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Stone Brewing The Gargoyle is a fascinating icon. Stone Brewing uses it as the basis for it’s artwork. The reason it is used; which is on Stone’s website, states ’ a fearsome stone figure that has power to ward off evil spirits’. It is a menac… [...]
Napa is beautiful. We meant to go last year as part of our great USA food honeymoon tour, but we couldn’t afford the time that it would take to really enjoy this part of the world. Wine tasting in the states is a real pleasure. The wineries we wen… [...]
Thinking back to a few minutes ago, wishing I could time warp back to the moment where I was about to bite into my egg and cheese, I probably should have taken a picture of it so that you’d have something to look at and activate your salivary glands. But, it’s most likely moseying down [...] [...]
Do your taste buds ever get tired? Has your favorite drink stopped registering with your brain? A/B tests are one way to get your brain cranking and your taste buds excited again. Comparing two similar wines really exposes the subtle flavors in each i… [...]
Good morning readers. When I left for Atlanta in 2005, one thing I missed most from my home state was the fast food chain Whataburger, native to Texas, and available in only 6 other states. To make a long story short, since moving back to the Lone St… [...]
Due to Hurricane Irene, sometime between the close of business on Saturday and our opening on Sunday, the library lost power. Conferring with the powers that be and staff on the ground, we closed the building for Sunday, hoping that we could reopen i… [...]
Hidden sixty miles north of San Francisco deep in the beautiful Napa valley, Yountville is a strange place, barely a town, that seems like it only exists because of a few top class wineries and the restaurants of the chef, Thomas Keller. &nbs… [...]
Villaggio Della Birra 2011 www.villaggiodellabiLees verder… Reageer… [...]
Oh yeah! I can almost hear the bag pipes now! From the Brewers Association press release:Sept. 29-Oct. 1: The Great American Beer Festival® Toasts 30 Years as North America’s Greatest Beer CelebrationBeer Lovers, Food Lovers, Fun Lovers and Brewe… [...]
They tap a new barrel at Cascade Brewing Barrel House in Southeast Portland every Tuesday evening. People interested in great beer ought to put a reminder on their calendar. The blended, barrel aged beers they produce at Cascade are excellent. Sure, th… [...]
September 2011 Featured Brewery Location: Lawrence, KS Founded: 1989 Distribution: Kansas & Missouri Contact: (785) 843-4555 Website: http://freestatebrewing.com/ By Barry Grass Did you know that the world’s best beer in the American Barleywine style is brewed in Kansas? It’s true, by one measurement anyway. Go to BeerAdvocate.com, click on the styles page, find ‘American Barleywine’ [...] [...]
I picked up a bottle of Stone’s 15th Anniversary Escondidian Imperial Black IPA at Whole Foods for $5.99. As the name implies, Escondidian Imperial Black IPA celebrates Stone’s 15 year anniversary. The back of the bottle is adorned with a powerful… [...]
This time of year I get more traffic than most. Topics like growing hops trend pretty high. This leads to people clicking on the referral links. I don’t really make a bunch of money, but, it helps pay for domain name registrations.So more often than… [...]
Well, it’s the last day in August, and tomorrow this blogger will begin a series of Texas craft and micro brew reviews. Right now I have the products of 3 different breweries, and about 7 different varieties. That number should… [...]
I’ve owed this post for quite a while now, as the dinner was actually held in June…sorry. The Flying Saucer in downtown Fort Worth hosted an amazing dinner with Avery Brewing. and it was an amazing event. FS served five courses, each pai… [...]
A profissão de Beer sommelier ou Biersommelier, ou melhor, Sommelier de Cervejas se aproximou do brasileiro com a abertura de cursos no Brasil. Hoje são 300 profissionais formados desde o ano passado. Uma das instituições que em parceria com o SENA… [...]
