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  • The Top Beer Bloggers Revealed - Part 2

    May 30th, 2007

    Last Friday I wrote about a little experiment I did in an attempt to determine the most popular beer blog on the web.

    Basically I wrote a script that does a little triangulation between ranking systems on a blog aggregator (Technorati), a search engine (Google) and a blog reader (Bloglines), and tosses back the results. (For a full explanation, read the first post.)

    Alas, I spent so much time in that first post explaining how I did what I did that I didn’t have a chance to list my full results. So here they are (along with a few notes):

    Beer Blog Popularity as of 25 May, 2007

    1. A Good Beer Blog
      Technorati Authority: 144 | Bloglines 104 | Google Page Rank: 6

      Notes: Mentioned in my first post. As of this morning their Technorati Authority had risen to 150.

    2. Brookston Beer Bulletin
      Technorati Authority: 121 | Bloglines: 15 | Google Page Rank: 5

      Notes: The Authority of 121 reflects a combined 107 for the old URL and a 14 for the new one. (People need to update their links). Bloglines and Page Rank numbers reflect the old URL as well.

    3. The Beer Mapping Project
      Technorati Authority: 98 | Bloglines: 10 | Google Page Rank: 6

      Notes: The Beer Mapping Project’s Page Rank of 6 equals that of Beer Advocate. That’s pretty impressive given the amount of content generated on Beer Advocate each day. A Google number that high indicates that while not as many people may subscribe to the RSS feed, lots of people are clicking through to the site based on search results.

    4. The Brew Site: It’s all about the beer
      Technorati Authority: 73 | Bloglines: 47 | Google Page Rank: 5

      Notes: Even though The Brew Site has a lower Authority rank, it’s larger subscriber base and higher Page Rank kicked it to number four on the list. This is the highest ranking beer blog run entirely by one guy who is not directly affiliated with the beer business.

    5. Hop Talk
      Technorati Authority: 82 | Bloglines: 8 | Google Page Rank: 4

      Notes: More blogs cite articles on Hop Talk than on The Beer Site giving it a higher Authority rank. However, the lower Page Rank and Bloglines subscriber base placed it number five. (Could change quickly though.)

    6. Beer Haiku Daily
      Technorati Authority: 66 | Bloglines: 9 | Google Page Rank: 4

      Notes: Who knew so many beer lovers were weird Japanese poetry fans? Number six on the list is a great showing. Who sez we isn’t cultured peoples?

    7. Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home
      Technorati Authority: 67 | Bloglines: 7 | Google Page Rank: 4

      Notes: I was a little surprised by these results. I had assumed that any of Stan Hieronymus’ sites would easily clock in in the top three. Spidering this site though, I can see that the site’s rank may be artificially low due to a lower number of inbound citations (links) from other sites as compared to the top three beer blogs.

    8. Realbeer.com Beer Therapy
      Technorati Authority: 48 | Bloglines: 28 | Google Page Rank: 5

      Notes: The RealBeer main website is huge in comparison to the blog. Were the whole site RSS-capable (rather than just one section), I believe it’d rank at least four positions higher.

    9. Beer Me!
      Technorati Authority: 51 | Bloglines: 2 | Google Page Rank: 5

      Notes: Syndication of headlines only as opposed to full articles or abstracts probably keeps its subscriber numbers lower than the could be because that sort of thing tends to appeal to industry insiders (e.g., people in the beer biz) rather than regular folks. Authority and Page Rank are still quite respectable. This site could easily move up in the next few weeks.

    10. Stonch’s Beer Blog
      Technorati Authority: 43 | Bloglines: 2 | Google Page Rank: 4

      Notes: Stonch is a prolific writer, so I have to assume that his Authority rank is artificially low because he tends to write a lot about local pubs and what he’s up to rather than what everyone is writing about. (Recall that ‘Authority’ gets its ranking from the number of other blogs citing your posts or vice versa.) Still a very respectable showing for a guy who makes beer in a plastic bin and shares it with friends (and the homeless) in a park.

    Up and Comers
    While not in the top ten, each of the blogs below is on an upward trend and could easily pop into the top ten over the next few months.

    Some closing notes, thoughts, etc.

