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By Tom Fries on Feb 7th 2005, 7:20 am
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This is off topic, so I am keeping it in a journal.
We have been busy the last two weekends. My daughter's high school musical theater class just finished up a two week run of the Wiz. Laura had the role of Dorothy. Here is a link to a few clips of her.
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bigbrews/Wiz.htm
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By Tom Fries on Dec 2nd 2004, 7:20 pm
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A 24 year tradition comes to an end 
I first tried Anchor OSA in 1979. At that time, it was a very different beer then it is now. Then, it was more like Liberty Ale. There was nothing else like it. That year, I bought 2 cases of OSA and each year after eagerly awaited the release date to get another 2 cases. When they changed to the darker spiced version it is now again there was no other beer like it. My earlier homebrew Christmas ales were the darker spiced variety, inspired by OSA. But there were starting to be other choices. Celebration, Jubelale and Snow Cap came on the scene. My annual OSA purchase became one case, then two sixers. Last year was a single sixer.
Last night I went to our local beer store for the annual holiday beer purchase. There were many choices. More then I could choose from (I wish the store would allow mixed sixers). This year, OSA lost out. I doubt I will ever buy it again. It was a nice run.
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By Tom Fries on Nov 19th 2004, 11:55 pm
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Oops, I was typing too fast last night. The assistent brewer at KBC first name is Dan, not Ben. |
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By Tom Fries on Nov 19th 2004, 6:30 am
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In our quest to find somewhere to move to, we just spent a week in the Kona area of Hawaii looking around. While there we met up with the local brew club, The Barley Boys of Kona. The meeting/party was at AHA Homebrewer of the Year Rod Romanak's house. The twelve homebrews we lugged to Kona were well received. Rod runs the Rocket Suds homebrew shop out of his garage. A guy named Dan runs one from his garage in the Hilo area. We also had a nice chat with Brit Antrim and Ben Kamben, the brewers of the Kona Brewing Company. Ben liked my wheatwine and tried to talk Brit into making one, but Brit was skeptical. The Kona Brew pub had an awesome Kona Coffee Imperial Stout on tap that week. We sucked down several of those.
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By Tom Fries on Oct 30th 2004, 1:36 am
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I just had the unfortunate mis-pleasure of sampling two horrid beers. These are from Island Brewing Company in Carpinteria California. The first was their Jubilee Ale. This was supposed to be an Old Ale. The beer was extremely phenolic and sour. It tasted a lot like the old ale I made when I used the WhiteLabs High Gravity yeast. Nasty, nasty, nasty.
The second one was their IPA. Now, this one has to be infected. It is astringent, and metallic tasting. Blech!!!!! I have dumped beers better then these. Snail bait.
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