by Erik Kain on February 24, 2012
People used to fast for Lent, give up meat, and often some other thing that made their lives to comfortable. Catholics and many other Christian denominations do this so that they can be thankful for what they have, and think more about the blessings God has bestowed upon them. Giving up something you love makes [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 30, 2011
In the picture below you’ll see that the alcohol content of DuClaw’s barley wine style ale, ‘Devil’s Milk, used to be 10.6% abv. Apparently it used to be available in tiny little 12 oz bottles as well. The 22 oz. bottle of Devil’s Milk that I drank the other night was a full 11% abv. [...]
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Occasionally I hear a song and think to myself “Man, why couldn’t I have written that?” This happens a lot when I listen to the Avett Brothers, actually. I think that if I were a home brewer, this is the same exact feeling I’d have while drinking Dogfish Head’s excellent ’90-Minute IPA.’ The brew is [...]
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Back in 2003 I lived with my then-girlfriend (now-wife) in Denver, CO not terribly far from the New Belgium brewery up in Fort Collins. That winter there was a snow storm that ground the city to a halt. And not just Denver, but the entire foothills stretch from Colorado Springs in the south to Fort [...]
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I’ve spilled a good deal of ink on craft beer in the past, discussing how regulations have factored into the big beer monopolies, and questioning whether small brewers need to be unionized the way the big brew shops do. I’ve also written about craft beer as it applies to the “human economy” (more on the [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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