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Stone Fruit  Kickflip

Stone Fruit Kickflip

I think I know what a stone fruit * is but what the hell is a kickflip?** Peach tends to be my stone fruit of choice, as for kickflips, this NEIPA from Clear Lake is my kickflip of choice, seeing as I am not sure what one is so this is the only one I am familiar with....

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A Breakfast IPA Called Noon is Good in the Evening

A Breakfast IPA Called Noon is Good in the Evening

Great Lakes claims that this brew is “the orange juice or beer with breakfast answer”. I am not much of a breakfast drinker myself although ol’ Kris Kristofferson tells us “the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad, so I had one more for dessert.”*. GL also suggests it...

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A Boxing Day Special

A Boxing Day Special

Recovering from the extreme Christmas day gift giving associated with grandchildren by a boxing day outing. The kids are already bored with their Pokémons and Squishables and Teckdecks and Hatchimals and crafts  and all the other toys from the mountain of gifts under...

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The Sights and Sounds…and Noise of Christmas

The Sights and Sounds…and Noise of Christmas

To quote a famous Doctor regarding Christmas “And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!”  Dr. Suess was probably a cranky old man at heart since he said he thought of the Grinch character while looking in the mirror and dismaying about the...

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A Visitor in the Dead of Night?

A Visitor in the Dead of Night?

The dead of night* sounds like just about when Santa delivers my beer of the month club Christmas gift. Maybe that’s why Bud, the Elf on the beer shelf, recommended this brew for Christmas Eve. For a cranky old man there is nothing quite as Christmassy as watching the...

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Down to Earth

Down to Earth

After a triple chocolate 10% extreme extravaganza blast off it was time to bring me back to something closer to surface as in down to earth. So I thought it would be a good idea to get back to basics and explore a nice pilsner of the Italian persuasion. Enter Marco...

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Triple Chocolate and Then Some

Triple Chocolate and Then Some

A beer of the night selection by Bud, the Elf on the beer fridge shelf, and no wonder, it’s triple chocolate. Not just triple chocolate, it’s 3 Triple Chocolate. Not sure if Farmer Steve is a chocolate lover but at 10% ABV it’s two beers in one, so he may appreciate...

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Which Wicked is Which?

Which Wicked is Which?

Wicked good* or wicked evil? If you were described on Santa’s list as wicked you would be expecting the old “coal” shoulder from St. Nick. But these days you can’t be too sure what even the most obvious adjectives really mean. Sawdust City tells us that this beer is...

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Out of Left Field

Out of Left Field

Sampling a baseball inspired brew in December seems to be an idea right out of left field.* Left Field Brewery that is and their short and sweet* mocha marshmallow stout offering. I pulled out the old ball glove for this review’s “head” shot. Then I got thinking about...

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Wrestling with The Crusher

Wrestling with The Crusher

Looks like The Crusher* is all fired up and ready to dominate the ring, doing sweaty holds and flips while decked out in his stretchy pants, in a choreographed ballet of blood.  Clifford’s Crusher looks more like a thirst crusher than a bone crusher. Maybe a summer...

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