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Aug 1, 2011, 10:20 am
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. After four long years of being hip deep in the whole craft beer scene... I've burned out.
In the last few days I've resigned all of my duties as the Mad Man of Beer (i.e., Beer Tap TV, Lower Front Range columnist for the Rocky Mountain ... Comment - Like
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May 12, 2011, 12:52 pm
If you've read my blog at least once you know that I'm a big fan of beer's history. From its ancient world changing effects to the ads we all grew up with. Come on... who doesn't remember the Hamm's bear, right?
Well, I stumbled onto a website recently that scratches the beer nostalgia ti... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2011, 1:50 pm
The word "busy" is seriously overused in our society. We've come up with all kinds of lame ass excuses as to what constitutes "busy." Busy isn't surfing the web, playing video games, drinking beer, writing blogs, watching movies, or going out for sushi. Busy is working two jobs, raising kids, go... Comment - Like
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Apr 11, 2011, 2:59 pm
Hey there and welcome back to the latest episode of whatever this train wreck happens to be! This week on Epic Beer Time (which is 100% a name steal from Epic Meal Time and nowhere close to being as good as that epic show)...
I slug down a Pilsner from Redhook. This bad boy used to be the seaso... Comment - Like
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Mar 30, 2011, 4:20 pm
Since tomorrow is Opening Day for the 2011 Major League Baseball season, a bit of baseball news...
AT&T Park, home to the 2010 World Champion San Francisco Giants, will treat its fans to some "special sauce" this year.
Centerplate, the largest hospitality partner to North America... Comment - Like
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Mar 28, 2011, 1:26 pm
Episode two is in the can! This week Eli "The Haole" takes on Kona Brewing's Koko Brown and tours the soon to open Pikes Peak Brewing Company in Monument, Colorado.
The Beer: Koko Brown from Kona Brewing Company in Kailua Kona, Hawaii.
From the Brewer: Is there anything more iconic of the lush ... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2011, 2:21 pm
As you can see at the top of the page there's a new COABG banner to dazzle your senses.
It was created by my buddy, James Tyler (the rock star lead singer for the band Mystic 7). Big thanks James... it's awesome!
If you need someone to do graphics for your website you can get a hold of... Comment - Like
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Mar 14, 2011, 1:06 pm
Since the BTTV Crew is on hiatus for the moment I thought I'd keep the vids alive until such time as we all get back behind the camera. We're still getting beers sent to us at a preposterous rate, and who wants that beer to go bad, right? Until this past weekend I'd never thought of editing vide... Comment - Like
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Mar 11, 2011, 2:40 pm
The state of Mississippi is slowly crawling out from the dark ages. And I do mean slowly.
Whatever for do I mean?
"The Magnolia State" has archaic beer laws. And by "archaic" I mean... retarded. Any beer over 6.3% ABV is prohibited. In most counties alcohol still can't be sold on Sun... Comment - Like
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Feb 25, 2011, 3:45 pm
Hey all you Neo-Prohibitionists out there... can you answer the following multiple choice question?
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is:
A poem
America's National Anthem
A drinking song
A banner with a lot of stars on it
What's a spangle?
All of the above
None of the a... Comment - Like
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Feb 23, 2011, 4:23 pm
"The Mother of All Beer Weeks" may still be a few months off (it runs May 16 - 22), but it's never too early to start thinking about what you're going to do - or down - during this purely American celebration of all things BEER.
Thankfully, the Brewers Association has come up with just the thi... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2011, 2:59 pm
From the Beer Tap TV "circular file"...
In late December the Belgian abbey at St. Remy-Rochefort, known for its famous Trappist beer, was severally damaged by fire. After perusing a myriad of news reports we came across one that was glaringly inaccurate. BBC News Europe reported that Rochefort... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2011, 1:43 pm
“A main motivation for settling down and domesticating crops was probably to make an alcoholic beverage of some kind. People wanted to be closer to their plants so this leads to settlement.”
This is a theory being postulated by Patrick McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist at the Universi... Comment - Like
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Dec 20, 2010, 12:52 pm
It may not have the same ring as Tony Bennett's classic, but it gets the job done.
