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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>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>Beer Birthday: Tom McCormick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 55th birthday of Tom McCormick, Executive Director of the California Craft Brewers Association (CCBA). Tom&#8217;s also owned and ran a distributorship and the Pro Brewer website, but has found his true calling promoting and defending small brewers in California. Tom is the most unflappable person I&#8217;ve ever met, and hands down one [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just For Fun]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Beers]]></category>
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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>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>State Beer Excise Tax Rates As Of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/?p=12694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tax Foundation, a Washington think tank dedicated to al things taxable, had last week for their weekly Monday Maps on the Tax Foundation&#8217;s blog an infographic on State Beer Excise Tax Rates as of September 1, 2011. Alaska has the highest tax rate and Wyoming the lowest. And, of course, the chart doesn&#8217;t include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BrewDog Vs. CAMRA Humor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of which side you&#8217;re on in the mock feud between BrewDog and CAMRA (The Campaign For Real Ale), this is pretty funny. James Watt of BrewDog just tweeted this hilarious poster portraying the two sides. I don&#8217;t know who created it, but it&#8217;s priceless.]]></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>It&#8217;s Official: February Declared California Beer Month</title>
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		<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>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>Beer Birthday: John Hickenlooper</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-birthday-john-hickenlooper-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 60th birthday of Governor of Colorado — and former Denver mayor — John Hickenlooper. John was also the co-founder of Wynkoop Brewery in Denver&#8217;s LoDo District, and in fact is credited with helping to revitalize the whole area. After being a popular and by accounts very effective mayor for several years, he [...]]]></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>Paper or Plastic &amp; Beer</title>
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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>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>The Absurdity Of Binge Drinking Statistics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<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>Hammurabi: First King Of Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I kept forgetting to post this nice piece about King Hammurabi, the Babylonian ruler responsible for mankind&#8217;s first set of laws, known as the Hammurabi Code. It ran in the San Francisco magazine Drink Me, in their October 2011 issue. The article, Hammurabi: The King Of Beers, goes into some deatil about the laws in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>Occupy Pubs: A Glass Roots Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend and colleague, Lisa Morrison — a.k.a. The Beer Goddess — just let me know about her latest project, and just in time for Christmas. She&#8217;s created a line of t-shirts, hats, stickers, iPhone cases, and so much more with a humorous nod to the Occupy Wall Street movement to show support for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snacking Between Meals Leads to Alcoholism &amp; Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<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>Ken Burns Discusses Prohibition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect many of you watched the Ken Burns documentary series Prohibition, based on the Daniel Okrent book Last Call, when it aired a few months ago on PBS. In the latest issue of Reason magazine there is an interview with Ken Burns, discussing the documentary. Since they mentioned that there was a filmed version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Beer Bans</title>
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		<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>St. Nicholas: Patron Saint of Brewers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While St. Nicholas is best known — in America, at least — for wearing red and white and giving presents to Children each December 25, he&#8217;s actually the patron saint for a number of professions, places and afflictions. His feast day is not actually Christmas Day, but almost three weeks earlier on December 6. That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>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>El Cerrito Brewpub Owner Injured By Police During Occupy Oakland</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was really hoping to avoid writing about the Occupy Oakland horrors currently going on in the city I used to call home. But last Thursday, Oakland Police apparently injured yet another war veteran — two tours, one each in Iraq and Afghanistan — simply trying to walk to his home, rupturing his spleen in [...]]]></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>We Are The 5%</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I support the Occupy Wall Street movement, this is something even nearer and dearer to my heart. I don&#8217;t know who came up with it, I saw it when Firestone Walker tweeted it, along with the hashtag #OccupythePub and the simple message: &#8220;Craft beer drinkers unite. We might only be 5% of the market [...]]]></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>Craft Beer: A True Underdog Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fun video about craft beer&#8217;s struggles to get to market. With a hat tip to Brian Stechschulte at Bay Area Craft Beer, it&#8217;s a student film by a Michael Jolly, done for his &#8220;Motion Graphics class. It&#8217;s an animated info graphic concerning American Craft Beer. I created all artwork, narration, and animation myself. [...]]]></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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		<title>Global Be(er) Responsible Day</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/global-beer-responsible-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookston.beerzine.com/?p=10418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Anheuser-Busch InBev is promoting a new holiday focusing on safe and responsible drinking behavior and especially using designated drivers. They&#8217;re calling the effort &#8220;Global Be(er) Responsible Day.