The Eurovision Song Contest was first broadcast in 1956. In the age before satellites, the simultaneous linking of television outlets across all of Europe was a stunning technological achievement that foretold the future of the broadcast industry. It was also the beginning of a wonderfully peculiar and uniquely European institution. The pan-European celebration of musical [...]
Where to begin? Between the National Homebrewers Conference and the St. Paul Summer Beer Fest, the last five days have been a whirlwind of beer in the Twin Cities. It began on Wednesday with the pre-conference events. While I only participated in the Nightcrawler Pub Crawl, there were many on the bus that I chaperoned [...]
My friend Mark recently stumbled on an article about Sahti, a primitive beer from Finland. Mark is a Brit who is married to a Fin. He and his wife came to the Minnesota just over a year ago from Finland. When I started Mark homebrewing last summer I warned him (and his wife) that the [...]
Last week I judged eight flights at the Upper Mississippi Mashout homebrew competition in the Twin Cities of Minnesota (sadly no medals for me this year). In its nine years of existence the Mashout has grown into one of the largest homebrew competitions in the country. This year brought a record 930+ entries from brewers [...]
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