Author: Dave Gausepohl

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  Book Reviews - Full Pints

  Brewed with Style: The Story of the House of Heileman

  March 1, 2008 - Dave Gausepohl No matter where your local watering hole is located, you have probably thrown back a brew or two from the house of Heileman. From Washington to Georgia, from Massachusetts to Arizona, the House of Heileman has criss-crossed the country’s brewing history, controlling over 400 brands of beer. Brewed with Style tells the story of how... View Article
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  Land of Amber Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota

  January 1, 2008 - Dave Gausepohl It is refreshing when the title of a book works so well with the subject matter. The name “Minnesota” is derived from a Dakota word meaning “sky-tinted waters.” Doug Hoverson does a great job of relating the brewing history that brought the thirty-second state of the Union from sky-tinted to grain-infused waters. Land of Amber... View Article
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  Beer on Ice

  May 1, 2007 - Dave Gausepohl When I first considered writing this column, I thought I might need a US-to- Canadian dictionary. But re-watching the timeless movie classic “Slapshot” put me in the correct frame of half a mind to address how beer and hockey have been connected over the years.
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  Scoring Treasures from the Backfield and Breweries

  March 1, 2007 - Dave Gausepohl Now with the opponents in SuperBowl XLI decided, it is time to look at how beer and football have huddled together.
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  Great American Beer: 50 Brands That Shaped the 20th Century

  March 1, 2007 - Dave Gausepohl This quick read is a great way to travel through Americana by visiting all 50 sips. The brands covered include the first beer I ever consumed (Wiedemann from Newport, KY), and probably the first beer you ever consumed. In today’s beer scene the breweries that have a big impact are basically those with nationwide distribution... View Article
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  Straub Brewery: Images of America

  March 1, 2007 - Dave Gausepohl In my brewery travels, I have rarely been to a more friendly part of this country than St. Marys, PA, home of the Straub Brewery. This is the world-famous site of the “Eternal Tap,” which, since Prohibition, has never stopped flowing with beer.
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  A Moving Experience

  January 1, 2007 - Dave Gausepohl For a number of years now, the bio at the bottom of this column has mentioned that my breweriana collection numbers over 400,000 items. It was not until this past spring that I realized how vast a number that is.
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  The Beer Bandit Caper: The Mounties, Their Man and Mexico’s Missing Moosehead

  January 1, 2007 - Dave Gausepohl Here is a story that has been told during nights of bad card playing and other occasions that call for a yarn of epic proportions. Canada does not always get the lead story on the evening news, but that all changed in August of 2004. Truck driver Wade Haines set off with a load of... View Article
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  Scaring Up Sales for Halloween

  November 1, 2006 - Dave Gausepohl As Halloween increasingly becomes an adult holiday as much as one for kids, many breweries have discovered that All Hallow’s Eve is a theme to increase sales.