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India Session Ales: Hot New Trend or Big Fat Meh?
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These things have many names as an "emerging" style trend, but the basic format is the same: (relatively) heavy on hops, low on alcohol. To those of us in oppressive summer clients, the arrival of beers like Founde...
First Beer of the Weekend – 4/24/2015
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Another southern California nectar this week. Stone Cali-Belgique Belgian IPA. Pours a bronzy-orange with little to no head like a proper IPA. Good IPA pour. You get a treat. The lacing is razor thin and almost per...
A hoppingly pointless poll
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The Full Pint has a poll for "The Best" imperial IPA. All of the usual suspects are represented. My opinion? The best imperial IPA is the freshest one you can get. I had my first Pliny the Elder recently at a ...
Devil’s advocate for the three-tier system
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Mike Mazzoni (a weighty veteran of the beer industry, especially big beer companies) made some comments recently somewhat in defense of the three-tier system. His underlying point: the three-tier system has benefit...
Increasing the case for cans
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The publication Advertising Age has a good write-up on the reasons why cans are a good idea for business as well as for beer in general. The most obvious reason to anyone that's ever been outside is that they're no...
Fear not your beer contents
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If you missed the social media hype storm a couple of weeks ago about Very Bad Things(tm) showing up in beer then consider yourself lucky. It set off my balderdash alarm bells immediately, but thousands retweeted and...
Drink long and prosper: Vulcan Ale becomes first “official” Star Trek beer
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In a move sure to please everyone from Zefram Cochraine to Katherine Pulaski, CBS/Paramount Consumer Products has finally authorized an official Trek beverage. While it may not be called the “official” beer of Star T...
More Metal
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Not metal as in metallic, but metal as in holy crap look at those labels--SO METAL. First, there's a new Game of Thrones brew, and it's about as metal as it gets: [caption id="attachment_1478" align="alignnone" ...
Baltimore Beer Author, Rob Kasper, Signing Books @ DuClaw
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Rob Kasper, author of "Baltimore Beer: A Satisfying History of Charm City Brewing" will be at DuClaw Brewing Company's Bel Air location this Saturday, July 21st, selling and signing copies of his new book. The books g...