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Hip Hops: The Reinheitsgebot matters, except when it doesn’t

I remember the day many years ago when my German friend drew one of those proverbial lines in the sand. We were debating the merits of a blueberry chocolate stout, long before such hybridized stylistic Frankensteins became the daily norm in craft beer. “It just isn’t right,” he said. “According to the Reinheitsgebot, you must […]

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Hip Hops: C’mon, you’re just buttering me up (or, Harry Potter’s diacetyl beer)

Having recently celebrated my 65th birthday, each passing moment brings another reminder that my life’s chronology largely predates today’s image-driven, post-literate world. My grandparents were born in the late 1890s. I taught myself to read by looking at the pictures in actual books, and we had a black and white television set until around 1971. […]

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Hip Hops: Why I’m pumped about Monnik’s new Rose Hill Lager Haus

Hi, I’m Roger, an erstwhile “beer guy” charged with holding down this digital fort in quiet desperation, or something like that (the metaphors flow like craft cocktail programs in frantic times like these). Today is not customarily “Hip Hops” day, but I drink the pint I’m dealt/handed/poured, which comes to me from Amanda Hancock at […]

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