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the huffington post on beer: 10 craft beers you should try right now too many belgians on this list for me to get all the way through it but i gots to agree with having the stone sublimely self-righteous american black ale!! top 50 beers in america are your favourites on the list? pliny the elder is there!  its number one! (and much further down are ska's modus hoperandi and green flash's west coast ipa!!) from zymurgy magazine - american homebrewer's association

and what should i again get to drink almost immediately upon my return to vancouver from san francisco? pliny the elder! ryan visited russian river and managed to get a bottle back without the airline busting it into a million pieces and he brought it to an establishment that shall remain nameless for us all to share ryan is a generous soul!

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...

brewing with rye, the grain pliny the elder said was "unpleasant to the stomach" "Judging from BeerAdvocate's online reviews and other sources, it appears that at least 500 different beers made with rye have hit American tap handles in just the past decade.  Often, the grain is used to tive a new twist to a classic style... This dabbling has been going on for about 20 years, and not surprisingly, it led to the creation of a singular style known as American Rye beer.  Brewed as either an ale or a lager, the style is much like American Wheat beer, in which the flavor of the grain adds a subtle complexity to barley malt.  Often, it is highly kilned to provide both color and a distinctive, sometimes off-putting, nutty flavor." Don Russell Beer Advocate #44