On Wednesday Fran and I will get on a Southwest plane - bags fly free! - to Northern California to spend Christmas with her family. For a few days we'll be mere minutes from Russian River Brewing Company ... Comment - Like
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Dec 7, 2010, 1:30 pm
Another confession from the community, this time from Jim Gottuso. Jim writes:
I'm a potter, not a brewer but a beer aficionado (a hophead). My cousin (Randy) is an accomplished brewer and brews out of his home. He told me this thanksgiving that he's coming up on 1000 batches and I think he's don... Comment - Like
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Dec 3, 2010, 1:50 pm
Since this blog has been renamed "Confessions of a Zombie Killer" here are two more things that happened since yesterday's article. How ridiculous is it that I have to update the update?!
First, more news regarding the melodrama surrounding the exorcism of TWD's writing staff. According to Rob... Comment - Like
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Dec 2, 2010, 1:38 pm
Here's another first... I've never done a followup or update to a Brewvie Review, but two different things occurred in the last few days that I felt needs mentioning.
First, Deadline Hollywood reported that Frank Darabont has let go of the entire writing staff of The Walking Dead, which includes wr... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2010, 4:07 pm
This will be the first Brewvie Review of a TV series, but it had to be done. And now that I've done it once, expect me to do it for some of the other shows the wife and I plop down to watch during the week.
But I'll start off with AMC's The Walking Dead, a startling good adult take on a post-apocaly... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2010, 2:47 pm
It's not about what beer is, but what beer does. That's a quote from Erik "Big" Boles, my business partner and the Founder/CEO of Beer Tap TV. It's one of the many quotables he and I have come up with to nutshell our philosophy on the juggernaut that is craft beer.
Part of the reason we come... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2010, 1:56 pm
From the depths of the Communal Confessional...
Laura Deibler sent an Email to tell me about a beer song her husband Dan wrote. He took the Leonard Cohen song, "Hallelujah," and changed up the words so it spoke heavenly volumes about the uber hard to get Westvleteren 12 the St. Sixtus Abbey ... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2010, 1:34 pm
Right now I'm sitting at my desk, exactly a full week removed from day one of the Beer Bloggers Conference I referenced in last Friday's entry. As you can see by the lack of even one single entry between that post and now I: 1) didn't remember to blog, and 2) was in fact not sober, which 3) direct... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2010, 12:06 pm
Right now I'm sitting in the passenger seat of the Beer Tap TV beer wagon on the way up to Boulder for the first ever Beer Bloggers Conference.
Despite what Andy Crouch might think of beer bloggers l think this conference will be fun, informative for the bloggers while simultaneously giving some d... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2010, 2:07 pm
I'm not a shill, so if I endorse a product it's because I've personally tried it and know that it works. In fact, when I see a claim that seems too good to be true I love nothing more then trying to bust it wide open as a fraud.
Over the last few months I've been using a daily multivit... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2010, 5:02 pm
My wonderful wife, Fran Shayotovich of the food blog "For the Love of Fran's Food," is one helluva cook. I have a helluva love for eating her food and drinking beer. Fortunately for me she has also cultivated a love for the liquid gold (so my master plan of converting her from a Wino to a Beero ha... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2010, 1:46 pm
Re-posted from my Examiner column today, but with pictures. Since the "new" and "improved" Examiner.com site is about as borked as the US health care system...
The 29th annual Great American Beer Festival is back and bigger then ever! This year's GABF is expected to serve more than 2,200 ... Comment - Like
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Sep 3, 2010, 2:29 pm
I had a few "free" minutes so I thought it was time I got my ass in gear and kicked out another Brewvie Review; one I've been promising now for a few weeks. So without further delay...
Kick-Ass
From Netflix:
Inspired by his love of comic books, high school student Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) d... Comment - Like
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Aug 6, 2010, 5:50 pm
Right now I'm in the midst of what some would call Beer Heaven and others would call Beer Hell. Since Saturday we've:
Attended the third annual Buses at the Brewery at Bristol Brewing.
