American beer got a lot of flack, but that reflects the situation forty years ago. Now, a number of independent breweries make great beer, and as in everything else, if you avoid the normie product designed for cultureless desire zombies, you can find some good stuff.
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Famous for its death metal stickers in the bathroom and behind the bar, Cecil’s Pub has been a watering hole for professional alcoholics and amateur tipplers alike for four decades, but has lost its lease and is moving on.
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Wheat beers can be hit or miss. When they hit, they have a flavor like fresh bread with a twist of lemon, if you can imagine such a thing; when they fail, they taste like American grocery store bread, basically sweetness with a hint of grain in the background.
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Cherry MX Board 1.0 red switch wired mechanical keyboard
$50
Many of you play games, and many others are simply nerds, so you probably have interest in mechanical keyboards. The problem you face arises from most of the buying audience being hipsters who gravitate toward $300 feature-laden keyboards that offer no additional function.
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I wish I could report a greater success here, since this beer is from our Scots-Irish neighbors to the North in Dallas, but this beer takes an IPA and moves it closer to an American adjunct beer. Heavy overtones of citrus, squash, and boiled grain afflict what is otherwise a solid IPA.
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No one doubts that hipsters must die, but first we should thank them for bestowing upon us the resurgence of India Pale Ales. These get beer past the soft drink phase by reducing sweetness and instead dialing up the slightly spicy hops bitterness for a cleanly refreshing beer.
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Pipe tobacco emerges from a weird uneven topography much like death metal. There are niche blending houses, big ones, and a few outliers that make no sense but delight those who resonate to their outlook. Today we look at one of the big blending houses and one of its exceptional products.
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Ostensibly this movie fights the doomed free speech fight against the FBI categorizing fans of rap-rock group Insane Clown Posse (ICP), known as “Juggalos,” as members of a gang; more accurately, it looks into the ICP phenomenon and why it appeals to the growing group of dispossessed in America.
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Times are tough, and tobacco prices are going up, so again people turn to the idea of making homebrews because depending on what you need, these can be mostly as good as the commercial versions for often half of the cost.
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It probably ranks as one of the most enjoyable smokes of my life, but it started with primitive origins as many good things do. Some pipe-smokers noted that you could use a pasta press to make cake presses of your favorite tobaccos, so one was acquired and testing commenced.
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