enjoying a drink
and enhancing the moment
with food, fun and friends

Written by Captain Hops.

References: I am not sure why I am going for this linkbait, but what the hell. A columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune wrote a column called “Beer snobs forget the true meaning of beer”. He then spent the whole of the article hurling insults at the ‘pretentious snobs’ and somehow forgot to mention what the true meaning of beer actually is except that it is something cheap that working class folk drink from a styrofoam cup. The article was written in an inflammatory manner calculated to draw the biggest response, which of course it did. I feel that regardless of style or cost, beer simply enhances the moment and it has no need to have any other meaning than that. Cheers!
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a patient pour yields
golden heady goodness and
devilish mischief

References: Duvel USA, Duvel Belgium
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liquid poetry
epic darkness past my lips
leaving a rogue grin

Written by Captain Hops.

References: Shakespeare Stout from the Rogue Brewery in Newport, Oregon.
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brothers at the bar
discuss world domination
over hearty stout

Written by Captain Hops.

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taste the wilderness
of vast heather clad moorland -
Fraoch native Scots ale

Written by Juliet Wilson – the Crafty Green Poet.

References: Fraoch is brewed from heather. Check out the interesting history of this type of brew.
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