thought this post was about beer.

Skinny Moo is DD’s cover band, which has such a full schedule this summer that getting DD out of Cleveland is looking damn impossible. So we’re just going to have to head up that way instead. Because if the Moo is getting this kind of pub in a freaking beer newspaper, they have to be pretty good.

So when’s the next show at that place in Chagrin Falls?