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Second, Janel is the last thing I'm focusing on in this dance, to be honest. Val is so transfixing (those hip swivels!) - and yeah, losing the shirt is a cheap trick, but hell if it doesn't work. This dance is super hot and they're probably the pair who seem most comfortable with each other. (Ahem.) What the judges say: Bruno loves it but cautions Janel to watch her arms. Carrie Ann thinks Janel is a great all-around performer but feels like she was "off-balance" tonight. Pitbull admits that he doesn't know anything about ballroom dancing, but he does know about passion - and he didn't feel it. (Was he watching the same routine I was?) Julianne loved the difficult choreography and content. Score: 33 Tommy and Peta (foxtrot) The dance: Still reeling from the judges' critiques last week, Tommy and Peta headed to a sweat lodge to prepare for this routine (cue guest appearance by Cloris Leachman ). Though he's certainly not the most agile player in the competition, Tommy keeps up with the steps pretty well. Plus, he just exudes glee and is a total delight to watch on the dance floor. What the judges say: Carrie Ann notes a few mistakes, but loves the joy Tommy brings to the ballroom. Pitbull thinks it was fun. Julianne doesn't know what a sweat lodge is but enjoyed the routine. Bruno compliments Tommy's holds.Score: 28 More results: Antonio Sabato Jr. and Cheryl Burke , Sadie Robertson and Mark Ballas , and Lea Thompson and Artem Chigvintsev are all safe. Antonio and Cheryl (salsa) The dance: This is probably Antonio's strongest dance to date. After much encouragement from Cheryl, looks like he finally got those gyrations down! The lifts are perfectly placed within the routine too - and their supporting dancers enhance the number rather than being a distraction. What the judges say: Pitbull says he wanted to join in. Julianne praises Antonio for listening to the judges' suggestions, but says he was a little too loose out there. Bruno offers Antonio some advice on his hips. And Carrie Ann says Antonio has consistently improved, but needs to relax. Score: 28 ("It sucks, the scoring" - Leah Remini) Sadie and Mark (rumba) The dance: Sadie is going for "sweet," not "sexy," with her rumba - and maybe as a result, she seems a little more nervous than usual, and her footwork even stutters a bit at the beginning. True to his word, Mark goes for more of a Disney Princess vibe with the choreography, as opposed to sexy vixen, but it's up to the judges whether it contains enough rumba content. What the judges say: Julianne says Sadie seemed a bit unsure of her footing. Bruno calls the routine "tastefully sensual." Pitbull praises Mark for bringing Sadie out of her shell. Carrie Ann says it was "gorgeous and age-appropriate."Score: 35 Lea and Artem (salsa) The dance: I have to continually remind myself that Lea is a couple/few decades older than Bethany, Sadie and Janel, because she moves just as swiftly as any of her younger counterparts. She's totally right about this choreography being a bit more complicated than it needs to be, but props to her for pulling it off - and it's a huge vote of confidence that Artem lets her take center stage at one point and lead the mini-troupe in some steps. What the judges say: Bruno is enthused, but nitpicks about Lea's control of her shoulders. Carrie Ann, on the other hand, says she's a bit disappointed and (rightfully) snips at Artem for trying to compete with Alfonso. Pitbull loves Lea's fierceness, and Julianne says it seems like the pressure got to Lea this week - but she's still "the girl to beat."Score: 32 Final set of results: Alfonso Ribeiro and Witney Carson are safe; Bethany Mota and Derek Hough are safe; Michael Waltrip and Emma Slater are in jeopardy. Michael and Emma (tango) The dance: I'd be shocked if Michael lasts past tonight's elimination. There's nothing egregiously wrong with this dance, but he's just so stiff out there and, overall, at a Week 1 or 2 level and we're in Week 6. I also love this cover of Pitbull's "Give Me Everything." What the judges say: Carrie Ann says she "feels like she was watching a champion." (I want some of whatever Carrie Ann is drinking.) Pitbull gives Michael a thumbs up for going in for a kiss at the end. An emotional Julianne praises Michael's authenticity and Emma's choreography. Bruno calls it a "great improvement." Score: 30 Bethany and Derek (tango) The dance: It's kind of not fair to have Michael and Emma and Derek and Bethany do back-to-back tangos. There's just no comparison between them. Derek's choreography here is typically intricate, but it's not as exciting as their routines have been in previous weeks. What the judges say: Pitbull says they did a good job of working through a "little slip-up." Julianne channels her inner Len and calls her brother's routine "pure tango ... everything a tango should be." Bruno agrees, but also notes Bethany's elbow slip. Carrie Ann says the slip-up cost Bethany a 10. Score: 36 Witney and Alfonso (salsa) The dance: Poor Witney. After her emotional bruising with Michael last week, she then fell during dress rehearsal (and that replay looked painful). But she and Alfonso aren't going to let a couple of minor injuries hold them down. The footwork in this routine is kind of insane, and Alfonso still looks like he's having an absolute blast in spite of what has to be a strain on his groin injury. What the judges say: Julianne would have liked to see a bit more salsa and less hip-hop.
