Silflay Hraka

Compiled with the assistance of Hennepin Farmhouse Saison

The beer is often referred to as a “farm house” Saison style, because the particular style was usually brewed in a farm house during the winter months to be served during the summertime.

A great beer that is complex yet still great to drink year round, and a great complement for a variety of earthy cuisines.
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Brew Reviews:Jolly Pumpkin’s Bam Biere Farmhouse Ale, Hacker-Pschorr Weiss Dark, Belikin – the beer of Belize, Lagunitas Sirius Ale, Sharkbite Red Ale, Keegan Ales’s Hurricane Kitty
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What he said. “It’s very dangerous to compare beer to Fairy liquid because it’s significantly more elastic than Fairy liquid,”
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It’s lonesome away from your kindred and all
By the camp fire at night where the wild dingoes call,
But there’s nothing so lonesome so morbid or drear
Than to live in a town that’s outlawed its beer.
Potterites were bemused. So they did whatever any other suspicious person might do when faced with five legally-binding and confusing questions. They voted “no” to them all.

Not only did they refuse the Hitchen Rail’s application. But they accidentally stopped the two stores in town from selling beer when their licenses ran out. The last license runs out in about two weeks.
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Beer Podcasts: The “2:40″ Beer Tasting
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Virginia Beersicles are skating on thin legal ice.
If you’re at an Irish pub in Alexandria, Virginia law would prohibit bartenders from taking Guinness from the tap, freezing it and serving it to customers on a stick. But if you’re a restaurateur and take Belgian ale used for cooking, freeze it and serve it up as a treat, you’re in the clear.
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Ontario’s beer selection is not only the blandest in North America, it’s the most expensive.
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News From Mordor:
Bud Light becomes the official beer of wacking guys on the shins with your stick.

“A top innovation” may be one way to describe flavored malt beverages, but it’s not my term of choice.

Even Sauron has his defenders.
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A History, of sorts.
Foul tasting grain hulls floating around in unfiltered beer were a drawback until, in the mid-third millennium B.C., the drinking straw was invented. The fact that drinking beer through a straw (which was continuously getting clogged with nasty bits of glop) was considered, by our ancestors, preferable to straining solid particles out of the beer, supports my theory that we’re lucky to even have the wheel.
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Labels matter.
You don’t need a PhD to know that virtually every product takes the label they put on it very, very seriously. Having designed from the bottom up, several private label beers–at least one of which is still around — gave me a window into this process. We came up with names, graphics and stories and went through more versions than I care to recall. Suffice it to say it was a long and tortuous process. So I view labels much differently now than I once did. For example, almost all labels change, even the ones you don’t think do. Most large companies are constantly tweaking and updating their labels and packaging in order to stay competitive and stand out on the shelf. If you don’t do that, people will lose interest and no longer have a reason to pick up their products. If you look at a major label–Budweiser or Heineken is good for this–from year to year, you’ll see that minor changes occur all the time. Because they’re well-established brands, they don’t overhaul them in one go, but if you look at them in ten year increments, you’ll see that they have actually changed quite a bit over time. For less well-established brands, it’s usually a good idea to redo your packaging from top to bottom every two to three years so — okay, I hate this buzzword, too–that it remains “fresh.”
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Brew Debuts:
Coney Island Lager

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The qualities of a good beer store.
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Good advice
If you want an edge in impressing your date, order her up a Framboise and watch the delight spread across her face. Unless she’s allergic to raspberries. No one is delighted in the emergency room.
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Inte Bara Glogg!

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