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Oktoberfest

Beer Vacations

In Nick Park’s magical Wallace and Gromit short feature Claymation film, A Grand Day Out, his two characters are in

Charter Beer Tours

Belgium www.globalbeernetwork.com, 805-967-8111—Johnny Fincioen of Global Beer Network, a Belgian beer importer in Goleta, CA, leads trips to this fabled

Build Your Beer Knowledge

The exciting thing about beer is that there is so much to enjoy beyond the sensory pleasure of drinking it.

A Few Pints with Pandora

Can you imagine a world in which all bread was white, sliced; all wine white, “dry” (and all people white,

The Essential Chicken Dance

The chicken dance has become as essential to an American Oktoberfest celebration as beer. The tune for the song was

East-to-West Fest

Consider these two very different scenes: In Munich, Germany, two weeks of celebration begin when the city’s mayor taps a

America’s Own Stone Beer

Last fall I was invited to visit and judge homebrew with the Music City Brewers of Nashville. They shared beer,

The Amber Family Portrait

The lexicon of beerspeak is rich with descriptive names. Stylistic terms can denote any number of beer characteristics, including origin

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