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Surly Abrasive Ale
Like anything in American life, the IPA debate always gets whittled down to an East coast/West Coast thing and I won’t make a 2Pac/Biggie joke in the year 2010. But there’s more to America than the...
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Wachusett Larry
7.5% ABV on tap and from a bomber The east coast gets derided for making mediocre IPAs, “incorrect” IPAs, and perhaps rightly so, but a few weekends ago I stumbled across two New England gems while in...
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Sink the Bismarck!
I’m about as tired of the “Most Alcoholic Beer on Planet Earth” arms race as I am with the existential nerd debates over “What IS beer?”* Sure, BrewDog’s 41% Sink the Bismarck! is a gimmick, but,...
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Smoke
FOR OFFICIAL RELEASE (to be reblogged, retweeted, hashtagged, Facebook statused, liked) Many of you said the world of beer geekery couldn’t get any more geeky. We said not true. That’s why we at...
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Karl Strauss Big Barrel Double IPA
9% ABV from a bomber Seems once a week some dork starts a thread on the Beer Advocate forums with some open question along the lines of “Why do brewers seem to only care about making double IPAs and...
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Zoe
7.2% 500 mL bottled I’ve been so busy with other projects I’ve had little time lately to review beer. Which means, if and when I do write a review, one of two things has occurred: I got free beer...
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COOP AleWorks
Back when I lived in Oklahoma, back in the 90s, there really wasn’t any decent craft beer. (Of course, I was a teenager.) I kinda felt like it would always be that way. This is a state where you...
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Nebraska Reserve Series Apricot Au Poivre Saison Aged in Chardonnay Barrels
6.5% from a 750 mL (I apologize for the sideways picture–my iPhone is fucked up.) So…I write a novel, I’m feeling pretty proud about myself, about my career, and yet I keep hearing from people, I keep...
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The Abbey Brewing Company
South Beach is the land of skinny people drinking Coronas, skinny people drinking margaritas, and skinny people (or Nicole Polizzi) drinking margaritas with Coronas dumped into them (for real). Now,...
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Saison D’Erpe-Mere Zymatore
While at the great DBGB last night slip slidin’ the night away with the carpet salesman, I noticed a beer type of the like I’d never seen before: a gin-barrel-aged brew. Now, I didn’t even realize...
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