March 2008

Peak Organic Maple Oat Ale

by Luke

By now many of you know that Peak Organic Brewing — a local Portland, Maine brewing company which contract brews certified organic beer at the Shipyard facilities — has released a new spring beer: Maple Oat Ale. The three other year-round beers from Peak don’t do too much for me (they’re not bad by any [...]

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The greatest LOLcat EVER

by Luke

I don’t usually repost this sort of thing but I happened to see that icanhascheezburger had this evening what I think is the best LOLcat ever created: ’nuff said. [tags]Beer, LOLcats[/tags]

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How to Drink Better Beer, Part Six: Beer and Food

by Luke

This is part six, the final post of a six-part series (click here for part one, part two, part three, part four & part five) on improving your beer drinking experience. While the series is written for Better Beer newcomers, it is advice that is beneficial to even the most seasoned beer drinkers out there. [...]

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Announcing The Maine Beer Writers’ Guild

by Luke

I’ve been waiting to make this announcement until the website was (mostly) finished but today that happened, so here it goes: Last week, over good friends, good food and great beer — as all good ideas are born — the formation of the Maine Beer Writers’ Guild was hashed out. The Guild’s goals are simple: [...]

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How to Drink Better Beer, Part Five: Temperature

by Luke

This is part five of a six-part series (click here for part one, part two, part three, part four, part five & part six) on improving your beer drinking experience. While the series is written for Better Beer newcomers, it is advice that is beneficial to even the most seasoned beer drinkers out there. Cheers. [...]

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Beer, It Does a Google Good

by Luke

Charlie Ayers, Google’s own chef, has just released a book entitled Food 2.0: Secrets from the Chef Who Fed Google in which he claims that much of Google’s success comes from an office diet of sushi and, well, free beer… Ayers told the Sydney Morning Herald that Google got top results out of it’s employees [...]

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