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Oregon Brewers Festival Parade 2011

July 28, 2011

Although I missed last year’s Oregon Brewers Festival for the first time in many years, it felt like it had been at least five years since I’d been back. That’s how much I missed Portland, and I was thrilled to be there again. After the Brewer’s Dinner Wednesday night, I attended the brunch, this year [...]

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Happy International Brewers Day

July 18, 2011

Today is the 4th annual holiday celebrating brewers around the world, International Brewers Day, which I created in 2008. While I haven’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 [...]

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Dig, Drink And Be Merry

June 27, 2011

The current issue of Smithsonian magazine has an interesting article about archeologist Patrick McGovern, who’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 [...]

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Session #52: Collectibles & Breweriana

June 3, 2011

Our 52nd Session is hosted by Brian Stechschulte, from All Over Beer. He’s chosen the topic Beer Collectibles & 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 [...]

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The Street Picks The “10 Best Craft Beer Vacation Destinations”

June 1, 2011

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’s the list below, though it’s not clear to me if the destinations are in any particular order or not. Full [...]

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Brew Your Own Beer TV Debuts Tonight

April 23, 2011

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 [...]

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The Automatic Personal Brewery

April 10, 2011

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 [...]

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The Mail Order Quagmire

April 8, 2011

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: [...]

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Specialty Foods Trending Up, Paralleling Craft Beer

April 7, 2011

Seems like it’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’s a teaser for the actual report, The State of the [...]

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The Calorie Mix From The 1970s To Today

April 7, 2011

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 “average daily calories available per capita, adjusted for spoilage and waste,” it tracks our eating habits since 1970, separating our foodstuffs into basic categories: [...]

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Marzen Madness 2011 Winners

April 5, 2011

Congratulations to the Connecticut Huskies, who last night bested Butler to win the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament. And thanks to everybody who played Märzen Madness again this year. Nobody’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 [...]

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The Smell Of Vanilla

April 5, 2011

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’s about the difficulties of accurately describing any aroma we encounter in beer, but with [...]

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Food & Drink’s 50 Most Important Discoveries & Inventions

March 17, 2011

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’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 [...]

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Guinness Chocolate Cheesecake

March 13, 2011

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 [...]

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7 Things

March 11, 2011

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’m sure it’s a coincidence, but 7 Things is also the name of a song by Miley Cyrus (a.k.a. [...]

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Marzen Madness Reminder: Sign Up Today To Play

March 10, 2011

If you’d like to play along and try to pick the winners for this year’s March Madness, I’ve set up a bracket game through Yahoo which I call “Märzen Madness.” It doesn’t look like there’s a limit to the number of people who can play, so sign up today and you can make your picks [...]

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