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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>Session #63: The Beer Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 23:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 63rd Session is hosted by Pete Brown from the UK, and as his Session falls on Star Wars Day (May 4, &#8220;May the Fourth,&#8221; &#8220;May the fourth be with you&#8221;) he&#8217;s decided on a similarly cheeky topic: The Beer Moment. Read his entire stream of consciousness or the abridged version below. I write to [...]]]></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>MADD Thinks It&#8217;s Parents Fault That Kids Drink</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m beating a dead horse, but I don&#8217;t like what MADD has become. Despite the good intentions of its founding, it has veered into neo-prohibitionism and often uses the cudgel of protecting kids in its propaganda. Over the weekend, MADD&#8217;s twitter feed sent out this missive: When teens feel they have their parents’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #62: What Drives Beer Bloggers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 62nd Session is hosted by Angelo De Ieso from Portland&#8217;s Brewpublic and he&#8217;s asking the musical question: What Drives Beer Bloggers?. Personally, I use a car, but I have a feeling that&#8217;s not what he&#8217;s talking about. You read can his complete announcement, or in a nutshell, here&#8217;s what he&#8217;s driving at: The title [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Home County Healthiest In State Despite Higher Than Average Binge Drinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family and I live just north of San Francisco, in Marin County. We moved here a number of years ago to be closer to my wife&#8217;s family, who live in Sonoma County. When she was working in San Francisco, Marin was in the middle of work and family, so it made sense. There&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy Of A Propaganda Piece</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Alcohol Justice promoting it, I just knew there had to be more to the CNN story Movies May Increase Binge Drinking in Teens. The article is based on a study published in the journal Pediatrics with the more benign title Alcohol Consumption in Movies and Adolescent Binge Drinking in 6 European Countries. But either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity &amp; Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the unspoken benefits of beer is that it&#8217;s a very useful relaxation tool. After a hard, stressful day of work, a tasty beer is just the thing to calm one&#8217;s nerves. It would be nearly impossible to quantify, but I have to wonder how much better off many people are because of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now Made With Craft Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m walking through the grocery store the other day; and I&#8217;m hungry, which is never a good combination. I&#8217;m perusing the frozen food section, when something catches my eye. It&#8217;s Cheddar Bites, or more specifically &#8220;Crispy Beer Battered Aged White Cheddar&#8221; by Alexia. Now it&#8217;s not that they&#8217;re beer-battered — which I&#8217;m pleased about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, The Horror: Children Recognize Beer Brands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another classic propaganda study was just released in Britain, using the all-too-common meme of &#8220;think of the children&#8221; as the wedge to attack alcohol advertising. Ever since Prohibition ended miserably here in the U.S., anti-alcohol groups turned their attention to other methods of crippling alcohol, and attacking advertising has been a favorite strategy. It&#8217;s quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drowning One&#8217;s Sorrows May Be Genetic</title>
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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>The Great Beeramid Of Calories &amp; Carbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting infographic, though for most craft beer drinkers it won&#8217;t be of much use. It&#8217;s a pyramid — or beeramid — showing many of the most popular mainstream beers with their calories and carbohydrates shown, ranking them with the lowest in both at the top of the beeramid and the beers with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martha Stewart Declares Beer &#8220;The New Thing&#8221;</title>
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		<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>Rare Beer Hysteria Gone Awry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I assume many people already saw this, and the brouhaha seems to have died down, if not gone away. But the issue remains, lingering like a wound that won&#8217;t heal. The specific incident in question began a few days ago when a restaurant in Sacramento, Kupros Bistro, got a keg of Russian River&#8217;s highly sought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #61: What Makes Local Beer Better?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 03:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 61st Session is hosted by Matt Robinson — a.k.a. The Hoosier Beer Geek — and he&#8217;s asking us to consider the question What Makes Local Beer Better? Here&#8217;s how he puts it: The topic I&#8217;ve been thinking about is local beer. The term is being used by just about every craft brewer in the [...]]]></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>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>State Alcohol Administrators Slam Alcohol Justice</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/state-alcohol-administrators-slam-alcohol-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/state-alcohol-administrators-slam-alcohol-justice/#comments</comments>
		<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>Big Changes At A-B InBev</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/big-changes-at-a-b-inbev/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/big-changes-at-a-b-inbev/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breweries]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/?p=11970</guid>
