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Andreas Krennmair

@akrennmair.bsky.social
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🇦🇹 living in 🇩🇪. Software developer. I like, brew and write about beer. dafteejit.com

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Pete Mckee @petemckee.bsky.social · 3h
listening to an album i used to have on cassette that i had originally recorded from an album that had scratches on it and i kind of mis the sections where it stuck at certain points.
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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social · 5h
Andreas Krennmair is doing some amazing historical research about Central European beer, and his latest book Bavarian White Beer is a must-read. It corrects many historical errors and adds much detail to the story of this venerable ale.
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The Mysteries and History of Bavarian White Beer Revealed — Beervana
Andreas Krennmair is doing some amazing historical research about Central European beer, and his latest book Bavarian White Beer is a must-read. It corrects many historical errors and adds much deta...
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 9h
linking the fuck in, as i do on occasion
I respond to every publicist who follows up with me about an irrelevant pitch with a message encouraging them to subscribe to Fingers to get a better sense for what I actually write about. I also include a link to a small trade discount off their first year. 

I've probably sent over 1,000 of these courtesy responses. Exactly one (1) PR person has used that discount code to get more familiar with Fingers' coverage. 

Publicists are not Fingers' core audience, so this is not a big deal to me. But I certainly seem to be publicists' core audience, so you would think understanding what Fingers publishes before pitching me might be a bigger deal to them.
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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 5h
New post on #Fuggled... in which I extol the virtues of limits and warn against the strawman of creativity www.fuggled.net/2026/10/in-p...
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In Praise of Utah Beer Law
a blog about beer, pubs and homebrewing. Based in Charlottesville but with a view of the world.
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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 6h
That was a messy brewday with lots of niggly issues. I missed my final gravity so cheated with a little malt extract, I think my mill is the issue. Anyhow, it's in its fermenter and I'm very happy with the colour and taste, it's bitter but pleasantly so. Got some nice Maillard Reaction too ...
Dark red tinged wort in a glass.Burn marks on the base of the boiler.
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David Berg @bergbrew.bsky.social · 22h
Wyeast is doing a very cool series on yeast in their collection, actually documenting the history of their strains. It's so fun to read these entries. I hope they keep it up wyeastlab.com/40th-anniver...
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40th Anniversary Collection - Wyeast Lab
For nearly 40 years, Wyeast has powered GABF medal-winning beers. Celebrate your win with exclusive partner rates on premium liquid yeast.
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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another great story from John Carruthers: Chicagoans Love Thin-Crust Pizza. But Do They Really Call It 'Tavern-Style'? blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/05/c...
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Chicagoans Love Thin-Crust Pizza. But Do They Really Call It 'Tavern-Style'?
The origins of the phrase that describes thin-crust, square-cut pizza — and whether locals actually call it that — are the subject of much debate.
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
BLOG POST: "What we will say, though, is that zebra-striping (alternating AF and normal beer) has another interesting pleasure-intensifying effect…" boakandbailey.com/2026/10/your...
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Your actual real life alcohol-free ‘zebra striping’
The increasing ubiquity, quality and variety of alcohol-free beer has meant that it’s slowly become a meaningful part of our drinking habits.
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Ed Wray @thebeerfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Managed three in a project I was involved in:
Beer sensory data: 
- aroma very simmilar, virtually identical for all 3 Cascades (AUS higiher on lemon, US on citrus and floral)
- Conclusion - Cascade delivers very similar sensory characteristics in beer when grown in different regions
The pictures of spider diagrams showing slight differences in aroma and taste
