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Remembrance of Things Past

“When nothing else from the past subsists, after people are dead, after the destruction of things, smell and taste alone

Diatribe No. 130: Three Percent?

Yesterday’s newspaper offered information that all soda pop—including the so-called “diet” stuff and excepting maybe root beer—is destructive to tooth

IPA: Importing an Export

IPA, a beer brewed for export, arrived in Britain by default. In 1827 a ship carrying some 300 giant hogsheads—a

Munich Dunkel

A revered institution is one that endures via love of tradition, one that needs little refinement, let alone overhaul or

IPA: My Top Ten

Great Britain: Burton Bridge Empire Pale Ale Caledonian Deuchar’s IPA Marston’s Old Empire Meantime IPA Worthington’s White Shield America: BridgePort

IPA: Truly Pale

As can be seen from the Bass beer brewed for the White Horse, the original IPAs were truly pale in

IPA: The Impact

In the early 19th century, Gabriel Sedlmayr of the Spaten Brewery in Munich, and Anton Dreher from Vienna, embarked on

IPA Master Class

If cats have nine lives, then India pale ale can certainly lay claim to two. Its first span was relatively

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