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Democrats Have Gone NUTS with New Bills Already! Anti-Puppy, Anti-Testicles, and Anti-Individual– Just Like Mussolini Would

By From http://www.spotsygop.com/blogger.html • Jan 16th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Democrat Del. Lionel Spruill, will introduce a bill that bans your truck’s ornamental testicles from your trailer hitch! While I don’t personally have a set of these– I am married and have no need for them to attract another truck to the family– wh…



Top 23 ways to Tell You’re a Democrat

By From http://www.spotsygop.com/blogger.html • Jan 13th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Check this list out… it’s funny! But also a scary reality- courtesy of RappahannockRed.comhttp://www.spotsygop.com



Should Schools be Granted Power to Raise Our Taxes? They’re Trying!

By From http://www.spotsygop.com/blogger.html • Jan 13th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This should scare the hell out of you if you’re a taxpayer!Read all about it HEREThere’s some exploratory bills floating around Richmond right now testing the waters for whether or not the concept of giving counties the option of letting their school b…



January FABTS Meeting – Stouts

By From http://www.fabts.org/ • Jan 12th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The January FABTS meeting is today, January 12th, at 1:30pm at Bangkok Boulevard in Central Park. The style of the month is Stouts.For the benefit of the students in the BJCP class, this month’s beer list is categorized by BJCP Style Guide. Categories …



Musings Over a Pint – Tommyknocker Imperial Nut Brown Ale

By From http://www.fabts.org/ • Dec 6th, 2007 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Local beer-drinker and FABTS member David Turley maintains a craft beer blog called Musings Over a Pint. I thought his article yesterday regarding a beer for our first snow was great and got me in the mood for a pint or two. The leadoff paragraph is be…



Typical FABTS Meeting

By From http://www.fabts.org/ • Dec 6th, 2007 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Here’s a typical FABTS meeting, especially when Dave Fredrickson attends.



December FABTS Meeting Beer List (Update 1)

By From http://www.fabts.org/ • Dec 6th, 2007 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The December FABTS meeting is coming up on December 8, 2007 at Kybecca. We have quite a list of beers going already. If you have anything to add, please let us know.Lyle Brown===================Hook Norton 12 Days (Hook Norton Brewing Co. – Oxon, UK)Je…



October Meeting Notes – by Kevin Brown

By From http://www.fabts.org/ • Oct 27th, 2007 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

1. Wiessen BrauOr meadow brew as in the meadow in which Oktoberfest is held (supposedly also originally held) after many complaints from locals for a lighter more easily drunk beer some of the brewery’s have started to brew Wiessen Brau instead.2. H?…



5th Annual Blue & Gray Octoberfest

By From http://www.fabts.org/ • Sep 30th, 2007 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

On Saturday September 29th, Blue and Gray Brewing Company of Fredericksburg, VA held their 5th annual Octoberfest. And while the Bowman Center in Fredericksburg can’t match the atmosphere of “die Wiesn” in Munich, it was a great gathering.The historic…



BMWs and Craft Brewing

By From http://www.fabts.org/ • Sep 16th, 2007 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Every labor day BMW hosts a homecoming for the Z3 and Z4 cars that were built in their plant in Greenville / Spartanburg, SC. The 2007 BMW Homecoming was BMW’s 11th year of doing this and the first year Angela and I went. There were over 600 Z3’s and Z…