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Gift Me
One of the nicest small pleasures in life: the unexpected gift. Someone walks up
to you and says, "Here, I got this for you." It happens to me about once a year.
It's often a book, sometimes it's beer (the guy known
Food and Drink
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Moose Drool?
The best-selling craft beer in Montana: Moose Drool
[http://beerreport.com/news/montanas-best-brown-ale]. The writer at the Beer
Report calls it "a terrific and compulsively-drinkable beer" (and all of us
non-winos could use a little more such compulsion). The LA Times named it
November's
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Drunk in New York
Seinfeld was one of the most NYC-centered sitcoms of all time. Has any other
comedy show revolved so heavily around neighborhood life and references to
everyday NY things as Seinfeld? If so, I can't think of them.
I loved that show, but one thing
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The Modern Drunkard
I was having a heck of a time finding bloggable drinking material last night.
And then I stumbled across an old friend: Modern Drunkard Magazine
[http://moderndrunkardmagazine.com/]. Its editor, Frank Kelly Rich, would
appear
to be a genuine drunk
[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002138215_
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Give Him the Nobel
Is your bartender pulling back a second early on the tap, leaving you a
centimeter or two shy of the top? It's costing you buzz. The new Beer Gauge
tells you how much [http://thebeergauge.com/]. "[T]he majority of the volume in
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B is for Beer
A new children's book about beer
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061687278/thedailyeudem-20] (inspired
by this cartoon
[http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?sitetype=2&sid=123571&pid=1003&did=4]
). Actually, it's a children'
He Turns 16
My eldest, Alex, turns 16 today. I resolved to stop sending extensive birthday
greetings to loved ones through my blog because it was getting too much of a
hassle, plus I forgot once or twice, which made things uncomfortable when I came
to bed at night (heh heh).
But I&
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Bar Hopping with the Left
My Dad used to subscribe to Esquire, but he said it simply turned too leftist
for him (gentlemanly living for Communists?). Nonetheless, they have a good
drinking page, which I stumbled across earlier this week: Esquire Drinks
Database [http://www.esquire.com/drinks/]. It'
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Mercy, whatta week. I took Marie out to dinner last night, and I didn't even
order a beer. I simply felt too lousy. The doctor says I'm fine, so I'm probably
just suffering from lameness. Marie and the kids are leaving for the weekend.
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An old drinking friend comes to town tonight: Uncle Joe (who's movin' kinda
slow--joke [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Buchanan]). He re-located from
Detroit to Florida about six years ago. Born in 1946, he's the first of the
baby-boomers, but more conservative than the