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Russian River Temptation & Beatification
My favorite sport, college basketball, began this week which means it’s time for me to start drinking shitty beers. I never mean to, but it always occurs. Now I’m not exactly avoiding bars like...
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Veritas 004
The Brew Slut* The Brew Slut had considered calling herself the Brew Hottie, or the Brew Bitch, or even the Brew HasAVagina, but ultimately nixed all those options. The Brew Hottie sounded too...
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Surly Darkness (2009)
10.3% ABV bottled How do you remember how good a taste was? My “normal” friends always wonder how I can recall what beers I liked and what I disliked. How I can recall that a stout I drank in...
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Alpine IPAs
A year ago at this time I’m not even sure if I’d heard of Alpine Beer Co. That seems hard to believe now–now that they have four beers on the Beer Advocate Top 100–but even just a year ago they were...
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Tokyo*
18.2% ABV on tap I’d pretty much avoided BrewDog ever since their inception, assuming they were just some gimmicky Scottish brewery more obsessed with constantly holding claim to the “most alcoholic...
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Brooklyn Wild One
ABV unknown from a 750 mL My friends that don’t exactly know beer often assume that I will one day actually run out of beers to review. I jokingly always assure them that if I simply reviewed every...
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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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Goose Island Bourbon Country Brand Coffee Stout
13% ABV from a bomber I always get asked by non-beer geeks what my favorite beer is. It would be easy to be a snob and name some hard to find curio that they’ll never get to try, that I may never get...
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Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout – Laird’s Apple Brandy Barrel
11.5% from a growler The Vice Blog just keeps racking up the awards. (Or getting spam emails.) To wit: Dear The Vice Blog, Congratulations! Madison here, and your blog, The Vice Blog, was determined...
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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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