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Remember To Cut Your Six Pack Plastic Thingies


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ale, beer, pale

Published April 28, 2010 at 12:48 p.m.

I don't get that many six packs and even fewer sixes of cans but I just finished off a six of Dales Pale Ale that I picked up a few weeks ago when I was over to the other side. Apparently, they are actually called six pack rings or six pack yokes if you believe the internet. After I ripped off the last one, I automatically got out the scissors and cut each loop and every ring. Probably hadn't done that in the best part of a decade. Time was there was big news out east about how all manner of

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Quebec: Dominus Vobiscum Hibernus '09, Charlevoix


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Published April 28, 2010 at 12:48 p.m.
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One of the beers that Marcel from Marche Omni called me back to get my hands on. Is this the beer to help my back? Is this, more to the point, marketing? It clearly is as Charlevoix has a few different brands - I recently had the imperial milk stout under their crazed cow brand. Dominus Vobiscum, means "the Lord be with you" and is from Roman Catholic Mass. Clearly a different market from the crazy cow. Clearly marketing and my sort of marketing because it is interesting and entertaining ...

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More Thoughts On That Pesky Albany Ale Question


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ale, barley, beer, brew, porter, wheat

Published April 28, 2010 at 12:48 p.m.
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I have been thinking more about this pre-1850 invention called "Albany ale" and I am a bit surprised to find so many references to it of one sort and so few references of another. The stuff was made in volume, transported and traded over great distances but now seemingly forgotten to memory. As we will see [Ed.: building suspense! ] when we discuss the quote above, it was the stuff of memory even at the end of the 1800s ... But what was it? As noted this morning by Robert in the comments, there

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Colorado: Fourteen, Avery Brewing Co., Boulder


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beer, belgian, craft beer, hops

Published April 28, 2010 at 12:48 p.m.
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Well, that's a nice beer, Avery. The label says bottled in 2007 and at 9.46% (also according to the label) it not only has held up well, it is displaying fine form. Rich and mellowed yet still a big bomb ... It pours that beery mahogany we all like so well and sits under a rich thick lace leaving mocha cream head. On the nose there is orange and molasses, pumpernickel and a little bitter herb. In the mouth there is a lot of residual deep sweet malt giving a range of dried fruit, black strap,

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Is Every Local Always The Local We Respect?


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Published April 28, 2010 at 12:47 p.m.
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One of the reasons I am glad I called this a blog about "good" beer way back when is it is up to me and you to decide what is, in fact, good. If you and I disagree, we are still each right for our own purposes. "Good" has so much openendedness it is almost never bad. Few words are so useful in that way. Consider, by comparison, this news for a moment: ... A brand incubator for Coors Brewing Co. has created what it calls the first beer in which as much as 99.8 percent of its ingredients are from

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Sour Beer Studies: Abbaye De Saint Bon-Chien, Switz.


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ale, beer

Published April 28, 2010 at 12:42 p.m.
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I needed to dip into the stash. Back to 2007. A bad back curing, the seventh anniversary of blogging meeting the 47th birthday. And a new base ball bat. An 1870s base ball bat. For the annual RMC game. It's been a big week in a big month ... Is this the greatest beer I have ever had? At 11% I have some time to consider. At twenty five bucks, not a whim but clearly also a reasonable investment ... Big red beige head over reddish light mahogany ale. Balsamic, sweat and autumn apple on the nose.

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Best Beer Blog Post Of 2010... So Far


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beer, brew, ipa, porter

Published April 28, 2010 at 12:41 p.m.

I don't subscribe to any beer journals but do pick them up from time to time. Even so, I have to back Jay over at Hedonist Beer Jive 100% on his post "The 5 Most Boring Topic in Beer Journalism." I love the line in #3 "Beer Advocate wastes four or more of their thin, scant pages every issue on recipes that no one ever cooks" because it is true ... The accused topic picked as #5 really should be #1: ... “Beer is to be shared with friends”. This is a misty-eyed, maudlin staple of the

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CDA Week: The style, the name


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ale, ipa

Published April 28, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.

So some of you might be wondering, “Just what is this ‘Cascadian Dark Ale’ anyway?” Well, there’s a couple of ways to answer this. First, let’s get an overview of the style… although that gets into the name issue as well.In a soundbite, the style is a “Black IPA” (forget for a moment that “IPA” [ ... ] ...

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Anchor Brewing adds first new seasonal in over five years


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ale, beer, craft beer

Published April 27, 2010 at 12:29 p.m.

(San Francisco, CA) – So much for not mixing up its beer lineup ... Anchor Humming Ale makes its bottle debut late this summer.The big story of the week is the sale of Anchor Brewing after 45 years under owner, Fritz Maytag ... One of the things I noted in yesterday’s write-up on [ ... ] ... Anchor Brewing adds first new seasonal in over five years ... [Disclaimer: Beernews.org is a leader in craft beer news and is the original source of this article. If you would like to check out more,

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CDA Week: Three Creeks 8 Second IBA (mini review)


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ale, beer

Published April 27, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.

This past weekend, we traveled over to Sisters to have lunch at Three Creeks Brewing and thinking of CDA Week, one of the beers I ordered was the 8 Second IBA (India Black Ale). This was one of their first beers on tap when they opened (and was the first CDA style of beer that [ ... ] ...

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