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best holiday beer news ever ! what paddy treavor thinks will come to pass with new liquor laws and part II of his musings what barley mowat thinks of liquor sales in grocery stores global's story on it and vancitybuzz's story interesting theory on why beer after running is such a good idea and some actual science on drinking beer after a run

dead frog brewery does a major overhaul of its beers jan zeschky calls it dead frog's second coming i think its more like the third or fourth, but who's counting? "Dead Frog is dead. Long live Dead Frog!" i think we all knew it was just a matter of time before brewmaster tony dewald turned that place around er, well, we hoped anyway! and it sure looks like tony has succeeded where several other brewers before him did not no more pepper lime, no more mandarin no more anything except for the nut brown (which i have a very soft spot for - it was the first bc craft beer i had that resonated with me enough to make me search out more local brews and end up here, your humble blogger and beer blatherer - and i may or may not have a dead frog inspired beer tattoo commemorating that life-changing a-ha moment) no more clear glass sleemanesque bottles its a whole new world! i can't help rooting for dead frog even when they went down so many misguided paths th...

okay, let me begin by saying that i am not a big fan of winter beers feel free to write me off right now if you must but i don't like them you know why? brewers have started to equate vanilla with winter and i don't like vanilla in my beer in my cookies and cakes sure, its wonderful i can even handle it in a scented candle but keep it the heck out of my damned beer! i may be alone in this sentiment i don't care!  i don't like vanilla in my beer so why am i reviewing dead frog's winter beeracle? frankly its because the good folks at dead frog sent me some to sample yes, every once in a while it does pay off to be a lowly beer blogger sometimes people send me their beers to try in the hopes that i'll write a blog post about them and convince people to buy their beers so, thanks for the beer, and here's my review: i didn't hate it yup, sure, its quite vanilla-y but there is some balance in there there are nice rich malts and orange n...