Category Archives: My Thoughts
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Ardmore and neighboring Haverford appear to be two very wealthy towns. Driving to Tired Hands directly from central-Vermont was just over 7 hours after stopping for food and gas and we arrived just as the doors opened. While unloading my car, Jean, head-brewer at Tired Hands yelled out, “the guy with the Heady Topper can [...]
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Is the Hill Farmstead 2013 Collected Works worth it? Enough people to fill the estimated 150 slots (Correction, 50 slots) have already answered yes and have entered their names into a lottery to be able to purchase their package. So, for them it is worth it and they arrived at this conclusion with or without [...]
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A lot of guys print their FedEx or UPS labels off at home when shipping off “yeast samples” and a few issues arise. Tape over your label and it makes it hard for FedEx to scan Tape all 4 corners of your label and the label can get wet and tear or dirty and unreadable [...]
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More and more upstarts are allowing individuals to pre-buy beers on a year-to-year basis. The Bruery out of Southern California wasn’t the first brewery to do this but their Reserve Society is very well known among beer geeks mostly because RS members get some of the most sough after Bruery beers like Chocolate Rain, Black [...]
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I sort of touched on this a few times before, last in 2011 in this blog post. It hasn’t really been said here why I blog when it comes to beer. For the same reason I have other blogs, content posted here is because it’s fun to share things I’ve learned about home brewing, great beers [...]
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This post is intended to summarize my last 12 months in beer. I’ve been drinking beer since age 21 but, only in the last 18 months have I taken things a step further and jumped into a community of beer lovers who discuss it, trade it and review it. It has been just another one [...]
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I got an email from a reader. It was actually more of a conversation and he said, looking at my Flickr page, there’s no way I am getting great beers legitimately. Meaning, I must be “winning trades” or trading away a lot of beer for one or two whales. His example was, “How many bottles [...]
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I don’t have a lot of input on this other than pointing out how bizarre it is that there are a lot of suspicious 5-star ratings for Guinness on Beer Advocate. These 5 star ratings more defend the beverage than actually give a review. The same goes for RateBeer but not as suspicious. Beer Advocate [...]
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It’s common knowledge that the top rated beers of the world are subjected to factors outside of quality. This blog published in 2009 outlined just how different the top 50 global beer list varies between Beer Advocate and RateBeer. How could two different communities decide what is the top 50? Do you think that beer [...]
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*I actually wrote this post before checking out the raw data on these two beers from RateBeer and Beer Advocate. I think this info is good to start with and it reinforces the picture much better* Cantillon Saint Lamvinus: Aged in oaken Burgundy wine barrels. RateBeer: 3.95/5.00 with 704 Ratings Beer Advocate: 97/100 with 395 Ratings Cantillon Fou’ [...]
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More misinformation on how I handle trading. Clarification on how I trade almost 100% of the time: Half of my trades aren’t trades. They’re muling for friends and strangers. All I ask for is $5 for gas and packing materials and I do this regularly for anyone that asks. If you ask and I say [...]
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I’ve been thinking about this one for a while and I love what a Belgian acquaintance of mine wrote on his beer reviewing profile. He reviews a lot of beer and sometimes, politics will get in the way and force us to state just how pointless this hobby is so that everyone realizes that these [...]
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I don’t whip out the soap box often. In fact, I haven’t done a post like this since April 25th when I came clean about selling beer on eBay, squashed rumors and attempted unsuccessfully to bring the conversation full circle that we are the problem for inflated demand for “rare” beers and we should only [...]
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My beer reviews on RateBeer look nice. I like them compared to the reviews from others. Not that I’m a great reviewer because I’m not. My palate is still developing and sometimes, I get lazy. Most reviews on RateBeer are 1-2 sentences and it’s hard to find just the Taste or Smell notes from each. [...]
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Maybe this isn’t worse. I agree on the negatives of selling via eBay. However, I see trades like this a lot and these tick me off more than anything. I’ve traded Shaun’s beers before. It’s my understanding he doesn’t like that either. I did it in a few trades in one weeks time and traded [...]
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I write this from a train returning from Antwerpen to Gent (via Brussels) having just spent an evening with the founder of the beer selling website, BelgiumInABox. Kurt ships beer around the world and, on their about page, is featured as a lover of beer who enjoys selling the terrific Belgian styles with the world. [...]
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I’m AdamJackson on RateBeer and AdamJackson on HomeBrewTalk and AdamJackson on Untappd and AdamJackson on Facebook and AdamJackson on Twitter and many other social networks. I am not a member of Beer Advocate and never will be. I don’t post on RateBeer either. I am all about discovering great beers for myself, privately talking to [...]
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I’m going to write this as a stream of consciousness. There will be no editing or censoring. It’s a better way to share my thoughts. Since everyone loves a good scandal, I will address that first but try to remain short on the subject only to clarify things and provide some insight. The second section, [...]
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via Wikipedia: The Standard Reference Method or SRM [1] is one of several systems modern brewers use to specify beer color. Determination of the SRM value involves measuring the attenuation of light of a particular wavelength (430 nm) in passing through 1 cm of the beer, expressing the attenuation as an absorption and scaling the [...]
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Having nice glassware is something for grown-ups because you get to impress friends and show off and not look like a child serving drinks in red Solo cups. This is a small fraction of the importance of glassware. If you choose to server your wine, beer and sweet tea in the same generic tall glass, [...]
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Don’t buy IPAs on eBay. Don’t buy beer on eBay. If you must buy beer on eBay and that beer must be an IPA, ask the seller what the bottled on date is. This guy, on March 20th, 2012 says that Pliny the Elder bottled on November 13th, 2011 is “fresh”. He might as well [...]
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Beer is for drinking. In the community of craft beer enthusiasts, this is uttered early and often. It’s used as a generic response to anyone who asks about saving, storing, cellaring or buying beer just to resale at a markup. It’s not always uttered but it’s uttered more than you think and often by a [...]
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