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and more beery goodness from the huffington post tgi fridays wantonly beerifies their menu ressurecting ancient brews , like midas touch the world's sourest beers

while i was in s.f. i didn't have time to get to all the lovely beer places i had dreamed of but i did get some lovely beers to go which i enjoyed at various events i went to i mean if there's a budweiser beer garden why wouldn't i bring my own alternative beer to it??? on friday i imbibed the stone double bastard which may have been a little too much for me after the excesses of thursday i shall have to revisit this one another time overwhelmingly hoppy, quite boozey it kicked my ass and my taste buds! then on satuday i enjoyed my four-pack of hop crisis from 21st amendment hoppy, surprisingly refreshing and so conveniently sized in a four pack as six would have knocked me on my ass again! sunday we actually had to purchase a budweiser in the beer garden in order to get a cup good thing it was hot and anything beerish was refreshing! once i had choked down the budweiser, i poured me a dogfish head midas touch i had been wanting to try this one for a...

stolen from npr : Aged 9,000 Years, Ancient Beer Finally Hits Stores by Brad Horn July 17, 2010:   "Dogfish Head brewery is known for making exotic beer with ingredients like crystallized ginger or water from Antarctica, so it might not sound surprising that one of its recent creations is a brew flavored simply by grapes and flowers. It's not the recipe that makes this beer so special; it's where that recipe was found: a Neolithic burial site in China. Chateau Jiahu is a time capsule from 7,000 B.C., but to hear Dogfish Head owner Sam Calagione talk about what beer was actually like back then, it's not the kind of thing that makes you say "Hey, pass me another ice-cold ancient ale!" "Probably, all beer thousands of years ago — to our modern palates — would have tasted spoiled," Calagione says. "In fact, in a lot of hieroglyphics, people are shown drinking beer using straws because they were trying to avoid the chunks of solids and wil...