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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Drunk Phrases

April 7, 2009

For my 12th Top 10 list I’m feeling word nerdy, so it’s time to break out the Drunk Words, a project I worked on several years ago and finally got back on line last year. One of things I absolutely love about the English language is just how many words we have for the same [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Animals Associated With Beer

March 31, 2009

I had to skip last week’s list, there was just too much going on. But as the last day of March is upon us, I’m reminded of the old saying “March comes in like a lager, and goes out like a lambic.” Or perhaps that’s a lion and a lamb? There are several animals closely [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Annoyances Of St. Patrick's Day

March 17, 2009

Unless you’re living under a rock, you no doubt know that today is St. Patrick’s Day, a national day in Ireland and a drinking day here in the United States of Alcohol, where almost every holiday has been stripped of whatever meaning it originally had and has been turned into a marketing opportunity for Hallmark [...]

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Top Ten Thursday: Top 10 Smoked Beers

March 12, 2009

For my ninth Top 10 list I’m behind again — story of life the last few weeks. On Tuesday, I finished up the last of four articles that were due at various times over the past week. Lew Bryson just announced his topic for next month’s Session, which is Smoked beers, so I thought that [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Favorite Food & Beer Pairings

March 3, 2009

You may have noticed that today’s my 50th birthday, and it’s also time for another Top Ten list. I’m hungry … really hungry, so I thought I’d make that the topic for my eighth Top 10 list — my favorite foods to pair with beer. I’m not talking specifics, just the best overall types of [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Least Favorite Defects

February 24, 2009

Struggling to finish three articles this week, one of which is about beer defects, I figured I’d make that the topic for my seventh Top 10 list. To me, the curious thing about defects and identifying them for judging purposes is that everyone’s palates are different to some degree. Each person’s tolerances for different flavors [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Festival Pet Peeves

February 17, 2009

After taking a week off for SF Beer Week and attending something like 25-30 events in ten days, my sixth Top 10 list is my pet peeves at a beer festival or event, the things that drive me batty when out in public at an event involving sampling, be it at a festival, bar or [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Anchor Beers

February 3, 2009

For my fifth Top 10 list I’m up to my eyeballs getting ready for SF Beer Week. Since Anchor Brewery is the oldest brewery in San Francisco still around, having been founded originally around 1864 (though it wasn’t called Anchor beer until 1896), I though I’d list my favorite Anchor beers. On Friday they’re debuting [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Beer Songs

January 27, 2009

For my fourth Top 10 list I’m tackling — as promised — my first non-beer topic, though it’s beer related. As far as I’m concerned, music and beer are as interconnected as two things can be. They certainly enhance one another. I’m a failed musician —saxophone and clarinet — and in fact was originally a [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Brewing Nations

January 20, 2009

For my third Top 10 list I thought I’d tackle something global. For many years, decades and longer, which countries were known for their beer was fairly staid, and didn’t change much at all. And for most of that time, the U.S. wouldn’t likely make the list at all. But over the last thirty years, [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Pub Pet Peeves

January 13, 2009

For my second Top 10 list I’m feeling grumpy, due to a nasty cold that’s knocked me for a loop. So my list will reflect that, the things that drive me batty when out in public, be it at a beer bar or restaurant, anywhere really, where beer is served that’s a public space. I [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Barley Wine Names

January 6, 2009

I’m inveterate list maker. I love making them, reading them and commenting on them. I’ve been sharing any beer-related ones I come across here for three years now, so I figured it’s time I start making my own. So each Tuesday will be Top Ten Tuesday, when I’ll post a new list, usually with a [...]

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