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I’d go to his house and he would be brewing up some crazy things, something called an IPA, which I had no idea about. He was drinking a bunch of these IPAs and brews around the time they were trying to figure out how much booze they could stick into a beer: double IPA, triple IPA, imperial style. So I felt bad.
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