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This Week's Beer Events & Socials: Keeping Keeping Together Together

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

Some genuinely unfortunate news from Averie Swanson, owner of Keeping Together , the beer brand founded in Chicago that’s working to open a space in Santa Fe, NM. They actually sat down with the offending customer and had a beer together. You’ll get Dovetail beer and four samples of landjaeger, so how can you pass that up?

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Inside Manska’s Mind: The Travesties of Whiskey Tasting

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Most of us who love alcohol beverages enjoy attending tastings at expos, restaurants, wine and liquor stores to taste and discuss aromas amd flavors of beverages. Many attendees also belong to beer, wine, or whiskey clubs. Usable information from these events differs widely by beverage, but for an unsuspected reason.

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Inside Manska’s Mind: Whiskey Drinkers Can Be Their Own Worst Enemy

Chilled Magazine

Granted, AI isn’t intelligent to the point where it can creatively invent or discover the unknown (yet) , but AI is privy to literally hundreds of thousands of writings and published viewpoints on any subject and quickly assimilates and distills voluminous information. George F Manska, CR&D, Arsilica, Inc.

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Inside Manska’s Mind: The Silent Enemy of Sensory Enjoyment – Olfactory Fatigue

Chilled Magazine

Central Processing: As brain receives repetitive odor signals, it reprioritizes to focus on changing sensory information, contributing to the perception of reduced sensitivity. Wine tasters have frequent bouts of olfactory fatigue. Wine ABVs have increased some over the years from 5-9% to 8-16%, with fortified wines up around 22%.

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Tributes, Hurricane Help, and other Beer Events & Socials

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We had both made a collaboration with him and unknowingly he decided to make a blend of our beers and release it as a Mikkeller / Evil Twin / Jolly Pumpkin / Leelanau Brewing collab behind our backs. ” From HOMES Brewery : “Ron Jeffries was a legend, and his beers at Jolly Pumpkin set the standard for American sour ales.

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2024's First Closing Announcement (Plus Beer Events & Socials)

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This is the perfect time to mention the ICBG’s January project to keep some cash flowing through small breweries around the state during what is traditionally beer’s slowest month. Each week, the owners of the two most dynamic Illinois beer fridges will win a $50 gift card to a local brewery. Seldom Beer Co.

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This Week's Chicago-Centric Craft Beer Events & Socials: Live from the West Coast

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The World Beer Cup awards were announced Wednesday night and I’m always thrilled when the most competitive award goes to a Midwestern brewery — even more so when it’s one of my favorites in Chicago. Old Irving Brewery’s Beezer beat out 325 other beers to earn the Gold Medal for Juicy/Hazy IPA.