While you should know Pete Brown from his books, especially what is arguably the best beer book of the year, Hops and Glory, he began his career in marketing and worked on several high-profile ad campaigns for well-known beer brands. On Wednesday in the UK’s Daily Mail, Pete had an interesting article giving his perspective
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Pete Brown On Beer Marketing
Today in Hayward, California, the Bistro held their 4th annual Barrel Aged Beer Fest, serving a record number of beers for any festival they’ve thrown, with over 70 beers. The weather couldn’t have been more perfect for drinking extreme beers and there were some wonderful examples there. While I wasn’t able to try them all,
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Bistro Barrel Aged Fest Serves Over 70 Beers
The bottle of Lowenbrau beer that survived the crash of the Hindenburg, that I wrote about on Tuesday, was auctioned earlier today, fetching the sum of £9,400, but “with buyer’s premium, the bottle will cost the purchaser £10,810,” or around $18.034. This Is Wiltshire, like most accounts, is claiming “[t]he world record price for a
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Hindenburg Beer Auctioned For £10,000
The e-mail newsletter sent out Tuesday by Join Together, the anti-alcohol center at Columbia University, included a summary of an item in the USA Today from November 3, entitled Beer With Extra Buzz On Tap Up To 16%. Join Together’s emphasis on the article is about “More States Allowing High-Alcohol Beer” and similarly the USA
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Pinhead Drinking Statistics By Media Ignore Reality
The FDA announced today that they’ve sent a letter to almost 30 manufacturers of alcohol drinks that also contain caffeine. The FDA is giving these companies 30 days to essentially prove that they’re safe. The move is undoubtedly motivated by a bullying letter sent to the FDA in September by 18 state Attorneys General.
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FDA Gives Alcohol/Caffeine Drinks 30 Days To Prove It’s Safe
My husband does not like sugar cookies. No way. But he does like these Trick-or-Treat cookies a lot. The dough is soft and pliable and full of Fall–honey, molasses, raisins, and spices. For the cookies in the pictures, I used half whole wheat flour and omitted the raisins (didn’t have any on hand). The only problem was that the dough was so tasty that we didn’t end up baking very many cookies. (Good thing I froze half of the dough for later!) This is a nice alternative to the norm
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Trick-or-Treat Cookies
The average age of the Infantryman is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country.
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Story: The Infantryman
That’s what the PR peeps promise.
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Dish Will Bring Fresh and Delicious Simple Cuisine To Dallas
During the holidays, or rather the last week of holidays, we had a really jam-packed fun-filled week filled with loads of outings!The Sentosa Outing, The K Outing, The Singapore Flyer as well as many BBQ parties and birthday party! Too bad that our dearest Ah Jie, Jun Xian is still in China “enjoying” his exchange program or rather studying about Confucianism, somewhere along …
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Chinatown K With the Peeps!
A year ago, I visited one of my first cigar stores ever: Baltimore’s Cross Street Tobacco . A very laid back place, it was quiet and friendly.
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Cigar Store Review: Ropewalk Tavern & revisiting Baltimore’s Cross Street Tobacco