    • This is an attempt to measure popularity, not actual readership
      None of the metrics I used counts actual site traffic or readership. All it does is make an assumtion that a blog with more links to/from it, higher search engine results, and more RSS subscribers is more “popular” than one with lower numbers.
    • It’s already inaccurate
      All of these measures are snapshots. The moment I took them they were obsolete. Because they’re based on rolling figures (like the number of links over the past six months), they’re changing all the time. (For example, A Good Beer Blog has risen six points in Authority ranking in just the past five days.) If you see two blogs within a couple of points of one another, they can easily flip flop simply based on frequency of posts, whether other people added or dropped links to them, and so on.
    • We’re not that big of a community
      If you take a look at the Authority rankings of some other areas of interest like restaurants, wine, tech gadgets, tv shows, and so on, you find hundreds of blogs with numbers well into the thousands. When the top Beer Blog is only 150 it tells you that this is a pretty small world (since ‘Authority’ is based on unique links in posts, the more unique links, the higher the ‘Authority’). Search “beer” you come back with thousands of sites. Limit that with “craft brewing”, “micro brewing” and so on, and you get down into the low hundreds. (This probably has something to do with the fact that we don’t have a lot of techno-weenies in our midst, so not a lot of us are blogging.) Chances are, if you’re a regular beer blog reader, it’s quite likely that you know most — or maybe even all — of the beer bloggers out there. A micro community for micro brews… pretty cool.
    • I’ll do better next time
      In goofing around I found a whole bunch of other tools and metrics from places like FeedBurner that’ll help me measure popularity more accurately. Gimme another month and I’ll even be able to do little charts and stuff. (Oooooh, shiny objects).

    If you’ve got any ideas, comments or suggestions, you know I want to hear them. Just use the comment form or drop me a note at beerbuddy (at) mybeerpix.com.

    Cheers!

    Real Ale Festival This Weekend - Carlsbad, Calif.

    May 30th, 2007

    Irish guy on a cask of beerA quick heads-up for those of you who will be in the San Diego / Southern California region this weekend.

    June 1 and 2 (that’s this Friday and Saturday) is the 10th Annual Real Ale Festival hosted by Pizza Port in Carlsbad. The festivities start at 4pm on Friday and pretty much run until closing on Saturday night/Sunday morning. (Okay — there is a small breather in there between midnight and 11am on Saturday morning. Just enough time to catch a few hours sleep and re-fuel.)

    Being the Real Ale Festival, there’s going to be an enormous selection of real ales served with the traditional beer engine, but I also have it on good authority that there will be a pretty good sampling of bottled real ales to try too. (If there’s one thing to know about Port’s festivals, it’s that the beer selection is always H U G E.)

    If you want to get in a little early, you can go to the VIP session which starts at 1pm on Friday, and get a chance at a few ales that the great unwashed masses regular patrons won’t have an opportunity to taste.

    Price of admission is $25, which gets you a nifty tasting glass and 8 tasters. Additional tasters are just $1 each. The VIP session is $40, but, as I mentioned, it does get you in three hours early. My good friend (and Pizza Port / Port Brewing co-owner) Vince Marsaglia will be captaining the food once again, so you know there’ll be plenty of good stuff to eat.

    Added bonus — I’ll be at the VIP session with my good friend MoJo, so if you want to be seen drinking good beer with two cute California blondes, here’s your chance. (Yeah, okay, Beer Sage will be at the VIP session too, but he has to leave around 3:30 to man the tasting room over at The Lost Abbey brewery.) Plus we’ll be back for the full day on Saturday, so if you can’t make it Friday, we still have an opportunity to toast on Saturday.

    Girls who are not as cute as me wearing dindlsSad girly side note: My Dindl (a traditional Bavarian dress) was sitting at my girlfriend Kristine’s house in Nürnberg and she just mailed it to me on Monday, so I’m pretty sure it won’t be here from Germany in time for me to wear it at the festival. I’ll have to find some other outfit in which to get my drink on. (And no, I don’t care that it’s a German dress at an English beer festival. It’s cute, so I wanted to wear it.)

    If you’re going to attend the festival, I strong recommend getting a hotel room. There’s a number of them nearby, and the festival is a heck of a lot more fun when you don’t have to worry about transportation.

    You can can get all the details on the festival and driving directions at Pizza Port’s website right here.

    If you want to attend the VIP session, you can purchase the tickets online right here. (Normal admission tickets are sold at the door.)

