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  How It All Began

  March 1, 2008 - Fred Eckhardt

  How did this all come about? Well, I wrote about the beginnings of that on these pages, in the January 1991 issue of All About Beer Magazine:

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  What I Really Do at the Dixie Cup Every Year—Mostly

  More Than You Ever Wanted to Know March 1, 2008 - Fred Eckhardt

  Every year since 1989, I have traveled down to Houston, TX, a lovely city that is widely unappreciated among the great cities of this country. Did you know that Houston is closer to Chicago, IL, than it is to El Paso, TX? Moreover, it is a remarkably beautiful city, quite green—not at all the oil-reeking... View Article

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  Remembering Michael

  January 1, 2008 - Fred Eckhardt

  A few years ago, while visiting the 2004 Great British Beer Festival, where I did a beer and chocolate tasting, and while renewing my friendship with Michael Jackson, he invited me to visit him the next day in his own bailiwick. We met at Ravenscourt Park Underground Station and walked nearby to a small, beautiful... View Article

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  How to Get There

  November 1, 2007 - Fred Eckhardt

  Frog & Rosbif, the original, is located at 116, rue Saint-Denis at the corner of rue Turbigo, 75002 Paris, tel 01-42-36-34-73. Metro stop Etienne Marcel, on the M4 (Porte de Clignancour-Porte de Orleans—maroon—line) at the edge of the Red Light district (rue St. Denis), in Arrondisement 2 (quarter 2e). At the Etienne Marcel stop, there’s... View Article

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  Speaking of Fine Pubs, How ’Bout the Frogs of France?

  November 1, 2007 - Fred Eckhardt

  In 1995, I visited a British pub. In Paris. At the edge of that city’s renowned red light district. They were brewing British-style cask ales near the red light district in Paris!

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  Diatribe No. 130: Three Percent?

  September 1, 2007 - Fred Eckhardt

  Yesterday’s newspaper offered information that all soda pop—including the so-called “diet” stuff and excepting maybe root beer—is destructive to tooth enamel. In other words, my old college swimming coach was perfectly correct when he told us, some 60 years ago, that we would be better off drinking beer than Coke, because the latter would surely... View Article

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  Celebrating the End of Prohibition

  July 1, 2007 - Fred Eckhardt

  As I write this, I am reminded that it was in April of 1933 that we got beer back from the prohibitionists after thirteen dry years. Prohibition lasted another eight months until December of that year, when newly-elected president Franklin Roosevelt was pretty much responsible for the end of Prohibition itself. But a prohibitionist streak... View Article

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  Light Beer, Light Wine, Light Whisky?

  May 11, 2007 - Fred Eckhardt

  One of the best things I do for myself is to add water to my booze. No, don’t be silly, not to the booze itself: I add it to my booze after I drink that booze. This gives me Light beer, Light wine, Light whiskey, Light sake and Light whatever in my stomach. That way... View Article

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  Oh, Ye Biere Styles, Where Goest Thou Now?

  March 1, 2007 - Fred Eckhardt

  The world has been blessed with a proliferation of new beer varieties. Robert Wahl and Max Henius presented the 19th century’s beer list in their masterpiece, the two volume American Handy Book of Brewing and Malting, published in 1908. There, they outlined about 17 beer styles that were then being brewed in this country, in... View Article