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		<title>Brewmaster Mark Carpenter Celebrates 40 Years at Anchor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, Brewmaster Mark Carpenter celebrated his 40th anniversary with Anchor Brewery. According to my notes, he started on September 30, 1971. During GABF, a film crew interviewed a number of us during some side events, and they put together this video that includes some luminaries from the craft beer industry. Congratulations Mark.]]></description>
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		<title>Hops Webinars Scheduled By Simple Earth Hops</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Sweeny, from Simple Earth Hops of Dodgeville, Wisconsin, announced today that he&#8217;ll be hosting 2-hour educational &#8220;Brewing Up a Community Hops Webinars&#8221; in March, April and May of this year, on the third Saturday of each month with a morning (10 a.m. CST) and evening (9 p.b. CST) session on each day. Accroding to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirits Still Gaining On Beer&#8217;s Market Share</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Distilled Spirits Council, a trade organization for producers of distilled spirits, just released their annual report on how spirits are doing relative to the other alcoholic beverages. Vodka continues to lead the spirits parade, with rum in second and tequila in third. While beer continues to be the most popular adult beverage, spirits once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pairing Beer &amp; Comic Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an odd, but interesting article (especially if you&#8217;re a comic book geek — which I am) on comic books and beer. The author makes suggestions of beers to pair with your favorite comic book characters. Weird, but why not? We&#8217;ve tried pairing beer with everything else at this point, so why not comic books. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build A Beer-Keg Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fun one for the DIY crowd, from the June 1938 issue of Popular Science. The two-page instructions explained to readers how to build their very own Beer-Keg Radio. It was for your, you know, &#8220;game room.&#8221; Who doesn&#8217;t have one of those? It seems DIY was a lot less spoon-fed with detailed instructions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun With Beer Cans &amp; Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of today being &#8220;Beer Can Day,&#8221; the anniversary of the first beer can&#8217;s introduction by the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co. of Newark, New Jersey on January 24, 1935, here&#8217;s an amazing use of a beer can. Now this is recycling, or perhaps more correctly repurposing. For many years, people having been making what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change In Terms Of Beer Temperature</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is fairly clever. A blog dedicated to chronicling the science surrounding climate change, Real Climate, posted a chart comparing the chronology of climate change from 1960 through the year 2100. It was originally created by Artist As Citizen, which is described as &#8220;a collaborative, student-driven blend of art and journalism. The infographic is called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Are 1,952 Craft Breweries In The United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a pretty cool piece or artwork that would look great on your wall. Los Angeles-based artist David Odere has created a poster entitled There Are 1,952 Craft Breweries In The United States, in which the glass of beer, head included, contains the names of every one of those 1,952 breweries. The poster is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #59: I Almost Always Drink Beer, But When I Don’t &#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/?p=11725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our 59th Session is something of a departure, as the topic could just as properly be about beverages other than beer as beer itself. Our host, Mario Rubio from Brewed For Thought was looking to branch out of beer and explore our other liquid passions. Seizing upon a suggestion I made regarding the Dos Equis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beer Hunter Documentary On Kickstarter</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/the-beer-hunter-documentary-on-kickstarter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/?p=11633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most, if not all, of us who write about beer, and by extension blog about it, would not have a job were it not for one man: Michael Jackson. I think most of us who&#8217;ve been doing this for at least a few years now feel that way. I first met Michael at GABF in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Santa Got A Red Suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Santa Claus prefers red ale.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Pubs: A Glass Roots Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend and colleague, Lisa Morrison — a.k.a. The Beer Goddess — just let me know about her latest project, and just in time for Christmas. She&#8217;s created a line of t-shirts, hats, stickers, iPhone cases, and so much more with a humorous nod to the Occupy Wall Street movement to show support for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Lew Bryson&#8217;s Christmas A Happy One!</title>
