So, the short story is that I didn’t get the Best Brews Intern position.  The long story is that I got screwed out of…something.  Here’s what I wrote, cross-posted from my main blog:
I’ve been writing about how I was one of the finalists for the Best Brews Summer Intern position and how I was going [...]

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My apologies for the sporadic updates.  It’s difficult for me to write about every beer I have, mostly since I have so many of them.  Nothing tremendously mind-blowing, alas.  I did come across a beer I had to pour out because I couldn’t drink it, but I swear, I gave it my best try.  Midnight [...]

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This past weekend my girlfriend and I took a trip up to Seattle, partially for touristy stuff, partially because I wanted to go to a couple of brewpubs and visit McMenamins numbers 45, 46, and 47, respectively.  All in all, it was a good trip.
We traveled by train, so it was a nice relaxing few [...]

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I had a bottle of Beer Valley Brewing’s “Highway to Ale” barleywine-style ale last night.  I wasn’t familiar with Beer Valley, but hey, 10.5% ABV always get my attention.  Plus, Highway to Ale?  Sounds like a song a cockney AC/DC would sing.  But I was impressed.  Very impressed.  It actually didn’t taste anything like a [...]

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You know what?  Beer reviews shouldn’t be at the tail end of a three 22 oz. bottle evening.
Very nice, very bitter, it’s gets a thumbs-up.  I’d definitely buy it again.
Oog.

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Thick.  Dark.  9.7% alcohol.  What, pray tell, is an “old ale”?
It’s very tasty, that’s what it is.  I say again, I’m really not much for describing nuances of beer and I’m more for just saying yay or nay.  This gets a yay.  It reminds me of…something.  It’s very smooth, and doesn’t have the bite that [...]

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Each time I’ve gone into Belmont Station lately, I’ve seen this beer and been tempted by it.  India Pale Ales are my weakness; Imperial IPAs are my kryptonite.  Each trip, I see it, I pick it up…I see the $10.99 price tag…I put it back.
Tonight’s different, though.  I feel like splurging tonight.  So I bit [...]

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Probably one of the most expensive beers I’ve bought at $9.99 for a 22 oz. bottle, I think I can sum this beer up in one word: yum.  It’s a nice Imperial IPA clocking in at 8.2% ABV, and it hit me pretty hard, either due to the alcohol content of this beer or having [...]

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A Taste for Brews That Go to Extremes - New York Times
Hmmm, it’s like a shopping list for the best beers.  Oddly enough, I had the Double Simcoe beer just this week when I was visiting Boston.
Speaking of Boston, I only found myself in one brewpub, John Harvard’s Brewery.  A little on the expensive [...]

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Not much movement on the homebrew front.  My lager is still…well, lagering.  I racked it into the carboy on Christmas Day, and I’ll let it sit there for at least another three or four weeks before bottling it.  I haven’t been taking regular hydrometer readings–in fact, I haven’t ever once taken a hydrometer reading between [...]

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