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May 01, 2008
22:44
Love Beer
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John reports on going to the Craft Brewers Festival held in San Diego. The CBC is held in different places around the country once a year. Brewers from all of the world attend. During the week there are talks about beer, sessions about beer, judging beer and of course drinking beer. As there are lots of great breweries in San Diego we got to tour such as Stone Brewery, Port Brewing, Green Flash, Karl Strauss and San Deigo Brewing Company and others.

Along side the CBC was the World Beer Cup. It lands in the US either other year. One of the brewers at the table was Mike from Iron Springs. His stout won a Gold medal. Thrill of victory to be sure. For a complete list of Cup winners click here.

Who is Richard Guidelines?

Pink Boots Society

Beers on the show:
Coors Lite

Homework:
Drink the freshest beer you can find at your local, brew pub or brewery.
April 21, 2008
0:41
Boonville
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Twelfth Annual Legendary Boonville Beer Festival

Date: May 10, 2008
Times: Taps open from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Music until 6:00 p.m.

Place:
Mendocino County Fairgrounds
14400 Hwy 128; Boonville, CA

get tickets online and save.
April 07, 2008
0:41
75 years of Beer
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March 31, 2008
22:27
Hop Crisis
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A “perfect storm” has caused the price of hops to sky rocket. Many things factor into to making this happen: bad crop yields, increased consumption in other countries, and hop farms going away. It doesn’t help that just a few years ago hop prices were so low that there wasn’t incentive to keep growing them when growing corn to be used for ethanol production will command a higher price. The beer that we know and love may go away or may become more expensive to drink.

the Homework
Grow some hops! Or enjoy a big hoppy beer at your local.

the Beer list
Repeal Rye from 21st Amendment

Guests: Stu Stuart and Shaun O’Sullivan
March 23, 2008
17:58
Weird
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Beer can be made from all kinds of different things like Lemons, Tomatoes, Oysters, Apples, Myrrh, Ginger, and Chili Peppers. Think of it as hanging out with your odd cousin. Sometimes weird is nothing more than an interesting label.

Links:
The Guerneville video.

Burrito Tunnel doesn’t go south or north.

Motor’s favorite rockstar.

America the Beautiful by Moon Unit.

Homework: Gather your friends around weird beers. Tell us how many inches of Zappa you have.

Beers on the show: Floris Apple, Stiegl with Lemon Soda, Monty Python’s Holy Ail, Budweiser Chelada, Nora.
March 16, 2008
15:29
Hop Rhizome Festival
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The beginning of the year means the arrival of hop rhizomes. These are the beginning roots of a hop plant which grows as a vine up to 25 feet during the season. A rhizome is genetically identical to the plant it came from. At the end of the season the plant will die but the rhizome will live on. If you make it to the Bistro you can buy your own rhizomes to grow.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
11:00 AM

The Bistro
1001 B Street
Hayward, California 94541
15:17
Bay Area’s 5th Annual Firkin Gravity Festival
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Bay Area’s 5th Annual Firkin Gravity Festival begins Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 11am, and is presented by Triple Rock Brewery & Alehouse in Berkeley, CA.

Admission price is $20.00 which includes a logo glass and 5 tasting tickets; plus a wooden token for a full pour. There will be additional tasting tickets for a nominal fee of $1.00 per taste or $5.00 for six tasting tickets. Most of the styles run out before the end of the afternoon. Get there when the doors open at 11a.m for the best selection. The festival shuts down by 6ish when the beer is gone.

Festival proceeds will be donated to the Alisa Anne Rusch Burn Foundation which supports burn victims and their families in the Bay Area. Their website is: [www.aarbf.org]
March 09, 2008
17:14
Stout
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Imperial Irish Coffee Chocolate Milk Oatmeal Oyster Stout

Stout is a very old style of beer. It’s been around since 1700’s at least. The style has always been loved but it’s not always been popular. The running joke is “want a knife and fork to go with your beer” is unfounded. Stout, while thick and creamy, is often lighter, smoother and more flavorful then some icky American lagers. There are many different recipes for Stout including: Irish, Imperial, Milk, Oatmeal, Chocolate, Coffee and Oyster. Some consider the Porter style to be a Stout as well as the Stout style grew out of Porter beer. Today most breweries consider the styles to be distinct.

Beers on the show:
Almost every kind of stout. See the class photo above.

