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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>
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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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		<title>Big Changes At A-B InBev</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, there&#8217;s a lot going over at Anheuser-Busch InBev, and besides the slip in sales of their core brands. Last week, rumors abounded that ABI was planning to roll out some version of 100% Share of Mind, which had been the &#8220;unofficial&#8221; policy until a few years ago, when it became unworkable. I wrote about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anchor Announces New Zymaster Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised on Friday, Anchor Brewing announced today a new series of beers they&#8217;ll be debuting during SF Beer Week. The new beers will be under the series designation &#8220;Zymaster,&#8221; which Anchor describes like this: Zymaster n [Gk zyme leaven + master – more at ZYMURGY] 1: a new word coined by Anchor Brewing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Barleywine Festival 2012 Winners</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/alaska-barleywine-festival-2012-winners/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/anchor-teases-about-new-beer-series/</link>
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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>Paper or Plastic &amp; Beer</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/paper-or-plastic-beer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an odd little story from Virginia, sent in by an alert reader (thanks Jeff). In many places, there&#8217;s a growing debate about plastic bags, paper bags or no bags at the grocery store. In Virginia, there currently is no law regarding them, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped stores all along the southeastern coast of Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer At/Is Fancy Food</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-atis-fancy-food/</link>
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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>Climate Change In Terms Of Beer Temperature</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/climate-change-in-terms-of-beer-temperature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is fairly clever. A blog dedicated to chronicling the science surrounding climate change, Real Climate, posted a chart comparing the chronology of climate change from 1960 through the year 2100. It was originally created by Artist As Citizen, which is described as &#8220;a collaborative, student-driven blend of art and journalism. The infographic is called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Healthy Reasons To Drink Beer</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/10-healthy-reasons-to-drink-beer/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/10-healthy-reasons-to-drink-beer/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/coors-light-now-the-avis-of-beers/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/coors-light-now-the-avis-of-beers/#comments</comments>
		<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>Yuengling Becomes Biggest American Brewery</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/yuengling-becomes-biggest-american-brewery/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/yuengling-becomes-biggest-american-brewery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to new estimated beer sales data for 2011 from Beer Marketer&#8217;s Insights, Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania has now eclipsed the Boston Beer Co. (makers of Samuel Adams) to become the biggest American brewery. Yuengling&#8217;s area newspaper, the Lehigh Valley&#8217;s The Morning Call, had the story this morning. The numbers shake out like this: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danny Williams Needs Your Help</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/danny-williams-needs-your-help/</link>
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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>Wisconsin Homebrewing Under Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a homebrewer in Wisconsin, be careful not to leave the house with your beer. When they call it home brew, they really mean it. Apparently there&#8217;s a growing strict interpretation of the state&#8217;s laws regarding homebrewing — similar to what went down in Oregon recently — that could prevent homebrewers from taking their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Reports Rates Mainstream Beers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of December, Consumer Reports sent out a press release regarding a beer tasting they&#8217;d conducted by an unnamed panel of &#8220;experts.&#8221; Curious as I was, especially as similar tastings have gone somewhat badly in the past, I held off any judgment until the full report became available, which happened January 3 (though [...]]]></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>Nicole Erny Becomes First Female Master Cicerone</title>
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		<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>Beer In Ads #510: Order Ballantine&#8217;s Ale The Handy Way</title>
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		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-in-ads-510-order-ballantines-ale-the-handy-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday&#8217;s ad is for Ballantine Ale, from 1939 — their 100th anniversary. Sporting this ad copy. &#8220;It took 100 years to make Ballantine&#8217;s Ale as good as it is today.&#8221; And then there&#8217;s the beautiful oak panel background with the tasty illustration of the beer glass, bottle and can. But it&#8217;s the bottom text that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brewing Up: WSJ Beer Sales Infographic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal, through their WSJ News Graphics twitter feed, posted the following graphic on TwitPic, showing yearly beer sales through November 2011. This data is from Nielsen and the Brewers Association. A couple of weeks ago I posted similar numbers, but with data from Symphony IRI, in Beer Sales By Style Through Thanksgiving. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Rock Cafe To Become Brewery In 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another new brewery is apparently coming to San Francisco next year. According to the San Francisco Chronicle and SF Weekly, the Mission Rock Cafe, in China Basin not to far from the stadium where the Giants play, will soon become a brewery. Local publican Peter Osborne, who currently owns MoMo&#8217;s, Pete&#8217;s Tavern and Pedro&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Belgium &amp; The Battle Of The Microbrews</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/new-belgium-the-battle-of-the-microbrews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Week had an interesting article in the beginning of the month on New Belgium Brewing entitled New Belgium and the Battle of the Microbrews. It&#8217;s lengthy — at four online pages — and features an in depth interview with Kim Jordan and the future of her brewery and the craft beer industry as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David vs. Goliath: Jester King Wins Partial Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall that in late October Jester King Sued Texas Over Antiquated Beer Regulations. I just got a press release from Jester King Craft Brewery that the judge in the case has ruled in their favor on their first amendment claims, though he did reject their claims under the Equal Protection Clause and the [...]]]></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>Mills River, North Carolina On The Short List For New Sierra Nevada Brewery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Sierra Nevada Brewing&#8216;s plans to build a brewery in Black Mountain, North Carolina fell through, they set their sites on the nearby town of Mills River as one possible location they&#8217;re considering. According to Blue Ridge Now, the Mills River location &#8220;is now among a &#8216;handful&#8217; of possible locations for California-based Sierra Nevada to [...]]]></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>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/celebrator-beer-news-goes-digital/</link>
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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>&#8220;Bakersfield Beer Lover&#8221; Wins Brookston Survival Pool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Matthew C. — a.k.a. &#8220;Bakersfield Beer Lover&#8221; — for being the winner of this year&#8217;s Brookston Survival Pool. He outlasted 29 others to emerge victorious in Week 14, when he picked Baltimore over the winless Colts. See you all next year for another survival pool.]]></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>Beer Sales By Style Through Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MC Basset, publishers of the Beer Bible — better known by its official title, &#8220;The Essential Reference of Domestic Brewers and Their Bottled Brands&#8221; — in their monthly e-mail blast, Style Trends, &#8220;provided a snapshot of (YTD) beer sales by beer style.&#8221; The data they use was compiled by the Symphony IRI Group (IRI), using [...]]]></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>Jeff Bagby Leaving Pizza Port To Open His Own Brewery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Diego Beer Blog had the news today that Jeff Bagby is leaving his position as head brewer at Pizza Port in Carlsbad. Nacho will taking his place for now, though Jeff will be staying on in a consultant role while he firms up plans to open his own brewery. That&#8217;s awesome news for Jeff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eBuzzing (Formerly Wikio) Beer Blog Rankings For December 2011</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/ebuzzing-formerly-wikio-beer-blog-rankings-for-december-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/ebuzzing-formerly-wikio-beer-blog-rankings-for-december-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The December 2011 standings may have been updated for December, though since there&#8217;s no North American presence or website, it&#8217;s hard to be sure. For those of you who still have a widget on your blog&#8217;s homepage, you may have noticed that the name has changed from Wikio to eBuzzing. As the so-called &#8220;consultant,&#8221; they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina Rebuffs Sierra Nevada</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Nevada Brewing sells its beer in all fifty states, and has sold increasingly more over the last few years. Not surprisingly, there have been rumors circulating for some time about them building a brewery farther east, in such places as Tennessee and Virginia. It seems they had also identified a site in Black Mountain, [...]]]></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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