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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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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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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One of the places I’ve most enjoyed going recently is the Green Dragon Bistro and Pub, which conveniently enough is located in my neighborhood.  I say it not just as one of the 20 Founders who paid a decent amount of money for a guaranteed seat and a free beer every time I come in, [...]

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