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The origin of the regeneration on Doctor Who busted.

The plans to bulldoze the parking lot next to our HQ.

Anyone have other idea about the gap in the Wall and how long it should be?

Netflix cue the Roger Waters “the Wall” in Berlin.

All about the Hang Town Fry aka Omelette.

James Bond comic. And Mr. Bond, we expect you to die.

Kurt Vonngegut didn’t give this speech. Ever.

Martians in the inbox.

Guinness is lobbying for a holiday.

Homework
Tell us what Kangaroo tastes like. Or send us Kangaroo.

Actually the homework is stouts. Try random stouts but skip Guiness. Try different styles of stout.. Or try Guiness vs Guiness vs Guiness (the bottle that has no widget, bottle with a widget, and the can with a widget).

Motor will propose to any of the Village Lions.
February 28, 2008
17:49
Microbrewery segment grew 21% in 2007
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While it looks like a big win, there is actually some bad news here. That is brewpubs and micros closing for whatever reason. Comparing 2007 with 2006 there were 12 less brewpub and micro breweries closures which is 40 versus 52. Added up that means that 90 places closed in the last two years. On the positive side during the same time frame 94 new places opened in 2006 along with 82 openings in 2007. Added together 176 places opened. An overall growth of 86 new pubs to haunt or hold court.

In other news some things stay the same. Between 2006 and 2007 there were 20 large brewers and 23 other non craft brewers. Which we believe to be the same as the year before and the year before that.

Get all raw the stats right here.
February 20, 2008
18:47
Touring Belgium
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Instead of a vacation to the surfing safari or snow riding in the mountains consider something different: a vacation to beer. Not just any beer but Belgium beer right from the country itself. Think the ultimate beer run. There are 500 different varieties of beer made by 100 different breweries.

Stu Stuart from Belgium Beer Me! was our guest on the show.

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February 19, 2008
19:42
Belgian Beer Appreciation Class in SF
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Belgian Beer Appreciation Class Comes to LaTrappe Trappist Lounge in San Francisco March 22 at 3 p.m.

Belgian beer enthusiast, beer tour guide and stand-up comedian Stuart leads this special event. Learn about some of the many different styles of Belgian beer, Dubbels, Trippels, Trappist, Farmhouse and more.

Meet some like-minded folks in one fun, informative evening, and experience and appreciate the pleasures of some beers that may change your life! The cost is $65 per person, and includes beer, snacks, course materials and an authentic Belgian beer glass. Sign up now, space is limited: stu@belgianbeerme.com, or call (231) 215-0173.

Visit BelgianBeerMe.com for information on tours on beer tours of Belgium.

LaTrappe is located at 800 Greenwich, near Columbus & Mason, in San Francisco. Take the cable car. “Where little cable cars, go half way to the bars…”
February 18, 2008
17:50
Sam Adams helps the Hop Crisis
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The Hop Crisis! Gads. Whatayamean no IPA?!? Huh… These guys are kidding right? Nope. They aren’t. It’s a full on problem caused in part by other countries buying hops of any kind to brew “canoe beer” for their masses. This leaves craft brewers that didn’t have a contract for the hops they used in an empty kettle. For the unfortunate that weren’t able to plan ahead or didn’t actually believe there was a problem Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Sam Adams are offering brewers the chance to buy hops from them.

“For a couple of months now, we’ve all been facing the unprecedented hops shortage and it’s affected all craft brewers in various ways. The impact is even worse on the small craft brewers–openings delayed, recipes changed, astronomical hops prices being paid and brewers who couldn’t make beer.
So we looked at our own hops supplies at Boston Beer and decided we could share some of our hops with other craft brewers who are struggling to get hops this year. We’re offering 20,000 pounds at our cost to brewers who need them. Specifically, we are able to spare 10,000 pounds of East Kent Goldings from Tony Redsell, a top English grower featured by Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson’s Beer Companion (page 75 has a picture) and 10,000 pounds of the German Noble hop Tettnang Tettnanger from small farms in the Tettnang region in Germany. “

Thanks guys! Now, get on the hunt for enough Simcoe to make Mike McDole’s Long Shot entry…

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February 15, 2008
14:42
Organic
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Organic is not a new thing. It’s not a marketing buzz word. It turns out it’s a really strict thing to use the word. It’s regulated by governments that have set up rules about what a product can’t have, must have and it can’t cheat. It’s a long road to get a product labeled as organic and once it’s labeled this way it’s inspected to make sure it actually really is what it’s supposed to be.

