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Archive for 2008

World’s Worst Beer Styles

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Woot! is a website I’ve been a fan of for awhile, each day they offer one item for sale, usually at a very reduced price. The numbers of the item are typically scarce, so when it’s gone, it’s really gone. Anyodd, Woot! also has a blog, on which they recently posted a list of 11 [...]

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Budweiser Returns Home, Loses Name

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

I spotted a story today that made my eyes twinkle if only for that fact that it has been a little bit of trivia that I have given out to people for years. It involves Budweiser and its name, and the fact that the name was more or less stolen from a much older brewery [...]

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Kelly Ripa Isn’t Developmentally Disabled

Friday, December 12th, 2008

I am not a regular watcher of Regis and Kelly in the morning. Typically this show comes on as I am headed out the door, and even then I am watching Mike and Juliet more often than Regis and Kelly. These types of programs always amuse me for their mindless banter and the personality-driven format, but this [...]

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Review: Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Seeing as I brew beer, drink beer and love to discuss pairing beer with food, I thought I would take the opportunity to posit a beer review here on the blog. Why would anyone want to read this review? Well, you’re here, aren’t you? What else have you got to do? Beyond that, I am [...]

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Carbon Nation

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Last night I decided to confirm something that I had known about some of my homebrew for some time now — namely that not all of it has been carbonating in the bottle properly. The first few bottles that I sampled were in regular cap-type bottles, and the carbonation was fine. The beers had good [...]

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