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GABF: Kicking Ass and Taking Names

The jealousy has finally subsided.     After a few weeks of dark, introspective depression and nursing myself with chicken soup to ease my wounded soul, I can finally write about the Great American Beer Festival.  I wasn’t there.     This simple fact, alone, is one that I was reminded of again and again via Facebook status updates, […]

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  The Brewer’s Association is a top-secret society composed of beer ninjas, homebrewing warlocks and malt-driven shapeshifters.  Their nerve center/elite training grounds are rumored to be located in an underground bunker some 20 stories below the idyllic streets of Boulder, Colorado.  For those of us in the beer community, their word is gold.  And, once […]

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The GABF: Get the F Out of Its Way

It’s concluded.  For the 27th year in a row, the Great American Beer Festival overtook Denver in sudsy force. Although not in attendance myself, nor having ever seen the madness firsthand (insert mini violin here), I’m always amazed by the festival statistics because they’re just too damn staggering to believe.  Plus, Colorado is my home […]

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