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and buy me some craft beer! you know craft beer has really arrived when cbs compares world series participants by the beers they drink ! no wonder i'm a giants fan, they have much better beer (and more choice overall) at their stadium! and now i'm jonesing for a russian river blind pig ipa thanks a lot cbs!

dying to know which beers mens journal thinks are the top 25 ? can't say that i consider them to be experts... but you know what?  they seem to have done alright as far as i'm concerned: russian river, dogfish head, sierra nevada, 21st amendment, dieu du ciel, hopworks, ninkasi, hitachino, mikkeller, nogne (my list would have a couple more canadian brews on there though...)

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...

okay, this almost makes me wish i had television: dogfish head founder sam calagione has a tv show coming out on discovery channel in january he'll be travelling to breweries to meet the brewers and discuss regionality apparently he told beer advocate that he'll be visiting allagash, stone, victory, russion river, sierra nevada and epic in new zealand i also wanna see inside dogfish as they come up with new recipes... too bad downloading is illegal... beer advocate quotes calagione as saying "beer has always been my passion.  it is so much more than what you see in the glass.  i'm excited to share the diligence, daring and creativity that we pour into our work.  i'm confident that discovery and this show are going to turn a lot more people on to the work of the amazing craft brewers around the world.  i think that will be great for our whole community." (beer advocate issue #44)