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Showtime April 2012
Jim Dine presents Pinocchio in lithograph and sculpture at the Nassau County Museum of Art and Steve Miller’s presents multimedia works from the Amazon at Hampton Hang. [...] Read more →
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Beer Championship Series finalists picked
After more than two weeks of voting, the 64-beer bracket has been narrowed down to a final two. The finalists for the fourth annual TapWerks Beer Championship Series have been picked. Your votes have selected COOP Native Amber and Redbud Pale Ale to compete for the title of Oklahoma’s favorite beer for 2011. The winner [...] [...] Read more →
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Messrs Maguire Olympic Gold
Dette er en av de sjeldne edelstenene man finner innimellom. En fantastisk honningfarget pint med rent gull! Lukten er litt søtlig. En anelse humle og noen grønnsaksaktige aromaer. Smaken er ren honning. Søt i førsteinntrykket, men med et fint veldig fint humlepreg. Utrolig lettdrikkelig og med en munnfølelse som skriker etter neste slurk. Her finnes [...] [...] Read more →
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ECHO Christmas Party 2009
It's time for the 2009 ECHO Christmas Party!This event is a beer-themed dinner party celebrating the end of another year. It is pot-luck syle, with each attendee bringing at least one dish to share with the club. All items including dessert must be mad... [...] Read more →
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Harpoon Leviathan Imperial IPA
Harpoon Leviathan Imperial IPA unquestionably lives up to the promise with the aroma. A complex mixture of hops promises a big hop wallop with the first sip. And while this beer is big and rather bitter, there is enough … Continue reading → [...] Read more →
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First all-grain batch
This weekend was a momentous occasion in my fledgling homebrewing career - my first all-grain batch (that is, brewed using just grain instead of malt extract). It's something I've been aiming towards for a while - I want to get the greater malt flavour... [...] Read more →
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From the vault: Review, Solyent Green
Soylent Green may be filled with plot holes and a goofy premise. But it's worth seeing for it's cult factor and its ominous (but not implausible) implications. [...] Read more →
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It may not be strong, but its good
This weekend the drinkers at the Star have been treated to a couple of excellent beers that have been weaker than our usual fayre but both have been comparable with anything we have drunk in recent times. Goose Eye 'Spring Wells' was the first. Unusual... [...] Read more →
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Slap that Bass! Move that Couch!
One of our Russian movers looks exactly like Flea. When he said he didn’t know who that is, I showed him this pic. Which he liked very much. [...] Read more →
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Big Sky Moves Up List of Top 50 Craft Breweries
The Brewers Association released today it's annual list of the top 50 craft brewing companies based on 2011 beer sales volumes. Montana's largest brewery, Big Sky Brewing Co., made the list at No. 37, two spots higher than in 2010.Thirty six of t... [...] Read more →
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Dogfish Head Faithfull Ale
What we have here is the latest entry in DFH’s Music Series. First there was Bitches Brew which I thought was a really well done beer. Next up was Hellhound on My Ale which in the end grew on me. Now we have Faithfull Ale. In honor of Pearl Jam’s 20th Anniversary as a [...] [...] Read more →
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To the Southland!
When Los Angeles was a beer wasteland, our distaste for traveling there wasn’t really an issue. However, as the beer scene has grown over the past few years, I realized that Merideth and I needed get over this lack of … Continue reading → [...] Read more →
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Det blev en tjej
Jag skall fira nedkomsten av en ny familjemedlem. Storyn bakom detta är: För tre år sedan när jag seglade igenom Panama kanalen så träffade jag en tjej vid namn Marie. Efter mycket om och men så fick jag med denna underbara skapelse till Sverige. För ca 9 månader sedan började magen växa lavinartat. Vi trodde [...] [...] Read more →
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Euston taps into beer culture
The Euston Tap is an entrance for people to craft beers from across the world. [...] Read more →
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The Beer Report: Bravo for Barley Wines
Each week, I get a chance to talk about beer for about a minute on Saturday mornings on FM 101 in Portland. Here’s this week’s topic: On these dark winter nights, don’t you want to snuggle up with something warm and strong? I kno... [...] Read more →
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Time For A New Dialogue About US Good Beer
Interesting intervention in a rather over the top bitching session over at the Beer Advocate pointing out the disfunctionality of a large part of the discourse. In response to some wildly weirdly accusations about which breweries in the US are "over ra... [...] Read more →
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Allagash, Ommegang, New Belgium, who you kicking out of the hot tub?
Had a great weekend beering it up for Cinco De Mayo. Actually had some Victoria, Bud Light Lime, and Bud Light Platinum. It was also a killer weekend for sports. A horse called "I'll Have Another" won the Kentucky Derby. At tha... [...] Read more →
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Upcoming Stuff
Here are a few things happening in the next week. Flat12 and Triton Brewing collaboration at Riviera Club, Oct 8th Brew Bracket Fall Tournment, Oct 8th Three Floyds Anniversary Tickets go on sale, Oct 10th Big Green Bistro Brewers Dinner … Continue reading → [...] Read more →
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The Bull
Friday night and I drank too fast in the previous venue so this is going to be a limited review.The BullIslington.This is a now fairly common trendy pub with a few slightly alternative lagers on tap. They seem to be everywhere now and this one ha... [...] Read more →
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Mission Accomplished!
This motto of mission accomplished is one that in recent years has taken a lot of slack. I suppose it’s how it was used most recently to say we won a war that then didn’t seem quite over for a few years down the road. Regardless, I’m taking it back! This past weekend I saw [...] [...] Read more →
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