Tag Archives: Drink

Oh Beautiful Beer

By C.G. | Published: January 12, 2012

From Ben Brooks: Like good design? Love Beer? Oh Beautiful Beer is a site for you. Not only will you find a fantastically designed website, you’ll be exposed to the beauty and variety of bottles, logos, ads, and glassware of the world’s beer producers. It’s mostly microbrews but that’s what I drink. I’ll be using [...]

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Jerks Are Back In Brooklyn

By C.G. | Published: July 6, 2011

It’s like they never left. Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain brings back the soda jerk — the kind from long ago where fountain sodas were made by hand. They also have a satellite location in Kiehls. It seems like a good date place if you live in Carroll Gardens. Looks like they have lots of [...]

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Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Ever

By C.G. | Published: June 23, 2011

I probably sound repetitive when I say something I’m posting is really interesting but, hey, it is. This is a really interesting, well produced, and funny video on coffee, caffeine that goes into where it all comes from. Interesting fact: Finland consumes three times more coffee per capita than the US. Watch the video for [...]

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How Cork Is Made

By C.G. | Published: June 22, 2011

For a long time, I never knew that corks came from the barks of trees. I probably found out about it around the time I turned 21 and, um, started drinking… Yeah… 21. Anyway… When I found out where cork comes from, I was pretty amazed at the tree species. Cork Oaks regrow their trunks [...]

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Neat

By C.G. | Published: June 6, 2011

It might not come as a shock that I’m a fan of Ben Brooks of The Brooks Review. He’s a good writer, Apple fan, and – from what I can gather – is a generally well rounded guy who was very helpful when I asked him to critique one of my writings. I’ve liked him [...]

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