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		<title>Beer Birthday: Sam Calagione</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Sam Calagione&#8217;s 43rd birthday. Sam is the owner and marketing genius behind Delaware&#8217;s successful Dogfish Head Brewing. Sam&#8217;s also a great guy, and a rap singer of sorts, with his duo (along with his head brewer) the Pain Relievaz. See the bottom of this post for a couple videos of him singing after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Judy Ashworth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Judy Ashworth&#8217;s birthday. She&#8217;s the Grand Dame of Publicans, having once owned the Lyons Brewery Depot in the East Bay, one of the earliest bars to really embrace, support and promote craft beer. Judy sold the pub in 1998 after some health troubles sidelined her, but she&#8217;s still a fixture in the Bay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Jeff Bagby</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 22:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 38th birthday of Jeff Bagby, who until recently was the head brewer extraordinaire at Pizza Port in Carlsbad. There, you can read the entire biography of Jeff &#8220;Extra Spicy&#8221; Bagby. I&#8217;m not sure when it was written, but it definitely needs to be updated, as it ends with the following sentence. &#8220;Jeff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Bert Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today would have been Bert Grant&#8217;s 84th birthday, and he is definitely missed. Bert opened the country&#8217;s first brewpub in 1982 in Yakima, Washington and was a fixture in the industry until his death in late July of 2001. Join me tonight in lifting a pint to Bert&#8217;s memory. Bert Grant and me at OBF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Shaun O&#8217;Sullivan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[21st Amendment brewer and co-owner Shaun O&#8217;Sullivan turns 49 today. Shaun is one my favorite people in the industry. He&#8217;s a tireless champion for craft beer and very supportive of other brewers, such as with his fun collaboration projects. He&#8217;s one of the founders and organizers of SF Beer Week and through his brewpub puts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Dan Carey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 52nd birthday of Dan Carey, the mad alchemist brewer of New Glarus Brewing. I first met Dan at Hop School in Yakima, Washington several years ago, but I&#8217;ve been enjoying his beers far longer than that. He&#8217;s a fellow lover of brewing history and a terrific person, as well as one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: John Martin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 52nd birthday of John Martin, one of the founders of Triple Rock Brewery &#38; Alehouse in Berkeley. John, with his brother Reid, started on of the first five brewpubs in the U.S., and the only one that&#8217;s still owned by the same family that founded it. He&#8217;s active in the local beer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Jack McAuliffe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 67th birthday of Jack McAuliffe, the father of the modern microbrewery. Jack incorporated his New Albion Brewery in October of 1976, and began producing beer the following year from his tiny brewery in Sonoma, California. His 1-barrel system suggests he may also have been the first nanobrewery, as well. I finally got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Fred Eckhardt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Esteemed Portland beer writer Fred Eckhardt turns 86 today. Portland’s Fred Eckhardt is a living legend, especially in his home city, having pioneered writing about and defining beer styles with his early book on the subject, The Essentials of Beer Style, published in 1989. Around his birthday also the 7th annual FredFest will be held, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Dave Alexander</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Dave Alexander&#8217;s 49th birthday. Until recently, Dave was the co-owner, along with his wife Dianne, of the world famous Brickskeller beer bar in Washington, DC. They&#8217;re sill rocking the beer world at their other beer bar: RFD. Dave&#8217;s also a crack lead guitarist who often plays with the Rolling Boil Blues Band. Join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Bill Covaleski</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 16:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 49th birthday of Bill Covaleski, a co-founder of Victory Brewing Co., along with his childhood friend Ron Barchet. I first met Bill at the brewery doing an article on Pennsylvania breweries for the Celebrator nearly a decade ago. It&#8217;s been great seeing his brewery rack up victory after victory as they&#8217;ve grown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Anders Kissmeyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 21:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Danish brewer Anders Kissmeyer&#8217;s 56th birthday. He was a co-founder of Nørrebro Bryghus in Copenhagen. I first met Anders through corresponding with him for an article on collaboration beers I did for All About Beer magazine a couple of years ago. Then we met in person at GABF a couple of years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Bruce Paton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the Beer Chef, Bruce Paton&#8217;s 57th birthday. Bruce has been doing fantastic dinners pairing great beer and gourmet food for over ten years in the Bay Area, since 2001 at the Cathedral Hill Hotel, where, until recently, he was the Executive Chef. He&#8217;s about to start working at Miss Pearl&#8217;s Jam House in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Brian Hunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is iconoclastic brewer Brian Hunt&#8217;s 55th birthday. Brian owns and operates Moonlight Brewing in in Sonoma County, California, as a one-man show. If you&#8217;ve never had his &#8220;Death and Taxes,&#8221; &#8220;Twist of Fate Bitter,&#8221; &#8220;Bombay by Boat,&#8221; or his fresh hop ale, alternately called &#8220;Homegrown&#8221; or &#8220;Greenbud Ale,&#8221; then you&#8217;re really missing out on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Robert &#8220;Mac&#8221; MacTarnahan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Robert &#8220;Mac&#8221; MacTarnahan&#8217;s birthday, one of Oregon&#8217;s most famous athletes. Mac would have been 97 today, but unfortunately he passed away in 2004. He was one of the original investors in Portland Brewing Co., which was later named MacTarnahan&#8217;s Brewing in Mac&#8217;s honor. I met Mac twice, once in Portland at an event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Daniel Bradford</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 62nd birthday of Daniel Bradford. Daniel is the publisher of All About Beer magazine. He&#8217;s been involved in the beer world for many a year, from the early days of GABF to the Brewers Association of America, which a few years ago merged with the Association of Brewers to become the Brewers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Abram Goldman-Armstrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 34th birthday of Abram Goldman-Armstrong, a Portland-based beer writer who does a column for Northwest Brewing News and also writes online at Brewsville. Abe also is the organizer of the North American Organic Brewers Festival and by day works in construction. When Abe was writing for the Celebrator Beer News several years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: John Maier</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is John Maier&#8217;s 57th birthday. John has been the head brewer at Rogue Ales for as long as I can remember. He&#8217;s won countless awards, pioneered numerous new styles and been instrumental in the rise of the Pacific Northwest&#8217;s beer scene. Join me in wishing John a very happy birthday. At the Sasquatch Beer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Stephen Beaumont</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is my good friend and colleague Stephen Beaumont&#8217;s 48th birthday. In addition to his World of Beer, he also blogs online at On the House and That&#8217;s the Spirit. And when you&#8217;re in Toronto, be sure to stop in at his beer bistro. Join me in wishing Stephen a very happy birthday. Stephen with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Suzanne Woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Suzanne Woods&#8217; 34th birthday. I first met her during my trip to Philadelphia for Philly Beer Week its inaugural year. She writes online as the Beer Lass and by day is the mid-atlantic salesperson for Allagash, though when I first met her she worked for Sly Fox Brewing outside of Philadelphia. Check out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Jeremy Cowan</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-jeremy-cowan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is also Jeremy Cowan&#8217;s 43rd birthday. Jeremy owns Shmaltz Brewing, makers of He&#8217;Brew. Jeremy is a good friend and we&#8217;ve known one another since he first pitched He&#8217;Brew to me at BevMo over thirteen years ago (which is detailed in Jeremy&#8217;s memoir Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah). Though Jeremy splits his time between San Francisco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Christian Kazakoff</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-christian-kazakoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Christian Kazakoff&#8217;s 41st birthday. Christian is the head brewer at Iron Springs Pub &#38; Brewery in Fairfax, California. I&#8217;ve gotten to know Christian much better since we shared a room for a week in London a few years ago to attend the Old Ale Festival at the White Horse on Parson&#8217;s Green. Besides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Amy Dalton</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-amy-dalton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 29+15th birthday of Amy Dalton. Amy is the Advertising Manager for All About Beer magazine. As evidenced by the fact that none of the photos below feature Amy alone, she&#8217;s a consummate people person. A veteran of the newspaper industry, she&#8217;s been selling ads to the beer world now for several years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Steve Parkes</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-steve-parkes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of Steve Parkes. Steve owns and runs the American Brewers Guild, which trains brewers. I&#8217;ve known Steve for a number of years now and he&#8217;s one of my favorite Brits in the industry. I had the pleasure of writing a profile of him for Beer Advocate magazine a couple of years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Drew Beechum</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-drew-beechum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 38th birthday of Drew Beechum, who&#8217;s a past president of the Maltose Falcons homebrewing club and its current webmeister. He&#8217;s also the author of The Everything Homebrewing Book: All you need to brew the best beer at home! and write a regular column for Beer Advocate magazine. Join me in wishing Drew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Neil Miller</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-neil-miller/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-neil-miller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of New Zealand beer writer Neil