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		<title>Sierra Nevada Announces Asheville Head Brewer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Nevada Brewing announced today that Scott Jennings has been named the head brewer for their new brewing facility near Asheville, North Carolina. Jennings has been brewing for Sierra Nevada since 2001, and in addition to his role as Research and Development Head Brewer, he also ran the brewing side of Beer Camp, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lagunitas Beer Circus Is Coming To Town Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend — Sunday May 20 to be exact — the circus is once again coming to the town of Petaluma as the fourth annual Lagunitas Beer Circus will be held on the grounds of the Lagunitas Brewery. If you haven&#8217;t been to the beer circus before, it&#8217;s one of the most amazing events of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Societe Brewing Quietly Opens In San Diego</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way out of town last Sunday, after a week in San Diego for the Craft Brewers Conference, there was one more stop I wanted to make. I&#8217;d known brewer Travis Smith since his days at Russian River, where he brewed all the beer on their brewpub system, which was especially important while Vinnie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diageo&#8217;s Anti-Competitive Bullying Tactics Revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[vs. Wow! Just wow. Anyone paying attention knows that the corporate world doesn&#8217;t like to play fair if they can get away with it, and they usually can. They bigger they are, the more resources they command, the easier it is to bully, cajole and generally get their way. It gives them an unfair advantage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Beer Cup Awards 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 06:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another record crowd of 2,034 sat down to a beer dinner by Adam Dulye of Monk&#8217;s Kettle and to listen to the awards for the 2012 Brewers Association World Beer Cup. This was the 10th World Beer Cup, which takes place every two years. This year&#8217;s competition saw 3,921 beers in 95 categories from 54 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faction Brewing Finds Location In Alameda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran into Rodger Davis yesterday, who was uncharacteristically grinning from ear to ear. He had some pretty amazing news. His new venture, Faction Brewery, has found a location. He&#8217;s signed a lease on a property — a hanger, really — in Alameda right next to St. George Spirits. It&#8217;s great to see things moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MillerCoors Looking To Hire Bay Area Beer Ambassador</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to an alert reader, Susan G., who noticed this video about a Monster.com job posting for an &#8220;Import &#38; Craft Trade Brewer&#8221; position in the Bay Area advertised by MillerCoors. Actually, the person hired will work for 10th &#38; Blake, which is their craft and import division. The company is looking for &#8220;a beer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top 50 Annotated 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my sixth annual annotated list of the Top 50 so you can see who moved up and down, who was new to the list and who dropped off. So here is this year&#8217;s list again annotated with how they changed compared to last year. Anheuser-Busch InBev; #1 last six years, no surprises MillerCoors; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 50 Breweries For 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brewers Association has also just announced the top 50 breweries in the U.S. based on sales, by volume, for 2011. This includes all breweries, regardless of size or other parameters. Here is the new list: Anheuser-Busch InBev; St Louis MO MillerCoors; Chicago IL Pabst Brewing; Woodridge IL D. G. Yuengling and Son; Pottsville PA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 50 Craft Breweries For 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brewers Association just announced the top 50 breweries in the U.S. based on sales, by volume, for 2011, which is listed below here. For the fifth year, they&#8217;ve also released a list of the top 50 craft breweries based on the new definition adopted by the Brewers Association a few years ago, and updated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lagunitas Building New Brewery In Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheesh, you try and do something other than sit at your computer all day, and all hell breaks loose. At least I have an excuse, sort of. My wife and I just bought another house, which we&#8217;re having some work done on before we move in, and that&#8217;s been occupying a healthy percentage of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Belgium Announces Asheville As Site For 2nd Brewery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, it&#8217;s been a good year for beer in Asheville, North Carolina. Not too long ago, Sierra Nevada Brewing announced they would build a second brewery in the county seat of Buncombe County. Now a second large craft brewery — New Belgium Brewing — today announced that they, too, have chosen Asheville as the city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes Balls: Wynkoop&#8217;s New Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s at least one every April Fool&#8217;s Day. Here&#8217;s Marty Jones from the Wynkoop brewpub in Denver, Colorado with a short video introducing their latest style of beer: Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout. Enjoy.]]></description>
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		<title>Toronado Belgian Beer Luncheon This Sunday, No Fooling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned that one of my favorite beer events of the year still has a few seats left. The annual Toronado Belgian Beer Dinner — really a luncheon — or I like to call it, a Blunch, is this Sunday, April 1, and that&#8217;s no joke. The food for this always amazing beer dinner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anchor Plaza Debuts At AT&amp;T Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was media day at AT&#38;T Park, where the San Francisco Giants play. It&#8217;s not the kind of event I&#8217;m normally invited to, but this year is a little different. Debuting this season at the Giants&#8217; stadium is Anchor Plaza, a new area behind the giant scoreboard where fans can find beer from Anchor Brewing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Sidor&#8217;s Yet To Be Named Brewery Has A Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I saw brewmaster Larry Sidor, he was still working at Deschutes Brewing, but I already knew he had a new project in the offing. Since leaving his old job at the end of last year, he&#8217;s been building a new brewery in Bend, a brewery without a name, and the progress has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craft Beer Breaks The 5% Pint Glass Ceiling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, the Brewers Association just released their annual data on U.S. craft brewing, for calendar year 2011, and the news is remarkable. &#8220;Craft brewers saw volume rise 13 percent, with a 15 percent increase in retail sales from 2010 to 2011, representing a total barrel increase of 1.3 million.