I am withholding judgment here because I have faith that alec can pull this off...but dammit, the dive bar has become one of my favorite pubs around. It was great that you didn't have to go to an upscale yuppie pretentious bullshit bar (not that I don't like those sometimes) to get great beer.

I hope the soul moves with the dive even if the name doesn't

Here's a little something we had on the Dive-Abbey switchover in March.
Daily Wuss

And here's the discussion on BeerAdvocate.com (Free Registration required)
Beer Advocate

Are we calling The Armsby Abbey "AA" for short?

I have no doubt that Alec will be coming thru with a high quality venue. The news that he may be keeping The Dive open as well is certainly a great idea as far as I'm concerned.

Like many others I will be awaiting any and all news regarding this!

I purposefully posted this April 2 to avoid that suspicion. It's actually very true.