Miller. He writes regularly for Beer and Brewer magazine, the beer blog at Real Beer NZ and the Malthouse Blog. Though born in the UK — Broxburn — he now calls Wellington his home. I met Neil when he was vising the states with Luke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Alan McLeod</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-alan-mcleod/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-alan-mcleod/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is beer blogger extraordinaire Alan McLeod&#8217;s 49th birthday. Alan runs a good beer blog, called — curiously enough — A Good Beer Blog. I&#8217;m not sure what came first, the goodness or the blog. Anyway, though I&#8217;ve yet to meet Alan in person I feel as if he&#8217;s already a great, not just good, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer &amp; Women By Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-women-by-anonymous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of the late Alan Eames, one of the first Americans who wrote extensively about beer, especially in a serious way, mining history and culture for his topics. I never met Alan, though I talked to him on the phone a few times. When he passed away a couple of years ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Ray McCoy</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-ray-mccoy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re on the national beer festival circuit, you&#8217;ve no doubt seen Ray McCoy, whose birthday is today. In 2003, Ray was crowned &#8220;Beer Drinker of the Year&#8221; in the contest sponsored by Wynkoop. Ray and his wife, Cornelia Corey (herself a 2001 BDOTY, making them the only couple to have won) travel from their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Julie Johnson</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-julie-johnson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of Julie Johnson, who until very recently was the editor of All About Beer magazine, headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. Julie is without a doubt one of the nicest people in the industry and a pleasure to work with. Plus she likes odd little German trolls almost as much as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Gambrinus</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-gambrinus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the traditional birthday of Gambrinus, sometimes called King Gambrinus, considered to be the patron saint of beer, brewing and/or Belgian beer. Not an &#8220;official&#8221; saint, at least not in the catholic church, but a legendary figure. Regardless, join me in drinking a toast to King Gambrinus today. Here&#8217;s the overview at Wikipedia: Gambrinus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Lester Jones</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-lester-jones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is also the 45th birthday of Lester Jones, the Chief Economist for the Beer Institute. As a fan of the dismal science, I&#8217;ve gotten to know Lester a little bit over the last few years and appreciate all the numbers he crunches to help promote beer through the Beer Institute. Join me in wishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Steve Wagner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Steve Wagner&#8217;s 54th birthday. Steve is a co-founder of Stone Brewing and the president of the California Craft Brewers Association. In the late 1980s, Steve was a member of the band “The Balancing Act,” who put out several albums on I.R.S. Records. Now he just presides over one of the most successful microbreweries. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Tom McCormick</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-tom-mccormick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 55th birthday of Tom McCormick, Executive Director of the California Craft Brewers Association (CCBA). Tom&#8217;s also owned and ran a distributorship and the Pro Brewer website, but has found his true calling promoting and defending small brewers in California. Tom is the most unflappable person I&#8217;ve ever met, and hands down one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Dave Buhler</title>
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		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-dave-buhler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Dave Buhler&#8217;s 53rd birthday. Ironically, like Dick Cantwell, whose birthday was yesterday, Dave is also a co-owner of Elysian Brewing in Seattle, Washington. Join me in wishing Dave a very happy birthday. Fal Allen and Dave Buhler at OBF. Dave and Celebrator publisher Tom Dalldorf (at right). Neither Tom or I could identify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Gary Glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 39th birthday of Gary Glass, Director of the American Homebrewers Association. Gary&#8217;s been with the Brewers Association for many a moon and has become the face of homebrewing in America. One of his recent successes, along with many other people, was getting homebrewing legalized in Utah, one of the five holdout states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Dick Cantwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Dick Cantwell&#8217;s 55th birthday. He&#8217;s the head brewer and co-owner of Elysian Brewing in Seattle, Washington, and the co-author of Barley Wine. In addition to brewing, Dick&#8217;s a great writer, too, and his work frequently appears in numerous beer magazines. He&#8217;s also on the BA&#8217;s board of directors and heads both the Communications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Rich Higgins</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-rich-higgins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 34th birthday of Rich Higgins, who wears many hats in the