This past weekend, the family visited one of our favorite local haunts, Diplomat Deli.  It is a sandwich shop in Vestavia Hills that also has one of the biggest selections of beer in town.  When you enter, immediately facing you is a wall of coolers with nearly every style and brewery available in Birmingham represented.  I discovered [...]

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Danner on January 27th, 2009

That, my friends, is an actual phrase some poor soul recently typed into Google and found this blog (we’re actually the sixth hit as I write this).
Just to be clear, the answer is “no.”

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Danner on September 23rd, 2008

Ok, not exactly immortality, but i must say that i’m really banking heavily on the accuracy of various studies publicized in the last few years showing health benefits of two beverages i consume very regularly: coffee and craft beer.
Coffee has lots of potential upsides:
… the preponderance of scientific evidence … suggests that moderate coffee consumption [...]

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Danner on July 30th, 2008

The sale of American beer juggernaut Anheuser-Busch to Belgian giant InBev has left millions of Americans lamenting the fall of an American icon. A boycott of the newly-foreign company has begun. “Where will we turn for true American beer now?” cry the masses.
The answer is simple: you can turn to any of [...]

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