Joe Sixpack drinks beer and writes about it for a living in America's Best Beer-Drinking City. Yes, it is a dream come true and, no, he is not currently in need of an assistant. He's won a bunch of journalism awards and was named America's top beer columnist in 2002 and 2006. He is the author of the upcoming Joe Sixpack's Beer Reporter Notebook (Camino Books) and he hosts a Web site at www.JoeSixpack.net.
Email Joe at joesixpack@phillynews.com
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Cold case: Beer in cans is cool again
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Once spurned as an unworthy container for good beer, cans are gaining new respect.
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Guidelines? These are the real beer styles
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News item: The Brewers Association has updated its Beer Style Guidelines, with definitions of 142 separate styles. The newest additions are Adambier and Grätzer.
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Bud suit just muddied the water
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By now, it's obvious that the highly publicized lawsuit over Budweiser's alcohol content is pure B.S.
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Breakout brewer in ... Lebanon?
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BEER FROM LEBANON? Baloney! Sorry, this Pennsylvania boy couldn't let that pun slip by, even if - as it happens - we're talking about beer made not in Lancaster County, but in the Middle East.
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Homebrewers battle at War of the Worts
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ON SATURDAY, I'll help judge the War of the Worts, the annual home-brew competition at Keystone Homebrew up in Montgomeryville.
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This V-Day, raise a glass to beer's fallen heroes
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WITH all due respect to Yards Brewing and its delicious, new Chocolate Love Stout, released just in time for Valentine's Day, forget all that lovey-dovey stuff.
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5 beer-drinking songs to swig by
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LET'S PLAY a few bars. Y'know, beer-drinking songs - the kind of music that gets the crowd dancing with a bottle raised in the air. You take a gulp, grab a girl and start a little movement in your sacroiliac.
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2 new brews added to Super Bowl lineup
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FROM TALKING lizards to farting horses to mud-wrestling blondes, Super Bowl beer commercials have traditionally stooped to the lowest common denominator to pump up existing brands. For years, we could depend on delightfully dopey punch lines to liven dull games.
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Beer and cheese make a great pair
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IT WAS inevitable that Pennsylvania's new breed of cheese-makers would bond with the state's thriving brewers. Artisan creameries and breweries are small, locally-owned businesses with handmade products that typically are unique, full-flavored alternatives to their run-of-the-mill mainstream competitors.
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Inventors brew up new beer gadgets
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WHO SAYS American ingenuity is dead? While it's true we still don't have jet packs and flying cars, we do have the Bierstick, a giant plastic syringe that can pump 24 ounces of beer into your mouth in less than two seconds.
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