Slightly disappointed by last night’s random pairing, the only thing to do was head out onto the Lido deck and try to do a better job. I selected a Belgium beer to increase the odds of a good choice – Orval Trappist Ale – and a Nicaraguan cigar for the same reason. Tonight the Force [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Hey Federal Trade Commission. You’re telling me and all the other bloggers that if we get paid for an endorsement, we damn well better disclose that fact, or face a penalty of $11,000. Well no one has ever paid me for an endorsement, and if they ever had I wouldn’t need you to tell me [...]
Posted on May 11th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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I always cringe when I hear someone complaining how America should provide some new entitlement to its citizens, using the argument that some other industrialized country does it. [Cue the patriotic music.] This is America, damn it, and we should be taking our own path. In our first 200 years we put a man on [...]
Posted on April 8th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Rogue American Amber Ale
The Rogue Brewery in Oregon and the fine beers it produces reminds us once again to give thanks to Jimmy Carter. Although viewed by many as the worst President in modern history, he is the one that signed the bill in 1979 that repealed federal restrictions on home brewing of small [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2009 by Aaron Morris
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Busy day at work, but when I finally get to retire to the Lido deck, fire up the cigar and turn on Slacker.com, I’m greeted with The Alan Parsons Project:
Just what you need to make you feel better
Just what you need to make you feel
Just what you need to make you feel better
Just what you [...]
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Aaron Morris
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An American beer company is opening a brewery in China. It’s the first time this company built a brewery from scratch outside the United States. China represents both a major challenge and a tempting opportunity for brewers: Per capita beer drinking is low and tough competitors abound, but what a huge market to crack!
But here [...]
Posted on March 15th, 2009 by Aaron Morris
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Heineken really needs to hire me as a consultant before it makes any more purchases.
Get this. Heineken gets the brilliant idea to buy brewer Scottish & Newcastle, purveyors of Newcastle beer. The price is a little high, so they get Carlsberg to come in on the deal. Together they pay over $13 billion for Newcastle, [...]
Posted on February 19th, 2009 by Aaron Morris
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Some rare Southern California precipitation wasn’t going to stop me from enjoying a smoke on the veranda, so I grabbed some random choices and headed out. I found I had selected the Italian beer Birra Moretti and a Padilla Series ‘68 cigar.
Birra Moretti
In 1859, Luigi Moretti founded his “Beer and Ice Factory” in Udine, in [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Aaron Morris
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Australian longneck
The Australian longneck is a bottle of 750 ml (25.4 U.S. fl oz) capacity. In Queensland a longneck is known as a tallie. In Western Australia a longneck is known as a king brown. Carlton & United Beverages had increased their longneck size to 800 ml (27.1 U.S. fl oz), but have recently reverted [...]
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Aaron Morris
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Beer has always been important to America. One of Thomas Jefferson’s first acts was to pass legislation to ensure a healthy beer industry in the United States. And although there were local craft beers in the early days, with the industrial age came the sort of tasteless, Budweiser-style beers that continued well in [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Aaron Morris
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