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So there is a significant difference in hops grown in any batch of soil. Think of it like grapes and wine. The local hops aren't a problem when you want to brew one off batches. It's when you want the consistency of a year round label that it becomes more of a problem. Although if you are using those hops in a year round and keep using them then you should be okay.

Today is the first day in months I fired up twitter. Is there a tutorial on how you guys quote twitter like that? Not that I plan on doing it. I read it I see some message in French that Beauchemin signed in Colorado.

Interesting.. I've found that most of their one-off special series were superior to their mass produced counterparts. I'm not saying I loved them.. but things like Merry Maker Gingerbread Stout Fat Jack Pumpkin (we did a blind tasting with people who work in the beer industry (ie. brewers, brewery reps) and it won. Third Voyage Double IPA Dark Depths Porter Verloren Gose Thirteenth Hour Tetravis I liked those.. the others I thought were decent enough.

Leino needs a center. So, on Hodgson. If you think about it... he may very well have orchestrated this for his own benefit. He knows that July 1, 2015 brings an important financial date into focus for Buffalo. So, he tanks a little bit harder than everyone else last season and does just enough to get Buffalo to buy him out. BAM... he's paid. It almost makes too much sense.

And then some pseudo-Japanese place, then a korean place.. or was it the other way around.. now it's a pawn shop.. that at least should do well in henrietta.

Yea.. I don't think you wonder too much.

Why would you ruin a perfectly good thread? Boston is entertaining at least. See kids.. this is how you don't play GM in the NHL.

Mike Richards is interesting? :)

Here is more on the Brewer Patriot Collection. http://www.beeradvocate.com/articles/683/

Cool... what team does his Dad coach now? He should be a star there!

I think there are two 69's in the league I play in... and low and behold.. they both have tinted visors.. and of course wear a designer mouthguard as well. So Rochester is no longer WNY? because the one in Rochester has been open for a few months now. They intelligently opened in a spot that has seen 3 restaurants open and close in the past 5 years or so. Brilliant!

If the RCMP is investigating then it's likely he was on his way into Canada correct? Perhaps he didn't want to pay GST? :)

A few years back Sam Adams came out with the Patriot's Pack or something like that. There were 4 beers brewed from Colonial time recipes. I am pretty sure one of them was a root beer. That was the thing at the time, same with ginger beer in that they used fermentation to add some carbonation to the beverage but couldn't pull out the alcohol component. So, Root Beer and Ginger Beer were alcoholic at the time, even if only somewhat. In following that style it would remain sweet because the brewer would interrupt the fermentation process leaving unfermented sugars in the batch. I did all that research years ago, so I might be misremembering. I haven't had this rendition yet. I would imagine that besides the sweetness it's really just a matter of steeping the botanicals in the boil, whirlpool, or secondary (depending on how each botanical holds up.)

That's because they are going to change the rules in the NHL to favor those players. It only APPEARS like Buffalo is moving in the right direction. But Shanahan and Babcock know that the rules will change... :)

For my own personal knowledge.. not to get blasted. Could the Sabres waive buy him out and then re-sign him to a lower value contract? I am not advocating for this.. just curious.

Good guys at Stoneyard. I was concerned that they were going to be yet another of the "me too" breweries that have popped up in Rochester but they know their stuff. Brockport eh?

It was only a joke. :)

LA needs Toffoli, but they can only do so much. Toffoli just played his cards right and sped up his next big contract. I wouldn't say he was obtainable just because he signed a short term deal. That said, he will be attainable in 2 years if the Sabres want him then. I think it's the wrong way to look at it. In a draft this deep the Sabres took their 3 picks and decided that rather than wait 3-4 years and see IF the player will pan out they would rather have those 3-4 years removed from the equation and sign players that have already panned out. They shortened the timeline, reduced the risk. Essentially they cherry picked good players who didn't fit to the team they were on. What allowed them to do this? Having the ability to send picks and prospects to those teams. They were dealing from a position of strength and used it in my opinion. The Sabres were never going to benefit from having 8-10 prospects all hitting contracts at the same time. They needed to space it out more and they did that.

Love it. This is proof that Murray doesn't just live for the moment. He's a GM that plans ahead! :)

Chicago won a cup and then had to move out pieces like Byfuglien, Ladd, and more. Watch what happens with them this year as well. They'll likely take a step back next year, but they'll remain strong because they have the right core talent in place. They only need 1 new guy a year to really make a mark on the lineup to remain strong. They have a few this year step up. Teravainen, Saad are both setting themselves up to be with the team. When you are the GM of a team with minimal talent you have 1 option. Move picks and future players. The point right now is that Kane, Eichel, Reinhart, O'Reilly, Ennis, Girgensons will be with this team for some time. Add Larsson, Foligno, Deslauriers to the mix as your longer term 3/4. Now the Sabres get hits with any of Fasching, Bailey, Carrier, Baptiste, and they are even better off. Now add the next three draft years in getting presumable the first rounders and second rounders and the Sabres establish a pipeline. Once some of these other players get older, they can move the ones they need to (if they need to) and get picks back, The key is knowing which talent to keep and which to get rid of. This was never what Regier was good at, but good GMs and intelligent hockey people know. One last thought. Murray said at the press conference about Lehner that the guy he wanted would still be available with the 31st pick. Now we all know, ROR was that guy.

Wow.. that's a great score for Calgary. The Flames D were already pretty good last year and they just took a huge leap forward. Calgary can afford to part ways with those picks given the players they have up front. That said, the trade is the kind of trade Boston can make to try and pick up a few pieces that will help down the road. They are going to go through a rough couple of years. I wouldn't be surprised if a few other big names get dropped from their roster in an effort to shore up some quick high picks in the next few years. As a Sabres fan I won't be sorry to see Hamilton in Calgary.

Coolio. So, I would recommend things like Sierra Nevada Nooner Pilsner, Victory Prima Pils, so many of the session IPAs as well. Nooner Pilsner is estimated at 104 calories per can. Miller Lite is 96.

Schoop is that you?

We don't have that kind of time man.

You really couldn't be further from the truth. People totally care what they play it on. I think the lines between consoles and PCs will get more blurred over the next 2-3 years but up until now there has been a world of difference between the two. The question is not the ability of developers to write efficiently. That comes in perhaps making games take full advantage of hardware. But the attention to detail and the desire to accept mediocrity in their work is a huge issue. Sadly, this is not just a problem within the video games industry. I'm not trying to go on some super diatribe here but the ability to be detail oriented, have pride in one's work, and generally do a quality job has gone steadily downhill across all aspects of society over the past 10 years. The number of missed grammatical and typographical errors in news reporting, the type of work I get handed daily by people where I work, and the constant stream of simple problems that are accepted (not missed, just accepted) that permeate society today is amazing. We've built a society that lowers standards and expectations rather than trying to work harder. These are the byproducts. We have people distracted with more information than they can humanly handle and these are the byproducts. I fear the trend will get much much worse over the next 5-10 years. There's no way any game as bad as Arkham Knight on the PC gets released without someone saying.. ship it.. I know it sucks, but ship it. It's like the NHL15 development staff and the people in charge of making that game. They absolutely blew it. So much so that I would have fired every person who was responsible for the leadership of decision making on that game. As a product manager I look at these things so much more closely than I ever did in the past. I see it from people all the time in my line of work. There are requirements and people try and do a shoddy job and figure it will get accepted due to timelines. It's not easy to say no because there are always people from above asking why you can't meet deadlines and reminding you how much money is on the line. Sometimes you feel pressured to just say yes and let something substandard get released and hope you can patch over it later before anyone notices.