&#8221; From the press release: More than 1,500 Anheuser-Busch employees across the United States won’t be at their desks on Friday, Sept. 23. Instead, they’ll be out visiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slate&#8217;s Anti-Alcohol Hatchet Job</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/slates-anti-alcohol-hatchet-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think of Slate&#8217;s online magazine as cutting edge stuff, but lately their coverage, at least of things I know something about, shows them to be staunchly conservative. Given that they&#8217;re owned by the Washington Post, I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be too surprised. Today an article by William Saletan on the web titlebar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Legislative Update</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/california-legislative-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookston.beerzine.com/?p=10188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a flurry of activity in California&#8217;s political power center lately, with a couple of new bills signed by governor Jerry Brown in Sacramento this week. Tasting Room Bill (AB 1014) The Tasting Room Bill makes it easier for breweries to serve samples of their beer without having to comply with all the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minnesota Government Shutdown Also Stops Beer Production In State</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/minnesota-government-shutdown-also-stops-beer-production-in-state/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/minnesota-government-shutdown-also-stops-beer-production-in-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookston.beerzine.com/?p=10019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a weird consequence of our stunted economy; when the state government in Minnesota shut down July 1, MillerCoors &#8220;had 39 &#8216;brand label registrations&#8217; that expired last month, and the employees who process renewals were laid off when state government shut down July 1 in a budget dispute,&#8221; according to an AP story published today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Good For Economic Growth Worldwide</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-good-for-economic-growth-worldwide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife&#8217;s a political news junkie and reads such arcane fare as Foreign Policy, a magazine covering global politics and economics. She forwarded me Chug for Growth , an article detailing how the beer industry is having a positive effect on economies around the world, especially in emerging nations. Here&#8217;s how it begins: The myth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonshot Grounded</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/moonshot-grounded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookston.beerzine.com/?p=9862</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the FDA absurdly went after drinks that combine alcohol and caffeine, the future of New Century Brewing&#8217;s Moonshot Beer was uncertain. Founded by Rhonda Kallman in 2001, after she left the Boston Beer Co., New Century Brewing created a craft light beer, Edison Light, along with the caffeinated Moonshot, which debuted in 2004. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware The Bogeyman Of Beer, He&#8217;s After Your Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a particularly ugly display of shameless greed and naked propaganda, the Marin Institute is using summer scare tactics to fuel their fund-raising efforts. Essentially their reasoning goes as follows. The summer advertising for sweet, malt-based beverages that come in colorful packages — like Four Loko, Jooce, Sparks, Blast, etc. — is &#8220;targeting&#8221; your children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Senate Establishes Small Brewers Caucus</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/u-s-senate-establishes-small-brewers-caucus/</link>
		<comments>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/u-s-senate-establishes-small-brewers-caucus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brookston.beerzine.com/?p=9809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Brewers Association (BA) announced today that the United States Senate established a Senate Small Brewers Caucus. The new Caucus was founded by Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho). From the press release: In a Dear Colleague letter, Senators Baucus and Crapo noted, &#8220;In recent years, the more than 1,700 craft brewers all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics Of Never Being Satisfied</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The anti-alcohol Marin Institute had a little item in one of their e-mail missives a few days ago, reporting on the news that Anheuser-Busch InBev announced that they would be lowering the alcohol content of their Tilt from 12% a.b.v. to 8%. You&#8217;d think that the anti-alcohol groups that have been whining about these drinks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Legislature Attacks Craft Brewers</title>
		<link>http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/wisconsin-legislature-attacks-craft-brewers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With craft beer being the only segment of the brewing industry showing strong growth, you&#8217;d think that state governments trying to fix our current economic woes would be doing everything they can to help one of the few bright spots in American business. But never underestimate the power of lobbying by interests with more money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Missing From MyPlate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the USDA scrapped their old food pyramid in favor of a new nutritional chart. The new one is called MyPlate, and as you&#8217;d expect it&#8217;s shaped like a plate. It&#8217;s also a bit simpler than previous efforts, divided into just four groups: proteins, grains, fruit and vegetables. And just off the plate is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading The Beer Meter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 06:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching a documentary today about the Library of Congress and they talked about how the library is digitizing their collection, so I took a look at the website and discovered this little gem from 1937. Post-prohibition, apparently our government experimented with different methods for ensuring that breweries paid the correct amount of taxes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News: Beer Doesn&#8217;t Kill Brain Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 23:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard this old saw your whole life, same as me, that &#8220;beer kills brain cells.&#8221; According to an item in this month&#8217;s Maxim, it turns out it just isn&#8217;t true. While alcohol can damage &#8220;neurons in the cerebellum that are responsible for motor control and memory, which helps create the impaired feeling we [...]]]></description>
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