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STRAWBERRY OIL ADJUNCT
Added a few ounces of strawberry oil to my fermenting batch earlier today. Smelled a lot like strawberries but also had a bitter after-taste. Expiry date on the bottle was March, 2000. Could this...
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Belgian Beer in Calais
I'm going on a booze-run to Calais. As well as stupendous amounts of wine I was hoping to pick up a nice little selection of Belgian beers. The problem is that the supermarket selections tend to be...
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Beer and Food
I'm readying a manuscript for my publisher titled BEER & FOOD: An American History for publication in the late fall. The book takes a look at how American beer and food really came together. It's part...
 
LHBS Dilema
Looking for opinions here. I firmly believe in supporting your LHBS but my 1.5 stores are very small. The larger one has canned kits, Brewers Best kits, seperate LME, DME and hops, 2row barley and...
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Mutzig 'Old Lager'
Hi Am new to this group so would be very grateful for any guidance. I googled long and hard but couldnt for the life of me find any exporters/importers of Mutzig (Old Lager). I wondered if anyone knew...
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Beer in Austin
Just saw Austin mentioned in Dave's Sig and it reminded me that my annual trip to drink beer while my wife schmoozes with music industry folk at SXSW is rapidly approaching. I'm already planning on...
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Chicago O'Hare
Thanks to some out-of-the blue change in flight schedules, I will have to spend 3 instead of 2 hours fiddling my thumbs on Chicago O'Hare airport in April. Is there somewhere a pub on the transit...
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Lewis on decoction
I'm writing an article on decoction brewing for Zymurgy magazine. I recall back in about 1999, Dr. Michael Lewis published a study he'd done saying basically decoction offered nothing that couldn't be...
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african beer
I recently traveled to Ghana, West Africa, and have been looking for a place to buy their beer here in the United States. I'm specifically looking for Star Beer. Has anyone seen any? I live in Central...
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[OT] King Cobra
Purchased my first two bottles of this beer today. This is the 8% bottle-conditioned lager (sister to Cobra) which starts its life in Poland and gets trucked to Rodenbach in Belgium, where it's...
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ZBF beer list online
ZBF, short for Zythos Beer Festival takes place on March 4 & 5 2006 in St. Niklaas, Belgium. Take a look at the beer list at information in English available at John White's pages at Cheers, Gunter...
 
New York City bars
Hi guys! A couple of very good friends of mine over here in Yorkshire are flying to NYC on Monady for a few days. They're both big real ale fans. Which bars should they visit? I'm thinking in terms of...
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Anyone around Jacksonville Florida interested in splitting up full kegs?!
I keep a few beers on draft at home and find it difficult to run through entire kegs before they expire (not to mention it's expensive). Note that certain imports are only available in full kegs and...
 
Cheater Pints
How can fine beer establishments get away with calling their pints, 'pints' when they're really 12oz? Isn't there a law against this :-) JaKe Seattle
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Preserving Guinness on draft at home?!
Hey all, Just coming to the end of my first keg of Guinness at home. However, wasn't really able to finish the whole thing before it went bad. It seems you get about 90 days of freshness for Guinness...
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