		<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>Loving the White Rabbit</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/loving-the-white-rabbit/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/loving-the-white-rabbit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Beer]]></category>
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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>Paper or Plastic &amp; Beer</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/paper-or-plastic-beer/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/paper-or-plastic-beer/#comments</comments>
		<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>Climate Change In Terms Of Beer Temperature</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/climate-change-in-terms-of-beer-temperature/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/climate-change-in-terms-of-beer-temperature/#comments</comments>
		<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>Danny Williams Needs Your Help</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/danny-williams-needs-your-help/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/danny-williams-needs-your-help/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/wisconsin-homebrewing-under-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/wisconsin-homebrewing-under-fire/#comments</comments>
		<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>The Absurdity Of Binge Drinking Statistics</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/the-absurdity-of-binge-drinking-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/the-absurdity-of-binge-drinking-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/?p=11793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those things that&#8217;s increasingly pissing me off, because it avoids real problems that some people have with alcohol in favor of trying to turn individual problems into an epidemic. It&#8217;s not. If anything, overall consumption of alcohol is decreasing. But it&#8217;s hard to get funding, finance addiction clinics and raise money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Reports Rates Mainstream Beers</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/consumer-reports-rates-mainstream-beers/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/consumer-reports-rates-mainstream-beers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/?p=11741</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/?p=11633</guid>
		<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>Make Lew Bryson&#8217;s Christmas A Happy One!</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/make-lew-brysons-christmas-a-happy-one/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/make-lew-brysons-christmas-a-happy-one/#comments</comments>
		<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>Snacking Between Meals Leads to Alcoholism &amp; Death</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/snacking-between-meals-leads-to-alcoholism-death/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/snacking-between-meals-leads-to-alcoholism-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/?p=11382</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before Prohibition became a reality, the prohibitionists used shameless propaganda to advance their cause, and it became increasingly absurd as time went on. When the temperance movement began in the 1830s, it was primarily against hard liquor, and beer was thought of as a drink of moderation, which by comparison it was. But over time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Beer Bans</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/christmas-beer-bans/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/christmas-beer-bans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Christmas falling on a Sunday this year, apparently more than half of the states still have antiquated blue laws on their books, restricting alcohol sales on Sundays, Christmas or both. As of about a year ago, at least fourteen states still enforced some kind of Sunday restriction. But according to a report today on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Sales By Style Through Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-sales-by-style-through-thanksgiving/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-sales-by-style-through-thanksgiving/#comments</comments>
		<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>St. Nicholas: Patron Saint of Brewers</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/st-nicholas-patron-saint-of-brewers/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/st-nicholas-patron-saint-of-brewers/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>Sumerian Beer: The Origins of Brewing Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/sumerian-beer-the-origins-of-brewing-technology-in-ancient-mesopotamia/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/sumerian-beer-the-origins-of-brewing-technology-in-ancient-mesopotamia/#comments</comments>
		<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>Top 8 Beer Sales Days</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/top-8-beer-sales-days/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/top-8-beer-sales-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This two-year old SlashFood article showed up in my Paper.li today, retweeted by a brewery I follow. The article, Super Bowl Sunday — The 8th Biggest Beer Day of the Year? questions the list of the top eight &#8220;Holidays/Events for Beer.