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		<title>What&#8217;s SF Beer Week Like?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Heylin, of the Nor Cal Beer Guide, along with several other BABB members, created a little spoof or homage film for SF Beer Week entitled What&#8217;s SF Beer Week Like? Drawing on Reservoir Dogs and the cult status of Russian River&#8217;s Pliny the Elder, the minute and a half video might make you cry, [...]]]></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>Pliny the Younger Day 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now fixed as the first Friday in February, today was Pliny the Elder Day for 2012 at Russian River Brewing in Santa Rosa, California. When I arrived around 10:30, the line stretched from the entrance of the brewpub to the end of the block. I&#8217;m told the first fans arrived at around 6:00 a.m. this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brew Are You, Strong Beer Month?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s February, and that means it&#8217;s time for the 10th annual Strong Beer Month, once again with six new extreme beers each at 21st Amendment and Magnolia throughout the month, which this year has one more day to help you make it to the finish line. Try them all, and you get to keep the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guinness Believer Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday night Guinness&#8216; P.R. firm in New York invited me to the start of the Guinness Believer Tour, which debuted in San Francisco this weekend. The idea was to introduce not just regular Guinness, but also Foreign Extra Stout and their new Black Lager to consumers, who as far as I could tell, signed up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Barleywine Festival 2012 Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the winners from this weekend&#8217;s Great Alaska Beer &#38; Barley Wine Festival in Anchorage, Alaska. Black Raven Brewing, Redmond, Washington Firestone Walker Brewing, Paso Robles, California Silver Gulch Brewing &#38; Bottling, Fairbanks, Alaska And the Best Winter Beer: Kodiak Island Brewing, Kodiak, Alaska Congratulations to all the winners. Thanks to Tom Dalldorf from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer At/Is Fancy Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the third straight year, beer had a bigger presence at the Winter Fancy Food Show, held each January in San Francisco. The Brewers Association once again had a booth pouring beer from a variety of craft brewers, through their Export Development Program (EDP). I went the first year, too, and this year it again [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danny Williams Needs Your Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in the brewing industry, and especially if you&#8217;ve entered your beers in the Great American Beer Festival and/or the World Beer Cup, then you no doubt know Danny Williams. He&#8217;s worked with the Brewers Association at GABF for a number of years, and since 2001 has been in charge of the beer for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Brews Festival In Concord January 28</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 3rd annual Winter Brews Festival, sponsored by the Brewing Network, will be held this year on Saturday, January 28 from Noon to 4:00 p.m. Thanks to the Occupy Berkeley movement, last year&#8217;s location was not available and BN thought they&#8217;d have to cancel. But the City of Concord came to the rescue, and this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoppy Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my IP address to yours. Have a very Malty Christmas and a Hoppy Holiday. Peace On Earth, Good Beer to Men (and Women). &#8220;Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SF Beer Week Opening Event Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opening celebration to kick-off SF Beer Week for 2012 has been announced. Having outgrown our space last year, this year it&#8217;s been moved to a new, larger location at the Concourse pavilion at the Concourse Exhibition Center in SOMA. Here are the details: On February 10, 2012, over 50 Northern California breweries will converge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More From This Year&#8217;s Anchor Christmas Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you saw my post from the Anchor Christmas Party a few days ago, my friend Mike Condie — who&#8217;s a much better photographer than I am — sent over some of the pictures he took at the party and I thought I&#8217;d share those, as well. The Celebrator crew. Alec Moss and Tom Dalldorf. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anchor Christmas Party 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was the annual Anchor Christmas Party, one of my favorite events of the beer year. It&#8217;s an opportunity to celebrate the holidays with the local beer community and have a bit of fun before all the family obligations kick in. And it&#8217;s always a great party. Anchor pulls out all the stops, putting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 8 Beer Sales Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This two-year old SlashFood article showed up in my Paper.li today, retweeted by a brewery I follow. The article, Super Bowl Sunday — The 8th Biggest Beer Day of the Year? questions the list of the top eight &#8220;Holidays/Events for Beer.&#8221; The list was complied by Nielsen, and as he points out is &#8220;combined beer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Anniversary: Vanberg &amp; DeWulf</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-anniversary-vanberg-dewulf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, 30 years ago, Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield launched Vanberg &#38; DeWulf, one of the first companies to specialize in importing Belgian beer to the United States. Originally, they conceived of the company as a way to keep visiting Belgium on a regular basis and see the many friends they&#8217;d made when they lived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jester King Sues Texas Over Antiquated Beer Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jester King Craft Brewery in Austin, Texas, is my new hero, but then I&#8217;m a fan of their Don Quixote kind of crazy. The windmill they&#8217;re currently tilting at is the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC). Like most states, and the Federal government, most of the laws regarding alcohol were written in the months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday To The Microbrewery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 35th anniversary of the day that New Albion Brewery incorporated, which happened on October 8, 1976. New Albion Brewery was the first modern microbrewery, the first small brewery to be built from scratch, mainly from scrap and discarded industrial equipment. To me, and many others, that makes it the first modern microbrewery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive GABF Winners Map</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is pretty cool, an R. Lewis created a Google Map of all the GABF gold medal winners from this year.]]></description>