    If you plan on attending, make sure to drop me a note, or look me up when you’re there. Hope to see you!

    The Top Beer Bloggers Revealed

    May 25th, 2007

    Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most popular beer blogger of them all?

    Yeah, okay, dorky intro, but it’s an interesting question because all the beer blog readers I know seem to have different lists of blogs they read. What’s more each claims that his (or her) blogroll contains “the most popular and widely read” beer blogs — a claim that seems doubtful because the lists (some as large 60 blogs) rarely have more than a handful of sites that overlap.

    So the other day I sat down and wrote a quick little program that uses a handful of terms including “beer”, “brewing”, “brewery”, “micro-brew”, “craft-brew”, and “brewpub”, to identify the top results for beer related blogs on the Internet. Since blogs are differnet than traditional websites (both in the way they’re read and cataloged), I used three different sources to determine popularity:

    • Technorati “Authority” Ranks — Technorati is the probably the most comprehensive catalog of blogs and user-created content on the web. It’s “Authority” ranking is an attempt to determine the popularity of a blog by counting the number of links to/from a blog post over a rolling six month period. Special weight is given to specific “posts or articles” (as opposed to the general links to other websites that appear in the sidebar of a blog). The theory is the more links from other blogs, the more discussion there is on the post (or posts), and thus, the more “Authoritative” a blog is. The most “Authoritative” on Technorati is Engadget with a rating of 28,203. The average among 82 million blogs is around 8.
    • Google Page Rank & Blog Search Results — Google’s rankings are based on a complex (and changing) combination of inbound/outbound links, keyword frequency, clickthrough, website age and, in the case of blogs, frequency of updates. Google’s analysis is more well-rounded than the blog-specific approach of Technorati’s and its search results tend to be more relevant to specific queries (e.g., “Portland micro-brews”). However, its search results include considerably more “non-blog” and “blog-spam” (aka, “junk” sites that scrape content from others) sites, so “true” popularity can skew widely.
    • Bloglines Subscriber Rankings — Since a great many blogs aren’t read by visiting the blog, but via a “blog reader”, I decided to include Blogline’s Subscriber Rankings as a measure of popularity. While Bloglines isn’t the largest blog reader (Yahoo is), it is a powerful second, and handles a large number of blog subscriptions (around 31 million). Bloglines will suggest other blogs to you by analysing your current subscriptions and comparing those to similar blogs. The more subscibers a blog has, the more “popular” it is considered to be.

    For this exercise I didn’t include “page views” or “unique visitors” (measures of traffic on traditional websites), because blog readers and aggregators like Technorati, Google. Yahoo, Bloglines, etc. skew those numbers by visiting a blog once and serving the results to all it’s subscribers. (So a blog with 500 readers might only see 50 visits because many of those readers read the content through a blog reader rather than visiting the site.)

    Additionally, community discussion, bulletin board and blog aggregation-type sites such as RateBeer, Beer Advocate, Beerinator Beer Feeds, etc. were excluded from rankings as I wanted this to be a measure of “true” blogs where the content is created by a single person or small group.

    So what is the most popular Beer Blog of them all? (Drumroll please…)

    With a Technorati Authority of 144, Google search rank of 3 (on average), and a Bloglines subscriber base of 104, it was the hands down winner. No other blog ranked nearly as high in all three results.

    I guess this isn’t much of a surprise. With multiple writers, plenty of updates, and great subject matter, A Good Beer Blog has all the ingredients for a top-rated blog. What was more surprising was who ranked number two and the number of other blogs that I thought for sure would be strong contenders that weren’t. I’ll share those with you in the next part of this post.

    [End part 1]

    Best of Beer Blogs #1

    May 18th, 2007

    Best of Beer Blogs - Weekly round-up of the best beer blogging on the webSo much beer, so many beer bloggers, so little time. How does the well-informed beer aficionado keep up with them all?

    Well, unless you’re willing to ship your excess beer to us (and we will take it), we can’t help you with the first part, but we certainly can help you with the second. Since Molly and me don’t have real jobs (at least according to my mother-in-law), we’ve got plenty of time to peruse the musings and machinations of the world of beer bloggers.

