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For good reason. Wolfe, who doubles as a wine importer and yoga instructor, first saw success in combining the two at Grateful Red Wine Shop in Clarendon. The wine shop purchases wines from Springfield-based Siema Wines, the importing company where she works. That session quickly sold out. She and Grateful Red owner Wendy Buckley are now in talks about doing another one, but have yet to nail down the details.

Now, with the craft beer movement exploding as more and more suds-lovers seek options beyond the big factory brands, Wolfe believes the same comparison applies to beer people. Chadsey agrees. Flanders are sour aged beers that are blended with sour unaged beers to moderate the favor.

Still, the real fun is to test drive blending beers at a taproom. The odds are the bartender will have an excellent sense of the beers on tap and probably already has a few good combinations in mind. More: Sweeping craft beer rule changes sought by Maryland comptroller. More: Local craft brewers stick together to fight big beer buyouts. Facebook Twitter Email.

Russo: Why not try a beer with your next beer? Back in the day when prospective buyers were looking at early plots of land in West End they were asked a cheeky Why Not?

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Some days, he rents a U-Haul truck to ferry the beer from the brewery in Gilroy to cold storage facilities throughout the Bay Area. Other times, Newcorn uses his Dodge Caravan to haul an average of 15 cases of beer at a time from his cold storage satellites to retailers ranging from Sebastopol to Los Gatos to Berkeley. In some stores, he even has to rotate the stock, put on price tags and clean the shelves.

Newcorn's Lotsolox duties are technically over by 4 p. He considers Oakes to be "amazing" and feels fortunate to have been working there for almost a decade. Oakes and her husband, Bruce Aidells , sausage guru and beer expert, as well as the rest of the staff at Boulevard, have provided Newcorn with valuable feedback and support.

Despite his long hours, Newcorn feels that the days do not seem quite as long when he enjoys what he does. When Newcorn started Lotsolox, he sold one case of beer during his first month, but now sells almost cases each month. He will soon be expanding his radius to Concord and hopes to one day see Bagel Beer distributed throughout the world he thinks it would be well-received, even in Belgium.

In Belgium, beer is very much a part of the social fabric and culture, and as such is associated with good times, family and friends. Newcorn says: "To me, it's very important to celebrate life; we're here for such a short time.