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link love

this one should actually be on link hate instead of link love yet another pandering to the concept that women don't love beer i guess what can you expect from a women's magazine... but still its articles like this that keep the stupid stereotype alive womens health magazine on the best beers for women here's a much better link - to a helpful how-to introduce beer to the not-yet-converted for all humans with tastebuds! and a half decent post about orval's new female head brewer do it yourself - make a bottle cap table top looking for cheap beer? one man's list of the worst to the least worst pbr ranks at number 5 (that's the fifth least worst) beercation destinations across the u s of a but these aren't beer towns you should visit these are beer inns you can stay, golf, spa and drink at the donnelly group's 30 days of ipa in vancouver what's in a beer name or, when is it okay to send a cease and desist letter to another brew...

firefly's sour beer tasting

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after having attended a couple of previous tastings at firefly, i knew that there are some sour beers that i enjoy, and some that i just can't stand.  but which are which? thank dog firefly chose to host a sour tasting night! now i know what i like, and what i'd rather not ever be offered again! we sampled the following: dogfish head's festina peche (4.5%) upright brewing's late harvest barrel aged brown ale (7%) orval trappist ale belgium pale ale (6.9%) lindemans' cuvee rene gueuze (5%) cantillon's gueuze 100% lambic (5%) cantillon's kriek 100% lambic (5%) brouwerij de ranke's cuvee (7%) storm brewing's blackcurrent lambic i found the dogfish head to be more tart than sour using an old style from berlin, they added some peach flavour and peachy colour looks more like a very fruity wine in the glass than a beer it tastes almost champagney probably not something i'd buy but enjoyable nonetheless the brown ale was aged in...