This morning I composed a review of the latest silky-smooth trippel from Unibroue but then shit happened and I said, screw it. We need a kegger. So without further ado, everybody get in line behind the pressurized tank of social lubricant and try to make small talk. What’s in it? Who cares? For me it …
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Friday Beer Blogging – Green Beer You Can Drink Year-Round
File this under, doing good by living well. In the tradition of St. Patrick’s day the folks at Wired have decided to spotlight an entirely different type of green beer: Brooklyn Brewery, located on Brewer’s Row in Brooklyn, New York, is one of a handful of breweries around the country that uses sustainable energy when …
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Saturday Beer Blogging – Indulge Yourself
My apologies to those of you going through beer-blogging withdrawal; last-minute grantwriting panic and a long-planned weekend getaway with the wife kept me away fromt he computer until now. In brief, once the grant wrapped up my wife and I drove to Nemacolin Woodlands, a ridiculously posh spa/hunting/golf resort located just over a hill from …
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Friday Beer Blogging – The Long Shadow Of A Small Country
On a tour of Europe you can pass through Belgium without necessarily knowing that you were there. Pretty in its own slightly-unique way, smallish and largely a non-player in the scheme of international intrigue, Belgium has become a geographic center of the brewing universe. Like the French monks who cultivated the science of winemaking, monks …
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Friday Beer Blogging – The Best Beer You’ve Never Heard Of
Colorado has an almost obscene density of microbrewers, brewpubs, homebrewers and any other kind of small-batch brewing you can imagine. You’ll find some incredible gems if you poke around long enough, or anyhow the poking around itself is fun enough to put a positive burnish on the whole experience. It’s no surprise then that, insofar …
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Friday Beer Blogging – Beer Is A Sign That God Loves Me And Wants Me To Be Happy Live Forever
We at Ballon Juice HQ understand the importance of drinking safely. If, for example, you’re reading this blog while drinking and driving we recommend that you should stop at least one of those things and probably two. But let’s think about the word ‘safety’ for a minute. If you define safety as reducing your risk …
Friday Beer Blogging – Sometimes One Good Review Is Enough
Today’s beer blog extends a gesture of comraderie to rain-soaked Seattle, whose football team this year made it to the big game for the first time ever. Specifically we raise a glass to underappreciated Rainier lager: Also available in cans You can read an interesting early history of the Rainier brand here. Production was started …
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