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		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/make-lew-brysons-christmas-a-happy-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay people, time to step up to the bar. A month ago, a new project was announced on Kickstarter starring my friend and colleague Lew Bryson. The project is being produced by Rudy Vegliante of Green Leaf Productions and the idea is to create a series of six half-hour television shows starring Lew. With 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrator Beer News Goes Digital</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The magazine that I used to run, as the GM, along with publisher Tom Dalldorf — the Celebrator Beer News — has gone digital. Beginning with the current December 2011/January 2012 issue you&#8217;ll be able to read it online or download a pdf to put on your iPad ofr other tablet/smartphone. The online digital version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Bakersfield Beer Lover&#8221; Wins Brookston Survival Pool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Matthew C. — a.k.a. &#8220;Bakersfield Beer Lover&#8221; — for being the winner of this year&#8217;s Brookston Survival Pool. He outlasted 29 others to emerge victorious in Week 14, when he picked Baltimore over the winless Colts. See you all next year for another survival pool.]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Session: The Most Interesting Topic In The World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 59th Session is something of a departure, as the topic could just as properly be about beverages other than beer as beer itself. Our host, Mario Rubio from Brewed For Thought was looking to branch out of beer and explore our other liquid passions. Seizing upon a suggestion I made regarding the Dos Equis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hangover Cure News</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever looked at the science behind hangovers or endured enough of them, you probably already know that time is really the only cure for one. But when you&#8217;re feeling that bad, hope tends to spring eternal; and so hangover cures represent a pretty healthy business, bringing in untold millions of dollars. A hungover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving From The Brookston Beer Bulletin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished my family&#8217;s Thanksgiving feast, enjoyed with a 2000 magnum of Our Special Ale from Anchor Brewing that I found nestled in the back of one of our refrigerators. Boy am I stuffed. Before the tryptophan kicks in and I&#8217;m found drooling on the sofa, I wanted to take a moment to wish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographing The Pioneers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While doing some searching yesterday for beer pioneers, I found once more the book of photographs by David Bjorkman entitled MICROBREWERS: 1981-1996: A Photo History. Bjorkman co-founded New Brewer magazine, which is today the in house trade publication for the Brewers Association. The book came out a couple of years ago, self-published as a blurb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxford Companion To Beer Published Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it&#8217;s actually been available for purchase for a few weeks already, today is the &#8220;official&#8221; publication date of The Oxford Companion to Beer, the new encyclopedic reference book on all things beer. It was put together by my friend and colleague, Garrett Oliver, who&#8217;s the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery in in New York, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Ready For Some Fantasy Football</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s only four days left before the new NFL season of football begins on Thursday night. And as we&#8217;ve done for the past few years, there are two simple games for Bulletin readers to play, and plenty of room to fit as many as want to play (or at least the first 50 people anyway). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazilian Brewer Nominated For &#8220;Man Of The Year&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the brewers I met during my trip to South America earlier this year for the South Beer Cup was Alexandre Bazzo, owner and brewmaster of Micro Cervejaria Bamberg in Votorantim, Brazil. Bazzo studied brewing in Germany and his brewery consistently makes some of the finest German-style beers I&#8217;ve had outside of Bavaria, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NFL Football: Pick The Winners At Brookston Fantasy Games 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fifth year for the Brookston Fantasy Football Games. We&#8217;ve had a lot of fun over the last four, so if you love football and beer, consider joining us this year, whether you&#8217;ve played in past seasons or are a newcomer. The NFL season begins on Thursday September 8, so you&#8217;ve got a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Brewers Festival Parade 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I missed last year&#8217;s Oregon Brewers Festival for the first time in many years, it felt like it had been at least five years since I&#8217;d been back. That&#8217;s how much I missed Portland, and I was thrilled to be there again. After the Brewer&#8217;s Dinner Wednesday night, I attended the brunch, this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy International Brewers Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 4th annual holiday celebrating brewers around the world, International Brewers Day, which I created in 2008. While I haven&#8217;t been able to put as much effort into it as I might have liked, someday I will. In the meantime, some parts of the international brewing community are carrying on with celebrations, most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dig, Drink And Be