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Drink Fri Jul 25 2008

Friday Happy Hour

Yep, we're rounding up a bunch of drink links for your Friday afternoon consumption. Thirsty yet?

• Time Out guides you to places where you can drink beer outdoors.

312 Dining Diva is annoyed with The Violet Hour for repainting the exterior. (What, was it too hard to find? Were the lines to get in too short?)

• BoozeMuse looks into eco-drinking.

Beer (& More) In Food ponders Honey Amber Rose, "the first beer for women," whose brand and brewery is now available for purchase on eBay.

• Meanwhile, there's a new beer in town.

• Gabriel at Half Acre Brewery reflects on the wave of mergers and alliances going on in the beer industry right now. Maybe one of them will snap up (Honey Amber Rose).

• Speaking of weird beer, What's the Pint samples Mamma Mia Pizza Beer, brewed (baked?) in St. Charles.

• The Chicago Nightlife Examiner is concerned about the livelihood of our dive bars in the face of invading hipsters.

You may be getting too strong of a drink, the RedEye reports. Are you complaining?

Mmm, chartreuse.

 
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The State of Food Writing

By Brandy Gonsoulin

In 2009, food blogging, social media and Yelp were gaining popularity, and America's revered gastronomic magazine Gourmet shuttered after 68 years in business. Former Cook's Illustrated editor-in-chief Chris Kimball followed with an editorial, stating that "The shuttering of Gourmet reminds...
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