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If you ever want to know why I really love craft beer, this is it right here.

Oregon’s Full Sail Brewing offers up a nice selection of brews, from Amber, IPA and Pale Ale to Session Lager (great name!) and Wassail Winter Ale, but you have to love their LTD line of beer. For them, LTD means “limited edition” and “Live The Dream.”

In celebration of the brewery’s 21st birthday, they’re concocting an ever-changing series of small batch beers, available for a limited time only. Each new LTD Series brew will showcase an original lager recipe, pimped out by their “ace crew of libationary wunderkinds.”

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I’m not a big fan of Bud. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll gladly drink a bottle if I’m at a barbeque and my choices are Bud, Bud Light and Bud. I’d just prefer not to when there are so many more beers out there that I find much more interesting.

Apparently, I’m not alone in my anti-Bud ways as Anheuser-Busch is reportedly planning to go after “experimenters” with it’s latest offering. That’d be people like me who don’t drink a lot of Bud, are easily bored and bounce around among various beers such as Yuengling, Fat Tire and Hoegaarden. Hmm… not only does that sound like people who like variety, but also people who don’t mind spending a little extra on their beer. Interesting.

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It’s a gloomy, wet, cool Friday here in New Jersey and it feels like the weekend (not to mention Summer!) can’t come soon enough. Thankfully, Sam Adams is here to brighten our day with the announcement that their “Beers of Summer” 12 and 24-packs will be available for our drinking needs from May through July.

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I liked the stories, hated the movie, but what about the beer? Yes, you heard that right, it’s time to toss a few back with Rapunzel, Hansel, Gretel and Cinderella with some Brothers Grimm Beer!

The Baron Brewing Company in Seattle is introducing a line of six very rare big beers which will be available in limited edition 22oz bottles. Every special beer will represent a folk tale from the Grimm Brothers collection.
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I’m just finishing up a nice 12-pack sampler from Flying Dog that I’ll be posting up reviews from in the next couple of days, but it looks like they’ve got yet another brew I’ll have to try as they just announced a new addition to their “litter of ales” - Kerberos Tripel.

As part of the brewery’s Canis Major Series, Kerberos Tripel is a bottle conditioned, strong Belgian-style ale with a slightly hazy appearance and mousse-like head (yummy!) and checks in at a hearty 8.5% abv. It is brewed with Golding and Saaz hops and Pilsner and Aromatic malts to yield a medium body and champagne-like carbonation. Kerberos pairs perfectly with Turkey and other poultry, creamy cheeses, fruit pastries, desserts and crème brulee.

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