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    Great Beer: Bell’s Black Note Stout

    Our fruit-focused, spice-sensing, and floral-finding wine drinking brothers and sisters certainly miss out on the diversity of malt beverage flavor profiles when they’re swirling and sniffing their simple drink created

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    Craft Beer, Michigan
    California, Craft Beer, Illinois

    Great Beers: Lagunitas Willettized and High West-ified Imperial Coffee Stouts

    There may be talk about corprocratic this or that and ideas of domination or selling out… –Tony Magee, 8 May 2017 Humanoids accusing other humanoids of violating vaguely defined ethics

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    Great Beer: Modern Times Devil’s Teeth, Bourbon Barrel-Aged with NOLA Coffee

    A spontaneous decision to check out a venerable San Diego brewery’s new vegan restaurant/brewpub in downtown Los Angeles culminated in some world-expanding sips of the MODERN TIMES Devil’s Teeth, NOLA

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    California, Craft Beer
    Craft Beer, Wisconsin

    Great Beer: Central Waters Cherry

    More is more. Wait. Isn’t less more? More drum ‘n’ bass and less bass and drum solos, more or less? Oh. The topic is barrel-aged imperial stouts, not double live

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    Great Beer: Central Waters Stout

    More is more. Wait. Isn’t less more? More drum ‘n’ bass and less bass and drum solos, more or less? Oh. The topic is barrel-aged imperial stouts, not double live

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    Craft Beer, Wisconsin
    Craft Beer, Illinois

    Great Beer: Revolution Deth’s Tar

    Oak smells good. Bourbon smells good. Fermented sugar water extracted from deeply roasted barley smells good. Certain Cannibaceae family members smell good. Combine them in judicious yet balanced measures, and—behold!—the

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    Great Beer: Chafunkta Old 504

    You know those old, anecdotal, paradoxical stories about how eating habanero peppers, drinking hot beverages, or taking scalding showers during warm weather cools you down? Humans living in the vicinity

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    Craft Beer, Louisiana
    Craft Beer, Louisiana

    Great Beer: Urban South Modillion IPA

    This review, in Skaggsian sonnet, as inspired by Willy Shakespeare:   “Sonnet 10, Double dry-hopped IPA—thee sly beast!” Double-dry hopped IPA—thee sly beast! Praised, scorned; IKEA of yon brewer’s world.

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    Great Beer: Wayward Owl The Grind

    Originalist interpretation of Bavaria’s Reinheitsgebot, the beer ‘Purity Law’ instituted 501 years ago, would dictate that nothing should be in your beer outside of water, barley, and hops. Pragmatist interpretation

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    Craft Beer, Louisiana
    Craft Beer, Louisiana

    Great Beer: Courtyard Brewery Minimum Effort IPA

    There are thousands of reasons to visit (or move to) New Orleans: music, food, festivals, go-cups, Audubon Park, City Park, architecture, smells, potholes, Sno-Bliz, on and on. A recent addition:

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    Great Beer: Anderson Valley Brewing Company The Kimmie, The Yink & the Holy Gose

    There is water. Much more than what plants crave, the refreshing combination of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom is an (the?) integral part of beer. There’s often more

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    California, Craft Beer
    California, Craft Beer

    Great Beers: Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Across the World Multi-Pack

    12 beers and 13 breweries. One of most recognized names in craft beer collaborates with a dozen breweries across the world to produce a multi-pack that’s to die for. Trust

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