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		<title>GABF Winners 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 30th Great American Beer Festival is now in the history books, with some pretty impressive statistics. A record 3,930 beers were judged in 83 categories by 167 judges from 9 nations. Some more factoids on the results and the festival: 18 new breweries entering for the first time won a medal Category with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 30th Great American Beer Festival Judging</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now I&#8217;m out in Denver, Colorado judging at the 30th Great American Beer Festival. Because it&#8217;s the 30th year, after orientation last night, they took an impromptu group photo of all 167 judges, or at least as many as would fit in the photo. See if you can find me (hint: I&#8217;m a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great American Beer Festival 1982 vs. 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joey McDaniel created a cool infographic comparing the first Great American Beer Festival in 1982 to this year&#8217;s festival. Joey was introduced to craft beer by his wife, Jen, and together they run the beer blog Wet Your Whistles, covering beer in the Bay Area, with an emphasis on the &#8220;watering holes along the San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking (And Drinking) Like A Pirate</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/talking-and-drinking-like-a-pirate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, I thought I&#8217;d share this version of the Pirate Alphabet, which seems to be more about beer than piracy. THE PIRATE ALPHABET A — The favorite word of Canadian pirates, ey? B — B stands for Beer! C — Da ting we sails da boat on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bistro IPA Festival Winners 2011</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/bistro-ipa-festival-winners-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family commitments kept me from attending this year&#8217;s Bistro IPA Festival, but owner Vic Kralj was kind enough to send me the list of the winners. Craig Cauwels&#8217; IPA, from Schooner&#8217;s in Antioch, California, was chosen best in show at the 14th annual IPA Festival yesterday at the Bistro in Hayward, California. The full list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OBF Opening Ceremonies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After we marched from McMenamin&#8217;s Crystal Ballroom to the Tom McCall Waterfront Park and the Oregon Brewers Festival, the ceremonial keg was brought into the park by the Hammerheads from this year&#8217;s parade host brewery, McMenamin&#8217;s. Hammerheads and the ceremonial cask. The Hammerheads and the Ruby Witches McMenamins&#8217; folks positioned themselves in front of the [...]]]></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>
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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>Moylan&#8217;s Wins Big at Australian International Beer Awards</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/moylans-wins-big-at-australian-international-beer-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in November, the call went out through the BA&#8217;s Export Development Program for brewers around the world to enter the Australian International Beer Awards for 2011. When my local brewpub Moylan&#8217;s Brewery &#38; Restaurant decided to enter some of their beer, they couldn&#8217;t have known how well it would turn out for them. Moylan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Birthday: Bert Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 13:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today would have been Bert Grant&#8217;s 83rd 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>South Beer Cup Winners Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 01:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers have probably noticed that my usual output has been diminished here of late, that&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been in Buenos Aires, Argentina since Monday. I was fortunate enough to be invited to judge at the very first South Beer Cup, South America&#8217;s version of the Great American Beer Festival and the Craft Brewers Conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #51 Round-Up &amp; Announcing Session #51.5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 19:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well that was great fun, I was certainly glad to see so many people step up and participate, despite my best efforts to make things as difficult as possible. And everybody seemed to have a very good time, too. Cheese and beers just brings out the best in all of us, I guess. Anyway, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graduation &amp; Prom Drinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently prom season and graduation time is coming up, because the scary statistics that always accompany this time of year are also starting to appear. Now before the angry comments start filling my queue, I&#8217;m not encouraging drinking at either, and especially not drinking and driving, no matter what the occasion. There are, however, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tour de Geuze 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 15:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biennial Toer de Geuze, or Tour de Gueuze, took place last week in Belgium. In a news report on Flemish National Television, both our own Steve Shapiro, from Beer by Bart, and Pete Slosberg, founder of Pete&#8217;s Wicked Ales, are interviewed in the piece. And Pete&#8217;s wife, Amy Slosberg, can be seen nursing her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Beer At Royal Wedding?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another royal wedding&#8217;s coming up this Friday. I care about it as much as the last one in 1981 — not one whit. In deference to my British colleagues and friends who cling to the notion that the royal family matters, I&#8217;ll spare you my usual diatribe. But it was announced recently that no beer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boycott Under Way On Beer Stocked By Alabama A-B Distributors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free the Hops, the organization in Alabama that successfully won the fight over hard opposition to allow beer over 6% abv in the state, is calling for a boycott of both Anheuser-Busch products along with those beers distributed by A-B Houses in Alabama. The boycott is a result of A-B distributor lobbyists &#8220;blocking the Legislature&#8217;s [...]]]