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Mar 31 2009

ReaperAle: To Die For Brewery Hits Our Shelves

Yesterday I talked about a brewery new to Binny’s that is fixated with being organic and drinking naked. Instead of being obsessed with nakedness like Eel River brewery, today’s feature brewery, ReaperAle, is obsessed with death. ReaperAle is the latest stellar micro brewery from California to make its way to the Midwest, and can now be found at Binny’s. ReaperAle is located in Lake Elsinore, which is in one of the southern most counties in California. If ReaperAle’s fixation with death isn’t evident from the name of the brewery, maybe the names of their beers will confirm this for you. Right now Binny’s is featuring three of the ReaperAle beers, which are listed below.

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1 comments - Posted by Kyle Fornek at 5:02 PM - Categories: Beer

Mar 30 2009

Eel River Brewery: Green and Organic

New to the Chicago area, Eel River Brewery encourages you to Be Natural – Drink Naked. Located in Humboldt County's historic redwood forest and about nine miles from the Pacific ocean in northwest California, Eel River Brewery resides in Fortuna, California. Eel River Brewery is the first ever USDA certified organic brewery, and their beers can now be found at your local Binny's. The biomass powered brewery will burn anything from wood chips to their customers grass clippings to supply their brewery with power. The Eel River portfolio consists of seven beers:...

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3 comments - Posted by Kyle Fornek at 11:34 AM - Categories: Beer

Mar 28 2009

Southern Tier Keeps it Cutting Edge

Southern Tier Oak Aged Unearthly is a beer that is reminiscent of the first India pale ales, in that it is aged in oak barrels...

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7 comments - Posted by Kyle Fornek at 9:44 AM - Categories: Beer

Mar 27 2009

Notes From a Kosher Tasting

There are a lot of good wines out there that happen to be kosher. Recently, I was able to sit in on a short seminar focusing on some wines from the Royal Wine Corp. portfolio – a major importer and distributor of kosher wines. With passover quickly approaching, here are a few wines you might want to try. There's something for everyone, from the once-a-year wine drinker, to the nerdiest wine nerd (that's me).

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0 comments - Posted by Greg Versch at 1:47 PM - Categories: Wine

Mar 25 2009

The Gang's Road Trip to Three Floyd's

Last week, the gang took our first road trip to one of our favorite breweries, Three Floyd's...

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2 comments - Posted by Kyle Fornek at 10:17 PM - Categories: Beer

Mar 25 2009

More New Releases From California

March, California wine month, is quickly coming to a close.  Here are a few more new releases I tasted recently that are worth seeking out....

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2 comments - Posted by Greg Versch at 10:29 AM - Categories: Wine

Mar 24 2009

Top Ten Beers: Newly Updated

Andy Warhol once predicted that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Put another way: fame is fleeting.  That's one of the hard lessons underscored ...

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11 comments - Posted by Kyle Fornek at 12:57 PM - Categories: Beer

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