NFL punter is apparently also experienced homebrewer
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NFL preseason starts up in little more than a week and All About Beer has a nice little piece about NFL punter Brandon Fields and how he gets his jollies during the offseason. Fields scored big, though, with a pumpki...
Like Beer? Try Whiskey!
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SommBeer--a pretty cool blog if you haven't checked it out before--has some advice for the craft beer fan on how to approach whiskey. Whiskey and beer, although they are completely different kinds of alcohol, they ar...
Beer Cocktails – Yay or Nay?
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For better or worse, I've started seeing a lot more beer cocktails showing up on menus. These range from your garden variety Shandies and Radlers (which are also increasingly common packaged straight from the brewerie...
A hangover by any other name
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Brookston has a great piece compiling information on the history of the term "hangover" and other phrases that have been used. Believe it or not, apparently the word “hangover,” meaning “a severe headache or other af...
Fall Seasonals, now in Summer!
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The first day of fall is nearly a month away, but... The annual pumpkin spice apocalypse is already upon us. Woe upon your house parties, for they will be stocked with the gnarliest of seasonals. No wizard or pri...
Stout vs. Porter
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You may have heard some definitive distinction that seperates these two styles but whoever told you that was probably just passing along nonsense. Roasted barley. That’s the usual explanation of what separates porter...
Jim Koch picks a dream 6 pack
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Jim Koch (Sam Adams founder) gives an interesting list of beers he'd like to have in a dream six pack and explains his love of each. He mostly keeps it simple. In the 1990s, Rob Tod was learning to use a jackhamme...
Hatin’ on Pumpkin-Hate
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Beer blog Joe Sixpack has some contrarian real-talk for all the pumpkin' haters. C’mon, people eat spicy food all summer, so why not spiced beer? In fact, one of the most popular warm-weather ales – Belgian-style ...
Beer Reviewing Pros and Cons
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All About Beer has a very thoughtful (and thorough) piece on the ups and downs that go along with the avalanche of beer feedback available nowadays. “The beer websites, in particular the forum community on BeerAdvoca...
Ride the Lager – Metallica limited edition Budweiser
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No, this is not a joke. Well, it kind of is. But I'm not sure who's supposed to be laughing. According to Le Journal de Québec, METALLICA has teamed up with Labatt to produce a limited-edition run of METALLICA-bra...