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The winners of the recent 2009 Great American Beer Festival in Colorado were just announced, thereby seeding a long list of area microbrews I need to try for the first time. Having moved to DC from San Diego only a couple months ago, my experience with East Coast beers is relatively limited.
Congratulations to all the [...]

Sounds like the wine industry is wising up and realizing that shipping millions of tons of glass around the country, or even the world, just to transport some Two Buck Chuck doesn’t make any economic or environmental sense. You will now be seeing more wine in plastic bottles. Good move!
Plastic reshaping wine trade — latimes.com.

Dogfish Head (out of Delaware) is one of the few breweries in the country brewing big IPAs that can keep up with the Pacific Coast breweries (particularly those in San Diego!).
Plus, they have some awesome new artwork for their 75 Minute IPA bottle label:
 
 
 

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