Hit up the grand opening of Colorado Mountain Brewery on the north side of Colorado Springs. Actually, this t... Comment - Like
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Jul 20, 2010, 1:57 pm
By now you've heard of the Double Rainbow Guy and the incredulous video he made about rainbows. There have been as many parodies as views of the original video (nearly 6 million). Well, some of our local brewery boys have decided to use that as inspiration for a new beer. To read all about it go... Comment - Like
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Jul 8, 2010, 1:41 pm
It's been a crazy month for your intrepid Beer Geek. Fran and I have bounced from Snowmass to Alamosa to Portland, Oregon (entry on that trip coming soon).
As reported last time, we were about to the 3rd Annual Rails & Ales Festival. As expected, it was a good time. Trains, beer and a fant... Comment - Like
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Jun 25, 2010, 12:27 pm
Yo peeps. I don't know how it is where you live, but Summer has roared into Colorado with a vengeance. The past few days have felt more like the 7th Level of Hell then the nice, cool climes of the Rocky Mountains. It's been above 90 for the better part of the last month. Now, 90 degrees might ... Comment - Like
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Jun 9, 2010, 5:15 pm
Avatar
Disabled Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) travels to planet Pandora to become an avatar, ingratiate himself with the natives and help Americans mine lucrative unobtainium. But he finds himself in an interstellar conflict after falling for Na'vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). James Cameron ... Comment - Like
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Jun 7, 2010, 4:50 pm
In the next day or two expect to see a more detailed article about the 7th Annual Chili Pepper & Brew Fest on my Colorado Springs Craft Beer column. We had a great time, tasted some great beer, and got to hang out with bona fide rock star - Kyle Hollingsworth of String Cheese Incident!
Accordin... Comment - Like
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Jun 4, 2010, 2:30 pm
It's been a while since I actually wrote a column that wasn't a movie/brew review. Which means now is a good time to do just that... especially since I actually have several things to write about!
Crafty beer dinner at Craftwood Inn
Fran and I attended a beer dinner a few weeks ago hosted by Craf... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2010, 12:12 pm
In 1977, two movies were released that literally changed cinema. Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out a mere six months after the first Star Wars movie. I was 10 years old at the time. The fact that CE3K didn't get lost in the hoopla that was Star Wars is amazing, and it deservedly became... Comment - Like
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Mar 24, 2010, 11:10 am
Gerard Butler is the freakin' man. Seriously. He can play funny, with a chauvinistic bent, as he did in the romcom, The Ugly Truth. He can do straight romance as he did in P.S. I Love You. And previews for The Bounty Hunter (staring the hottest Friend of all, Jennifer Aniston) look hilarious too... Comment - Like
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Feb 25, 2010, 12:42 pm
It's been a few weeks since the last Brewvie Review, but not for a lack of film watching. We've seen a number of flicks in the last month, but nothing has struck my fancy enough - good or bad - to write a full review about. Truth be told, I've drank a lot more brews over the last month then I've wat... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2010, 1:07 pm
What do you think of that title? Brew + movie = brewvie. Get it? Erik came up with it, and I think it's brilliant. So, is it a "hellz ya" or "keep trying"? Either way, don't steal it... it's trademarked.
This week's movie is far different from the "manly man" flick that was Book of El... Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2010, 2:45 pm
Irony of ironies. My last post was a flix and brew review, this one's about a flick about beer. And religion! I just stumbled across the trailer for this comedy called Beerituality. Take a look...
For more information about this movie from FAD Productions check out their Facebook page or... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2010, 1:54 pm
eI'm starting a new feature here on Confessions, one that will likely migrate over to Beer Tap TV in some video-ized form in the not too distant future. I wanted to give it a test run here to see what kind of reaction it gets though, so consider this a beta test. Let me know what ya think, from th... Comment - Like
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Jan 18, 2010, 5:31 pm
First order of bid'ness... Hoppy Brew Year!
I can't believe it's already been a month since I last posted. That's ridiculous on a number of levels, not the least of which is the rhetorical question: where the *$&@ did that month go?!? I mean seriously. Really? I coulda sworn I was just... Comment - Like
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Dec 18, 2009, 1:59 pm
The gang from SloshSpot.com and Eating The Road have put together another hilarious flowchart... this one to make your beer drinking decision easier!
Click on the image to see the full, much bigger chart. You won't be disappointed!
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