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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>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>Session #51: The Great Online Beer &amp; Cheese-Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 06:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my great pleasure to host our 51st Session, my second time playing host over the four years we&#8217;ve been doing them. I chose a frightfully complicated topic which I&#8217;ve taken to calling by an overly grand name: The Great Online Beer &#38; Cheese-Off. You can go back and read the long, original version of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brekle&#8217;s Brown Released By Anchor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening at Anchor Brewing in San Francisco, the brewery released their newest beer, Brekle&#8217;s Brown, named for the very first brewer at the brewery that would eventually become Anchor, Gottlieb Brekle. Mark Carpenter, Anchor&#8217;s brewmaster showing off his latest creation, Brekle&#8217;s Brown. The beer is a beautiful bright mahogany, with a tan head. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pliny the Younger 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Pliny the Younger Day at Russian River Brewing in Santa Rosa, California. I arrived a little before eleven, and owner/brewer Vinnie Cilurzo let me in the back of the brewpub. The difference between last year&#8217;s release day and this year&#8217;s was immediately apparent. There was relative calm in the place, the bar was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer In Art #111: Simon de Vos&#8217; Allegory Of The Five Senses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s work of art is another one not strictly beer-oriented, again focusing on our fives senses, and in particular smell and taste, to create and enjoy the flavor of beer. The painter is Simon De Vos, who born in Belgium in 1603. The painting is known as The Allegory of the Five Senses and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Nevada&#8217;s Hoptimum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first beers of the New Year will be a new Imperial IPA from Sierra Nevada Brewing, whose Hoptimum will be officially released January 1, 2011. If you&#8217;re fortunate enough to be in Chico, it was released there locally on Monday, but the rest of us will have to wait until 2011. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Beer Awards 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep forgetting to write about this. Earlier this year I was asked to help judge for the World Beer Awards, which are put on by the former UK beer magazine Beers of the World, which is now published only online at Tasting Beers. They separated the beers into regions and Stan Hieronymus chaired the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBS Highlights Consumer Reports Beer Tasting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I almost forgot about this. The week before last I got a call from the local CBS television station, CBS 5, asking me to comment on a story they were working on regarding a recent Consumer Reports beer tasting that was published in their August issue. In Bargain beer from Costco, they had consumers taste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drink What You Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times had a great essay recently by Geoff Nicholson, entitled Drink What You Know. It&#8217;s part book review — for a re-issued &#8220;The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto&#8221; — and part survey of literary drinking and writer&#8217;s advice on both writing and drinking. It includes this gem about the perils of my profession. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Advocate&#8217;s Top 100 Beers On Planet Earth Annotated, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest list of the Top Beers on Planet Earth that Beer Advocate released yesterday was an experimental list, aimed at sparking a discussion so they could consider the best way to approach such lists in the future. After a day of constructive feedback, and some not so constructive I&#8217;m told, they&#8217;ve again redone the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer Advocate&#8217;s Top 100 Beers On Planet Earth Annotated</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beer Advocate just released their latest list of the Top Beers on Planet Earth, at least according to their ratings. Just for fun, I&#8217;ve also looked through them and pulled out some interesting statistics about the list. In the Top 100, there are beers from 44 breweries. Those breweries are from seven countries, with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manipulation Of The Crowd: Online Ratings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Scientific American has an interesting article, Manipulation of the Crowd: How Trustworthy Are Online Ratings?, a topic of interest to any brewery who&#8217;s ever received a bad review from either Beer Advocate or Rate Beer. Intuitively, it&#8217;s seemed to me that the overall quality of the ratings on those sites have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betsey&#8217;s Belgians</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my newspaper column two weeks ago, entitled Betsey&#8217;s Belgians, I highlighted Waterloo Beverages and the new beers they&#8217;re bringing in from Belgium. The beers are being brought in by a friend of mine, Betsey Hensley, who used to work at the Toronado. Since these beers are so good and I think deserve a chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pliny the Younger Takes Top Spot On Beer Advocate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For at least the last few years, Westvleteren 12 has been the highest rated beer on Beer Advocate. But it&#8217;s now been overtaken by an American beer, Russian River&#8217;s Pliny the Younger, Vinnie&#8217;s once-a-year triple IPA that was released this year on February 5. Judy Ashworth, Stephen Beaumont, me &#038; Peter Hoey at the Pliny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasting Tactical Nuclear Penguin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a special treat today that was completely unexpected. One of the beers that my friend Phil Lowry — who owns Beer Merchants — brought along to the surprise birthday party for Rodger Davis (Triple Rock brewer) was BrewDog&#8217;s Tactical Nuclear Penguin. I&#8217;ll have more about Rodger&#8217;s party on Tuesday, his actual birthday. