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Dec 18, 2014

Heavy Seas Holy Sheet 2014

I originally had Heavy Seas (Clipper City) Holy Sheet back in the Spring of 2007. I’m not sure if the brewing/aging process […]

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Dec 17, 2014

Flying Dog Brewhouse Rarities Doppelbock

Flying Dog’s Doppelbock is the lastest from the company’s Brewhouse Rarities limited run of beers for 2014 — it also marks the […]

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Dec 16, 2014

Stone Brewing Xocoveza Mocha Stout

Stone Brewing Xocoveza — or rather Chris Banker/Stone/Insurgente Xocoveza Mocha Stout — was originally released back in September. It only took a […]

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Dec 15, 2014

Karl Strauss Five Wee Heavy Bells

Five Wee Heavy Bells is Karl Strauss’ fifth installment of their “12 Days” (previous releases here, here, here and here) holiday series. […]

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Dec 12, 2014

Terrapin Brewing Rye Cubed

I’m not entirely sure when I purchased this bottle of Terrapin’s Rye Cubed, or from which shop, but according to my notes […]

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Dec 11, 2014

Lickinghole Creek Creator Hoppelbock

I don’t recall hearing of Creator Hoppelbock before I happened to spy it on the shelves during a beer run back in […]

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Dec 10, 2014

Oskar Blues Old Chub Nitro

I first encountered Oskar Blues Old Chub in 2008 (and have had it a handful of times since), but it never really […]

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Dec 9, 2014

Sam Adams Tetravis

Man, it’s been quite a while since I last reviewed an Boston Beer Company product in these pages. Turns out, it has […]

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Dec 8, 2014

Firestone Walker Opal

It was still late August when I purchased and subsequently thoroughly enjoyed this bottle of Firestone Walker’s Opal. The weather was still […]

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Dec 5, 2014

Three Brothers Brewing Atramentous

The word “atramentous” is defined as meaning “black as ink.” And while this Three Brothers’ brew of the same name certainly looks […]

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Dec 4, 2014

Old Bust Head Brewing Gold Cup Russian Imperial Stout

I first encountered Gold Cup Russian Imperial Stout at Old Bust Head’s grand opening of their taproom back in August of this […]

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Dec 3, 2014

Strangeways Brewing Woodbooger

Well, you do learn something new every day, or at least, I did back in late September when I first reviewed this […]

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