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"I'm really excited about being here and kind of competing on my home soil. I grew up here, and I really love the way they play golf here on the sand belt. It's like links golf." It's the first time the 72-hole tournament has been held outside Asia since it began in 2009. Others in the field include 2012 champion Guan Tianlang of China. The winner gets a spot in the Masters next year and is exempt into the final stage of qualifying for the British Open. Yang already is exempt into both as the U.S. Amateur champion. The real home-course advantage belongs to 16-year-old Ryan Ruffels, the Australian junior champion and a member at Royal Melbourne.
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He has been selling his beers to area stores since July 2013. A reproduction of 5 Stones Artisan Brewery's Sleepy Hollow beer label hangs on the wall at the brewery in Cibolo. 5 Stones Artisan Brewery's Aloha Pina beer is made with fresh pineapple and jalepenos. Four years ago, Cibolo resident Seth Weatherly and a friend were eating Hawaiian Fire pizza with pineapple and jalapenos when his friend came up with a bold idea. The friend suggested to Weatherly, who was a home brewer, that he should brew a beer that included pineapples and jalapenos. He told me to brew it, said Weatherly recalling his conversation with his friend. I told him he was crazy. Weatherly, though, decided to test his friends' idea. Using fresh pineapples and fresh jalapenos, he said he was blown away when he tried his first batch of the beer he brewed. I was trying to figure out the best way for the flavors to come across, to get the good pineapple flavor but have the hint of jalapeno, he said. I couldn't believe it worked. I couldn't believe the end result. Weatherly took his new brew, which he named Aloha Pina , to a craft bar in San Antonio for patrons to taste. The response to his ale beer, Weatherly said, was positive. By the end of the night, people we're asking where to buy it, he said. But I had to tell them I was just a home brewer at that point. Making Aloha Pina gave Weatherly the idea that he should open his own craft brewery. After visiting several small craft breweries and doing research on them, he opened 5 Stones Artisan Brewery in Cibolo in March 2013. The brewery is housed in a 1,200 square-foot metal building in the city's industrial park. Since he opened his craft brewery, Weatherly and his crew of workers, which includes family members and friends, have produced 11 different beers, including Aloha Pina, which was 5 Stones first beer that was brewed and then sold at area stores in July 2013. Aloha Pina received a national award for being one of the best craft beers at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado, earlier this month. Festival judges awarded the Aloha Pina the silver prize, for a second place showing, in the Herb and Spice Beer category out of 150 entries. The festival included craft beers from more than 1,300 breweries in the U.S. It's one of the biggest festivals you can enter your beer in, Weatherly said. We believe our beer is good. Our local community loves the beer. To have the judges (at the festival) call your name for silver is amazing. In every craft beer he brews, Weatherly says he uses fresh ingredients and produce. For the Aloha Pina, he and his crew cut hundreds of pineapples for one batch and roast the jalapenos. Other 5 Stones Artisan beers include the Frederick Berg , made with peaches grown in Fredericksburg; Norma Jeane, made with fresh strawberries grown by a farmer from Poteet, south of San Antonio; and Sleepy Hollow, brewed with smoked pumpkins. Weatherly said he brews five to six times a month, with one batch of beer taking five hours to complete. One batch of beer is 94 gallons, enough for 45 to 50 cases of beer.His equipment for brewing the beer includes a hot water heater, a mash lauter tun, used to mix grains and hot water; a boil kettle, in which the ingredients are added; and the fermenters, in which yeast convert sugars into alcohol. Weatherly said he came up with the name of 5 Stones Artisan Brewery based on the biblical story of David and Goliath, with the five representing the number of stones David threw to slay Goliath. When I think about that story I think about these smaller breweries, he said, that started many years ago and paved the way for guys like me to brew a beer with jalapenos and pineapples, and actually have people buy it. The artisan in the brewery's name, Weatherly said, symbolizes his approach to making craft beer. We try to take the artisan approach to it, he said. We see it as an art form on how we brew and how we use different ingredients. 5 Stones Artisan beers are sold at several area stores, including H-E-B, Spec's, Twin Liquors and Fox's Pizza and Tap Room in Schertz. With his business growing, Weatherly is looking for a new location to expand his brewery, which he wants to do as soon as possible. He is searching for a location where he can have a tap room for patrons to taste his beer. ddekunder@express-news.net