&#8221; The list was complied by Nielsen, and as he points out is &#8220;combined beer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving From The Brookston Beer Bulletin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished my family&#8217;s Thanksgiving feast, enjoyed with a 2000 magnum of Our Special Ale from Anchor Brewing that I found nestled in the back of one of our refrigerators. Boy am I stuffed. Before the tryptophan kicks in and I&#8217;m found drooling on the sofa, I wanted to take a moment to wish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updates On The Vodka &amp; Tampon Hoax</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall my skeptical take on the Vodka and Tampon story two weeks ago. Since then, I got an e-mail from a friend with a link to a Tiny Cat Pants post In Which I Debunk the Vodka-Soaked Tampon Myth. Today, I learned from the Missus that Danielle Crittenden, Managing Editor, Blogs, for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Declines Of The British Pub Slowing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September, the British Beer &#38; Pub Association released information regarding pub closures in the UK. Back in the 1970s more than 90% of all beer consumed in Britain was bought from the &#8220;on trade&#8221; — pubs and clubs. According to the British Beer &#38; Pub Association this ratio had fallen to 51% from pubs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MADD Rates The States</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a press release sent out by the neo-prohibitionist organization MADD yesterday, it&#8217;s the five-year anniversary of the launching of their Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving® program, which you can tell is all about the results since they went to the trouble to get a &#8220;registered trademark&#8221; on the name. I also find it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fomenting Female Fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purported scientific journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research has just published another doozy, this one entitled The Legacy of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Law Changes: Long-Term Effects on Suicide and Homicide Deaths Among Women. The idea was to compare people drinking before the age was raised to 21 with when 18-year olds could still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belgium&#8217;s Liquid Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NPR program PRI&#8217;s The World had an interesting piece yesterday by a Clark Boyd entitled In Belgium, It’s Not Just Beer. It’s ‘Liquid Communication.’ I like that turn of phrase, &#8220;Liquid Communication,&#8221; though the gist of the article is that the author, understandably, worries that ABI might start capitalizing on the romance of Belgian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drunk Off &#8230; Er, In Your Ass?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mix of thanks and &#8220;how could you&#8221; to Stephen Beaumont for tweeting this story, because now that I know it, I can&#8217;t unknow it. According to Digital Journal, a growing trend among Phoenix, Arizona, area youths — disturbingly both girls and boys — is to get drunk by soaking a tampon in vodka and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink Beer &#8230; You Know, For The Girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently there&#8217;s yet another misguided attempt to reach women with the aim of tempting them to try beer by making the color of the beer pink. This time it&#8217;s a group of young South African women attending Durban University of Technology who came up with the idea for the beer, which they&#8217;re calling Pink Fantasy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Societal Costs vs. Personal Costs For Alcohol</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first glance I thought my pals at Alcohol Justice (AJ) got their hooks in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), because I don&#8217;t know anyone better at making up behaviors that cry out for personal responsibility that are ascribed to society (for the cost) and business (for the fault). Their absurd &#8220;charge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drinking &amp; Cultural Anthropology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC Magazine published online a couple of weeks ago an interesting piece on cultural anthropology as it relates to drinking patterns, entitled Viewpoint: Is the Alcohol Message All Wrong?. While the article itself I found compelling on its on, the way in which it was attacked in the voluminous number of comments is at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop A Mate Driving Drunk: Legend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, I posted some PSA&#8217;s aiming to prevent drunk driving in rural Australia — Prevent Mate Morphosis. They used something we&#8217;re not used to seeing here in the U.S.: humor. Now here&#8217;s another great PSA, this time from New Zealand, that uses a sense of humor to get its message across without pandering or using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jester King Sues Texas Over Antiquated Beer Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jester King Craft Brewery in Austin, Texas, is my new hero, but then I&#8217;m a fan of their Don Quixote kind of crazy. The windmill they&#8217;re currently tilting at is the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC). Like most states, and the Federal government, most of the laws regarding alcohol were written in the months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevent Mate Morphosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While searching for more information about yesterday&#8217;s featured artist for my Beer In Art series, I discovered a second artist named Ben Sanders, this one working as an illustrator in Australia. Perhaps more importantly, he&#8217;s actually worked on a campaign to reduce drunk driving down under. The campaign, sponsored by the Motor Accident Commission, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Propaganda Masquerading As A Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is a report not a report? When it&#8217;s created as propaganda by an organization with the sole purpose of advancing its anti-alcohol agenda. In fact, just calling such propaganda a &#8220;report&#8221; seems dishonest in and of itself. Witness today&#8217;s press release from the self-appointed sheriff of Alcohol Alley, the newly renamed Alcohol Justice (f.k.a. [...]]]></description>
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