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		<title>A Beer Language Problem&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/11/09/a-beer-language-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BeerAdvocate Mag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black IPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Moon Belgian White]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a language problem in the world of beer. I’m not talking about our over-use of four-letter words or an inability to speak after too many pints. Instead, we lack a cohesive and agreed upon central terms for discussing our shared are of passion. Let’s start with the term whose popularity continues to grow [...]<!-- Easy AdSense V2.82 -->
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		<title>The GABF That Was And Wasn&#8217;t&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/10/03/the-gabf-that-was-and-wasnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Craft Beer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just returned from my 15th annual trip to the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. That number still boggles my mind and I’ve seen the fest (from its days at Currigan Hall), the City of Denver, and the attendant brewing and drinking communities change greatly in that time. Taking a cue from another beer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why The ABCC Got It Right About Farmer-Brewers In Massachusetts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/08/09/why-the-abcc-got-it-right-about-farmer-brewers-in-massachusetts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cambridge Brewing Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craft Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmer-brewer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a busy week in the world of Massachusetts beer. In case you’ve been living in a cave (or were just out of town like myself), the controversy started with the Idle Hands Craft Ales company announcing that the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC) had denied its application for a so-called farmer-brewery license. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Words About That Little USA Today Article&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/06/22/a-few-words-about-that-little-usa-today-article/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/06/22/a-few-words-about-that-little-usa-today-article/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So a couple of times a month, I receive requests from media around the country to offer some thoughts on craft beer or to suggest some good places to go. After traveling around the American beer scene for more than a decade, I&#8217;m more than happy to assist. Some times the media are calling from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Old Days of Craft Beer&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/06/17/the-good-old-days-of-craft-beer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/06/17/the-good-old-days-of-craft-beer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anheuser-Busch InBev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BeerAdvocate Mag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craft Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goose Island]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new era of craft beer is dawning before our very eyes. While craft brewers celebrated continuing good fortune at their annual conference in San Francisco, brewery owners, executives, and accountants in St. Louis, Chicago, and Belgium were putting the finishing touches on a deal that would send shock waves through the beer industry. Whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boring Beer Must Die&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/05/03/boring-beer-must-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 13:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Styles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With slowly creeping hop levels and increasingly complex degrees of barrel aging, the very definition of beer has evolved if not mutated into some improbable beast of flavor and fancy in recent years. But this era of spiraling expressionism has led to the rather unfortunate development of a new, particularly pernicious kind of beer snobbery. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Brew Masters Clarification and the Crazy Beer Week That Was&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/04/03/a-brew-masters-clarification/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/04/03/a-brew-masters-clarification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anheuser-Busch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beer Nerds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Moon Belgian White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brew Masters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With many brewers, bar owners, and writers just settling in from a long week at the annual Craft Brewers Conference in San Francisco, the week was supposed to be relatively quiet. We of course now know that this past week was destined to be one of the craziest that craft beer has experienced in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Anheuser Busch InBev &#8211; Goose Island Deal Is Good For Craft Beer&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/03/28/why-the-ab-inbev-deal-is-good-for-craft-beer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/03/28/why-the-ab-inbev-deal-is-good-for-craft-beer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anheuser-Busch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I have in the not-so-recent past been accused of being a Goose Island-apologist and even a touch sycophantic when it comes to my hometown brewer. And I have made clear my respect for Goose Island and its founding family, including John and Greg Hall. To their credit, the Hall&#8217;s have made no bones about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Will The Big Brewers Do About Craft Beer?</title>
		<link>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/02/24/what-will-the-big-brewers-do-about-craft-beer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/02/24/what-will-the-big-brewers-do-about-craft-beer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anheuser-Busch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s largest commercial breweries have long had a love-hate relationship with craft beer. Often run by families with long brewing pedigrees, the macro brewers took serious offense at suggestions that their beers-pictures of consistency and efficiency-were somehow inferior to those produced by the bands of ragtag, scraggly haired, tattooed wannabes. The big brewers didn&#8217;t view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It About Beer Or Beer Politics: The Brewers Association&#8217;s Baby Step&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/01/03/is-it-about-beer-or-beer-politics-the-brewers-associations-baby-step/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beerscribe.com/2011/01/03/is-it-about-beer-or-beer-politics-the-brewers-associations-baby-step/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boston Beer Company]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defining Craft Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Brewers Association today released news that it had once again changed its definition of the term &#8216;craft brewer.&#8217; The change relates to the association&#8217;s use of the word small to refer to its qualifying members. As the press release noted: In the BA’s craft brewer definition, the term “small” now refers to any independent [...]]]></description>
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