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Lindemans Brewery Written by Tom Becham for professorgoodales.net Are Sour Beers the New Black? As a beer geek friend of mine said to me recently, “You know what sour beers and World Cup Soccer have in common? Americans discovered they kinda liked both of them in 2010.” It’s true. Sour beers have become a big [...]

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Written by Kevin M. Cullen (Archaeologist: Discovery World: Milwaukee WI) The recipe that we chose to brew for this special program was an Iron Age honey mead, found in a bronze cauldron at the foot of a Celtic chieftain who was buried in a central burial chamber, beneath an earthen mound near the village of [...]

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Written by Andy Brownfield for The Gadsden Times and AP Alabama beer lovers are pleased that the state Legislature passed a measure to allow beer to be sold in larger containers, but they’re still awaiting the fate of a measure to legalize home brewing. The Legislature sent the bill to allow larger bottles to Gov. [...]

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Posting courtesy Andy Kim. From onlinebachelordegreeprograms.com

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Profiled by Ken Carman for professorgoodales.net The nose is almost pure Citra, with a hint of malt. For some reason the spices didn’t make it into the nose, though the Citra and orange peel could be working in tandem. Slight fruity, yeast driven, nose… tad grapefruit-y. Hazy. Hey! It’s a wheat beer, what did you [...]

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Written by Brandon Jones for Embracethefunk.com So I’m reading over the finished Q&A thinking about how to intro this interview and the song Doowutchyalike by Digital Underground keeps popping into my head. While it might be a stretch, Shaun Hill of Hill Farmstead is doing what he likes, having fun and batting pretty close to 1000 while he’s at [...]

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Written by Greg Kitsock for The Washington Post (Who says it HAS TO BE a “bubble?”-PGA) “The world almost seems flipped on its side — a revolution has happened,” reported Benj Steinman, president of the trade publication Beer Marketer’s Insight, in assessing the state of craft brewing. Steinman was addressing a crowd at the 2012 Craft Brewers Conference that [...]

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Written by Larry McShane for The New York Daily News A thirsty 300-pounder black bear is wandering the streets near a Florida marina, chug-a-lugging beers found on back porches and popping in at the Happy Snapper Tiki Bar in Debary, Fla. Customers stood and stared when the wild creature arrived at the waterfront bar, according [...]

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Written by By Pervaiz Shallwani for The Wall Street Journal State and federal lawmakers said Sunday they have brewed a way to keep local craft beermakers’ profits from going flat. (The question being: what is the favorite quaff of a black bear? -PGA) A March 28 New York state court ruling declared unconstitutional a law [...]

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