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		<title>Celebrity Beer Gossip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s a good thing when celebrities drink craft beer, because people tend to copy their behavior. So the more celeb&#8217;s drinking good beer, the more some people might pick it up, too. But I can&#8217;t help but find it a little sad, too. I just don&#8217;t find all the minutiae about famous people [...]]]></description>
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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>Football Beer Caddy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this odd little gadget while searching for an image this morning. It&#8217;s a Football Beer Caddy, apparently &#8220;handcrafted from recycled steel.&#8221; The 12-inch tall steel sculture is meant to hold your beer, though I can&#8217;t for the life of me understand why you&#8217;d do that. After pouring your bottle into a glass — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mea Culpa: Hoodwinked By Propaganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday I posted what I though was a fun little piece with some interesting statistics about how much is consumed on Super Bowl Sunday. In The Super Bowl: By The Numbers, I selected a few of the fun statistics that had been posted a few years earlier in a post on the blog Tree [...]]]></description>
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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>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>The Super Bowl: By The Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You usually see this kind of list for Oktoberfest; how much beer, how many sausages, etc. But Tree Hugger put together a list of what&#8217;s consumed during the Super Bowl: By the Numbers: Super Bowl Facts and Figures. The statistics are from 2010&#8242;s big game, but I feel confident they&#8217;re close enough. Here&#8217;s the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brewhog Determines Winter Beers For 6 More Weeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over in Gobbler&#8217;s Knob, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, Phil the Groundhog — a.k.a. Brewhog — raised up his head this morning and looked around, and this year saw his shadow everywhere. You know what that means. It&#8217;s six more weeks of drinking winter beers this year. Or something about an late spring, I can&#8217;t keep it [...]]]></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>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>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>Anchor Teases About New Beer Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anchor Brewery is teasing us. Earlier today they tweeted this enigmatic photo that vaguely hints at a new series of beers from the oldest craft brewery in America. All the tweet says is that we have to wait until Monday. &#8220;We&#8217;re brewing up a special announcement for Monday, January 23. Here&#8217;s a little taste&#8230;&#8221; Can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Fill Of Growlers With The Next Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 60th Session returns to all things beer, and specifically Growlers Galore! That&#8217;s the topic chosen by this month&#8217;s host, Kendall Jones, of the Washington Beer Blog. Here&#8217;s what he&#8217;s thinking about growlers: These days people take growlers for granted. In my neck of the woods, growlers are a relatively new phenomenon. I don’t know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loving the White Rabbit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know good labels, packaging and artwork can help a beer sell. I may not like that a mediocre beer might sell better than a great one if it has more eye-catching artwork, but it happens all the time. It was especially true in the early days of craft beer when many people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Healthy Reasons To Drink Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may not always see eye-to-eye with the roman catholic church, but I&#8217;m with them all the way on this one. While many religious denominations forbid their followers from drinking alcohol and others preach against it, it&#8217;s nice to see at least one take a more rational approach. Not only does Catholic Online tell everyone: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coors Light: Now The Avis Of Beers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not exactly sure why this appears to be such big news, but it seems to be everywhere. Beer Marketer&#8217;s Insights is reporting that, based upon estimated numbers for 2011, Coors Light has overtaken Budweiser to become the 2nd best-selling beer in America. According to the report, &#8220;[t]his is the first time in almost 20 [...]]]></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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		<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>Nicole Erny Becomes First Female Master Cicerone</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/nicole-erny-becomes-first-female-master-cicerone/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/nicole-erny-becomes-first-female-master-cicerone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably already know about the thousands (just over 8,800) of beer industry professionals who have become Certified Beer Servers in Ray Daniels&#8217; Cicerone program since it was launched in 2007. It&#8217;s essentially the beer equivalent of a sommelier. But did you know there are actually three levels of Cicerone certification? Until recently, only three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damaged Lagunitas Equipment In Petaluma</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/damaged-lagunitas-equipment-in-petaluma/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/damaged-lagunitas-equipment-in-petaluma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When last we looked, the damaged Lagunitas brewing equipment was at the dock, at the Port of Stockton. Earlier today I stopped by the Lagunitas Brewery to pick up some samples for a tasting tomorrow for the Celebrator Beer News and, not surprisingly, the broken lauter tun was around the back of the brewery. Having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beer Hunter Documentary On Kickstarter</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/the-beer-hunter-documentary-on-kickstarter/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/the-beer-hunter-documentary-on-kickstarter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<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>The Philadelphia History of Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was created back in May, but it escaped my notice. April Kuhn created a cool poster for Drink Philly entitled The Philadelphia History of Beer. According to the website, &#8220;[w]hile it doesn&#8217;t cover everything that&#8217;s occurred in Philadelphia since its founding, it does cover a lot — and it shows why this truly is [...]]]></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>Beer Tree: The Ultimate Christmas Project</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-tree-the-ultimate-christmas-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s yet another beer bottle Christmas tree, this one from 2007. It was &#8220;built from 1050 stubbies (250ml bottles), equivalent to 462 pints. Tied together with 300 meters of wire and decorated with 200 lights, with a bubble lamp in the centre, the tree stands 2 meters high and 1 meter wide at the base.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heineken Christmas Tree In Hawaii</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/heineken-christmas-tree-in-hawaii/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/heineken-christmas-tree-in-hawaii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t exactly new, but it&#8217;s still pretty cool, despite using green bottles. They may not be great for keeping UV light out of the beer, but they do work great for building Christmas trees. Completed in 2006, 2000 Heineken bottles are controlled by animated lighting equipment built by the homeowner.]]></description>
