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The Bitter Beer News Unknown Cattle Rustlers Invade PNW Clan Donald 2003 Dinner On 11 October 2003, Clan Campbell brought a bovine guest to the annual party this year but she was rustled away by unknown persons. See the exclusive photos here! There has been no word of a ransom note. Join the US
Beer Drinking Team! Dennis Buettner believes he’s got the next big trend in beer. Bigger than the wide-mouth. Bigger than the 40-ounce. Bigger even than the kegerator. HE’S THE FOUNDER and commissioner of the U.S. Beer Drinking Team, and aims to unite America’s roughly 90 million beer drinkers. And eventually the global beer-drinking community. Buettner (pronounced BITT-ner) is quite serious about this team, a club driven entirely by the Internet and by an idea so advanced it could only have been born at NASA. That’s where Buettner, 40, works. He helps fly satellites. He was working late at the Greenbelt facility one night when he announced to co-workers that he loves beer. A lot. He loves beer so much he might as well be captain of the U.S. Beer Drinking Team. In fact, he joked, he was the captain. No one believed him. They went back to flying satellites. So Buettner searched the Internet, and finding no beer-drinking team, he created one, complete with logo and Web site — www.usbdt.com. He named himself captain. He created membership cards and showed them off to his co-workers. Their general reaction was, “Dude, no way!” It was all a big prank, until Buettner checked the space he had left on the site for “membership.” About 450 people had signed up to join a team that technically didn’t exist. “Holy [cow],” Buettner said to a friend. “What do I do now?” “Sell ‘em T-shirts,” the friend said. Clan MacAle
heartily endorses this new US venture. Join the team! Giving Thanks, Scottish Style The practice of saying grace before or after a meal dates back a very long way, and in Scotland especially it is also a tradition to give thanks for the whisky - a very worthwhile sentiment! Aberlour Distillery has collected together a few Scottish graces from down the years, some more graceful than others. http://www.aberlour.com/members/the_parlour/scottish_graces.asp Ask the Beer Profs The Guinness Widget Hunter: Caledonian's Deuchars IPA Champion Beer of Britain Deuchars IPA brewed by Caledonian of Edinburgh was
judged as the best beer in Britain by a panel of brewers, beer writers and
journalists. This is the first time that a Scottish beer has ever won the
title of Champion Beer of Britain.
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