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He also said that another 12 units provides needed senior citizen housing in Newtown without a drain on the local school system or township services. However, Jeff Miller of Langhorne disputed the assertion that the rundown farmhouse cannot be refurbished. Miller, who said that Supervisor Davis had invited him to attend the meeting, explained that he lives in a historic farmhouse which he has renovated, and admitted it was in rundown when he bought it 17 years ago. Although he acknowledged that the Villas structure is in rough shape, he pointed out that the residents photos which were shown at the meeting do not do it justice. It has beautiful mill work inside, Miller said to the jeers of the audience. Newtown Township resident Jeff Marshall, who also is president of the Heritage Conservancy, a non-profit Bucks County conservation group, said that he also lives in a historic house near an age restricted development. The developer should be compelled to document that he made a good faith effort to sell the house, Marshall testified as a township resident. He also pointed out that the farmhouse does not have to be registered as a historic site with the federal government or the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) to have special character. It just has to have historic relevance, he explained. But Villas homeowner association president Behl countered that historic preservation must be tempered. As far as historic preservation is concerned its like the boy who cried wolf, you cant save everything, you have to balance it, Behl warned. The controversy started brewing in July, when McGrath Homes had asked the Newtown Area Joint Historic Commission (NAJHC) to recommend to the board of supervisors that the structure be demolished. The commission is responsible for the protection and preservation of historically and/or architecturally significant structures in Newtown Township and Newtown Borough, and makes recommendations to elected officials in both municipalities on whether historic structures should be saved. It also reviews demolition applications. The NAJHC unanimously denied the developers request to tear down the farmhouse. The desire to save the structure had prompted commission member William Mahler, a lifelong Newtown Township resident, to implore the supervisors not to grant the demolition request. Speaking at the Sept. 10 supervisors' meeting, Mahler, who also chairs the townships Historical Architectural Review Board (HARB), had claimed that the unoccupied three-story farmhouse has considerable historic value. According to Mahler, the wood-framed house, believed built in around 1840s and unique to Bucks County, is structurally sound and can be restored. He was also on hand at the Sept. 23 supervisors meeting, asking that the house be restored. Mahler again noted that the commission members have spent hours of their own time reading documents and visiting the farmhouse. In addition to the NAJHC, the township planning commission also has concerns about razing the building, but so far has taken no action on any formal recommendation to the supervisors. The planners are expected to again be involved in the discussions, as will the Villas residents and developer.
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Its emblematic of every candidates push now that votes are actually being cast. On Saturday, La Plata County treasurer candidate Bobby Lieb took over J. Paul Browns favorite spot across from Walmart to campaign. Radio and newspaper ads, along with fliers, for hotly contested races moved from prolific to unrelenting. Its bound to get more intense between now and Election Day, Nov. 4, when ballots are due by 7 p.m.
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(Source: Pool/CNN) Pistorius gets five years in prison for Steenkamp's death More>> Updated: Tuesday, October 21 2014 3:37 PM EDT2014-10-21 19:37:40 GMT Oscar Pistorius has arrived at a South African courthouse to hear his sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. More >> Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, completing a transformation from an acclaimed sprinter at the 2012 Olympics to a convicted criminal led away in a police... More >> Updated: Tuesday, October 21 2014 8:07 AM EDT2014-10-21 12:07:02 GMT The International Paralympic Committee says Oscar Pistorius will be ineligible to compete during his five-year prison sentence. More >> Oscar Pistorius will be ineligible to compete in Paralympic events during the entirety of his five-year prison sentence. More >> Updated: Tuesday, October 21 2014 4:03 AM EDT2014-10-21 08:03:16 GMT Oscar Pistorius, 27, is due to be sentenced Tuesday for culpable homicide and one weapons-related charge in connection with his fatal shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Updated: Friday, August 29 2014 7:00 AM EDT2014-08-29 11:00:23 GMT The first full weekend of football-coma inducing TV coverage begins at last. Is it possible to last until the afternoon kickoff of the annual Chicken Sandwich Challenge featuring Alabama and West Virginia? That's the question. More >> The first full weekend of football-coma inducing TV coverage