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utopias 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday of last week, Boston Beer brewer Bert Boyce was in town o the last leg of a three-city tour of California to introduce the 2009 edition of Samuel Adams&#8216; Utopias. Boyce is originally from California, and I first met him while he was working at Drakes in San Leandro a several years ago. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monk&#8217;s Blood Dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday night a beer dinner was held at the 21st Amendment Brewery &#038; Restaurant in San Francisco to celebrate the release of their newest beer in a can, Monk&#8217;s Blood, the first in a new series they&#8217;ve dubbed the &#8220;Insurrection Series.&#8221; The cans themselves will be out in four-packs in about two weeks. Here&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Bay Area Holiday Fest A Good Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, my old company, Beverages &#038; more, where once upon a time I was the beer buyer for almost five years, hosted the first holiday beer fest in the Bay Area. Dubbed the BevMo Holiday Beerfest, it was organized by local beer festival promoter Jeff Moses, who also does the Monterey Beer Festival, among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Beer Cities &amp; America&#8217;s Best Beers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men&#8217;s Journal yesterday released their annual lists of beer, both America&#8217;s Best Beers and The Top Five Beer Towns in the U.S.. Let&#8217;s look at the top five cities first. San Diego New York City Portland Philadelphia Chicago It&#8217;s nice to see San Diego get some much-deserved love. While I think New York has improved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Longshot Judging</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday I flew to Boston to judge the finals of the Longshot American Homebrew Contest. This is the third year for the new contest, which Samuel Adams also did in the mid-1990s in a slightly different format. But the idea is the same. Homebrewers submit their beer, which is judged in regional competitions. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Anchor Christmas Ale Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year since 1975 the brewers at Anchor Brewery have brewed a distinctive and unique Christmas Ale, which is now available from early November to mid-January. From Anchor&#8217;s website: The Ale’s recipe is different every year—as is the tree on the label—but the intent with which we offer it remains the same: joy and celebration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s First All-Rye Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most rye beers that I&#8217;m aware of use only around 10-20% rye with the rest being the more traditional barley. I&#8217;ve always liked that little something that rye adds to the beer and was in heaven over ten years ago during that year or so when it seemed like almost everybody was making a rye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Blogging Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was away this weekend at the Northern California Homebrewers Festival and — gasp — had no internet access for two whole days. As a result I missed the Wall Street Journal article about ethics among food bloggers that ran in Saturday&#8217;s paper entitled The Price of a Four-Star Rating. Luckily, more than a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #7: The Brew Zoo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s Session, hosted by Rick Lyke at Lyke2Drink, is another clever one. The theme is the Brew Zoo, meaning beers with animal names or labels, of which the beer world is replete with examples. Today was my son Porter&#8217;s birthday party (his actual day is Monday) and so I wasn&#8217;t able to blog yesterday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #3: The Mysterious Misunderstood Mild</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 12:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thrilled to discover that Dave McLean from San Francisco&#8217;s Magnolia Pub &#38; Brewery not only had a mild, but had one on cask available at the pub. He put it on Monday so I was hoping it would still be there when I arrived Thursday afternoon. Happily, when I arrived I found both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Brew on A&amp;E Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight on the A&#38;E cable network, they&#8217;re airing Roger Sherman&#8217;s documentary, The American Brew. The first showing is at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific)/9 Central and Mt. and then again on Sunday, April 8 at 2:00 a.m./1 Central/Mt. I was fortunate enough to get an advance rough cut of the film a little while ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #2: Dubbel Your Pleasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our second session of Beer Blogging Friday I went a little farther from home and chose an old favorite, Westmalle Dubbel. Dubbel, of course, doesn&#8217;t mean the beer is double anything, but merely that it&#8217;s stronger than the single and not as strong as the tripel. It&#8217;s all relative, meaning the strength of dubbels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blogging Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomme Arthur from Port Brewing sent me, and a few other