I’m sick of it all. In times like these, I’ve decided to do the only sensible thing I can - start a beer, wine, and food blog.
Nothing will change here, I just want a place to keep all my gastronomical musings, which at the moment are getting lost to posterity through sheer laziness on my [...]

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The troubles in the commodities market is having an effect that makes dealing with the troubles in the commodities market that much harder.
There’s a worldwide shortage of hops:
The shortage — caused by a dwindling number of hop growers worldwide, and exacerbated by a Yakima, Washington, warehouse fire — has forced Gortemiller to use fewer and different [...]

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A new study finds that healthy people (you skinny, non-smoking dweebs) cost MORE health care over a lifetime than us fatty fatersons do.
Smokers are pushing costs even lower by popping off earlier than any other group. The comically obese (is that a category) still live only four years less on average than healthy, sprout-eating, doughnut [...]

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I’m writing this post in October, but I’m tucking it away in the Wordpress scheduling system to be posted today, December 6th.
That’s because December 6th is the Feast of St. Nicholas, and is observed by the good people of Austria in a way that nobody else can match. On December 6th, the elves at Schloss Eggenburg (Eggenburg [...]

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I caught this interesting piece in the New York Times this afternoon on the growth of craft brewers (once micro brewers) in the United States:
In the 19th century, there were more than 4,000 breweries in the United States, brewing almost every sort of beer made in Europe and a few indigenous American varieties besides. By [...]

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