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Roll Out the Barrel, We’ll Have a Barrel of Brew

Posted in Beer, Reviews on Dec 5th, 2009

What’s life without the barrel? It seems that everywhere I look these days, my favorite breweries are releasing tricked-out, new barrel-aged beers. Port barrels, whisky barrels, sherry casks, madeira casks, wine barrels.  Its kind of dizzying. What’s next?  Monkey barrels?  Fish barrels?  Oil drums?  (Who knows, perhaps an Exxon Light Crude Porter would pair beautifully with my […]

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Ask an Insider: The Birth of the Microbrew

Posted in Beer on Aug 23rd, 2009

Ask an Insider is an interview series that talks to the people that make, serve, shake, sip, pump, pour, crush, distill, and bring life to this industry.  (For other interviews in the series, click the Ask an Insider tag at the bottom) There are many professions that kids consider downright uncool.  “What’s your dad do?  […]

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On the Hunt for Pliny in the Emerald City

Posted in Beer, Reviews on Jul 9th, 2009

Seattle rules.  For an NYC boy like me to get to see more than a sliver of the sky at a time, it’s a pleasure, but to see the entire sky at once was beyond therapeutic.  And the sheer amount of art?  Whoa.  I thought the East Village was artsy, but its got nothing on […]

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