Comments on: You know you’re a beer savant when . . . http://appellationbeer.com/blog/you-know-youre-a-beer-savant-when/ Tue, 22 May 2012 16:56:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Thom http://appellationbeer.com/blog/you-know-youre-a-beer-savant-when/comment-page-1/#comment-28221 Thom Sun, 13 May 2007 06:46:58 +0000 http://appellationbeer.com/blog/you-know-youre-a-beer-savant-when/#comment-28221 <a href="http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/?p=180" rel="nofollow">FredFest 2007</a> was as fantastic as you could imagine, and then a little. One of those days where you shake your head and mutter, "I love Portland. I love Oregon." FredFest 2007 was as fantastic as you could imagine, and then a little. One of those days where you shake your head and mutter, “I love Portland. I love Oregon.”

]]> By: SteveH http://appellationbeer.com/blog/you-know-youre-a-beer-savant-when/comment-page-1/#comment-27742 SteveH Tue, 08 May 2007 16:30:24 +0000 http://appellationbeer.com/blog/you-know-youre-a-beer-savant-when/#comment-27742 Oh lord, I'm a savant. How is Fred anyway, have you spoken with him lately? I had a great afternoon talking beer with him some years ago at one of the last Chicago Real Ale Fests. Oh lord, I’m a savant.

How is Fred anyway, have you spoken with him lately? I had a great afternoon talking beer with him some years ago at one of the last Chicago Real Ale Fests.

]]> By: Alan http://appellationbeer.com/blog/you-know-youre-a-beer-savant-when/comment-page-1/#comment-27732 Alan Tue, 08 May 2007 13:32:08 +0000 http://appellationbeer.com/blog/you-know-youre-a-beer-savant-when/#comment-27732 I bought a case of ill-fated Freds last fall that suffered apparently from bad capping but which, through the blessing of <a href="http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2006/december/hairofthedoga" rel="nofollow">upsidedown shipping</a> and <a href="http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2006/december/hairofthedog" rel="nofollow">other means</a>, had the yeast seal up what mechanical capping engineering could not. I have nine left, I think, and having had one last Saturday watching the Red Sox did indeed smile when I read "cask Fred". I'd risk the cross-continent shipping again. Wonderful stuff. I bought a case of ill-fated Freds last fall that suffered apparently from bad capping but which, through the blessing of upsidedown shipping and other means, had the yeast seal up what mechanical capping engineering could not. I have nine left, I think, and having had one last Saturday watching the Red Sox did indeed smile when I read “cask Fred”. I’d risk the cross-continent shipping again. Wonderful stuff.

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