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Last year was my first Great American Beer Festival. What’s the most important thing I learned? Get yourself a strategy.
I THOUGHT I had a strategy last year – “Yea I’ll check out Dogfish, maybe see what Pizza Port is serving, yada yada yada….”
Didn’t work. After a few beers and being caught up in the excitement, my plan went down the shitter and I was playing GABF whack a mole.
This year will be different.
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Mutualism: The way two organisms biologically interact where each individual derives a fitness benefit (i.e. increased survivorship). Source: Wikipedia
The oxpecker bird eats parasites from a zebra. The zebra stays healthy and the oxpecker gets a meal. Win-win.
Does mutualism exist in the beer world? I believe it does.
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Important September events:
We’ll focus on #1 today, talk about #2 later this month, and totally forget about #3 because honestly who cares after you turn 21.
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725 – that is the number of new breweries in planning according to a recent Brewers Association press release.
It’s an 86% increase over last year’s figure. All of this growth in craft brewing begs the question – how will these breweries compete for the same craft beer drinker’s dollar?
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A few months ago I mentioned my new found love for chocolate and beer.
In that post, I explained how a gift of gourmet chocolate to my girlfriend woke me up to a world not too different from the beer world: mainstream crappy products sprinked with delicious gems.
I entered this unexplored world excited but a total noob, so I asked my chocolatier friend Jenny to help me out:
“Jenny”, I said, “What is some chocolate that isn’t hard to find, not too expensive, but is a good introduction to gourmet chocolate?”
“Chocolove”, she replied.
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When you hear talks about the best beer cities in America, the same names always come up: Denver (represent!), Portland, Philly, Asheville, and San Diego.
I recently had the pleasure of visiting the last one as my girlfriend and I took a much needed vacation to Southern California. It was our first time there, and I wanted to see what all the beer talk was about.
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A Brew on Premise is an interesting business model. It’s essentially homebrewing away from home.
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I haven’t mentioned The Homebrew Academy in a while and we have a bunch of new BillyBrew readers so I thought it was a good time to tell everyone what’s been going on with this project. The Academy is something I launched late last year as an online training program that teaches people how to homebrew.
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Craft beer is about the experience. The occasional beer alone in front of the TV is fine, but it’s much more fun to combine your drinking experience with a fun outing.
Now, maybe you’d like to drink craft beer outside the house more often, but the venues you visit only serve BMC beer. I know how you feel…
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TV is big letdown these days. The abundance of reality shows has killed quality programming, with a few exceptions and of course HBO.
So thank God for movies.
My Netflix queue is backed up like D.C. traffic. Even if there are no good new movies out, I can go back and watch a classic. Movies don’t let me down.
So forget Kim Kardashian, here are real entertainers. These are the top 5 movie characters I want to drink a beer with.
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Billy Broas is a craft beer lover, homebrewer, and the founder of
The Homebrew Academy. He lives in Denver, Colorado where he splits his time between imbibing and snowboarding, but often combines the two. Billy's beer philosophy is that we should all be beer geeks but not beer snobs. He'll try any beer once and is currently studying for his BJCP beer judge exam.
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