You ever introduce someone to craft beer for the first time?  Not someone that you drag to it kicking and screaming, but a willing open-minded participant?  Remember the look on their face?  Yeah, that look.  My second time out in NYC, I had a partner in crime.  My co-worker had arrived on Friday to assist
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I travel around the upper east coast quite a bit for work, and I try to hit up the local beer bars in each city as much as possible.  This past week I spent 3 days in NYC.  This is part one of two (maybe three).  I solicited two bar recommendations from former New Yorker
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My first job was at a liquor store.  I know, tough to believe but it’s true.  I had barely turned 14 when my mom roused me from my SNES and mall ratting to say that I needed to start earning my keep and stuff.  That, and she was tired of catching me jerking off all
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I have known Matt for a little over a year and half. I first met him because I worked with his girlfriend (Hi Erin!) at a beer bar in Boston. After that, the two of us coincidentally ended up bartending at the same restaurant on the weekends. He had just gotten out of ‘Boot
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