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking at this, the hop variety grown in the most countries by far (18) seems to be Cascade: www.hopfenforschung.de/wp-content/u... Now it would be interesting to taste differences in terroir between all of them.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the past 24 hours I have had four AI written scam email approaches from fake book clubs/ book influencers promising to make me a bestseller. God, it's annoying.
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One thing I appreciate about the Upper Austrian Hop Growing Cooperative is how they make it easy even for homebrewers to directly order from them, and that includes preorders for the 2026 harvest. So I got 500g each of Cascade and Malling. www.hopfenbau.at/de/shop.html #homebrewing
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Shop - Mühlviertler Hopfen
Wir sind die Hopfenbaugenossenschaft, die regionalen Erzeuger*innen von Mühlviertler Hopfen und der führende Anbieter für Hopfen aus Österreich.
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.
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Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Managed to find a proper dartboard in St-Malo: fredcook.co.uk/2026/09/19/L...
A wide angle photo of the view of St-Malo from the ferry on the way in. There are moody grey clouds to the right over St-Malo, with lighter blue patches and fluffy white clouds over the sea. A couple of small islands are visible, with a smooth grey sea bisected half in light and half in shade
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Does the CZE-ENG match use parallel frame cycling to show (Anheuser Busch) Budweiser pitch-side advertising (which would not be visible in the stadium in Prague) for some markets?
A photo of a screen showing the Czechia England match. The pitch-side advertising boards show Budweiser ads in the design of Anheuser Busch Budweiser.
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Jonathan Surratt @beerinator.com · 28/09/2026
Burger to the power of Jeff These two burgers are dedicated to all the people out there named Jeff. This is my deep dive into how I create the Jeff Squared burger and Jeff Cubed burger, and also the three other sandwiches I made along the way. boundedbybuns.com/burger-to-the-pow…
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Burger to the power of Jeff
These two burgers are dedicated to all the people out there named Jeff. This is my deep dive into how I create the Jeff Squared burger and Jeff Cubed burger, and also the three other sandwiches I made along the way.
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Ian Scott @ianscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‘The champagne of pale ales’: my search for the perfect kölsch beer in Cologne www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
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‘The champagne of pale ales’: my search for the perfect kölsch beer in Cologne
‘Kölsch is not a drink, it is a religion’ in Cologne, and it’s only brewed in and around the German city. But which of the many beautiful, storied beer halls serves up the best?
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BLOG POST: Does your AI-generated beer app actually contribute something? Is it meeting a real need, or providing new information? Or did you just get excited about being able to make something with zero effort? boakandbailey.com/2026/09/ai-h...
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AI has made it easier than ever to make apps nobody asked for
We’ve been inundated lately with AI-written press releases about AI-built tools and websites focused on beer and pubs. Who is asking for this?
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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Goddammit, Jim Koch. that's not a fucking stein. You could've said "raise a glass!" It would have been neither awkward nor wrong. Now it's both. If you need a German word that you can use for drinkware, just use "krug."
Shitty AI email from the Red Sox and Sam Adams showing a glass krug clinking against a bottle of Sam Adams Octoberfest. The proportions are all wrong and the foam looks terrible. The words say "raise a stein to a legend. October is our season."
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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I honestly thought Albert @rosscider.bsky.social was pulling my leg when he told me our Jeremias Runde had won 1st place in the @3ccpa.bsky.social Perry Championship, and then I was told it also got Best in Show, Supreme Champion! Really not sure how to process that yet! 😁 Thrilled!
Bottle of our perry with a pear shaped wooden trophy, a rosette for champion, and the first prize for the dry perry category
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
First time drinking Jever since I visited the brewery a few weeks ago, and that visit certainly made me appreciate the beer more than before.
A Jever-branded Pils glass with beer and plenty of foam on top, a Jever-branded doily on the stem and a Jever coaster underneath. The table has a marquetry design of a compass on it.

