Jan Norris: Food and Florida Online

4th Annual Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival Saturday
By Dan Oliver, columnist
To have a chance at tasting “beers your mom would be proud of,” you will have to arrive early at this year’s Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival. The 4th installment of the annual suds event begins Saturday afternoon at its new home, Roger Dean Stadium, and online tickets [...]

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Wishing all my readers a very merry Christmas…
And a happy, flavor-filled New Year!

About the artist: William Oellers of Connecticut created this beautiful work, titled “Old Fashioned Christmas Tree” as a papercut, also known as scherenschnitte. Oeller, originally from Germany, practices the ancient art of cutting a finely detailed image from a single sheet of paper using only scissors.
He [...]

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Review of Beer Wars by Dan the Beer Man Oliver

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Those of us who watched any of the NCAA basketball championships were treated to a barrage of annoying beer commercials from Miller Lite, whose marketing department deserves a gold medal for “science fiction in advertising.”
The latest laughter? Miller Lite is “triple hopped” – not hopped all at once like you’d probably think.
See, they’re counting on you [...]

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“Are you ready for a beer war??”

Well ready or not, it’s coming, and don’t forget your popcorn. Beer Wars is a new documentary by filmmaker Anat Baron about small, independent brewers who are “shunning the status quo and creating new beers as they challenge the corporate brewery behemoths.” And what’s more, it’s also going to be live and local. The one-night only nationwide event will take place April 16 (day after taxes!). It will be shown at four West Palm Beach area theaters and the film will be followed by a live panel discussion simulcast from Los Angeles.

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