    So this week we’re starting a new class of posts called “The Best of Beer Blogs” — a completely subjective round-up of the most informative / interesting / entertaining posts in the beer blog-o-sphere. From rants and reviews to travels and travails, if it relates to beer and meets our (rather fuzzy) standards for quality, we’ll post it here for your enjoyment.

    We’ll post a new BOBB every Friday, so if you’ve got a post you think is worthy (whether your own or someone else’s), drop the link to us at email: BOBB (at) mybeerpix.com and we’ll consider it for the next week’s round-up.

    And now, without further ado, The Best of Beer Blogs #1

    Beer Stories & Culture

    Buying the Rounds at Callahan’s
    Last month I started thinking (out loud) about reasons for drinking at a pub, as opposed to drinking by yourself at home. I promised to write more about the social aspects of pub-going, so here you go:… [Read the rest]
    » A Good Beer Blog

    The Story in Which I Get Arrested
    Yes, this post is long, but how often do you get arrested? Last night a bunch of friends get tickets to the A’s game. We show up an hour early and tailgate in the parking lot. I still have an unopened PBR come game time, and convince Lauren to sneak it into the park. Success… [Read the rest]
    » How I spend Karma

    Don’t Have to Drink Like a Refugee
    A couple weeks ago I caught a showing of a documentary about the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars that was playing in the DC Film Fest. The band is literally a bunch of refugees from Sierra Leone… [Read the rest]
    » Beer Activist Blog

    Carolina Brewmasters’ US Open 07
    Stumbling into a brewvanic experience is always a good thing, but it’s not stumbling when you’re going to a homebrew competition where there will be great brewers swapping brewing stories and strategies. Where you’ll get to taste a number of very nice beers, and learn from a handful of problem beers. I’ve found that it is even less stumbling when I’ve got my comrade Ken around… [Read the rest]
    » Brewvana

    Pubbing / Brewpubbing

    The Sultan, South Wimbledon
    Pub crawls are good things, but I try to avoid punctuating them with epic tube journeys. I start getting nervous outside of Zone 1, and the panic attacks begin when I cross the border into Zone 3. Beyond that I usually pass out, just before my wallet and kidneys get stolen… [Read the rest]
    » Stonch’s Beer Blog

    All Boon and no Bull
    Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that I recently went off on one about Dublin off-licences. The same rant pretty much applies to Dublin pubs as well: that despite their international reputation the vast majority are peddling industrially-manufactured blandness to meet customer demand for same… [Read the rest]
    » The Beer Nut

    Interviews

    Interview with a Top Craft Brewer
    Sonoma County, California, is one of the United States’ best wine-producing regions, and it’s quickly becoming one of its best beer-brewing regions, too. Here Vinnie Cilurzo, owner and brewmaster at Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa (one of the area’s best and most unconventional producers), talks to Food & Wine’s Megan Krigbaum about his craft… [Read the rest]
    » Food and Wine

    For brewers, taste is the test of a good beer
    FORT COLLINS - For Todd Hansen and a half-dozen others here, drinking beer in the afternoon is a vital part of the job. But it’s way more involved than simply kicking back each day and popping open some cold ones… [Read the rest]
    » Rocky Mountain News (via The Beer Me Blog)

    Beer Events, Reviews & Roundups

    Five Summer Beers
    I got a boatload of samples last week, and I thought I’d taste a few… [Read the rest]
    » Seen Through a Glass

    Brewerkz Singapore - The best damned Microbrewery in Asia
    It is very rare that I get really excited about both beer and bars in Asia at the same time. There are some good beers out there as well as some great bars but very rarely do all the alcoholic factors pull together as they do with the Brewerkz Microbrewery, restaurant and bar… [Read the rest]
    » Beerasia

    Fred-Fest 2007
    Y’all probably think it’s easy doing this blog thing. You’re wrong. It’s work. Hard work. Plowing through 14 of the finest beers in the state can take the punch right out of a man. All the great Oregon breweries did the business to our livers, all in the name of Fred Eckhardt… [Read the rest]
    » The Champagne of Blogs

    Beer Travels

    On The Road Part Deux
    So if you’ve been following our blog lately, you got the beginning of my trip to Oregon story. This will continue into day two when I visited a few breweries in Eugene Oregon… [Read the rest]
    » Flossmoor Beer Blog