></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>Toronado Blunch 2011 Recap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, the annual Toronado Belgian Beer Lunch took place, with the food again being done by Sean Paxton, the Homebrew Chef. The Belgian lunch — or Blunch, as I&#8217;ve taken to calling it — began promptly at 11:30 a.m. and went until nearly 5:30 p.m. Now that&#8217;s slow food, but really with twelve courses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheese Buying Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gentle reminder that there are exactly three weeks until the next Session a.k.a. The Great Online Beer &#38; Cheese-Off. Now would be a perfect time to pick up three cheeses for the tasting, try them, and start thinking about what beers might work best with them. Here are the cheeses to be on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Women In Brewing This Saturday At Rubicon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several years now, Rubicon Brewing in Sacramento has hosted an event celebrating women in brewing. This year&#8217;s Women in Brewing Main Event will take place this Saturday, April 16 all day long. Rubicon is located at 2004 Capitol Avenue in Sacramento. From the press release: Join us for our annual celebration of women in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronado Belgian Beer Lunch This Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned that there are a few seats left for the annual Toronado Belgian Beer Lunch taking place this Sunday, April 10. For the third year — or is that fourth? — the food is being done by Sean Paxton, the Homebrew Chef. If you love Belgian beer, good food and especially pairing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Triple Rock Firkin Fest This Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Triple Rock Brewery&#8216;s annual Firkin Fest is taking place this Saturday — April 9, 2011 — beginning at 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $20 and include a commemorative glass and your first four tastes. Additional samples are $5 each.]]></description>
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		<title>Summit Celebrates The Return Of Legal Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summit Brewing, in St. Paul, Minnesota, commissioned a local artist, Miss Amy Jo, to create a poster celebrating the passage of the Cullen-Harrison on its effective date of April 7, 1933. Eight months before the repeal of Prohibition, the bill allowed the production of 3.2 beer in about twenty states, including Minnesota. I love the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Van Roy Talks Cantillon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most fun seminars at this year&#8217;s Craft Brewers Conference last week was the Barrel-Aged Sour Beers from Two Belgian&#8217;s Perspectives on Friday. It was moderated by Vinnie Cilurzo from Russian River Brewing and featured two lambic brewers, Yvan de Baets, owner of Brasserie de la Senne, and Jean Van Roy, owner of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fritz Maytag &amp; Ken Grossman Give Keynote At CBC 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today the 2011 Craft Brewers Conference began with the morning program, which ended with a keynote address by Fritz Maytag and Ken Grossman. It was more of a casual talk or reminiscence, with Maytag and Grossman talking about their early days, with both the challenges and joys of those times when their were trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Triple Rock&#8217;s 25th Anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday marked the 25th anniversary of Triple Rock Brewery &#38; Alehouse&#8217;s opening in 1986. Triple Rock was the third brewpub to open in California, the fifth in the U.S., and the only one still owned and operated by the original founders — John and Reid Martin. I stopped by this afternoon to join in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fairfax Brewfest This Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday in the city of Fairfax, in Marin County, the 16th annual Fairfax Brewfest will take place from 1:00-5:00 p.m. Along with festival sponsor Iron Springs Pub &#38; Brewery, at least 17 breweries will be pouring their beer. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, for unlimited samples and full details, along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Liver Barleywine Fest Winners 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the results from the 2011 Hard Liver Barleywine Fest in held at Brouwer&#8217;s Cafe in Seattle, Washington: 1st Place: Old Sebastes; Anacortes Brewery 2nd Place: Anderson Valley Horn of the Bear &#8217;09; Anderson Valley Brewing 3rd Place: Old Woody; Glacier Brewhouse Congratulations to all the winners.]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Triple Rock&#8217;s 25th Anniversary Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geez has time flown. Twenty-five plus years ago you weren&#8217;t even allowed to operate a brewpub in the State of California. Finally in 1983 that finally changed, thanks to some hard work and a lot of meetings. Shortly thereafter, the first two brewpubs in California opened, Mendocino Brewing and Buffalo Bill&#8217;s. The third opened 25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phil Farrel Wins 2011 Beerdrinker Of The Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Saturday Toast To Don Younger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s at least one more worldwide toast to Portland Publican Don Younger. This one is set to take place at 5:00 p.m. YLT (your local time) on Saturday, February 26. It was organized by Phil Farrel, who you probably will recognize as &#8220;The Rubber Chicken Man.&#8221; Phil Farrell Phil gave me a flier about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indianapolis Man Wins “Brew Your Cask Off” Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, All About Beer magazine conducted a contest, to win a trip to the &#8220;Brew Your Cask Off&#8221; beer festival hosted by Georgia&#8217;s SweetWater Brewing in Atlanta, Georgia on March 5, 2011. The winner had to write an essay explaining what type of cask they&#8217;d brew, in 300 words or less. [...]]]></description>
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