Tag Archive 'Pliny the Elder'

It’s that time of year again. The time when the die-hard homebrewers sit back with a cold pint, reminisce over their favorite beers and put pen to paper for a legendary vote of epic proportions. Bragging rights will be forever held, children will defend the honor of their brewmaster dads in schoolyards around the world […]

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A Taste of: Franziskaner Dunkelweizen

Dunkelweizen, Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu, München, Germany (5.0% alc) You gotta love it when your friends prepare to move and unload their stuff on you.  Especially when its their booze. A good friend of mine, Tamara, has just moved to London to begin a new adventure overseas.  The fortunate thing for me is that she had amassed quite a wine […]

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Seattle rules.  For an NYC boy like me to get to see more than a sliver of the sky at a time, it’s a pleasure, but to see the entire sky at once was beyond therapeutic.  And the sheer amount of art?  Whoa.  I thought the East Village was artsy, but its got nothing on […]

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Respect the Elder: Pliny Takes Top Honors

The homebrewers have spoken.  And when these maniacal brew geeks speak, you best listen. For the 7th year in a row, members of the American Homebrewer’s Association cast their votes for their favorite beers.  For the judging, the only rule was that the beer has to be commercially available somewhere in the US.  The votes […]

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