San Francisco beer scene. He recently left his job as the brewmaster at San Francisco&#8217;s Social Kitchen &#38; Brewery, he&#8217;s also the President of the San Francisco Brewers Guild and Director of SF Beer Week. He&#8217;s currently focusing his attention on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Michael Jackson</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-michael-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today would have been Michael Jackson&#8217;s 70th birthday. I first met Michael in the early 1990s, shortly after my beer book was published. He is all but single-handedly responsible for the culture of better beer that exists today. He began writing about good beer in the 1960s and 70s and his writing has influenced (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Bill Brand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today would have been Bill Brand&#8217;s 74th birthday, if not for the tragic events of February 8, 2009. Bill, of course, was hit by a Muni Train that evening and passed away twelve days later, on February 20. He was a bastion of support for the local beer community for decades, and one of it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Anat Baron</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-anat-baron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of filmmaker Anat Baron, whose Beer Wars movie started people writing and talking about the beer business, from all sorts of angles, two years ago, and while it&#8217;s slowed down somewhat, the discussion has yet to have completely gone away. Or as Alan from A Good Beer Blog puts it, &#8220;joined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Pierre Celis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A true brewing legend, who was treated like a rock star in Belgium where they care about their national beers, Pierre Celis would have been 87 today. Celis single-handedly revived the style witbier in the 1960s when he was a brewer at Hoegaarden. He later moved to Texas to start a microbrewery with his daughter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Ray Deter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today would have been the 55th birthday of Publican Ray Deter, who passed away tragically last summer after he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle in New York City. Ray was the owner of the d.b.a. beer bars in New York City (Manhattan and Brooklyn) and also New Orleans. He is most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Steve Hindy</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-steve-hindy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 63rd birthday of Steve Hindy, one of the co-founders of Brooklyn Brewery, and the man responsible for running things day-to-day. Hindy was a journalist for many years before opening the brewery, reporting from numerous war-torn spots around the globe, and as a result has a different perspective on the world that makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Joe Tucker</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-joe-tucker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 44th birthday of Joe Tucker, the &#8220;Boss&#8221; — a.k.a. Executive Director — at Rate Beer. He runs the website from his Vineyard bunker in Sonoma, California. Because in the Bay Area, I run into Joe from time to time, and usually at the annual hop picking day at Moonlight Brewing. Join me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Mark Edelson</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-mark-edelson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 48th birthday of Mark Edelson, a co-founder and the managing partner of Iron Hill Brewery &#38; Restaurant, a small brewpub chain that operates 8 brewpubs in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania (and has just announced a 9th location in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania). Mark&#8217;s been a vocal and active member of the brewing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Tonya Cornett</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-tonya-cornett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Tonya Cornett&#8217;s 43rd birthday. Tonya was the brewmaster of Bend Brewing in Oregon, for a number of years, but has recently moved to another Bend brewery — 10 Barrel Brewing — to become their R&#38;D brewer. Tonya&#8217;s a great brewer and, of course, being born 1 day and ten years after me makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday Again: Jay Brooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was my 53rd birthday, and I&#8217;ve once again been overwhelmed by an embarrassment of riches from well-wishers sending me notes via e-mail, Twitter and Facebook. My sincere thanks to one and all. As it&#8217;s usually me posting embarrassing photos of my friends and colleagues, for the fourth year in a row, here&#8217;s some howlers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Danny Williams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today would have been Danny Williams&#8217; 53rd birthday today, having been born exactly two days before yours truly in 1959. Unfortunately, Danny lost a battle with cancer a little over a month ago, and passed away peacefully in his sleep on January 23. For over a decade, Danny worked for the Brewers Association as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Knut Albert</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, it&#8217; also the 52nd birthday of Knut Albert Solem from Oslo, Norway, who has one of the premiere beer blogs in Scandinavia, Knut Albert&#8217;s Beer Blog. Though I&#8217;ve never met him in person, we have corresponded a time or two through blog comments and I certainly enjoy his perspective on beer. Join me in [...]]]></description>
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