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  Book Reviews - Full Pints

  On Tap: A Cavalcade of Trivia and Tall Stories Celebrating 200 Years of the Australian Pub

  July 1, 2000 - K. Florian Klemp

  Mark McKay’s On Tap is a collection of anecdotes about Australian pubs. If someone famous⎯an actor, politician, author or gangster⎯has visited an Australian pub, McKay provides an entertaining anecdote. He’s also good at pub history, addressing such questions as what’s the oldest Australian pub (probably the Woolpack Hotel in Parramatta, a Sydney suburb) and what’s... View Article

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  Full Pints - Travel Features

  Stout with the Lads

  Pubbing in Ireland July 1, 2000 - Julie Johnson

  In American cities, it seems that every time you turn around, someone has opened a new Irish bar. So many authentic bar fittings have been shipped from Ireland to equip the new bars that you might be forgiven for wondering if any pubs are left intact back home. Riding the same wave of popularity that... View Article

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  Collectibles - Full Pints

  Time for a Little Closure

  July 1, 2000 - Dave Gausepohl

  One of the most mind-boggling aspects of breweriana collecting is the abundance and variety of items used to market and package beer. A great and relatively inexpensive type of collectable is crowns.

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  Book Reviews - Full Pints

  The Breweries of Australia: A History

  July 1, 2000 - K. Florian Klemp

  Keith M. Deutsher is a retired entrepreneur who, among other credits, was the Australian manufacturer of plastic six-pack ring-pull beer carriers. He is also a beer label collector, a hobby that has led him to produce The Breweries of Australia, an Authoritative Guide to Australian Brewery History. The book is comparable to the CAMRA publication,... View Article

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  Full Pints - Travel Features

  In the Shadow of Giants

  Australia's Indies Carve Out a Niche July 1, 2000 - Martin Morse Wooster

  The regional independents occupy the healthiest niche in the brewing industry today. While micros and brewpubs are folding almost as fast today as they popped up in the early and mid-1990′s, and while big commercial breweries scramble for gimmicks to boost flat sales, the regional independents continue to grow, though carefully.

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  Full Pints - History

  The Fascination of Beer Steins

  When the Vessel Outshines the Beer July 1, 2000 - Walter B. Vogdes

  Have you ever looked closely at the glass that holds your beer? Some are anonymous and mass produced, mere containers. Others are personal, one man’s own tankard kept at his local, filled and drained each evening for years. Still others are designed by the brewery to enhance the characteristics of a particular beer style. Then... View Article

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  Calagione

  September 1, 1999 - Michael Jackson

  The young woman with whom I had dinner was envious. “You are spending the whole day with Sam Calagione. Tomorrow!? He’s the Robert De Niro of brewers!” She told me that he had not only the good looks of a movie star but also the sensitivity of a poet. He even took Walt Whitman to... View Article