begins at last. Is it possible to last until the afternoon kickoff of the annual Chicken Sandwich Challenge featuring Alabama and West Virginia? That's the question. More >> Updated: Thursday, October 17 2013 5:27 AM EDT2013-10-17 09:27:22 GMT A last-minute deal has been struck, allowing the federal government to avoid a shutdown. A shutdown would have suspended all federal government services deemed non-essential. All federally-funded museums, More >> Congress has passed a bill to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling, avoiding default. Updated: Thursday, October 10 2013 5:30 PM EDT2013-10-10 21:30:37 GMT As the government shutdown stretches on, it increasingly affects American life in less obvious wayslike beer production. Southbound Brewing Co., a craft beer company based in Savannah, has been working More >> As the government shutdown stretches on, it increasingly affects American life in less obvious wayslike beer production. Southbound Brewing Co., a craft beer company based in Savannah, has been working More >> Updated: Tuesday, October 21 2014 9:57 PM EDT2014-10-22 01:57:18 GMT North Korea's reclusive government abruptly freed an American man Tuesday, nearly six months after he was arrested on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, but Pyongyang refused to hand over two other U.S.... More >> North Korea's reclusive government abruptly freed an American man Tuesday, nearly six months after he was arrested on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, but Pyongyang refused to hand over two other U.S.... More >> Updated: Tuesday, October 21 2014 9:47 PM EDT2014-10-22 01:47:56 GMT Soldiers executed at least 12 and probably 15 people at a warehouse in southern Mexico last summer, the government Human Rights Commission said Tuesday in a sweeping indictment of attempts by the military and... More >> Soldiers executed at least 12 and probably 15 people at a warehouse in southern Mexico last summer, the government Human Rights Commission said Tuesday in a sweeping indictment of attempts by the military and civilian... More >> Updated: Tuesday, October 21 2014 9:37 PM EDT2014-10-22 01:37:17 GMT The Philippine military chief says a U.S. Marine suspect in the gruesome killing of a transgender Filipino woman has been flown to the main Philippine military camp in the capital, easing a looming irritant with... More >> The Philippine military chief says a U.S. Marine suspect in the gruesome killing of a transgender Filipino woman has been flown to the main Philippine military camp in the capital, easing a looming irritant with Washington... More >> Updated: Tuesday, October 21 2014 7:18 PM EDT2014-10-21 23:18:54 GMT One of two Canadian soldiers hit by a car in an apparent terrorist attack has died of his injuries. More >> A young convert to Islam who killed a Canadian soldier in a hit-and-run had been on the radar of federal investigators, who feared he had jihadist ambitions and seized his passport when he tried to travel to Turkey,... More >> Updated: Tuesday, October 21 2014 5:37 PM EDT2014-10-21 21:37:18 GMT An Australian teenager who ran away from home has reportedly appeared in an Islamic State propaganda video. More >> An Australian teenage runaway has reportedly appeared in an Islamic State propaganda video, warning that the movement won't stop fighting until the extremists' notorious black flag is flying above every nation. More >> PRETORIA, South Africa (RNN) - Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years in prison for culpable homicide in the Feb. 14, 2013 shooting death of Reeva Steenkamp, his girlfriend. Judge Thokozile Masipa handed down the sentence Tuesday morning after roundly rejecting the defense's claim that Pistorius would be unfit for prison because of his disabilities. The prosecution had sought a 10-year sentence, while the defense wanted leniency, including in-house detention. Pistorius, 27, shot Steenkamp in the early morning while she was in the bathroom of his home. He claimed he mistook her for an intruder. The athlete known as the Blade Runner, who competed in the London Olympics in 2012 and was Paralympics star, also was given a three-year suspended sentence for a firearms violation. Masipa gave her decision after more than an hour of discussion of various aspects of the case. She said she wanted to balance several interests in what she termed "gross negligence" on Pistorius' part. The judge cited the accused's remorse as one of the factors working in his favor. She also highlighted the affects the loss of Steenkamp, 29, has had on her family, including its effects on her father's health. She thought that a suspended sentence for culpable homicide would send the community the wrong message. "It would be a sad day for this country if the impression was to be created that there was one law for the poor and disadvantaged and another for the rich and famous," she said. Pistorius' family confirmed to a BBC reporter Andrew Harding that they will not appeal the sentence, he revealed in a tweet . Pistorius left the courtroom and immediately reported to the cells, Harding said. Barry and June Steenkamp said they are pleased with the sentence and glad the case is over. The lengthy and emotional trial included a lot of breakdowns from the accused, in particular during the graphic testimony regarding Steenkamp's gunshot wounds. The judge had to halt the trial at some points because of the severity of Pistorius' reactions. Copyright 2014 Raycom News Network. All rights reserved. WECT6
