We hope everyone had a great holiday. We did. It's also that time of year for the "Year in Review" type stuff. As we were getting all excited about compiling this list, we realized something detrimental to our effort: Robin Shepard, over at the Isthmus, pretty much hit it dead on and our article was just going to be repeat of his.

However, there were some differences, so let's go over those:

Best Seasonal Beer: We can't really argue with Tyranena's Oktoberfest, although we thought that Capital's was the best of the bunch. Unfortunately, we didn't start publishing until August, so we missed the first two-thirds of the year's seasonal beers.  read more »

As we celebrate another turning of the wheel, we here at Hop Talk wish you a safe, sane, and enjoyable New Year’s Eve with people who are important to you, as well as a prosperous Two Thousand and Eight.

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Last year at this time, I made five predictions for the 2007 beer year. Let’s see how I did.

 
Craft beer growth will hit double digits for 2006 and also will continue to rise through 2007.

My Score: A+ This one wasn’t a stretch, of course, though things will likely be trickier next year.

 
Price wars among the large domestic producers and the popular import brands will heat up again beginning in spring or early summer.  read more »

As I sit here with a tulip of tasty local brew on my left, a small dog curled into a ball on my right and a Powerbook in front of me, I can’t help but ponder snow… er… 2007 and the great beer, great people and great times. For your pleasure, a quick rundown…  read more »

For those of you that are bigger dorks than we are and are actually staying home tonight instead of coming to our kick-ass party, keep an eye on the site after 9pm. We've decided to try a first tonight - realtime updates. The posts may be really hard to read by midnight, but it should leave us with some stuff that we'll actually be able to have some sort of recollection of. Starts at 9pm. Now you can really see which Knight passes out first!  read more »

Database server
crashed with ungrateful vengeance.
At least I have beer.

Written by Captain Hops.

References: The database server at my web host crashed last night. It appears to be partially restored, but they lost some posts. Fortunately, I had a recent backup and I was able to restore the other posts from a cached copy of my feed. However, this ordeal has resulted in a piss poor excuse for a haiku today. Sorry about that. I am going to go drink beer now and hope that the new year brings better computer tidings.

Hope 2007 ends better for you and here’s to a great year ahead. Cheers!  read more »

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