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UK Brewing Part 3: Our pub visits
Without a doubt, one of my favorite things about England is the traditional pub. There is something I really enjoy about a comfortable, warm room, no television, a great selection of mostly lower...
View ArticleGABF and Yakima, WA
I’ve been doing a lot of traveling over the past month, and decided, after thinking hard about it, to not go the Great American Beer Festival this year. This is the first year in many years that I...
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The Bottle Share and the changing landscape of beer drinking
I love craft beer bottle shares. Many of the parties and events I go to now include a large group of serious beer fans, and because of that, I get to taste some really rare beers on a pretty regular...
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Asheville Revisited
I had the pleasure of returning to Asheville, one of my favorite places, in mid-December for some more great beer events and some great music. I’ve been there twice now, both times in 2013, and have...
View ArticleMy Favorite Beer Cities
Another one I never got around to posting because sometimes life gets in the way: Stephen Beaumont wrote a post a while back on his World of Beer site that “there is no such thing as a “best beer...
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Beers from my past-Pt 1: The Anheuser-Busch American Originals
I’ve been getting pinged a lot lately in Social Media about the recent re-introduction of Anheuser-Busch’s Faust Lager. This spurred me to go into our garage over the Thanksgiving weekend and pull out...
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The 4 American Originals: Beers From My Past. Chapter 2
Now it’s time to talk about the beers that were introduced under the American Originals umbrella in the Fall of 1995: Faust, Muenchener, and Black and Tan, and later, American Hop Ale. Unfortunately,...
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Anheuser-Busch Christmas and Winter Brews of the mid 1990s
Merry Christmas! The lights hung at the St. Louis Brewery at Christmas time were always magical to me. Most brewers know this fact: call a winter seasonal beer a “Christmas” beer or “Holiday” beer, and...
View ArticleAmerican Hop Ale and 1996 Winter Brew: The recipes
I was straightening up the bookshelf in my office today and found an old spiral bound notebook that I used to log my old home brewing recipes in. And as a nice surprise, I found tucked between the...
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The Anheuser-Busch Specialty Brewing Group Beers before my time-Pt 1: Elk...
There were several “Specialty” beers that were developed by the Anheuser-Busch Specialty Brewing Group before I joined the team in 1995. Here’s summary of the Elk Mountain beers. These beers were named...
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