&#8221; From the press release: In 2011, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session Beer Day To Be Celebrated April 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague Lew Bryson is promoting a new holiday, to take place on April 7. Session Beer Day was created to bring awareness to the idea that low-alcohol beers can be every bit as flavorful as their more spirited cousins, beers of average or high alcohol. Lew&#8217;s Session Beer Project has been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drowning One&#8217;s Sorrows May Be Genetic</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/drowning-ones-sorrow-may-be-genetic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March issue of Science, touted as &#8220;the world&#8217;s leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary, included an article entitled Sexual Deprivation Increases Ethanol Intake in Drosophila. Which may not mean much, until you realize that in plain English it&#8217;s essentially &#8220;fruit flies who&#8217;ve had their sexual advances rejected drink more alcohol.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Gordon Biersch To Move</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/san-francisco-gordon-biersch-to-move/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/san-francisco-gordon-biersch-to-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The picturesque location on San Francisco&#8217;s Embarcadero of the former HillS Brothers Coffee building is home to the third Gordon Biersch brewpub, which opened originally in 1992. According to Inside Scoop SF, as of the end of April, that will no longer be the case. (And thanks to Pete S. for sending me the link.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marzen Madness 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While not the biggest fan of college basketball, I still enjoy March Madness every year. The tournament is usually a fun diversion for a few weeks each year, so for the second straight year, I&#8217;ve set up a fantasy game, similar to fantasy football. It&#8217;s a bracket game through Yahoo which I call &#8220;Märzen Madness.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;DOZEer&#8221; Wins 2nd Straight Brookston Football Pool</title>
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		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/dozeer-wins-2nd-straight-brookston-football-pool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Paul B. — a.k.a. &#8220;DOZEer&#8221; — for being the winner of this year&#8217;s Brookston Football Pick&#8217;Em Pool. Paul also won in grand fashion last year, making him unquestionably the man to beat next season.]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco&#8217;s Temporary Beer Gardens</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/san-franciscos-temporary-beer-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic online had an interesting post on their Cities Places Matter blog entitled San Francisco’s Temporary Beer Garden Takes Off, all about a couple of new beer gardens in the city, one of which is in a temporary space while it waits to be developed.]]></description>
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		<title>Martha Stewart Declares Beer &#8220;The New Thing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/martha-stewart-declares-beer-the-new-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/martha-stewart-declares-beer-the-new-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should confess right up front that I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of Martha Stewart. I&#8217;m not really sure why, but her advice and how she presents it has always bugged me for some reason. I guess for me, it always comes across as trying to be for everyone, the common people, but can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Liver Barleywine Fest Winners 2012</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/hard-liver-barleywine-fest-winners-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the results from the 2012 Hard Liver Barleywine Fest in held at Brouwer&#8217;s Cafe in Seattle, Washington: 1st Place: Angel&#8217;s Share Bourbon &#8217;11; Lost Abbey 2nd Place: Abacus &#8217;11; Firestone Walker Brewing 3rd Place: Old Birdbrain &#8217;10; Black Raven Brewing Congratulations to all the winners. (And special thanks to Sean Paxton, the Homebrew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Session To Consider What Makes Local Beer Better?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little behind the eight-ball in getting the word out, but our 61st Session is coming up fast; this Friday to be exact. Our host, Matt Robinson — a.k.a. The Hoosier Beer Geek — is asking us to consider the question What Makes Local Beer Better? Here&#8217;s how he puts it: The topic I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: February Declared California Beer Month</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/its-official-february-declared-california-beer-month/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/its-official-february-declared-california-beer-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been rumored for weeks, maybe longer, but I got the word a few days ago that the California Senate would vote this morning between 9 and 10 o&#8217;clock on SCR 66, introduced by Senate majority leader Ellen Corbett, a resolution to declare February California Beer Month. Rick Sellers, who writes at Pacific Brew News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Master Cicerone Chosen For SF Zagat 30 Under 30</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last week&#8217;s Three Ring Circus beer dinner, Nicole Erny teased that she had big news coming this week, but told us she was sworn to secrecy. Well today she could finally reveal her news. Erny, who recently became the first female Master Cicerone — and only the fourth overall — has been selected by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mermaids Love Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You just can&#8217;t make this stuff up. In southern Africa, two dam projects were in danger of being thwarted by &#8230; mermaids. According to the Weird Wide Web, the &#8220;mermaids had harassed workers installing water pumps at a dam near the small town of Gokwe, in northern Zimbabwe, according to local media reports.&#8221; And similar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 8th Trappist Brewery?