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Another young company at Bridgeworks now is Zzyzx Polymers , which has developed a patented process to shear the chemical bonds in plastics, thus enabling the creation of new plastics with unique properties and also offering a way to overcome the otherwise high costs and material-performance problems of effectively recycling comingled plastics in the municipal solid-waste stream. View gallery . Front end of the Bridgeworks Enterprise Center, the business incubator of the AEDC (John Tierney) ColdEdge and Zzyzx are at the higher end of the technology spectrum. In that respect, they stand in sharp contrast to The Colony Meadery, which occupies space just a few feet down the hall from them but far away from them on the technology spectrum. The meadery relies on processes that have been around for millennia and that remain pretty much unchanged, though certainly tweaked and equipped with some slightly fancier gear than early meadmakers had available. The popularity of mead-making is a product of the homebrew, craft-beer culture, where people will experiment with fermenting anything they can and adding whatever ingredients they can think of that might impart some intriguing new flavors. Take a look at this great riff on the subject from an article last year by Antonio Garcia in Medium , which Jim Fallows recently called to our attention : Brewers around the world are experimenting with bizarre hybrids that have never before been attempted: Belgian-style white IPAs, hibiscus flower saisons, yerba mate ales. And the list of experimental ingredients goes on and on: coriander, orange peel, marijuana, butterscotch, palo santo, coffee, oysters (yes, really, there is a class of beer called an oyster stout), honey, crushed cherries, peaches, and on and on. You could create an Iron Chef knockoff called Iron Brewer, of coursewhere contestants are forced to brew from a collection of incongruous ingredients (smoked salmon, alfafa root, lemon zest, malted quinoa, masala curry powder), and theyd concoct something drinkable, as often as not, maybe even good. So true. And it turns out that lots of people are finding honeynot hops and barleyto be a preferred base for that kind of playful experimentation. To me, the number of mead makers out there is surprising. There are hundreds. Take a look at this Esri map from the website of the American Mead Makers Association . It was assembled by Jordan Atkins and purports to show all the mead makers in the United States, at least up through August of 2013 (you can zoom in or out, pan around, and click on the individual dots to see information about each meadmaker): View larger map In August, I interviewed the two guys who own and operate the Colony Meadery in Allentown Mike Manning and Greg Heller-LaBelle. Just a week earlier, their company had won national honors, including the first Commercial Mead Maker of the Year award at the "Mead Free Or Die" competition held in New Hampshire. In addition to taking the top prize, Colony Meadery took home five of the nine awards. Impressed by their accomplishment, I wanted to know the story of their young company and how they achieved such early success. View gallery . Mike Manning at Burnside Planation (Tim Gangi) Mike Manning got into home-brewing beer in 2002 and, like many others, he gradually experimented with fermenting other things. In 2008 he decided to try making mead. He made a five-gallon batch with a friend and has been hooked on making mead ever since. Four years later, he met Greg Heller-LaBelle at a beer tasting. Manning had brought some of his lime-and-mint mead to the tasting. Heller LaBelle thought it was fantastic and suggested that Manning start producing it commercially. Manning demurred. Over the course of several months, Heller-LaBelle kept approaching him about launching a company. Manning kept resisting, saying, Look, I just want to make and enjoy mead. But Heller-LaBelle kept after him and Manning finally agreed to let him do a business plan. Soon, they were off and running. When I asked Heller-LaBelle what one of their biggest obstacles or hurdles has been, he replied: "Probably the fact that there's so much bad mead out there. And if people have had any of that, they don't want to try ours." But he says, "The quality of mead is improving steadily because we're all learning what you have to do to get it right. It's benefitting from the craft-brew culture, where people believe in helping each otherfrom thousands of amateurs performing experiments in their basements and sharing their results over the internet, with forums and listserves and chatrooms. People will write, Hey, I tried thisx, y, or zand it worked really well. View gallery . Greg Heller-LaBelle at the meadery (Colony