The show is really long as there is lots of information to introduce and talk about. Officially the show is over around the 2 hour mark. After that the talk kept going because we had lots of beer.

Here’s the shows outline with links:

What is Organic?

Is Organic a new thing?
buzz word
turns out it’s a really strict thing to use the word
can’t have
must have
can’t cheat

Whole Foods
270 stores
started in 1978 in Austin Texas
41,500 employees
5.6 billion per year

Organic Market Size
2005 $13.8 billion in sales last year,
$11.9 billion in 2004
$3.6 billion in 1997,
according to market-research firm Nutrition Business Journal. The firm estimated organics would reach $15.5 billion in 2006.

Organic Foods Production Act of 1990

Loop holes in Organic make some growers see red.

Organic Farming

IFOAM is an organization dedicated to teaching organic farming methods.

The Real Dirt on Farmer John documents a farmer who is organic. Movie available soon.

the Future of Food movie.

Farmers Markets

Do patents on seeds make Monsanto evil?

Michael Pollan’s talk at a library. Here are his books we talked about The Omnivore’s Dilema and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
February 05, 2008
16:31
I don’t feel Absinthe
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It’s been a year since we first sat in front of a mic and started talking about beer. Instead of a big fun party with a band we decided to break out of format so we could drink Absinthe. Absinthe has not been available in the US or A legally since 1912 when it was banned by the FDA. We try Absinthe from the St George Distillery in Alameda located about 3 miles from the Beer School studio. It got poured in traditional ways: French, Chec, Frappé (with ice) and Cowboy.

Saint George Distillery

Article about Absinthe in the Cron

Absinthe returns to the shelves article.

Beers on the show: no beer on the show.

Check out the FaceBook page and the YouTube channel.
January 22, 2008
18:24
SB / 08
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Strong Beer month is upon us. We have the whole month of February to drink all 12 big beers.

Join the brewers on Thursday, January 31st at 6PM at the Toronado for a kick-off event for the 6th Annual Strong Beer Month between the 21st Amendment Brewery and Magnolia Pub and Brewery. Each brewery will be pouring one of their strong beers including a special cuvee blend strong beer made between the 21st Amendment and Magnolia.
January 19, 2008
2:59
Class Reunion
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Rosie the Intern returns with glasses and presents.
January 14, 2008
2:57
Nothing
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Robot love, one beer, the award we didn’t win, a wrong turn at Absinth and nothing else.
January 08, 2008
19:55
Beer in the Movies
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Strange Brew, Beer Fest, Animal House, Van Wilder, The Sure Thing, Apocalypse Now, Smokey and the Bandit, MASH, Caddy Shack, The Bad News Bears, Cheers (the movie) never made. why not? Arthur, 1941, One Froggy Evening, Killer Clowns from Outer Space, Porky’s, Young Einstein, Beer League, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Side Ways, Moulin Rouge!, Repo Man (there is no need for beer here.) Beavis and Butthead Do America (hey baby, I gotta beer.) Very Bad Things, One Crazy Summer, 16 Candles, The Incredibles, Roger Rabbit, Super Troopers, Rabbit of Seville, What’s Opera Doc, Old School, Delta House, Green Apricot.

Three Little Beers
Part 1 and Part 2

Fatal Glass of Beer
Part 1 and Part 2

Electric Apricot sings their hit about going to Burning Man!

The Homework:
Watch a beer movie and tell your review to the robot. The number 206-666-5338. Or post it here.
January 06, 2008
15:17
College
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Drinking beer at college comes with surprises, statistics and lies. Honore, our college guest, talks about the beer that she and her friends like. The surprise is what they are drinking. Statistics came from collegedrinkingprevention.gov and cspinet.org.

Nouvelle Vague is the spelling of that band that covered the Dead Kennedy’s song.

Beers on the show:
Wittekerke, Shiner Bohemian Black Lager, Lindemen’s Posse and Green Flash Nut Brown Ale.

Listen to: ksdt.ucsd.edu

Check out the FaceBook page here.

Homework:
Redo your favorite homework from last year. For example….
Send us a coaster
Write about BeerSchool on your blog
Send us presents
Post a review.
Make a list of all your local beers.

