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Article posted: 2/21/2013 5:12 AM

Craft breweries pushing boundaries of flavors, tastes

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Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is staging a promotion dubbed "A Hop Eclipse Now" that will see the brewery host more than 50 beer dinners nationwide.

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Beer lovers nowadays subsist on a steady diet of alphabet soup. They need to distinguish between ESBs (extra special bitters) and IPAs (India pale ales), and to know a beer's ABV (alcohol by volume). Home brewers grapple with such abbreviations as OG (original gravity), FG (final gravity) and SRM (Standard Research Method, a system for gauging color). Now that experimentation seems to be shifting from Belgian styles to hoppy ales, the IBU — international bitterness unit — has assumed new importance.
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