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• Please don't split that bottle, Mommy! 5 Sep 2008, 8:10 am
  A UK government health study (done by the governments "Know Your Limits" alcohol campaign) found that -- get this! -- stress leads people to drink. Amazing.But look, that's the usual waste of governme. […]
• Dissident Delayed Until Next Week 4 Sep 2008, 4:54 pm
  The headline pretty much sums it up. I've been told that there's a very, very slim chance that it'll arrive tomorrow, but I'm not counting on it.On the plus side, they do have bottles at the pub in th. […]
• News Flash: Mongolian Beer News Update News 4 Sep 2008, 4:34 pm
  Not so much news about the Mongolian brewing industry but the fact that I have found a bit of news about beer in Mongolia at all. Last January, the news was not happy: police corruption, breweries shu. […]
• Finally: Iron Hill in New Jersey 4 Sep 2008, 11:57 am
  Uncle Jack is reporting at the Beer Yard site that Iron Hill will be opening their 8th brewpub sometime in spring of '09 (roughly...) in -- finally! -- New Jersey: 124 Kings Highway, Maple Shade, NJ,. […]
• Travis Compares New Belgium To Old Belgium 3 Sep 2008, 1:55 pm
  [Ed.: It's been oddly busy in my life. Good Beer Blog HQ has been idle and we know what idle hands are. Happily Travis of CNYBrew.com sent me this post yesterday to fill the gap. I expect further a gu. […]
• English hop harvest not good? 3 Sep 2008, 12:14 pm
  A very wet August in the English hop-growing areas (which are pretty damned small these days) is apparently leading to a small harvest, according to Gerard Lemmens, renowned (and retired) hops expert.. […]
• Where good beer is cheaper than gas 3 Sep 2008, 8:57 am
  I stand corrected. You can buy a liter of all-grain, full-flavored beer for less than you’d pay for a liter of gas. Here’s proof, a photo taken at a small grocery store in Wertheim, German. […]
• One Guy in the news 3 Sep 2008, 8:14 am
  Guy Hagner sent this link to a story on his One Guy Brewing operation in Berwick. He mentions extended hours during football season; I kinda have the hankering to go up to see a Bulldogs game and get. […]
• John Harvard's Monroeville/Pittsburgh closes 2 Sep 2008, 2:12 pm
  Saw in the Pittsburgh Business Times that the John Harvard's brewpub in Monroeville/Wilkins Twp. has closed. Unfortunately, this can't come as a surprise to anyone; the JHBH pubs have been closing for. […]
• Like I keep saying: Two Words 2 Sep 2008, 8:56 am
  And those two words are Blind. Tasting.Nothing shuts up beer geek (or whiskey geek) bullshit faster than blind tasting. It's hard work, it's educational, and yes, it can be fun. My thanks to long-time. […]
• Monday musing: The carbon footprint of Fat Tire 1 Sep 2008, 4:47 am
  New Belgium Brewing and The Climate Conservancy have released a 36-page paper that assesses the carbon footprint of a 6-pack of Fat Tire. If you are one of those people who flips to the last page of t. […]
• So What Exactly Is A Session Beer? 31 Aug 2008, 7:56 am
  A couple of articles I read this past week got me thinking again about that spiny question of what exactly constitutes a session beer. There was the last Tuesday's article in The New York Times by Bet. […]
• #7 - Where in the beer world? 31 Aug 2008, 6:03 am
  Please don’t look at the photo above and think, “That jerk really is determined to stump the readers. Where’s the beer connection? Heck, where’s the beer?” I picked this. […]
• Saturday musing: Where’s the local beer? 30 Aug 2008, 7:34 am
  I’m really not sure why I feel a need to pass along these links, because this practice won’t continue past Monday, when we begin 15 weeks of zig zagging around Europe. But here goes: - Bef. […]
• The beer myths that keep on giving 29 Aug 2008, 12:38 pm
  Earlier this summer Martyn Cornell wrote that the Wikipedia entry on India Pale Ale “so completely, uselessly wrong as to be actively dangerous: the mistakes in it are going to be repeated by ot. […]