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Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » Flag Day BudsYou’ve probably seen this before, it’s been around since at least 2002, but it seemed appropriate for Flag Day. It’s from a “[s]torefront display in a West Virginian town situated along the New River.” It was taken by Marjorie O’Brien, who at the time was a photography major at Northern Michigan ...
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Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » National Action Alert: Proposed Increase Of Federal Beer TaxI received the following action alert from Support Your Local Brewery, a national, grassroots partnership of beer enthusiasts, professional trade associations and brewers dedicated to supporting and protecting the legislative and regulatory interests of small, traditional and independent craft ...
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Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » Beer Excise Taxes By StateI found this nice map of the 50 states with the individual beer excise tax brewers in each state has to pay in addition to the federal excise taxes at Charlie Papazian’s blog, too. It’s originally from Don’t Tax Our Beer, a website maintained by the Tax Foundation. The map provides an ...
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Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Drunk WordsLast month, I tackled the Top 10 Drunk Phrases, so now I thought I’d look at the single colloquial words for being drunk. So for my 17th Top 10 list that’s what will do, so I can keep milking the Drunk Words, a project I worked on several years ago and finally got back on line last year. Again, ...
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Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » B Is For BeerIt isn’t often I have the opportunity to review a novel. Sadly, there are just too few works of fiction whose main plot points involve beer. More’s the pity. But along comes novelist Tom Robbins to add to the sub genre I’m about to invent, which I suppose I’ll call “beer fiction.” Robbins is the ...
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Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » Camping In A Beer CanBy the time you read this, I’ll be in the mountains above Gualala, a few hours north of home, sprawled out in a rustic cabin for a much needed battery recharge. But going camping again reminded me of something very, very cool that I saw in Boston at the Craft Brewers Conference last month. ...
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Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » U.S. Senate Told To Raise Beer TaxesAs reported by Harry Schumacher in his Beer Business Daily (subscription required), at a Senate Finance Committee round table on Tuesday, three of the thirteen people called on to testify about how to pay for Obama’s $1.5 trillion universal health case initiative suggested that the excise tax on ...
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Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Beer LimericksToday is National Limerick Day, which commemorates the birthday of Edward Lear. Lear wrote the Book of Nonsense, one of the earliest collections of limerick poetry and with it and later works he’s the person who probably did more to popularize the form than anyone else. Here’s one by Lear where ...
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Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » Beer In Art #24: Eung Ho Park’s I’m Looking At YouBeer bottle caps, a.k.a. crowns, seem to be a favorite material for artists to use. Here’s yet another very cool use of crowns to make something spectacular looking. The artist, Eung Ho Park, has painted the inside of the crowns in pairs to resemble staring eyes and creates entire walls of them ...
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Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » Breweries Per CapitaSince it’s a statistics kind of week, I thought I’d share this other list recently released by the Brewers Association. I’m not sure what to make of it. It’s Breweries Per Capita, essentially the number of breweries in each state, divided by the population. Since it makes no difference what size ...
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