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Thank you. This is an extra beerist's mini, recorded December 13th, 2017.

Hazy writing.

Heyy writing.

Yeah. Now this is going to be a little bit different than the type of stuff we normally talk about on the show.

Because this article was recently published on beer advocate

entitled, Hazy Days and Brighter Futures, are New England IPAs more than a passing fad by

Andy Crouch? And it got me riled up a bit more than I'm comfortable to admit. And it's rare that I

actually like to voice my opinion on certain subjects that people feel

strongly about. I think that adding my voice to that already crowded pool probably won't do

very much. So I try to avoid rehashing something that somebody else has probably already said

more eloquently than I could. But of course, I like to think about beer.

I spend a lot of time doing it. It's interesting to me thinking about what beer is, what it

used to be, and where it might be going. It's a vibrant subject with a lot of rich history,

culture, politics, and opinions. So when I went into reading this thing, I was pretty interested.

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