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CHEERS O 94 THE RANTSLLAERVOUT OFR100 A TING PUBLISHER/EDITOR/JANITOR Getting Coal for Xmas DEREK BUONO MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION... Get fatter and balder. I set realistic goals. MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR THE WORLD... Develop your own thoughts. Facebook isn’t a reference. WHAT I MAY REALLY ACCOMPLISH OTHER THAN MY RESOLUTION... The World Ends this year again right? Does it matter? ART DIRECTOR Getting something that once was coal JOANNA BUONO MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION... Take a professional pastry class this year. MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR THE WORLD... Get along. WHAT I MAY REALLY ACCOMPLISH OTHER THAN MY RESOLUTION... Baking some semi-pro pastry at home. BIndividual taste, thoughts, and even preconceived BRAD RUPPERT WHAT I MAY REALLY ACCOMPLISH OTHER THANTo do a cannonballMY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION...dookie into a vat of beer.MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR THE WORLD...To Qaddafi your girlfriend with a long neck beer.CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Dresses as Santa too often Some people love one beer,1eer is subjective.some people love another. Another person hates it. ideas about how it tastes all affect our ability to rate beer. MY RESOLUTION... Finding out how p90x and beer Sometimes we don’t even make our own cut. does a body good! As much as I’d like to say our rating system is perfect, it isn’t. We try our best to have a group of tasters who all CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Wears stockings like different things, so we can balance things out. We’d be JASON CASTONGUAY fools to say we think that it’s perfect, but we try.2 homebrew. Make moreMY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION... MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR THE WORLD... Drink more Craft beer. One of the topics I’ve discussed with breweries, and even some readers in person, is MY RESOLUTION... Older, wiser and balder.WHAT I MAY REALLY ACCOMPLISH OTHER THAN our rating of beers and how it’s done. I do my best to explain the process, but some have questioned that all our reviews seem to be very high. I agree that the beers in our magazine are all rated fairly well, but that’s the design.3 I decided long ago that there SETH MARTINCONTRIBUTING EDITOR Whipped for Xmas are far too many great beers out there for me to fill the pages with things we don’t like, MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION... Get financially fit! so there are lots of beer that don’t “make the cut.”4 Talk less and listen more.MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR THE WORLD... WHAT I MAY REALLY ACCOMPLISH OTHER THAN MY RESOLUTION... Spend more time with family One can question this method, but as media, we have the power to ruin our own and friends! companies.5 That’s something I take very seriously. Because beer is subjective, if I ran around telling everybody who reads this magazine that “Beer A” sucks, it would seem like AD ACCOUNT GUY Wants more ads for Xmas the industry isn’t good enough. There are plenty of online publications where people give BRIAN ROBERTS MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION... Try to start NOT bad reviews.6 Since we have the opportunity to get the best beers in the world, I’d rather waist-band! * I used to actually be an athlete! Really!BEING so damn self-conscious about my ever-expanding spend the time and effort telling people about the good beer. We target those who might Crack a beer with someone else and enjoy all:MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR THE WORLD... not think about beer every day, and our influence on them isn’t taken for granted. WHAT I MAY REALLY ACCOMPLISH OTHER THAN MYthe-beer, the-conversation, the-moment! RESOLUTION... My Beer-Belly will inevitably turn-into looking like I have a 1/2 barrel STUFFED under my shirt. We have gotten beers that we tasted, and our panel all agreed that the score was lower than our threshold to make the magazine. So instead of a brewery sending us a beer that JAY BROOKSCONTRIBUTING EDITOR Will be judging Xmas they may like, but our group doesn’t, we decided that it’s just not going to make one of the drink less, exercise ... nah, just kidding. Live life toEat healthier,MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION... lucky 15 beer reviews in every issue. Is this the perfect solution? Of course not; it makes MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR THE WORLD...the fullest, baby! us look as though we are overly positive toward beers, but we feel that our slant on the bastards.Stop being so stupid, drink better beer, ya cheap industry means we always find the good, and leave all the “bad” beers to other sources. MY RESOLUTION... Finally gonna get that tattoo...WHAT I MAY REALLY ACCOMPLISH OTHER THAN So when you look at the reviews in this issue, realize there are some beers that didn’t make it in, and those that did are the ones we felt were the best we sampled this month. CONTRIBUTING PUPPET Merry Christmas! PEPE MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION... Travel and drink for Godspeed, free around the USA. MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR THE WORLD... Don’t make Pepe mad, I’ve got a gun. WHAT I MAY REALLY ACCOMPLISH OTHER THAN MY RESOLUTION... Seriously I better get to travel and make some videos with readers. Email Derek and get Derek Buono me out of his office! Publisher/Editor/Janitor derekb@thebeermag.com RANDOM READER Happy Holidays! ALEX “RHINO” REBELLO MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION... To expand my Craft 1. Except for this magazine, it’s official. We rule. 5. We asked some breweries if they’d like us to review their Beer knowledge. beers we don’t like instead of the ones we do;.their complaints MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR THE WORLD... 2. Yoda may say there is no try, only do. But we do try. Suck it, Yoda. Share my love for Craft Beer. quickly ended. WHAT I MAY REALLY ACCOMPLISH OTHER THAN 3. It is funny to know that some people don’t think we actually have MY RESOLUTION... Easy, more family time. 6. Isn’t that why we have the “internets” so we can go online and a plan and direction for everything in the magazine. bitch and tell the world the guy being underpaid didn’t bow down 4. At some point, that cutoff might be lower, but now we have a to us? Long live the “bitch-er-net”. cutoff at 80 and above. 06:


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