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Sud Savant: Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale – Rousing as a Good Breakfast

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For those that don’t know, besides being recognized for a plethora of breweries and an un-funny show starring Fred Armisen (I tried to get into it! I really did.), Portland is also known for a local doughnut shop called Voodoo Doughnuts. If you click on that link, you’ll be taken to their homepage and if [...]

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Pope Crisco: Real Ale Brewing Company’s Brewers’ Cut #1, Signature Hop Pale Ale

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It’s been a nice, long, relaxing day here at Casa de Crisco. A power outage thwarted my plans for getting stuff done around the house, and I somehow took it easy despite having a few tasks on my plate. To reward my day of sloth, I am having a pre-dinner cocktail and letting Pandora do [...]

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Gadget Review: The GoPong Premium Light Up LED Cornhole Bean Bag Toss Game Set

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The summer is a wild and wonderful time. I know a lot of you are digging out your lawn chairs, uncovering the BBQ and getting ready for fun in the sun. But what do you do when the sun goes down? P&P Imports has you covered their GoPong™ line of tailgating products are innovative and smart [...]

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Pope Crisco: Hops And Grain “The One They Call Zoe” Pale Lager

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Days off for myself are usually distilled into a balance of work and play. I like to spend my mornings toiling with laundry, working on illustrations, and chipping away at whatever projects I might have had to put on the back burners. One crutch modern people have with doing most tasks though is that of [...]

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Pope Crisco: Real Ale Brewing Company Brewer’s Cut #2 Black Quadrupel

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Hello Malt Mavens and Hop Heads. Life has been somewhat slow and repetitive in my corner of the world. My mother’s cancer is in remission, the daily grind that the Pope endures to put craft beer on the table continues without drama, and Spring in North Texas is showing its mild, albeit fleeting, head. To [...]

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Suds with Securb: Backlash Beer Company Release a World Class IIPA – Salute

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I have been following Backlash since the inception of the brewery. I sat down with these visionary brewers a week before their first bottle hit the shelves roughly a year ago. Since their launch Backlash Beer Company have made a huge splash in the Boston’s craft beer community as have their beers. Backlash Beer Company [...]

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Sud Savant: Craft Beer Review – Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti

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I’ve been breaking out some decent bottles in the last month or so, some of which are documented in this blog. Today will provide no exception as I’m finally ready to crack open a bottle of Espresso Oak Aged Yeti from Great Divide Brewing Co. out of Denver, Colorado. I’m pretty excited to say the [...]

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Suds With Securb: Slumbrew Snow Angel – IIPA Done Right!

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Beer Review: Slumbrew Snow Angel Imperial IPA My tastes for styles of beers change like the seasons. I find myself chasing after crisp lagers and pale ales in the summer, winter months are my time for triples and barleywines. The one style of beer that is a constant companion throughout the year is the IIPA [...]

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Pope Crisco: Review Yazoo Brewing Co. Pale Ale and Hefeweizen

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It’s been a minute since my last post, I would like to claim more family drama, but no, it has been a much less honorable diversion from my readers. For some people, er, geeks, World of Warcraft is a monkey that refuses to be shaken. But, for myself, while WoW had its charm for a [...]

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Sud Savant: Homebrew Submission #1 – Winter Dark Ale

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Hey everybody! Today’s review will not be the first homebrew that I’ve ever reviewed, but it will be the first one submitted to me for just such a purpose. I could get used to this. There’s no “brewery” name nor even a name for the beer, but it has been enthusiastically made by someone that [...]

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Understanding Gluten Intolerance

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Gluten is a protein in grass-type grains such as wheat, barley and rye. It gives food a stretchiness and stickiness and it’s in much of what Americans eat. It’s in the obvious things like bread, pasta and crackers but it’s also in sauces, medications, lipstick, imitation crabmeat and other items not normally associated with grains. [...]

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Sud Savant: Surly Smoke – How Do You Know When a Beer is Really, Really Important?

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“How do you know when a beer is really, really important?” he asked with a hint of sarcasm. “I don’t know,” she replied matter-of-factly. “They barrel age it and put some fancy wax on the top?” Exactly. This is precisely the reason that I’m pretty pumped to be drinking today’s beer. Well, that and the [...]

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Sud Savant: Cigar City Cucumber Saison – A Welcome Layer of Complexity

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If you’ve read a review or two on Sud Savant, you know I love a beer with a new and unusual ingredient! Were it not for experimentation, how would we have all the styles that we enjoy today? Today’s review is for Cigar City’s Cucumber Saison. Today’s bit of cuke knowledge is that it is [...]

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Sud Savant: New Glarus Serendipity – HOLYMOTHEROFCHERRY

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New Glarus – Serendipity: It’s not often that I come across a New Glarus beer that I have not yet sampled. However, when drought beleaguered the Wisconsin cherry crop, interrupting the brewing process for a world-class fruit beer, Diploma Master Brewer Dan Carey stepped in with his usual dose of inspiration and creativity. Enter Serendipity. [...]

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Sud Savant: Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout – You Won’t Be Disappointed

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Today friends, I review a beer that needs no introduction. I knew that cracking open my sole bottle of KBS was drawing near immediately after I was unable to procure tickets to this year’s KBS Release Party due to some errors on the part of some 3rd party ticket brokers. I, like many people, had [...]

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Sud Savant: Dogfish Head – Burton Baton (2007) – This Aged Incredibly Well

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Today my quest to break out some of my weird an unusual beers takes me back to 2007. It was a troubled time for America and I give you the following alliterative list to prove it: Barbaro is euthanized, Bears lost the Super Bowl, Britney Spears shaves her head. Gets new tattoo, “Breakfast of Champions” [...]

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