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Beer knowledge and homebrewing go together. Once you learn to enjoy the vast world of beer outside standard American factory-produced yellow watery beer, then you learn that your own tastes may never be exactly satisfied by anything you can buy, domestic or imported. So you learn to brew. Funny though how if you live someplace you can't get good beer there's often no good homebrew shops, or if you are like me and live in Portland there's plenty of great local beer and a variety of homebrew shops. It probably has something to do with local laws and attitudes. In some places it seems the attitude is that you shouldn't be able to actually get a beer you can enjoy for it's taste, because then you might drink too much or something, as if somehow that would be more corrupting than slamming down swill as fast as you can to get drunk so you don't care how it tastes any more. Anyway, probably most people would have a gratuitous link to the home pages of favorite breweries, and maybe even a boring list of all the beers they've tried. Like those lists would span a range larger than Coors Lite on one end and Red Dog (ooh! adventurous) on the other. I'm not going to do that because one you don't care and two I've tried more than I can recall from all over the world and I try new ones whenever I can, so such a list would be tedious and always out of date, my two least-favorite web page annoyances. There is already a plethora of good information about beer on the web, so I'm not going to duplicate it. I'll include a few links to other sites that have comprehensive homebrewing instructions, beer appreciation guides, links to all the other great sites out there, and so forth. Otherwise, I'm going to just have information covering my experiences, associations and explorations of beer and home brewing. So, what will this include? How about:
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