Merry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current issue of Smithsonian magazine has an interesting article about archeologist Patrick McGovern, who&#8217;s at the University of Pennsylvania and his work uncovering evidence of early alcoholic beverages. His particular sub-field is molecular anthropology and he has a great book about his work titled Uncorking the Past. The Smithsonian piece is entitled Dig, Drink [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #52: Collectibles &amp; Breweriana</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 52nd Session is hosted by Brian Stechschulte, from All Over Beer. He&#8217;s chosen the topic Beer Collectibles &#38; Breweriana, which he explains as follows: I’ve decided not to focus on the substance of beer, but the material that plays a supporting role. Bottles, coasters, cans, labels, ads, tap handles, church keys, hats, t-shirts, tip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Street Picks The &#8220;10 Best Craft Beer Vacation Destinations&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Street is a financial media company that covers the business world. Apparently they noticed that craft beer is doing well and put together a list of the 10 Best Craft Beer Vacation Destinations. Here&#8217;s the list below, though it&#8217;s not clear to me if the destinations are in any particular order or not. Full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brew Your Own Beer TV Debuts Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[B.Y.O.B. TV — Brew Your Own Beer TV — the new television show that will air on local KOFY Channel 20 debuts this evening at 10:30 p.m. KOFY TV20 / Cable13 will be airing the half-hour B.Y.O.B. TV this Saturday, April 23 at 10:30 p.m. If you miss its debut, it will also air on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Automatic Personal Brewery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When did homebrewing become so hard that people still want to do it but are looking for ways around the actual work of the brewing? First there was Brewbot: An Automated Homebrewing Machine, by an Australian designer, and now comes WilliamsWarn: The Personal Brewery, this time from New Zealand. Is it perhaps the folks down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mail Order Quagmire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was in an interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times a few days ago. A wine blogger, David White (founder of the Terroirist), tackled the thorny issue of shipping wine (and beer and liquor) from state to state in a piece entitled Wholesale Robbery in Liquor Sales. He begins with this obvious logic: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specialty Foods Trending Up, Paralleling Craft Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like it&#8217;s a food sort of day. There was an interesting press release from the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (or NASFT) — the folks that put on the various Fancy Food Shows — entitled Specialty Food Industry Shows Renewed Strength. It&#8217;s a teaser for the actual report, The State of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Calorie Mix From The 1970s To Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not a beer post, but we gotta eat, too. Tom Philpott, at Grist, details an interesting interactive chart created by Andrea Jezovit at Civil Eats. Using USDA data for &#8220;average daily calories available per capita, adjusted for spoilage and waste,&#8221; it tracks our eating habits since 1970, separating our foodstuffs into basic categories: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marzen Madness 2011 Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the Connecticut Huskies, who last night bested Butler to win the NCAA Men&#8217;s College Basketball Tournament. And thanks to everybody who played Märzen Madness again this year. Nobody&#8217;s more surprised about this than I am, but of the 42 people who played this year, I was the only one to pick UConn to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Smell Of Vanilla</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adrian Tierney-Jones — who was my editor when I worked on 1001 Beer You Must Try Before You Die — had an interesting post the other day on his blog, Called to the Bar, entitled What does vanilla smell like? It&#8217;s about the difficulties of accurately describing any aroma we encounter in beer, but with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Updike&#8217;s Paean To The Beer Can</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is one of my favorite author&#8217;s birthdays, John Updike. He grew up in the same small Pennsylvania town that I did — Shillington — and we both escaped to a life of writing. Though I think you&#8217;ll agree he did rather better than I did with the writing thing, not that I&#8217;m complaining. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food &amp; Drink&#8217;s 50 Most Important Discoveries &amp; Inventions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Meal, a food-oriented website, has come up with a list of The 50 Most Important Inventions (and Discoveries) in Food and Drink. It&#8217;s a pretty interesting list, and at the very least got me thinking about how much we take for granted and how important so many of those simple items are to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guinness Chocolate Cheesecake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister-in-law sent me this delicious looking recipe for a chocolate cheesecake made with Guinness, though I suspect any Irish dry stout would work. The recipe comes from Closet Cooking, a food blog by a man named Kevin in Ontario, Canada. This recipe for the Guinness chocolate cheesecake is a pretty basic chocolate cheesecake recipe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Turley at Musings Over A Pint punked me last week — in a good way, and on my birthday no less — by pulling me into 7 Things, an internet version of a chain letter. