November 2009

The Top 10 Gifts for Any Beer Lover This Holiday Season

by Luke

Since today is the first day back to work for many after the long holiday weekend and is also what many have now come to call “Cyber Monday“, I thought it would be fitting to write up a fun post to get you in the holiday spirit. And one which would hopefully prove helpful to [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving 2009

by Luke

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! May you all have great beer, great food, great friends, great family and a great time together this holiday. And as always, thank you so much for your continued support and readership of BlogAboutBeer.com! If you haven’t yet planned your beer consumpsion for today, click here to see some posts I’ve written [...]

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Long Trail Ales to Buy Otter Creek/Wolver’s Brewing Co.

by Luke

Famed beer blogger and author of  The Good Beer Guide to New England, Andy Crouch, is reporting that Vermont mega (as craft breweries are concerned, anyway) brewer Long Trail Brewing Co. is in the process of purchasing neighboring Otter Creek/Wolver’s Brewing Co. According to Crouch, Long Trail Brewing Company of Bridgewater Corners, Vermont, is in [...]

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Review: Newport Storm Cyclone Series Luke

by Luke

Needless to say, I was really excited when a friend who was up visiting from Massachusetts recently brought with him a bottle of Newport Storm (Coastal Extreme Brewing Co.) Luke. ‘Cause, well, that’s me. So maybe, given the beer’s name, I’m a little biased as I write my review. But regardless, this was one damn [...]

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Beers To Try (And Why) This Thanksgiving

by Luke

Needless to say, I’m a big advocate of beer rather than wine ’round the Thanksgiving dinner table. And I’ve written about it at Thanksgiving time every year the blog’s been around (last year’s post here). And the fact remains, if you want to wax traditional this holiday, than wine has no place at the Thanksgiving [...]

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The Case Against Sam Adams Cranberry Lambic

by Luke

This is a guest post by Russ Phillips — one half of TwinBeer.com (the only international beer blog run by identical twins). Check out his blog posts here and follow TwinBeer on Twitter @TwinBeer. If you’d like to contribute a guest post to BlogAboutBeer.com, please feel free to contact me. Cranberry Lambic, two simple words [...]

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