    Podcasts

    Another Four Beers
    The show is called “Another Four Beers”. We tell stories are about how the styles originated, the brewing process and why the tastes of these beers is unique. Of the four the first two are available globally while the GB and the Anchor are widely available in the US. With the Anchor being available Europe because we got feedback saying that they’ve found it in pubs there. [Listen to the rest]
    » Beerschool.com

    Show 76 - Belgium Ale Beer Show
    Mo’ good times from the guys at BigFoamyHead! We’re fresh off of our first barbeque competition - The Southaven Springfest BBQ. The team we were on, B3 (beer, blues and bbq), took third place in the shoulder competition for the division we were in. Hey, thats a pretty good accomplishment for a new team using a borrowed smoker. Enough to make us downright giddy… [Listen to the rest]
    » Big Foamy Head

    Beer Poetry

    Happy Mothers Day!
    for diapers, crying… [Read the rest]
    » Beer Haiku Daily

    Tools and Gadgetry

    Beer Gadget (This IS cool)
    Like you need another reason to drink beer. Good beer, of course, comes in bottles (in my case, 22 ounce bottles from Stone Brewery, but everyone has their own favorites, of course). So the question, then, is how can one take that pure moment of rathskellerian quintessence that is the “pffft” of the opening of a bottle of beer, and make it better?… [Read the rest]
    » Geek Foolery

    Cold Beer in 2 Minutes
    I saw something similar at the Whole Foods in Evanston, IL. It was this vat of circulating water, you could throw a few bottles of beer or wine in there while you do your shopping, then come back and have ice cold beverages. I always wondered how it worked. Genius… [See the rest
    » Hair of the Dog Dave

    Humor

    How To Impress a Client
    I was in the VIP lounge last week en route to Seattle. While in the lounge, I noticed Bill Gates sitting on the couch enjoying a cognac. I was meeting with a very important client who was also flying to Seattle with me but she was running a bit late... [Read the rest]
    » Is It Beer Time Yet?

    Nature’s Beer Holder
    I need a couple of these for my next beer fest… [See the rest]
    » Funnyhub

    The Landlord
    Don’t you hate a landlord that gets scarier once she’s had a few?… [See the rest]
    » Funny or Die

    Why I love the small brewery

    May 14th, 2007

    Port Brewing / Lost Abbey’s First AnniversaryAlas, you probably missed it, but Port Brewing / Lost Abbey held it’s first anniversary party back on May 5th.

    If you’re not familiar with it, Lost Abbey is a spin-off from Pizza Port in North County San Diego. And I’m not talking Joanie Loves Chachi spin-off, but Frasier, where the new show is as good (and in many ways better) than the original.

    A year ago sister and brother duo Gina and Vince Marsaglia (of Pizza Port fame), former Pizza Port Solana Beach head brewer (and two-time GABF Brewer of the Year) Tomme Arthur, and CPA Jim Comstock all threw in together and bought Stone Brewing Company’s old facility in San Marcos, California and decided to make a go of it as Port Brewing Company with the Lost Abbey label as their flagship brews.

    Since that time they’ve managed to produce 15 new beers and fill more than 100 oak, brandy and bourbon barrels with some of the most amazing beers you’ll ever find.

    Not too shabby for a brewery that should just be learning to walk.

    Anyway, I had the opportunity (should I say “honor”?) to pull some taps and tote beer for patrons during the first anniversary party, and I must say it was a great experience. You know once the word gets out breweries like PA/LA will hit the big time, take off like a rocket and the next party will have thousands instead of hundreds in attendance. But I’ll always be able to say I was there that first year when a couple hundred close friends all turned out to celebrate the first birthday of what is bound to be a tremendously popular brewery.

    By the way, the Ten Commandments is outstanding, but the Amazing Grace and Bourbon Barrel-aged Angel’s Share were once-in-a-lifetime treats. You shoulda been there ;).

    » Check out their first anniversary party video / photo right here.

    5 essentials for a brewpub - San Diego style

    May 11th, 2007

    Okay, I’m late to the party on this one (I actually had to do some work this week), but I see that Hop Talk started a thread on the 5 Essentials for a good brewpub and a bunch of you have chimed in with your opinions, so I thought I’d add mine to the mix — just with a “blonde girl from San Diego” twist.

