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INSIDE GABF 2008
 The
2008 edition of the Great American Beer Festival was held
at the massive Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado
October 9–11. It presented the largest number of beers
on draught (over 1900) setting a Guinness World Record. Over
46,000 beer lovers attended in three days. 432 breweries were
arranged by region on the festival floor making it possible
to...
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CRUISE TO ALASKA 2008
 A
hearty band of 35 beer enthusiasts gathered in Seattle in
late August to start an eight-day beer-intensive cruise aboard
the modern and elegant 965-foot-long Celebrity Infinity. We
gathered the night before departure at the now-historic Pike
Pub & Brewery in the Pike Place Market as guests of owners
Charles and Rose Ann Finkel and Brewmaster Drew Cluley...
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RODENBACH – MASTERPIECE OF ROESELARE  The
Rodenbach site — a 15-minute walk from the train station
in the town of Roeselare, near Brugge — is a complex
of ancient and modern buildings with various purposes. Rodenbach
is one of the most impressive breweries I have had ever the
pleasure to visit. In late May, Brewmaster Rudi Ghequire greeted
me and two friends — including Daisy Claeys, owner of...
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BEER NEWS TURNS 20!  Celebrator's
20th anniversary party went off without a hitch. The beer
drinkers came, they saw, they drank. With over 150 great beers
from over 40 brewers that served at the Marriott Hotel's Convention
Center in Oakland, California, our Mardi Gras themed celebration
for our milestone anniversary was our wildest party yet. Be
sure to check out our Anniversary Special!
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| MICHAEL
JACKSON TRIBUTE HELD AT UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA  A
Tribute to the late Michael Jackson was held Friday, March
14, 2008, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology
and Archeology, where Michael hosted a series of tutored tastings
for the past 18 years.
The tutored tastings were held Saturday, March 15, with three
sessions of 360 beer lovers each.
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| POPE
BENEDICT XVI FINDS THE HOLY GRAIL!  When
meeting the Pope it is customary to offer him a gift. Tony
Blair gave him a painting of the Catholic convert Cardinal
Newman and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah presented him
with a jeweled scimitar. When the Archbishop of York, Dr.
John Sentamu, met the pontiff he gave him the Holy Grail,
a beer brewed by the Black Sheep Brewery located in Masham,
England.
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AMERICAN BEER FESTIVAL 2007
Inside America's Premier Beer Olympics
 The
2007 Great American Beer Festival, held annually in Denver,
Colo., saw record crowds and sold-out sessions over the three-day
run of October 11–13. Some 107 judges evaluated nearly
2,800 beers, resulting in one of the most competitive GABF
blind panel judgings...
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VICTORIA
: EPICUREAN GEM OF THE NORTHWEST
The
Great Canadian Beer Festival Recapped  Victoria
is a delightful English-inspired city of historic structures
(the Empress Hotel, the Parliament building) situated around
an inner harbor bustling with ferries, harbor taxis and other
maritime traffic. Floatplanes do their elegant aerial ballet
to and from nearby...
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DIXIE
BREWERY AT 100
Post Katrina
Brewery Struggles for Survival  What
nature doesn't do to us will be done by our fellow man. The
venerable Dixie Brewery is still standing after the horrendous
force of a Category 5 hurricane — but barely. After
the rains and wind subsided and the waters receded, the scavengers
moved in to...
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NBWA
CONVENTION & TRADE SHOW
Craft
Beer Takes Center Stage  The
70th annual National Beer Wholesalers Association Convention
and Trade Show convened in Las Vegas from September 30 through
October 3 and attracted a record number of industry representatives
— more than 3,800. The convention offered a chance for...
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AN AUTHENTIC
THANKSGIVING BEER DINNER
The
History of Thanksgiving and Beer (Recipes Included)
 No
meal is more quintessentially American than Thanksgiving dinner,
not just for the seminal historical event it commemorates
— the founding of the Pilgrims’ colony at Plymouth,
near Cape Cod, Mass., in December 1620 — but also for
its ingredients...
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ISSUE » EDITORIAL
WHEN DID YOU HAVE YOUR FIRST DRINK?
Tom Dalldorf
 The
legal drinking age varies around the world from very young
(5) to 16 to 18 and up to 25 (in some parts of India) to forbidden
(in most Muslim countries). A fresh take on the legal drinking
age is now occurring in America. After our disastrous social
experiment called Prohibition, when we joined Muslim and other
authoritarian countries in banning all alcohol, we rejoined
other more progressive cultures around the world and...
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