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    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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    Craft Beer: “The Essentials” | FIRESTONE WALKER UNION JACK IPA

    Our ongoing series on the essential craft beers that everyone ought to know.    Ask any ten beer lovers for a list of their favorite IPAs and, chances are, after

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    Great Beer: Dogfish Head Punkin’ Ale

    What’s more appropriate to finish off the autumn seasonals than a pumpkin ale? To be honest, I gave up on pumpkin ales a while back. I came to consider them

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    Craft Beer, Germany

    Great Beer: Weihenstephan Vitus

    Oktoberfest might be over in Germany, but it’s still going strong in the U.S., and I’m still celebrating. While WEIHENSTEPHAN’s Vitus may not be traditional Oktoberfest fare, it’s still a

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    Craft Beer, Germany

    Great Beer: Ayinger Oktober Fest-Marzen

    Before there were beer festivals, there was the beer festival. Instead of tasting 30 different shot glasses of beer, you drank ONE type of beer in a large 1-liter mug

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    Craft Beer, Louisiana

    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: “The Essentials” | SIERRA NEVADA PALE ALE

    Our ongoing series on the essential beers that anyone who’s interested in craft beer ought to know.  Continuing on my nostalgic trip down Beer Lane (refer to my last article

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    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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    Craft Beer, Louisiana

    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: “The Essentials” | STONE IPA

    Our ongoing series on the essential beers that anyone who’s interested in craft beer ought to know.  STONE IPA—the O.G. IPA, my first real (beer) love… This is the one

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    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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    Craft Beer, Oregon

    Great Beer: Deschutes Fresh-Squeezed IPA

    I could sit here sniffing my glass of Fresh-Squeezed IPA all day, just taking in the heady, hoppy goodness. In fact, I just closed my eyes and kept my nose

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