Archive for March, 2006
Monday, March 27th, 2006
The production of craft beers grew more in the last year than it has in any year since 1996. What are craft beers? The article offers this definition:
...those specialty brews typically made in small regional or local breweries...
It makes sense that craft beers are growing in popularity when you think ...
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
I just wrote about the quick trip to Vegas Ariele and I took this weekend. I played some low limit Hold 'Em at Excalibur for a grand total of four hours or so, and of course I had to hit the free beer while I was playing.
I had a Miller ...
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
We bought this wine at our local Vons for less than 10 bucks. Very good taste and nose. Very pleasant wine for the price in my opinion. I'll have to buy another bottle of it so I can give a better description but so far I've had several experiences with ...
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Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Roger was having a gathering tonight at his place to watch the season premiere of The Sopranos, and when I arrived, I stumbled upon an open bottle of the Jenica Peak Coastal Merlot, specifically the 2002 vintage.
Based on a little bit of research I did before starting to write this ...
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
Ariele and I met Roger and some other folks at The Atheneum this evening for beers. There was a birthday party being held in the basement, so we took a couple of pitchers upstairs, sat on the patio, and shot the bull for a while.
The beer we had was the ...
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
Also had last night at Lucky Baldwin's were 22oz bottles of Rogue Santa's Private Reserve, which is (as you might guess) Rogue's winter offering. Unfortunately, I'm not quite as much of an aficionado as Jeff, so my beer-describing vocabulary isn't what it should be. Greg, who also had ...
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