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		<title>Rediscovering Portland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot has happened since our last visit to the Portland two years ago during the Year in Beer. Between our visits, Merideth and I have traveled to a diverse range of beer destinations and added approximately 160 breweries to our tally. Older and wiser, we had some catching up to do in the Rose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Ninth Oregon Brewers Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 23rd edition of the Oregon Brewers Festival was our ninth. Attending six straight years at the end of the 1990s and three out of the last four years, we have seen it grow and change over the 16 year span. Changes aside, one thing remains the same: the Oregon Brewers Festival is, in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were excited to return to Portland for our ninth Oregon Brewers Festival. But with two previous beergeek.TV episodes covering the West Coast&#8217;s best beer fest, we needed to do something different. After much thought, we decided a road trip to Portland would be new and exciting. At noon, I picked Merideth up at work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=3223</link>
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		<title>New beergeek.TV Episode &#8211; Die WM in Deutschland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Die Weltmeisterschaft in Deutschland” is the latest episode of One Pint at a Time. For two years, we’d been dreaming of watching the world&#8217;s greatest sporting event while in Germany. Arriving the last day of group play for both the United States and Germany, we stayed through the quarterfinal stage of the World Cup. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=3212</link>
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		<title>Beating the Heat in Indy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friend and native Midwesterner, Dave Ratcliff, reports from this weekend&#8217;s 15th Annual Indiana Microbrewers Festival There are two things a visitor to a beer festival in the Midwest should know. The first is that an opportunity to sample numerous craft beers from states like Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania and beyond is an opportunity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=3200</link>
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		<title>A Post Match Party in Mannheim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is some raw video from the celebration in Mannheim following Germany&#8217;s 4-0 victory over Argentina.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=3192</link>
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		<title>Germany 4 Argentina 0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We began our trip in Mannheim watching Germany play in the World Cup. And if everything went according to plan, we would be watching Germany play a quarterfinal match back in Mannheim on the last day of our trip. Well, everything did go to plan as Germany won Group D. They then went on to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=3044</link>
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		<title>Braving the Prague Tourist Hordes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On our little taxi excursion from the train station, our tour guide driver on several occasions gestured in the general direction of the Charles Bridge and Prague Castle. In his Czecho-Germano-English language, he indicated that&#8217;s where all the tourists were. Merideth and I smiled and nodded knowingly. We would tackle that beast the next day. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=3042</link>
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		<title>Returning to Prague</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admit we were reluctant to return to Prague. One of the beer meccas of the world, our first and only visit to the Czech Republic capital was back in 2001.  Since that visit, we have been to the Czech Republic only one other time. In our first beer adventures with a video camera in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=3039</link>
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		<title>A Short Visit to Switzerland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After almost a week of pounding the pavement of various German cities, we needed a nature break. Southeast of Dresden is Sächsische Schweiz, (Saxon Switzerland), a  national park along the Elbe River. Known for its rock formations, the park is popular with everyone from your average tourist to avid rock climbers. Despite the projected 95 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=2996</link>
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		<title>Dresden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our stop in Dresden really didn&#8217;t have much to do with beer. For years, I have been fascinated by the city and its resurrection from the fire-bombing by Allied planes February 1945. It is estimated that 25,000 civilians died in the raids and subsequent firestorm. My recent interest stemmed from our first visit to Munich [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=2953</link>
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		<title>Anything Gose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty good at coming up with brilliant ideas. Recently, one of my best ideas was in planning our train trip from Berlin to Dresden. I noticed that one of the intermediate stations was Leipzig, which I remembered was home to one of the few Gose breweries in the world. Realizing that this was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=2923</link>
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		<title>Berlin Is Growing On Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had two more days to explore Berlin which gave us time to venture outside the city center. We called it ‘traveling off the map’ as a number of our brewery destinations weren’t on the free Tourist office maps. Armed with the not-always-reliable Google maps, we hopped on the U-Bahn ready to explore Berlin’s neighborhoods. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=2902</link>
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		<title>Giving Berlin A Second Chance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We last visited Berlin on our first trip to Germany in 2001. Earlier on that journey, we visited Munich and completely fell in love with the Bavarian capital. During our stay in Berlin, all we could think was that it wasn&#8217;t Munich. The warm and cozy feel we got in Munich was not present in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=2868</link>
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		<title>Two Years in the Making</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This trip was conceived two years ago during the Year in Beer. Merideth and I were in a pub in Carlow, Ireland watching Germany play Turkey in the 2008 European Football Championship. With a scant  nine patrons in the pub, Merideth and I  seemed to be the only people watching what turned out to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebeergeek.com/blog/?p=2829</link>
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