brewers, a link to a San Francisco Chronicle article entitled &#8220;Food bloggers dish up plates of spicy criticism, Formerly formal discipline of reviewing becomes a free-for-all for online amateurs&#8221; by staff writers Stacy Finz and Justin Berton. Now given the internet&#8217;s erosion of traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #1: Not Your Father&#8217;s Stout</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our first session of Beer Blogging Friday I chose an old local favorite, San Quentin&#8217;s Breakout Stout from Marin Brewing. I must confess that it&#8217;s been at least several years since I&#8217;d tasted it and, as such, was looking very forward to finding out how much it had changed or I had changed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playboy Uncovers Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The February edition of Playboy magazine includes an article called Brew Romance, in which a distinguished panel of fourteen chose their favorite bottled beers in several categories. The article then recounts the results. Here are their top ten choices: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Victory Prima Pils Ommegang Abbey Ale Anderson Valley Boont Amber Sierra Nevada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong Beer Month Coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning on February 1, 21st Amendment Brewery and Magnolia Pub &#38; Brewery, both in San Francisco, will team up again to host their fifth annual Strong Beer Month. Each brewpub will create five new and different seasonal beers — and if you haven&#8217;t figured it out yet, they&#8217;ll all be strong — that will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christgau on Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fun little piece of history I stumbled upon yesterday while searching for something wholly unrelated. If you&#8217;ve followed music with any seriousness, I probably don&#8217;t have to tell you who Robert Christgau is. Christgau has been the rock critic at the Village Voice for over thirty years and has published several books of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Strap Stout, Black Strap Cookies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is BridgePort Brewing&#8217;s 22nd anniversary so I thought it was time to pull out the cookies they sent me that are made using their Black Strap Stout. This is the second year that Cougar Mountain cookies has made the &#8220;cocoa-based cookie with chocolate chunks&#8221; for their &#8220;flavor of the month.&#8221; The stout is inky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.Y. Times Reviews Ambitious Brew</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday&#8217;s Book Section of the New York Times reviewed two new beer books, including Marueen Ogle&#8217;s Ambitious Brew. The gave it a decent review, but perhaps more importantly it&#8217;s great to see the Times actually review books about beer. That&#8217;s certainly a sign that &#8220;the times they are a-changin&#8217;.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Watermelon Funk is Funkadelic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During last weekend&#8217;s bus trip to Russian River Brewing in Santa Rosa, Vinnie brought out a couple of pitchers from the barrel of his collaboration with 21st Amendment that&#8217;s been sitting in wood for a year now. Essentially as an experiment, Shaun O&#8217;Sullivan gave some of his Watermelon Wheat to Vinnie Cilurzo who put it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beers of OBF</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While seeing friends in Portland is probably the best reason I love OBF, the beers there rank a close second. Seventy-two beers (73 including the Collaborator that the Oregon Brew Crew does) are poured at the festival and each brewery is allowed only one beer. Here are some interesting facts about the festival from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watermelon Wheat in Cans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 18:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stopped by 21st Amendment yesterday to pick up a six-pack of their Watermelon Wheat in cans for a tasting later tonight. I had some on draft first and then had one out of the can. I couldn&#8217;t really detect any difference in flavor apart from the cans having more carbonation. It&#8217;s possible that&#8217;s because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sasquatch Legacy Project Event in San Francisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was the charity event at 21st Amendment Brewery for the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation. They served the Sasquatch Legacy Project&#8217;s Imperial Red Ale, which was a collaborative effort. The beer was created by the current Foundation Brewing Scholarship recipients (Barney Brennan of Full Sail Brewing, Jenn Gridley of Fish Brewing, and Markus Stinson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day Rejection: It&#8217;s Delicious</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian River Brewing&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day seasonal beer is called Rejection, a name so perfect for the holiday that I thought I&#8217;d go there today with my sweetheart (in this case with my daughter Alice) and try a pint. When I arrived, Vinnie and his assistant brewer, Travis, were in the middle of a bottling day, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21st Amendment Taps Firkin of Imperial IPA at Barclay&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Night at Barclays Restaurant &#38; Pub on College Avenue in Berkeley, 21st Amendment brewer and co-owner Shaun O&#8217;Sullivan tapped a firkin of his new Double Trouble Imperial IPA. One of several new beers for Strong Beer Month, the Imperial IPA is 10.1% abv and an absolute delight on the firkin. It&#8217;s brightly amber colored [...]]]></description>
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