There are many professions that kids consider downright uncool.  “What’s your dad do?  Oh, he’s a middle manager for a bank?  Lame.  I’m gonna be an astronaut”.  “Yours is a teacher?  Yuck!  I’m gonna be a millionaire in Dubai” (yes, times have changed). But when I was a kid and heard that my best friend’s [...]

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3.  Odell Brewing Company, Fort Collins, Colorado Founded:  1989 Production:  approx 60,000 barrels (website) It’s gotta go back to home for me.  Doesn’t it always?  Something about those early years of ANYTHING.  Your first stumbling in the dark with a girl’s brassier.  Your first, horrible taste of coffee leading to that next, almost palatable, strangely [...]

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