Host: John Foster and Motor
Guest: Honore

Email us at info@beerschool.com
January 03, 2008
13:46
Cheers…
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December 24, 2007
16:09
Beer in Review
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Top three beers from the three of us. Sorry that we forgot to compare our lists. Next time maybe.

Motor
Radeberger
30 to Life from Moonlight Brewing
Ich Bin Ein Berliner Weisse from Nodding Head

John
Turmer Pils
Kill Ugly Radio from Lagunitas
Bitter American from 21st Amendment

Best Show
Rock Star Bartender

“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
Frank Zappa

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe was a fun game.

Secret Agent Moss Sour ID cards coming soon.

Books mentioned on the show:
Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan.

Video of Michael Pollan reading his stuff.

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan

Options by Fake Steve Jobs

Ambitious Brew by Maureen Vogle

The picture of bunnies eating the cousin.

Annie’s Mac and Cheese

John got the weight of Jet fuel wrong by a pound.

10 bucks off starter brewing gear.

Homework: Plan all the festivals and events that you want to attend to in 2008.
December 22, 2007
21:48
10 Off Starter Kits
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If you’ve ever thought about brewing your own beer now is the time to start. To entice you to get going Beer School worked out a deal with More Beer to get you $10 off a starter kit that is shipped for free! You have a choice of three kits: Good, Better and Even Better. All the kits come with instructions, sanitizer, caps, capper and hyrdometer.

Good and Better kits assume that you have some parts like a 5 gallon kettle. Any kettle will do like one that you use to make pasta or fry a turkey. It’s also to you to collect or buy your own bottles. Which is fun because it’s an excuse to drink beer in non-screw top bottles. Caps and capper are included. You get to choose what beer you want to make (not included, sorry).

Better and Even Better kits use a glass carboy for the fermenter. Although plastic is easier to carry glass will last longer and is easier to clean and sanitize. Clean is just the start with making beer. The vessels that you ferment beer in has to sterile otherwise you’ll have things growing in your beer that will make it bad. Plastic can more easily scratch and once scratched you cannot use it. That being said, from a starting out point of view, there’s nothing wrong with plastic.

The Even Better kit comes with a kettle, bottles and a beer ingredient kit that brews Light Ale. You read that right, it comes with bottles. Impressive 22 ouncers!

You have to start somewhere. And you might as well start today. Use this coupon at check out: BeerSchool08

Note: $10 off offer subject to change without notice. Beer School and More Beer is not responsible for spills, bottle bombs, infections, bad beer or the fun you have from making your own beer. Beer is good for you. Drink responsibly. YMMV.
December 21, 2007
0:13
Holiday Beer Part 2
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Bake more cookies, relight the fire and chill more Holiday beers.

Beers on the show:
Samual Adams Winter Lager
Alaskan Winter Ale
Kona Brewing Company Pipeline
Gordon Biercsh WinterBock
Allagash Grand Cru
Scaldis Noel
Cropton Rudolph’s Revenge Winter Ale
Bridgeport Ebenezer

Mentioned but not picture:
Heartland Brewery Old Red Nose Holiday Ale
Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence
21st Amendment Holiday Spiced Ale
December 03, 2007
18:40
Brew a Career
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[class photo goes here]

Some people spend lots of money on brewing school to learn the craft of brewing. Melissa learned beer the other way: by brewing beer every day for the last decade. She started brewing part time then eventually quit her day job.

Homework: Visit and tour a brewery. During the tour volunteer to clean the mash tun.

Beer: Modelo in a can and mini Reeses Peanut Butter cups.

Special guests: Melissa the Brewer and Catherine.
Host: John Foster and Motor
November 27, 2007
15:39
1,934 People Learn About Homebrewing
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From that AHA…

November 3, 2007 was the American Homebrewers Association’s (AHA) Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day; on this day more than 1,900 participants brewed 1,970 gallons of beer at 152 sites worldwide. Over 550 new homebrewers learned to brew this year on Teach A Friend to Homebrew Day. The AHA celebrates brewing and encourages new brewers to enjoy the hobby of homebrewing through Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day every year on the first Saturday in November.

In its ninth installment, Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day is even bigger than last year with 14% more participants.