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a coincidence, but 7 Things is also the name of a song by Miley Cyrus (a.k.a. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marzen Madness Reminder: Sign Up Today To Play</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;d like to play along and try to pick the winners for this year&#8217;s March Madness, I&#8217;ve set up a bracket game through Yahoo which I call &#8220;Märzen Madness.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t look like there&#8217;s a limit to the number of people who can play, so sign up today and you can make your picks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socialcohol Media Influencers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some more interesting statistical data on alcohol bloggers — beer, wine and liquor — from a software company in Silicon Valley by the name of eCairn, or eCairn Conversation. Watch this short video to get a feel for what the company is selling, essentially tools to help companies reach their core customers and &#8220;influencers.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact Of Texture On Taste Perception</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Food Navigator, there was an interesting short interview with Matthew Patrick, VP of R&#38;D for TIC Gums where he suggests that &#8220;food and beverage product developers spend a shockingly low amount of time examining how texture may impact a finished product.&#8221; In beer, of course, texture is more often referred to as &#8220;mouthfeel.&#8221; And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play Marzen Madness 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I confess I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of college basketball, but that doesn&#8217;t stop me from enjoying March Madness every year. Similar to fantasy football, I&#8217;ve set up a bracket game through Yahoo which I call &#8220;Märzen Madness.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t look like there&#8217;s a limit to the number of people who can play, so sign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fatal Glass Of Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short film A Fatal Glass of Beer, starring W.C. Fields, premiered today in 1933.]]></description>
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		<title>Phil Farrel Wins 2011 Beerdrinker Of The Year</title>
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		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/phil-farrel-wins-2011-beerdrinker-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I saw Phil Farrel during SF Beer Week I congratulated him for being nominated once again for Beer Drinker of the Year and told him I thought &#8220;it was his year.&#8221; It turns out I was right, as earlier today he emerged as the 2011 Beer Drinker of the Year. From the press release: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muppets Drink Kronenbourg 1664</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/muppets-drink-kronenbourg-1664/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/muppets-drink-kronenbourg-1664/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another one of my many obsessions is my unabashed love of the Muppets. I came across a new video today of the Muppets covering the LCD Soundsystem song Dance Yrself Clean. In the Video, apparently shot in Brighton, both Cookie Monster and Animal are seen drinking Kronenburg 1664 — hey, they&#8217;re both over 21 — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rocketbeer Rocketeer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a huge fan of Dave Stevens and especially his story of The Rocketeer, which was a fabulous comic book before it was a 1991 film with Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly and Alan Arkin. What&#8217;s not to love about an adventure story with a jet pack at the heart of it? I was captivated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simplifying Tasting Descriptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Asimov, who writes The Pour for the New York Times, had a very interesting post today on simplifying tasting notes for wine, entitled Wine in Two Words. Here&#8217;s the crux of his idea: While it may seem heretical to say, the more specific the description of a wine, the less useful information is actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brookston Football Pool Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a most satisfying conclusion to the Super Bowl yesterday, the winners of the Brookston Football Pools 2010 have been decided. Congratulations to everyone who played this year, the winners are: Pick &#8216;Em League nighthops (174) Austin Hopheads (165) TIE: Beerguy101, HoldFastBrewery (160) TIE: The Beer Runners, bbbilly, GreenMachine-MWA, OakshireMatt (158) Piranha Pale Riders (157) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts On The New Dietary Guidelines From Beer Business Daily</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You most likely hard that the USDA released the quinquennial Dietary Guidelines for Americans at the end of last month. The 2010 version made a number of small, but significant changes with regard to food, such as &#8220;make half your plate fruits and vegetables&#8221; and &#8220;drink water instead of sugary drinks.&#8221; In Chapter 3, they [...]]]></description>
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