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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the 1970s. [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Aaron Morris
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