Meadery) I learned from Manning and Heller-LaBelle that making mead is tricky for many reasons. For one thing, honey fermentations are very low in nitrogenan important nutrient for healthy yeast. The quality of the water is also important. So is the geometry of the equipment. And so is temperature-control: You have to keep the yeast cool. And you have to stagger the addition of nutrients to the yeast. You also have to 'de-gas'that is, take the CO2 out of the mead by stirring it. They use drills with stirrers attached to keep the contents moving. In the back room of the meadery, beyond the storefront and tasting counter, rows of plastic vats line the walls. These fermentation tanks are where the honey, water, yeast, and nutrients are working their magic. Insulated covers on the vats have coolant running through them to help keep batches cool. "If it gets too warm, the fermenting mead starts to smell like jet fuel," Manning said. View gallery . Coolant-jacketed fermentation vats (John Tierney) Manning said its actually more cost-efficient to make mead commercially than it is to make beer. Theres a lot of waste in brewing beer. It takes a lot of energy, and it takes longer in terms of brew days. With mead, the product turns around faster. Even so, there aren't many commercial meaderies in the United States. Pennsylvania, for example, has only a few othersApis Mead & Winery outside Pittsburgh, Laurel Highlands Meadery in Herminie, and Stonekeep Meadery in Berks County. The Colony Meadery uses orange-blossom honey from New Jersey for their products' base. The honey is made through migratory beekeeping: The New Jersey orchards drive the hives to orange groves in the South. This honey is the meadery's most expensive ingredient, followed by the fruits they use. Their preference is for fresh local produce and ingredients. For most of the blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries they use in various meads, they rely on a berry farmer in the next county over. But when they make up a batch of their Pina Co-Me-Duh, it's not easy to locally source the 15 pounds of pineapple and 20 pounds of coconut that go into each batch. These guys are not timid in their experimentation. Their Beso Exotico "combines the sweetness of honey and chocolate with the spice of cinnamon and cayenne;" their Pikwant Field is flavored with a blend of strawberries and kiwi; The Earle combines Earl Grey tea and garden herbs. They produce more than 20 different flavors, many of them seasonals and limited releases. View gallery . Half of a "sell sheet" for Mo-Me-Doh (The Colony Meadery) I tasted almost all of the meads they had on display at their tasting counter. None of them has the heaviness or thickness one might expect of a beverage made from honey. Some are surprisingly dry; most of them are light and crisp with a little bit of sweetness and the taste of whatever fruit has been added. The flavors are bold and distinct, as with the pepper and cinnamon in the Beso Exotico. One of their most popular is a flagship mead, Mo-Me-Doh, a refreshing semi-sweet honey wine with mint and lime. It was all that; both the mint and the lime really popped. Manning and Heller-LaBelle have been at Bridgeworks since October of 2013 after spending 14 months completing all the federal, state, and local paperwork needed to get an alcohol-related business started. Starting a business in a regulated industry will stoke ones libertarian coals, Heller-LaBelle told me. He went on to explain that a meadery in Pennsylvania is hampered because of state laws and the state-run liquor store system. Only wine and spirits can be sold in Pennsylvania's state stores. But it's a long and arduous process to get the state to accept new products. And because state law considers mead to be a wine, it can't be sold by the bottle at beer stores, even though their market is traditionally beer drinkers. It's a Catch-22ish situation. And a paradox that they find it much easier to get their product distributed in nearby New Jersey than in their own state. Even so, Colony Meadery is managing to grow. They released their first meads to the public in January of this year. By August, their revenues already were far exceeding the expectations they laid out in their business plan. And the owners are steadily expanding Colony Meaderys presence at bars and restaurants in eastern Pennsylvania and in New Jersey. They expect to produce 2,000 gallons of mead in 2014. View gallery . Mike Manning at a 2014 demonstration/tasting at Burnside Plantation in Historic Bethlehem (Tim Gangi) Naturally, Manning and Heller-LaBelle are delighted to have won big in recent national competitions. It gives us validation, Heller-LaBelle said. And, like their Bridgework neighbors, the HiJinx Brewing Company (profiled earlier here ), Manning and Heller-LaBelle believe that a small craft-beverage maker can be an agent of change. That was true here [in Bethlehem], Heller LaBelle said. Bethlehems post-industrial turnaround began in 1998 when Fegley took on the risk of taking over the old, abandoned Orrs department store at the corner of Main and Broad and created the Bethlehem Brew Works .