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		<title>Hammurabi: First King Of Beer</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/hammurabi-first-king-of-beer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I kept forgetting to post this nice piece about King Hammurabi, the Babylonian ruler responsible for mankind&#8217;s first set of laws, known as the Hammurabi Code. It ran in the San Francisco magazine Drink Me, in their October 2011 issue. The article, Hammurabi: The King Of Beers, goes into some deatil about the laws in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carol of the Beers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is pretty cool, despite the Corona bottles. According to the musician who made the video, BoTLpLayA, &#8220;[he] play[s] Carol of the Bells on perfectly tuned corona bottles (they make the best sound), by &#8220;plucking&#8221; them with [his] finger.&#8221; Hmm, not sure that makes sense, but who am I to argue with the results. Enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Brewing Spoofs Laverne &amp; Shirley</title>
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		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/mothers-brewing-spoofs-laverne-shirley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ha, this is funny spoof, especially if you remember the Happy Days spin-off Laverne &#38; Shirley, who worked at the fictional Shotz Brewery, which was located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mother&#8217;s Brewing is not to far away (just a few states and not quite 600 miles) in Springfield, Missouri, and they&#8217;ve created their own version of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twas The Beer Before Christmas: A Brewery Visit From St. Nicholas</title>
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		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/twas-the-beer-before-christmas-a-brewery-visit-from-st-nicholas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While not widely known, St. Nicholas, among his many patronages includes brewers. He is a patron saint of brewers. The way we think of St. Nick in America begins with the publication of Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Visit From St, Nicholas by Clement C. Moore in 1823. So with my tongue firmly set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beerstrology Sign: Capricorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I don&#8217;t put any stock in astrology, in 1980 Guinness put out a calendar with each month representing one of the zodiac signs, and I thought it would be fun to share these throughout the year. Capricorn, the goat, is from December 22-January 20. To learn more, see: Astrology Online Universal Psychic Guild Wikipedia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearls Before Swine On A-B InBev</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s comic strip Pearls Before Swine, written by former San Francisco attorney Stephan Pastis, took a funny swipe at Anheuser-Busch InBev. [Thanks to Motor for sending me the strip.]]]></description>
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		<title>Ownership Of Beer Brands &amp; Varieties 2010</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/ownership-of-beer-brands-varieties-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/ownership-of-beer-brands-varieties-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, shortly after Anat Baron released her film Beer Wars, people kept asking her which big beer companies owned which beer brands. In December 2009, she put together a list of Who owns what? That inspired to me took take a closer look myself, and that produced my own list, The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economist On Belgian Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist has an interesting article in their latest issue on Belgian beer entitled Brewed Force, How a small, unremarkable country came to dominate the world of beermaking.]]></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>Breweries Per Capita By State 2010</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/breweries-per-capita-by-state-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/breweries-per-capita-by-state-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled upon this nice infographic showing Breweries Per Capita By State 2010 based on data compiled by the Brooklyn Growler. It was created by an assistant professor at Michigan State University, Phillip H. Howard, with help from a Ginger Ogilvie. The size of the circles neatly shows the relative number of breweries in [...]]]></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>The Artist Behind 21st Amendment&#8217;s New Cans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK-based illustrator Joe Wilson, whose clients include such high-powered companies as Adidas, British Airways, De Beers, GQ, Random House and Wired, designed the new artwork adorning the new 21st Amendment Brewery beer cans. So given his work for Wired, I suppose it&#8217;s no surprise that they featured his art on their Underwire Blog in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Percy Street&#8217;s Beer Can Christmas Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fun one. These are the kinds of press releases that help me get into the spirit of the holidays. The Percy Street Barbecue, a Philadelphia restaurant specializing in barbecue, also carries &#8220;over 60 varieties of canned beer&#8221; that they serve in custom galvanized steel buckets. Order 5 cans, and the 6th one is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Lew Bryson&#8217;s Christmas A Happy One!</title>
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		<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>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>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>St. Nicholas: Patron Saint of Brewers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While St. Nicholas is best known — in America, at least — for wearing red and white and giving presents to Children each December 25, he&#8217;s actually the patron saint for a number of professions, places and afflictions. His feast day is not actually Christmas Day, but almost three weeks earlier on December 6. That&#8217;s [...]]]></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>Sumerian Beer: The Origins of Brewing Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Damerow, from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in Berlin, has published online a lengthy paper about the origins of Sumerian brewing. Entitled Sumerian Beer: The Origins of Brewing Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia, it&#8217;s part of The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). The opening sentence gives a flavor of its purpose. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Bar Flies Prefer Pale Ale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study was reported last week by NPR about research into why insects are drawn to beer. When I was a kid, I remember my Great Aunt placing beer in shallow bowls and laying them on the floor around her house to attract, and drown, pesky insects. I&#8217;d always assumed that was because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damaged Lagunitas Brewing Equipment At The Dock</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall that earlier this month, the Lagunitas Brewhouse [Was] Destroyed At Sea. Lagunitas owner Tony Magee, through his Twitter Feed, just posted a number of new photos of the equipment as it arrived at the Port of Stockton this weekend. I&#8217;d say my usual &#8220;enjoy,&#8221; but it&#8217;s a little on the painful-to-see side. [...]]]></description>
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