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What’s in the Cellar
I had all the best intentions of writing up at least my weekly beer experiences but obviously that didn’t work out. I guess that will be a new year’s resolution for me. In the meantime I am going to add … Continue reading
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Alpine Beer Co & New Belgium Collaboration IPA
I didn’t even realize this beer was coming until I saw it at Fuller’s today. Limit 1 per customer (as seems common for Alpine bottles now) so I grabbed one for the weekend. Nice painted label on the bomber, the … Continue reading
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Comic-Con 2012 Initial Report
Well I overdid it again (as usual) and came home with 16 pounds of trade paperbacks yesterday. Literally 16 pounds, I put my backpack on the scale. Lots of continuing series like the next Hellboy, BPRD, 30 Days of Night … Continue reading
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How to Pack & Ship Beer (by Barlow Brewing)
I have just started trading beer through the mail and a friend of mine shared this link to a great article on how to ship beer. It’s from the Barlow Brewing blog and is very comprehensive. I will be shipping … Continue reading
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Weekly Beer Report #3
2/12 Sculpin IPA by Ballast Point at Slater’s 50/50 in Liberty Station. I ordered My Bloody Valentine from Alesmith since it’s a seasonal but they “just ran out” somehow right when I ordered. The waitress kindly brought me a shot … Continue reading
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Order of the Stick Kickstarter
Only five days left to contribute to the Kickstarter fund to help reprint the Order of the Stick books. They are way over the goal already but there are gifts for donating and I figure that I could kick in … Continue reading
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Weekly Beer Update #2
Yes this “weekly” update is extremely late but with reason: the co-located server that I was on had issues so I had to migrate to a new host. The site seems a bit slow at times but at least it’s … Continue reading
Weekly Beer Report #1
I decided that since I try at least one new beer nearly every week that it might be fun (for me even if not for my readers) to post a list every week of the beers I’ve had since the … Continue reading
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New About the Site Page
After 6+ years I finally decided to revisit the About page for the site, below is the text to save you having to click on the link. ************************************************************ I decided that it was time to change up my site a … Continue reading
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WWII Rankings
This link is three years old now but considering that it’s bowl season (sort of) I figured it was worth reposting from the DRZY blog. I’ve had this saved as a draft since Dec. 2010 and the original post was … Continue reading
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Occupy the North Pole!
I know this is a shameful plug but I got a good laugh out of this new shirt from Despair.com, Rankin & Bass are probably rolling in their graves right about now.
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Music Review: Grifter
For many years I’ve just been recycling all my old favorites but this year I decided that it’s a shame to not pick up some new artists so the first one on my list was Grifter from the UK (full … Continue reading
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Happy Nigel Tufnel Day
Yes, in honor of Nigel’s obsession with the number eleven today is officially Nigel Tufnel day. If it’s not already too late then you need to make some noise at the god-awful cliched time of 11:11:11 today. If you don’t … Continue reading
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Neat backgrounds for photographing models
One of the guys in my gaming club found a neat site that has downloadable backgrounds for photographing your models, I think I will give this a shot. Corvus Miniatures Cloud Backgrounds
Iron Fist Brewing Co.
I finally cracked my 750ml of Velvet Glove imperial stout from Iron Fist tonight and boy what a treat! At 9% it’s surely no session brew but it was really tasty. Iron Fist Brewing Co. | Rule your taste … Continue reading
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