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BOTW: Lost Abbey’s Avant Garde

“Avant-garde means “advance guard” or “vanguard”. The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the [...]

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Cask Night: Port Brewing’s Hop 15 Double IPA @ O’Briens Pub

[ January 15, 2009; 5:00 pm; ] “Thursday the 15th our cask madness continues with two casks - Port Brewing Hop 15 double IPA and Lost Abbey Serpent Stout.  Both casks will be tapped at 5 pm and given the strong nature of both beers I expect them to be around for most of the evening.  As always, all of our local [...]

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Lost Abbey Draft Party @ O’Briens Pub

[ January 16, 2009; 5:00 pm; ] “Friday the 16th is the big Lost Abbey draft party with more than 10 beers from head brewer Tomme Arthur on tap and several more in the bottle.  From the Port side we will have Hop 15, Wipeout IPA, High Tide IPA and Midnight Black Lager (made from the second runnings of the Serpent Stout).  [...]

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Head-to-Head: Port’s Old Viscosity Dark Ale vs. Lost Abbey’s Judgment Day

We know this isn’t exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.  I don’t know how to categorize Old Viscosity, and apparently neither do they (from the label):
“We know you’ll come to love and appreciate everything about Old Viscosity even if we never tell you exactly what kind of beer it is”
However, we figured it would be fair to [...]

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