</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/the-8th-trappist-brewery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently there are seven Trappist monastery breweries authorized to use the &#8220;Authentic Trappist Product&#8221; label by the International Trappist Association. Six are in Belgium, one is in the Netherlands. It looks like an 8th monastery is applying for authorization to brew beer under the official designation. The monastery of Engelszell Stift has filed an application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Ring Circus Brewer&#8217;s Dinner &amp; Sideshow This Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, check out the Three Ring Circus Brewer&#8217;s Dinner &#38; Sideshow happening this Wednesday night. To me, this sounds like the most off-the-hook, amazing, one-of-a-kind beer dinner since &#8230; well, since the last one Sean Paxton, the Homebrew Chef, did. If this isn&#8217;t on your SF Beer Week itinerary, it really should be, at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traquair House Switches To 500ml Bottles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite breweries, Traquair House in Scotland, announced today through their importer — Merchant Du Vin — that they&#8217;re switching to 500 ml bottles for all of their beers. That might not seem like big news, and perhaps it&#8217;s not, but Traquair House is one of favorite places so I never miss a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anchor Releases California Lager</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although SF Beer Week doesn&#8217;t officially launch until later tonight, there&#8217;s already been one event that took place at Anchor Brewing on Wednesday. Three weeks ago, they announced their new Zymaster Series and later revealed that the first beer in the series would be a pre-prohibition California Lager. Wednesday night, Anchor held an event to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schlafly, Texas Ranger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If this hilarious video for the annual The Repeal of Prohibition Beer Festival doesn&#8217;t make you want to attend, I don&#8217;t know what else would. The festival will be held at Schlafly Bottleworks in St. Louis, Missouri on Saturday, April 14th, 2012 from noon until 5:00 p.m.]]></description>
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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>BA Releases 2012 Beer Style Guidelines</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/ba-releases-2012-beer-style-guidelines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the World Beer Cup this May, the Brewers Association today released their annual style guidelines for judging. According to the press release, this year&#8217;s guidelines include 140 separate categories, including one new one: &#8220;Indigenous Beer Category.&#8221; Curiously, the World Beer Cup website lists 95 on their 2012 Beer Styles Menu and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Sour Beer Brewery In Bay Area Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I received the word that there&#8217;s a new brewery opening soon in the Bay Area. It&#8217;s called The Rare Barrel and they&#8217;ll be a gypsy brewery specializing in sour beers. By gypsy, they mean to brew at area breweries and then ferment, age, package and serve their beers at their own facility, with that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MillerCoors&#8217; Tenth &amp; Blake Buys Crispin Cider</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid recent rumors, the Tenth and Blake Beer Company, the craft-and-import division MillerCoors created last year, announced today that they&#8217;re purchasing Crispin Cider, which includes both the Crispin and Fox Barrel hard cider brands. From the press release: Minneapolis-based Crispin sold its first cases on St. Crispin&#8217;s Day, October 25, 2008. The company grew approximately [...]]]></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>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>Spirits Still Gaining On Beer&#8217;s Market Share</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Distilled Spirits Council, a trade organization for producers of distilled spirits, just released their annual report on how spirits are doing relative to the other alcoholic beverages. Vodka continues to lead the spirits parade, with rum in second and tequila in third. While beer continues to be the most popular adult beverage, spirits once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kelley Brothers Brewpub To Close Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got an e-mail last night from a reader that the Manteca brewpub Kelley Brothers Brewing was closing and today is to be their last day. I haven&#8217;t been able to independently confirm that news, but will do so when I&#8217;m able. It&#8217;s always sad news to hear that a brewery is closing. UPDATE 2.1: [...]]]></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>State Alcohol Administrators Slam Alcohol Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably knew that each state has some form of an ABC, an alcohol control organization that after Prohibition was created to administer their state&#8217;s laws regarding alcohol. Not surprisingly, they also have an organization where the professionals in these state organizations can get together and share information, how they do things, and generally learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lagunitas IPA Brewed At Anchor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were following the twitterverse closely on Tuesday, you might have noticed an interesting story developing, as relayed in tiny bites by Lagunitas owner Tony Magee. I&#8217;ve rejiggered the twitter stream, re-ordered it, uncompressed abbreviated words, and added additional ones for clarity in an attempt to make it a more coherent story. &#8220;We had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Nevada Chooses Asheville North Carolina Site For New Brewery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After scouting numerous sites in North Carolina and neighboring states, Sierra Nevada Brewing announced today they have selected a location near Asheville, North Carolina to build a new brewery to supply their beer throughout the east coast. From the press release: The site, approximately 90 acres in the Henderson County town of Mills River — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danny Williams R.I.P. 1959-2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was with a heavy heart that I received the news this morning that Danny Williams lost his battle with cancer last night, and passed away peacefully in his sleep. Ben Spencer sent me the word, and had this to say about his friend. &#8220;Danny was a great man. He was loved by many. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anchor Zymaster #1 To Be A California Lager</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Anchor Brewing announced their new line of beers under the &#8220;Zymaster Series,&#8221; with the first to debut during SF Beer Week in February. This morning I spoke to the Zymaster himself — Mark Carpenter — who told me a bit more about the beer. It sounds like it will be a pretty interesting beer, [...]]]></description>
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