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My 2016 Adventures in Homebrewing
Homebrewing: great! Bottling: not so much :( There are only a couple days left in 2016, but I just realized that I hadn’t written any blogs about any of the homebrews I made this year. So let me...
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Top 10 Best Beers of 2016
If you’ve been following me for a while you know I have just one rule I abide by when I assemble these lists: only beers I reviewed for the first time in the calendar year are eligible (so re-reviews...
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Top 10 Worst Beers of 2016
Assembling my “Best Of” list is always a challenge because I seem to try so many great beers. However, putting together a “Worst of” list is pretty easy for two reasons: 1) bad beers stand out in my...
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Posto 9 could raise the culinary bar for Lakeland
Lakeland is not exactly the most culinary diverse town; just throw a rock and you’ll hit a fast food joint around here. So it’s both surprising and welcoming that an upscale restaurant like Posto 9 not...
View ArticleIs the craft beer industry lousy with sexist beer labels?
Since beer is a male-dominated industry and a product that is mostly enjoyed by men, it’s understandable that claims of sexism, misogyny and general male chauvinism would come with the territory. The...
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Bowigens sure has come a long way in two years
This is a guest post by Doug Werly. He’s an almost-but-not-quite native of Florida and a true believer of everything local. He’s fallen hard since his days of Bud Light Lime (though he secretly still...
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I’m not crazy about growlers. Is it just me?
If you’re even remotely familiar with the craft beer scene in the last few years, no doubt you’re aware of the existence of “growlers”: large glass containers used for short-term storage and...
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Are you tasting the cachet, the stigma, or the beer?
There have been two major news stories involving the craft beer industry in the last week: Wicked Weed selling out to AB-InBev and Heineken buying Lagunitas outright (they previously had held a 50%...
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What exactly should be considered “beer”?
I try not to get hung up on the semantics and trivialities of the beer industry, like what exactly is the threshold for a session beer. These types of topics can be fun to banter about with other beer...
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The 2017 Florida Homebrew Competition calendar
If you’re a homebrewer in Florida and/or a BJCP judge, you’ll want to check out this list of upcoming BJCP/AHA-sanctioned homebrew competitions throughout the state for 2017. If you want to register an...
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What’s your beer shopping process like?
I’ve been big into craft beer for many years now, though one thing that hasn’t changed is how I actually shop for beer. Whenever I go to the beer store (usually Lakeland’s Beer Revolution [pictured...
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