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Florida Craft Breweries Earn Medals at Great American Beer Festival

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Gerard Walen

Note: An important update was made to this post after it was first published. The medals competition at the Great American Beer Festival is over, and five Florida breweries each brought home a medal: two bronzes, two silvers and one … Continue reading →

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Beer Bites: Utopias, Oktoberfests and Pirates

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Gerard Walen

Don’t you just love September in Florida? Crisply cool morning temperatures. The beginning of Mother Nature’s annual artistry of color-changing leaves. Sweaters and turtlenecks coming out of the closet. Ha ha ha, enough humor. The weather is still beastly hot … Continue reading →

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Beer Bites: Melancholy, Panhandling and Heroes

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Gerard Walen

Ordinarily, this time of year is a happy one for me because my birthday was Thursday and football season has started, but this week is book-ended by sad events. The passing of Buccaneers great Lee Roy Selmon on Saturday struck … Continue reading →

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Beer Bites: Missing Mice, Labor Day and Haters

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Gerard Walen

Where am I? Oh yeah, Savannah, which is why I’m writing this so late on a Friday. See, I was in a hurry to pack, and somehow forgot my computer mouse (Yes, my laptop has a touch pad, but there … Continue reading →

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