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Brew Ha Ha: making a fuss about beer

January 29th, 2008

Wouldn’t the Stout win?

I don’t really understand how facebook works, but apparently users have been using a facebook application called beer wars to rate and promote their favorite beers. The beer wars people describe it as follows:
In case you don’t already know, Beer Wars is a cool new Facebook app that allows you to nominate:
- the beer you’re […]

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January 16th, 2008

A Dock Street

Last weekend I managed to finally make it to the new incarnation of the Dock Street brewpub, which is pretty pathetic considering I had planned to go when they first opened. For those who don’t know, Dock Street was a Philadelphia-based pioneer of micro-brewed beers back in the 80s, at one point vying with Sam […]

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January 10th, 2008

Learning to brew for free

As a beer lover, I’ve often considered brewing my own beer. The possibilities seem endless - brown ales, pale ales, stouts, fancy Belgian-style beers - all for a little effort and at a significantly lower cost than the same number of cases of beer. That, and I’d truly understand and know my beers.
Then I […]

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January 9th, 2008

The Cru brew survives

A few weeks ago I had a delightful lunch with my wife at the Belgian Café, a delightful new Belgian bar in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia (kind of a Monk’s north, for those who know the popular Belgian bar in Center City Philadelphia. When Monk’s moved in to the former 16th Street Bar and […]

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December 22nd, 2007

More beer with food

In case you missed it, yesterday’s post was my attempt at finding the appropriate beers to match a wonderful menu put together by Tracey of foodie obsessed. Those who prefer wine will find a their pairings on Farley’s post at Behind the Vines.
In researching and considering my choices for yesterday’s post, I found a number […]

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December 17th, 2007

Last gasp for the late buyer

Ok, this is going to be the last gift post of the year, since if you don’t finish your Christmas shopping today you need to get off the computer and get to the store. Let’s face it, after today no one’s going to deliver anything you order in time for Christmas anyway, so it’s bricks […]

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November 25th, 2007

Gifts for the beer geek

   
It’s coming up on that time of year, and I’m here to help with a list of gifts for the beer geek in your life. Now, it’s not really that hard to come up with gift ideas for your malt beverage-drinking friends, and I’ve already suggested a few possible gifts (glasses and the “lagerhead” come to […]

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November 12th, 2007

Passing of an era

So, I haven’t written about our decorating style because, well, decorating is not one of my priorities in life. There is one decorating decision we made some time ago which I both enjoy and regret, and which is actually relevant to this blog.
You see, long ago when we first bought our house we decided […]

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October 28th, 2007

World series of beer

It’s been a rough ride for Colorado thus far in the World Series, so I thought I’d give them another chance by comparing the strength of beers from Colorado with those of Massachusetts (much of which, let’s face it, is a suburb of Boston anyway). Now, both states have a lot of good brewpubs, but […]

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October 19th, 2007

Augustiner

I’ve mentioned it here and here, but I have always enjoyed Augustiner’s beers. For those of you who have spent any time in Munich, you’ll know that Augustiner is not nearly as well represented across the city as Paulaner, Löwenbräu and Spaten, but when you get the chance to order one, do (preferably an Edelstoff, […]

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