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Re: A Week In The Life of Dogfish Head's Lead Brewer Ben Potts
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2012, 12:10:26 am »
Where's my spray bottle with water in it? Bad tonyp, bad! No links to HuffPo in this house! Keep that garbage outside!

;-) It's a neat article! Although I'm only half joking about the huffpo stuff. Can't stand that site.
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Re: A Week In The Life of Dogfish Head's Lead Brewer Ben Potts
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2012, 01:20:26 am »
Too funny Phil.  I know we lean in opposite directions, but I find myself agreeing with you on quite a few things - dislike of Huffing & Puffington being the latest.

So, I have to ask; was Frankenstein simply Einstein being frank?
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Re: A Week In The Life of Dogfish Head's Lead Brewer Ben Potts
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2012, 02:14:06 am »
Too funny Phil.  I know we lean in opposite directions, but I find myself agreeing with you on quite a few things - dislike of Huffing & Puffington being the latest.

So, I have to ask; was Frankenstein simply Einstein being frank?

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Also I am very get-offa-my-lawn about website comments, something too many sites have these days. Too much hatred and not enough insight, but then again that's the world for you today. I didn't read the comments from the article linked above, but knowing sites like these, there's going to be someone saying BEER IS BAD and then another person calling that person a socialist/communist/fascist/racist or something.
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Re: A Week In The Life of Dogfish Head's Lead Brewer Ben Potts
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2012, 02:36:55 am »
I didn't read the comments from the article linked above, but knowing sites like these, there's going to be someone saying BEER IS BAD and then another person calling that person a socialist/communist/fascist/racist or something.
I almost never read the comments, except when I want to be annoyed/entertained.  But I went back and checked this out of curiosity - 5 comments, all positive.
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Re: A Week In The Life of Dogfish Head's Lead Brewer Ben Potts
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2012, 10:44:55 am »
Awesome stuff!

This (the DFH Brewpub) is where Sam conducts all of his R&D. I would love to have Ben's job...every brew is experimental and he can allow his creativity to flow. The DFH Brewpub is where my homebrew club (Delmarva United Homebrewers) hold our monthly meetings and there's always great fun to be had there. One of my favorite places to be.
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Re: A Week In The Life of Dogfish Head's Lead Brewer Ben Potts
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2012, 11:34:47 am »
I like the 'sam in a can' pitcure at the bottom of the 'diary'
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Re: A Week In The Life of Dogfish Head's Lead Brewer Ben Potts
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2012, 02:10:54 pm »
Where's my spray bottle with water in it? Bad tonyp, bad! No links to HuffPo in this house! Keep that garbage outside!

;-) It's a neat article! Although I'm only half joking about the huffpo stuff. Can't stand that site.

yep def a cool article, if you turn on your adblocker for that site it might make you feel a bit better :)
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Re: A Week In The Life of Dogfish Head's Lead Brewer Ben Potts
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2012, 02:42:43 pm »
Where's my spray bottle with water in it? Bad tonyp, bad! No links to HuffPo in this house! Keep that garbage outside!

;-) It's a neat article! Although I'm only half joking about the huffpo stuff. Can't stand that site.

yep def a cool article, if you turn on your adblocker for that site it might make you feel a bit better :)

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