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The Super Bowl of Beer -- the Great American Beer Festival '97
The Methodology of the Home Beer Tasting, or How Come that Bock Tastes Like Smoked Salmon?
Kitchen Table Tastings -- Blind Belgian-Style White Beers
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Quote and Comment
(A new SBWoB column in which we feature a notable, beer-related quote from the preceding month and add our two cents to it. Here you will find the serious and the humorous, the biting and the subtle, from luminaries ranging from August Busch III to Homer Simpson.)The Quote:
"In 20 years, you may have to pay for bottled water what you pay for beer."-- Roelof Bruintjes, a U.S. weather scientist quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Comment:
I know what I'll be buying!But seriously, this scenario strikes me as being all too possible, even probable. At the rate that humankind seems intent on befouling our environment, it might not even take 20 years until we find ourselves returning to the dark ages when beer was safer to drink than city water.
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