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Sorachi Ace Is The Most Brooklyn Of Beers
For one thing, to call something "very Brooklyn" is woefully imprecise: Do you mean that little part of Brooklyn with the expensive strollers and the yogurt and the kale and all that other shit we talk about now that we're done using "soccer moms" and "people who order apocryphally complex drinks at Starbucks" as convoluted synonyms for "middle-class white folk"? Or do you mean the 25 percent of the borough that lives beneath the poverty line and as such has precious little time and energy to contribute to the bespoke lip balm movement? Or are we talking about the old Polish or new Russian communities or the Orthodox Jewish enclaves or the endless acres of housing projects or that giant new mall where Deron Williams makes $21 million a year to be a chubbily mediocre point guard? The place is huge, man. If they spun the boroughs off, it'd be the third-largest city in the country. So the simple word "Brooklyn" isn't as specifically evocative as the people who run the New York Times Style section would have you believe. But if there's one thing that can be said to historically unite all of Kings County, it's got to be beer. There were 45 breweries in Brooklyn at the turn of the 20th century! Then came Prohibition and, later, consolidation, so when Schaefer and Rheingold ceased local production in 1976, the Brooklyn brewing industry was officially kaput. Then, in the mid-'80s, Brooklyn Brewery started creaking to life under the directorship of a former Associate Press foreign correspondent who initially had to do his all of his brewing way the hell up in Utica, 250 miles away from the current Brooklyn Brewery, which finally opened in Williamsburg in 1996. (A lot of the action is still contracted out, though that may change is the planned Staten Island expansion ever goes down.) So Brooklyn Brewery is a legit local icon in my book, because they make a historically relevant product and have been doing it since well before the word "Brooklyn" meant anything worthwhile as a marketing device. Longtime Brooklyn brewmaster Garrett Oliver, who just last week won a GQ-sponsored slapfight with restaurateur David Chang over whether good beer is better than bad beer, is also notable as an early American advocate for the suddenly re-emergent saison style of farmhouse ales. Hey, me too, except for the "notable" and "early" parts! I respect Brooklyn Lager as a credible flagship brew that keeps the lights on and the mess-around budget high enough to dabble in things like Brooklyn Local 1, an excellent Belgian strong pale ale, but my favorite current Brooklyn offering is the weird and wonderful Sorachi Ace saison, which, against my better judgment, I will officially declare to be Brooklyn as Fuck. The beer is named for an obscure hop developed in Japan in the 1970s for use in Sapporo. Sorachi Ace is a hybrid of traditional British workhorse Brewers Gold and Saaz, the classic Czech variety that gives pilsners their peppery kick. It wasn't imported into the United States until 2006, and though it's starting to gain respect in the American brewing community, it's still regarded as tricky to work with. Brooklyn Sorachi Ace is available year-round for about $10 per 750-ml bottle. The malt base is German two-row pilsner, there's a bit of Perle hops helping out the Sorachi Ace, and there are two yeasts: the brewery's Belgian strain and then Champagne yeast added during secondary fermentation. It's 7.6 percent alcohol by volume. The aroma is dominated by fairly straightforward saison notes of coriander and lemon, with the Saaz-like spicy pepper character really kicking in when you finally let your tongue in on the action. There are also pronounced traces of honey and pear, anddig thisdill. When I noticed the dill, I just assumed I was having another stroke, but a bit of research revealed that it's a standard attribute of Sorachi Ace hops. The superlong, dry finish is dominated by lemongrass and black pepper, but let's get back to the dill. This is fuckin' handcrafted artisanal pickle beer! Typical Brooklyn. Also: outstanding beer. The dill might not be strictly necessary, but it definitely does no harm and adds a layer of complexity that elevates Brooklyn Sorachi Ace into the highest ranks of American farmhouse ales. This is Drunkspin Daily , the Concourse's adequate source for booze news, reviews, and bullshit. We'll be highlighting a beer a day in this space; please leave suggestions below. Will Gordon loves life and tolerates dissent. He lives in Cambridge, Mass., and has visited all of the other New England states, including, come to think of it, Vermont. Find him on Twitter @WillGordonAgain . Image by Jim Cooke.
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Hey, Doc! Sewage, Beer and Food Scraps Can Power Chevrolet's Bi-fuel Impala
Biogas is the raw mixture of gases given off by the breakdown of organic materials kept in an oxygen-less environment. The resulting methane gas is then processed, removing all carbon dioxide and impurities to make Renewable Natural Gas (RNG). When compressed, RNG is a direct replacement for CNG. Since biogas can be made from most organic materials, quasar insources raw materials, otherwise considered waste, from a variety of industries. For instance, its Columbus, Ohio Renewable Energy Facility processes up to 25,000 wet tons of biosolids from the City of Columbus Department of Public Utilities for wastewater. Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Indians, contributes food waste for CNG-production after its been macerated in an industrial-sized InSinkErator Grind2Energy garbage disposal. And dont forget beer: Anheuser-Buschs Columbus brewery provides an organic by-product to quasar for conversion to methane gas. If you can buy renewable fuel at $1.95 per gallon while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, everybody wins, said Mel Kurtz, president of quasar energy group. quasars Columbus facility can produce 1.3 million gasoline gallon equivalents of CNG each year. Thats enough to fill the CNG tanks of 163,000 Bi-fuel Impalas at least once. Though CNG fueling stations are prevalent in states like California and Oklahoma, infrastructure in some states is scarce. To avoid feelings of range anxiety common in owners of CNG-only vehicles, we made the Impala bi-fuel, allowing our customers to drive on CNG when available and on gasoline when its not, said Nichole Kraatz, Impala chief engineer. The CNG tank mounted in the trunk has the equivalent capacity of 7.8 gallons of gasoline, which is expected to offer approximately 150 city miles of range on compressed natural gas based on GM testing. With gasoline and compressed natural gas combined, expected range is 500 city miles based on GM testing. EPA estimates are not yet available. Impalas bi-fuel system seamlessly switches to gasoline power when the CNG tank is depleted. Drivers who wish to change fuels while driving can do so by simply pushing a button. A light on the instrument panel indicates when CNG is being used, and there is no interruption in the vehicles performance. Operating on CNG can result in an average fuel savings of nearly $1.13 per gasoline-gallon-equivalent based on a national average of $3.24 per gallon of gasoline as reported by AAA and $2.11 per gge of CNG, reported by CNGnow. Also, CNG vehicles typically have 20 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline-powered cars, according to the California Air Resources Board. The Bi-fuel Impala is factory-built so its CNG fuel system is validated by GM and covered by GMs three-year/36,000-mile (whichever comes first) new vehicle limited bumper-to-bumper warranty and five-year/100,000-mile (whichever comes first) limited powertrain warranty. The Bi-fuel Impala is the only bifuel-capable sedan on the market to offer a factory warranty. When the Bi-fuel Impala goes on sale later this year, it will have a starting price of $38,210. Search The Auto Channel
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Supervisors delay decision on developer's request to demolish historic farmhouse at Villas of Newtown - The Advance - BucksLocalNews.com
CREDIT Indie Atlantic Films Loading the player... The GolfBeer brand story. CREDIT Indie Atlantic Films Professional golfers Freddie Jacobson, Graeme McDowell and Keegan Bradley introduce GolfBeer, a series of player-inspired easy-drinking craft beers. CREDIT: Indie Reps GolfBeer logo ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Three of the top names in professional golf are now in the beer business. Freddie Jacobson, Keegan Bradley and Graeme McDowell will launch a series of easy-drinking craft beers through their new company, GolfBeer Brewing Co. The move marks the first time professional golfers have started their own beer company and have been associated with craft beer. "Our lives have always revolved around golf, but we also are passionate about great beer, so we're really excited about this," said Freddie Jacobson, a founding partner of the GolfBeer concept. "I was first introduced to the idea of brewing a beer after a conversation I had with my friend and business associate Patrik Waxin. I immediately jumped at the opportunity to combine three of my passions: golf, beer and building a business. After doing my research and assembling a team of brewing experts, I reached out to my fellow players Keegan Bradley and Graeme McDowell to join me in this venture. Not only do they share my love of great beer, they also have an interest in building businesses and careers which transcend the golf course. Together we created refreshing and drinkable craft beers you can enjoy, whether you are on the course, at the 19th hole with friends, or at home watching a tournament on television." The beers were created to meet each golfer's preference and taste profile: Freddie Jacobson's Scandinavian Style Blonde Ale is a light ale brewed with Crystal malt and a variety of European hops; Keegan Bradley's New England Style Lager is an easy-drinking lager brewed with two-row barley and a variety of North American hops; and G-Mac's Celtic Style Pale Ale is a crisp, refreshing pale ale with a floral hop aroma and a snappy finish. Each of the golfers played a role in the design of the packaging which features their name, signature and silhouette. All three beers are between 4.5 and 5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) and will be priced comparably to other premium craft beer. "For me as a golfer and a restaurant owner, GolfBeer is the perfect marriage, bringing together two of my favorite things," said Graeme McDowell. "I am excited to join the GolfBeer team and I look forward to sharing our beers, both at my restaurant Nona Blue and at courses and clubs throughout Florida." GolfBeer initially will be available on draft and in 12-ounce cans at select golf courses, restaurants and country clubs throughout the state of Florida. The company plans to introduce all three brands in 12-ounce glass bottle (six-packs) and expand to grocery stores, bars, and restaurants in 2015. "To have a master brewer develop a beer based on my taste preference has been an incredible experience," said Keegan Bradley. "The beers are delicious, the concept is unique and I'm excited to be a part of it." The team chose the Florida market to debut GolfBeer for a variety of reasons. Demand for craft beers in the state is growing at a faster rate than anywhere in the country, to the point that wholesalers and retailers can't get access to enough craft beer to meet the demand. This need, coupled with the large number of recreational golfers and golf courses that call Florida home, made it the perfect market to introduce the company's first line of beers. About GolfBeer Brewing Co. GolfBeer Brewing Company was founded in 2014. GolfBeer produces high-quality, easy-drinking craft beer for a variety of palates. Current GolfBeer brands include Freddie Jacobson's Scandinavian Style Blonde Ale, Keegan Bradley's New England Style Lager and G-Mac's Celtic Style Pale Ale. GolfBeer is brewed at the Brew Hub in Lakeland, Florida. For additional information, visit www.golfbeer.com .
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