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Michael Agnew

Minneapolis
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A 6-pack of dark beers to get you through winter's long, dark nights

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By Michael Agnew
| The Minnesota Star Tribune
By Michael Agnew One of the best things about living in Minnesota is that it stays light until 10 p.m. during the summer months. The brutal tradeoff is that in the winter, darkness comes six hours earlier. It often feels like the day has barely begun before it's ended. But take heart, Minnesotans. At least we don't live where the winter sun never rises; there are a few precious hours of daylight. We can also take solace in the fact that there are beers to help us through the darkness.
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How about a smoked beer to go with that backyard bonfire?

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By Michael Agnew
| The Minnesota Star Tribune
By Michael Agnew Austin Lunn, head brewer at Hammerheart Brewing Co. in Ely, Minn., honed his skills as intern at HaandBryggeriet. Deeply steeped in heavy metal music and Norse mythology, his beers have a similar woodsy rusticity to the beers of that Norwegian brewery. One of my most memorable beer experiences was standing with the Hammerheart guys in a snow-covered forest clearing sampling beer on a 20-degree December afternoon. That's who they are.
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Get to know the British Isles' easy-drinking style of brewing with these 9 beers

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By Michael Agnew
| The Minnesota Star Tribune
When you think about the world's great beer cultures, several come to mind. Germany and the Czech Republic excel at lagers. Belgium is famous for Trappist-style ale, witbier and divinely complex traditional sour beers. And over the past 30 years or so, the craft brewing movement has put the United States on the beer map. But in many ways, the beers of the British Isles are the parents to them all. Early American craft brewers took inspiration from the pale ales and IPAs of England.
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