The place is Möve im Felsenkeller in Berlin.
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Semi-related: Kerwa (an annual folk festival celebrating the dedication of a church) organisers advertising how their posters are not AI-generated.
A screenshot from an Instagram reel by @burgebracherkerwa of two guys drinking beer in front of a poster advertising a Kerwa, an annual celebration of the anniversary of a church's dedication.

The caption on top is "POV: it's 2026 and the Kerwa poster is not AI-generated"
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 26/09/2026
moonset on the other side of the sky
a very orange moon setting behind some desert mountains. In the foreground there’s lots of cactus.
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Neil O’Donnell @aldermoth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Brewing a big ol’ barleywine for Christmas today. Goldings and Challenger hops, treacle, ginger, orange, cinnamon, and will age on Pedro Jimenez soaked oak chips for a few weeks. Should be around 10%. #homebrew
The MashTreacleHops and gingerOrange peel and cinnamon sticks
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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 25/09/2026
At some beer festival way back pre-Covid, probably about 2017, a guy in a Manchester City shirt told us we were the worst brewery there. He was technically correct but, still, hopefully he’s had a terrible evening.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Pellicle @pelliclemag.com · 25/09/2026
DB has played a blinder once more with this month's Just Beer Things cartoon. Beer Blokes. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/9/...
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David Bailey's Just Beer Things #37 — Beer Blokes — Pellicle
*** We’re only able to publish cartoon’s like David’s, and our regular features, long reads and podcast episodes, thanks to the support of our readers. If you’d like to help support Pellicle please c...
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new book arrived today! Only read a few bits, but looks excellent so far. @larsga.bsky.social
The book cover of "The Power of Beer" by Lars Marius Garshol. It shows a beer glass with amber beer on a throne, with a doorway and red curtains in the background.
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The AI-sloppiest decoration I've seen in a long time. The copper kebabs on a copper plate look even worse than the burgers and milkshakes that give you trypophobia you see on signage outside restaurants these days.
Decoration on the outside of a restaurant soon to open. It is printed, but looks like a copper plate with decorations on the rim. On the plate, there are various kebabs and vegetables, but they also look like they're copper.
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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Heard an interesting take on AI yesterday at a conference...AI is the technological equivalent of a cover band.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 07/04/2026
hunter (@3gpmh) on twitter: "micro dosing hell by staying informed and educated"
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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Starting my day making some art.
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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A book on the floor malting, technology and industrial history. And more. An important craft. This book is free to access. I borrowed a valuable and rare copy many years ago, but now its been scanned in and is available for all. Malt and Malting by Henry Stopes.) books.google.co.uk/books/about/...
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Malt and Malting
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Mike Knell @blat.at · 21/09/2026
Oktoberfest time! A reminder that only two of the six breweries exclusively allowed to sell beer there are not owned by brewing conglomerates: Hofbräuhaus: State of Bavaria Augustiner: Independently owned Spaten, Löwenbräu: AB InBev Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr: part of a group, 30% owned by Heineken
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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My new book is finally out! A short, readable overall history of beer tracing the long lines in the development of beer. Seeing history like that inevitably brings out an overlooked side of the history of beer: beer as a source of massive power. Please repost! www.garshol.priv.no/download/pow...
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The Power of Beer
Personal site of Lars Marius Garshol.
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Historic Beer Ads @beerpuffery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Making my annual offer: Munich has commissioned one of these posters every Oktoberfest since 1952. I have them all. Request a year and I'll share the poster.
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oans, zwoa, drei, g'suffa! #oktoberfest
Me in a full outfit of Lederhosen, shirt and hat, awkwardly smiling and holding a Maß of Augustiner Oktoberfestbier.
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Historic Beer Ads @beerpuffery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oktoberfest kicks off in Munich today, and reminded me that still hadn't looked up the 2026 poster design! Instant favorite. For me it evokes the dazzling, sense-inflaming, nighttime carnival glow of the event. A vibe not broached since 2005 (yes I checked, shut up). Artist: Florian Huber
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I made him do this. (Jess)
Ray posing in lederhosen, long socks and a knitted Trachtenjacke.
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And if you want to take a look at historic photos, posters, postcards, etc. of Oktoberfest, Bavarikon is a great source. Lots of these photos are even available under very permissible licenses (Creative Commons) or even in the public domain: www.bavarikon.de/search?media...
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oktoberfest started today in Munich, so here are my #beerhistory blog posts about its history: 1. the scandal of the first giant Oktoberfest tent: how a restaurateur from outside Munich ignored the authorities and established what is Oktoberfest nowadays. dafteejit.com/2026/03/the-...
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The Scandal of Oktoberfest's First Giant Tent - Daft Eejit Brewing
In which I wrote about how the first large tent at Oktoberfest came to be, and why it was a scandal for the Oktoberfest restaurateurs at the time.
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly round-up of good writing about beer and pubs, with notes on pubs with too many rules, Norwegian pilsner and car park hops, among other things. boakandbailey.com/2026/09/news...
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News, nuggets and longreads 19 September 2026: Some People
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got cheaper pints, Czech pubs and Belgian folk traditions.
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Knut Albert Solem @knutalbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The hunt for the first Norwegian pilsner.
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The First Norwegian Pilsner
Fancy a pils?
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 21/11/2024
A three circle Venn diagram: circles are Gandhi, Alf, Ra. doubles: Gandalf. (Wreck-it) Ralph, Randi. Triple is a Randall Alpha amp.

All the items are illustrated with a little image.
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I suppose British dimpled mugs are Star Trek canon now.
A frame from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Episode 9 about 29 minutes 55 seconds in, in which Captain Pike and Mr. Spock drink what looks like beer from British dimpled mugs, with people around them cheering them on.
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BLOG POST: With less than 24 hours in town we visited three beer gardens in Munich. One was too local. One was too touristy. But the third was just right. boakandbailey.com/2026/09/a-tr...
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A trio of Munich beer gardens in one afternoon
We only had a short stopover in Munich but really wanted a proper session in a proper Münchner Biergarten. Goldilocks style, we ended up visiting three.
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Ben Palmer @johnzee7.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Am I in the Hallertau for hop harvest? No! I discovered these in the car park of a Getränke Hoffmann drinks store in Berlin.
Hops on the bine in a Getränke Hoffmann car park.
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