Homebrewing is a hobby that is increasing in popularity again and something that almost anyone 21 years and older can enjoy. The AHA estimates that there are more than 500,000 homebrewers nationwide. Homebrewing requires a stove and simple ingredients and supplies that can be purchased at your local homebrew supply store. The equipment to get started homebrewing costs about $80. The ingredients to make 5 gallons of beer cost $25 to $35 and result in about 2 cases of beer when bottled. The process of brewing takes a few hours, fermenting takes a week, bottling takes about an hour, bottle conditioning takes two weeks… then the beer is ready to chill and enjoy.

Gary Glass, the director for AHA says, “One of the great things about homebrewers is that they are happy to share their knowledge and to pass on the joy that they find in homebrewing to others–that’s really what Teach A Friend To Homebrew Day is all about.”

Homebrewers gather for this event at different locations worldwide. This year (2007) we had sites in the US, Canada, UK, and Denmark. For information on this year’s event go to: http://www.beertown.org/events/teach/
0:24
Holiday Beer Part 1
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Break out the cookies, light the fire and chill the Holiday beers. Anchor Holiday, Full Sail Wassail, New Belgium 2 Below and Sierra Nevada Celebration were on the bill.

Homework:
Try this years Holiday beers at your local or take home a six pack to share with your friends.
November 19, 2007
17:54
Holiday Beer School
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Brewers and guests from all around be bay area will be on hand to talk about holiday beers. You know, those over the top spiced out beers that we get once a year.

$40. Reservation required. Call the 21st Amendment today to make a reservation today. It always sells out.
November 18, 2007
18:41
Now on Facebook
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For why, we don’t know. Lots of people wrote in saying they wanted to see Beer School there. Thus the new page. All of you Facebook, umm, bookers(?) can add us as a Fan.

How fun is it going to be to superpoke beers to everyone. Way cheaper then sending all ya’ all beers for reals.

Link to Facebook.
November 14, 2007
1:56
Beer is Good for You
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[class photo is at the lab]

Beer is good for you in all kinds of ways. More notes to follow.

Homework:
Find a six pack of a beer that you haven’t had for a while and enjoy it with a friend.

Watch out for the lions.

Beer: Racer 5 from Bear Republic.
November 09, 2007
17:56
Barrel Aged Beer Fest
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Is this Saturday November 10th at the Bistro in downtown Hayward. Take BART. See you there.

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November 05, 2007
20:25
Those Fall Colors
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We talk about wet hops, GABF, Long Shot, Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day, pumpkin beer, 10 years of Magnolia, Beer Bus and Twin Peeks. Plus a lot more.

TheBN covers brewing with wet hops.

Simpsons avatar generator. South Park avatar generator. Here’s John and John.

D’oh.

Here’s the words to sing along:
DO-RE-MIBEER, by Homer J. Simpson.

DOUGH… the stuff… that buys me beer…
RAY …. the guy that sells me beer…
ME…… the guy…who drinks the beer,
FAR….. a long, long way for beer.
SO…… I think I’ll have a beer.
LA…… La, la la la la beer
TEA….. no thanks, I’m drinking beer…
That will bring us back to…
(Looks into an empty glass)
D’OH!

The making of the Elizebeth Street Brewing video.

Teach your friend to home brew day.

Magnolia is 10 years old.

Sam Adams Long Shot.

Vote for and see the May Fire play for free. Just select “The May Fire” and click “Vote”. Easy.

The May Fire has also been picked to play at the big show where they announce the winner, at Mezzanine in SF on Saturday Nov 10. You can go to that show for free if you RSVP here.

The Beer School on the Bus video from last year.

Homework:
Find and try a Pumkin beer. If you don’t like it tell the brewer why you don’t.

Try a Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale or any wet hop beer.

Start looking for Christmas beer. Email us what you like and don’t like.

Try one of the GABF award winning beers. Find the list here.

The May Fire Rocks.

Note: The “winner” of the Wet Hop Fest at the Bistro was “Lagunitas Absolutely Wet” not “Sierra Nevada Harvest” as reported.
November 03, 2007
15:11
Live from ESB
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Watch homebrewers brewing from 1PM until 5PM Pacific time. This is part of National Teach a Friend to Brew day.
November 02, 2007
17:04
Magnolia turns 10
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Magnolia Pub & Brewery is celebrating it’s 10th year on Monday, November 5 at the Great American Music Hall! Doors open at 7:30PM.

Tickets are $20 each.

More information is here.
October 30, 2007
22:46
Prohibition 2.0?
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