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Beerbusters II: The Numbers Are In


Beerbusters II: The Numbers Are InA Twin Liquors Beer Post

Duke Egbert, Store #60

    The intention of Beerbusters II was to evaluate American and Belgian beers of the same style and see which ones were superior in the opinion of a randomly selected group of tasters. (In other words, whoever walked in and agreed to taste ten beers and tell us what they thought of them.) The other purpose was to have a good time. In an amazing juxtaposition of work and play, we managed to do both, and we got some interesting numbers out of the whole deal.

    Here, o ye beer aficionados, are the raw numbers. All ‘A’ beers are American; all B beers are Belgian. (I know you saw that coming, right?)

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Twin Liquors Dan Aykroyd Crystal Head Signing Video

Dan Aykroyd visits Twin Liquors in Austin, Texas to sign bottles of Crystal Head Vodka. Thanks to our customers and Twin Liquors staff for making this an incredible event! Stay tuned to twinliquors.com for more fantastic events.

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Twin Liquors Update: Dan Aykroyd

Sandra & Jessica are at the Twin Liquors Dan Aykroyd Crystal Head Bottle Signing Event. Complete event coverage coming soon. 

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I LIke Beer: May 2010

Duke Egbert - I Like Beerby Duke Egbert

      “Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.”
                --William Claude Dunkenfield, better known as W.C. Fields

    Spring is here in full bore, rapidly rolling downhill towards the unflinching light and heat of a Texas summer. Last month’s interesting moments for your faithful correspondent included adding ‘snake wrangler’ to my Twin Liquors business card. Turns out we had a baby Texas garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis annectens, for the scientific-minded) lurking under one of our geranium planters here at the Galleria. Being the heroic type I am, I removed it. (We had a customer who was refusing to leave the store until it was gone.) After that brush with nature, I needed a long, cool drink. In fact, in most circumstances this time of year cool drinks sound like a good idea – but what about enjoying a mixed drink made with beer?

Attack of the Clonal selection. - A study in quality control and precision

Attack of the Clonal selection. - A study in quality control and percisionWhat better way to spend star wars day, than with a bunch of clones...  ;)

I was invited to sit the Castello Banfi Seminar at Trio, along with a handful of other cork dorks…retailers, restaurateurs and writers. There were about 20 of us and about 240 glasses of wine! I really didn’t know what I was in for until I sat down and looked at the tasting sheet. Lined up before me were actual clonal selections of Sangiovese, Clone BF 30, Clone Janus 10 and Clone Janus 50. We tasted each on their own and then blended together. We had some other fantastic wines too, but i was more interested in the clones, because it was such a treat to actually taste the process. And what a process it was to get to where they are now.