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This week’s Thirsty Thursday beer is East End Brewing’s Big Hop IPA. I could take this time to tell you all about the brewery but I don’t have to. A local news station did a nice little video that tells you all about this great Pittsburgh beer.

Big Hop

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As frequent watchers of Bacon LIVE already know I am a big fan of Dogfish Head Brewery. I even went to Rehoboth Beach in December to attend a Pork and Beer dinner at their brew pub. So I guess its no surprise that I would feature them on “Thirsty Thursday”.

Today’s [...]

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This year every Thursday I am going to post a new micro brew that I enjoy. I am going to call this new weekly feature “Thirsty Thursday”. I may not have time to write my own review of the beer but I will share as much as I can about it.

This week’s “Thirsty [...]

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Last weekend I attended the Dogfish Heada Tribute to Pork Dinner” at the brewpub in Rehoboth Beach. Since Dogfish Head happens to be one of my favorite microbreweries I had really high expectations for this event. I would like to report that they blew me away.

The food and beer [...]

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One of my favorite breweries, Dogfish Head, is having a five course pork dinner and I am invited. I can’t wait to enjoy my two favorite things at the same time, pork and beer! I even gave them advice on were to get their bacon for the dinner.

I will be documenting [...]

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At the Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour in Pittsburgh last month, John Ciroli of the Three Rivers Underground Brewers, shared a beer with us that goes perfectly with bacon. He called it the Maple ESB.

John told me after the event “I knew the Maple ESB was going to be either [...]

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Every night at my house after dinner I have this dilemma. Should I have a beer or a bowl of ice cream? For some reason I can never have both before bed. If I do I have trouble sleeping I think it has something to do with mixing uppers (sugar) and downers [...]

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Proving that more than just indie rock and hipsters come out of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Brewery is creating bacon infused beer. The inspiration for the brew is the German beer called Rauchbier or “smoked beer”, which is said to taste a lot like bacon. Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster, has come up with [...]

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Science does it again. Every time someone puts out a story about how bacon will kill you, the bacon lovers in the science community go to work. Although it only takes seconds of research to discover that bacon is the most amazing thing on the planet, it takes hours to show scientifically why. The [...]

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Everyone knows that bacon makes everything better. Sadly, beer does not have that same quality. Here is my list of 10 situations that you shouldn’t mix with beer (I also added a link to a video for each one). I am not talking about just having one beer here, I am talking about having [...]

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