    1. Good Patrons — The patrons create their own atmosphere. I’ve been in beautiful pubs and ugly ones. Ultimately, I always prefer the one with the best crowd. One of my favorite brewpubs is Pizza Port, Solana Beach. It’s small, crowded, furnished with beaten up picnic tables, and the walls are lined surfboards, random pictures, paper, gum and god only knows what — but the patrons there are some of the best. Five minutes in there and you feel like your a member of one big, loud family. Always a great time.
    2. A good patio area — Here in San Diego it’s pretty much one weather report year round (”late night early morning low clouds clearing to afternoon sunshine with highs at the coast in the mid to upper 70’s; inland and mountains in the mid 80’s”). When you’ve got weather like this, you don’t want to be in some dark building, you want to be outdoors enjoying a pint and soaking up the sun. A brewpub with a big patio area where you can people watch is the best.
    3. Good local beer (including its own) — Hop Talk’s Al wrote “serves only its own beer” and “good beer”, but I disagree with the first part. Here in San Diego the brewers are all pretty good friends and go to great lengths to help each other out. Pizza Port was the first to carry Stone Brewing’s beer on tap way back in the 90’s, and still does today. And Stone has Port’s (and every other local brewer’s beer) on tap in their tasting room and bistro (Stone also distributes everybody’s beer for them — how cool is that?). In fact, you walk into any of the brewpubs here in San Diego County and you’re going to find a tap and bottle list that reads like a directory of “Who’s Brewing in San Diego” — AleSmith, Alpine Beer Company, Ballast Point Brewing, Green Flash Brewing, Lost Abbey / Port Brewing, Oceanside Ale Works, San Diego Brewing Co., and so on — It’s all there and it’s all good. Why limit yourself to the handful of brews of the brewpub when you can experience the whole region from the same place?
    4. Friendly and helpful staff — I don’t think that every waitress on staff has to be some sort of “Beer sommelier” (especially if there’s a lot of beers on tap and they change regularly), but being friendly and knowing who on staff to ask about a particular beer or style is really important to me for a good brewpub experience. If you’re the bartender, manager or owner on the other hand, I expect you not only to know the beer, but also drink with me. ;)
    5. Good Food — I don’t care if it’s just snacks and appetizers or full meals, if I’m going to be enjoying a few beers, I want some decent food to go along with it. Not just because food helps absorb some of the alcohol, but eating and drinking with friends is a big part of the social experience of the brewpub to me. (I also don’t mind if you buy the food.)

    There you go, that’s my two cents worth. See you at the brewpub!

    The ultimate guide to buying her a drink

    May 9th, 2007

    The continental — style and sophisticationObviously you are a person of sophistication and taste. You are witty and charming. Rico and suave. You enjoy a well-poured glass of Duvel Golden Ale the same way The Continental enjoys a glass of fine champanya.

    Yet despite the fact that you literally ooze style and confidence, you simply can’t bring yourself to offer to buy that pretty vixen at the end of the bar a drink.

    Obviously she is very attracted to you (as are most women). Obviously she wants you to buy her a drink.

    But what if she tests you with coy objections and petty rejections?

    Not to fear my friend. There is a cheat sheet:

    » A visual guide to getting to buy her a drink
    (via adsoftheworld.com).

    Lost Abbey Issues Ten Commandments Dark Farmhouse Ale

    May 9th, 2007

    Lost Abbey Anniversary Release Ten Commandments Dark Farmhouse Belgian AlePort / Lost Abbey Brewing Company formally released it’s first anniversary beer — Ten Commandments, a Belgian-style Dark Farmhouse Ale brewed with raisins, fresh rosemary, organic honey, and then bottled with a secondary wild yeast.

    From head brewer Tomme Arthur’s quote in Lost Abbey’s news release:

    “I’ve always been inspired by the unpredictability and artistic style of Belgian ales like Fantôme’s Black Ghost… Using mercurial yeast like Brettanomyces in combination with raisins, herbs and honey delivers a pleasant, full-bodied profile and mélange of flavors unlike any other beer.”

    I tasted this beer at Lost Abbey’s First Anniversary party last Saturday, and I can tell you that it is gooooood. (As are most all of Tomme’s releases.) Unfortunately, the brewery only produced 280 cases of Ten Commandments this year, so wide distribution is unlikely. I do think, however, that you will be able to order it directly from the brewery (as long as supplies last that is.)

    To read the full press release and get a look at the bottle in all it’s glory, Click Here.

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