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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Oktoberfest

Video: Music to Celebrate Oktoberfest

Of Interest to Neighborhood: Beer

Question of the Day: How do you celebrate Oktoberfest?

In the last year, I have sampled not hundreds, but thousands of beers. Mind you, this does not make

me an afficianado, nor a critic, I have only been enabled to better serve my taste buds when standing in front of the beer cooler.

Recently, I fell in love with Dogfish Head Brewery, a micro-brewery in Delaware. They make extremely well balanced beers of all shapes/sizes/strenghts/styles. They even have 3 different types/strengths of IPA! One of their most impressive beers I have tasted to dat...

Gordon Biersch is a microbrewery here in Silicon Valley.  It actually got its start (or at least its initial funding) from some of the early engineers at Silicon Graphics Inc. in Mountain View.  They opened their first microbrewery and restaurant in Palo Alto.

Their best beer, in my humble opinion, is Marzen (well I can't figure out how to put the two little dots on top of the a in Marzen, pronounced mare-tsen).

As it shows on the label, it is a smooth auburn lager.  Very tasty.  I...