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If you haven't yet visited Carlton Draught's Big Ad Website, you should check it out. You will be asked to trust a Java Applet that helps play the ad in full screen. Then you see thousands of people in colored robes running across an Australian valley a la Lord of the Rings. People in primarily yellow robes led by a man on horseback running toward another group of people mostly in red robes. At least hundreds of people are really there in the camera shot. I don't doubt that computer graphics was used at some point to fill in the rest.

I first had Smithwick’s Ale in the Arena (Ann Arbor) at a charity event to raise money for a needy Detroit school. Awesome that a bar and a group of college students in Ann Arbor would put together such a worthy and attractive benefit like that. Good food in the form of unlimited appetizers, and $3 beer across the board. My roommate Erin suggested Smithwick’s (pronounced smitiks), and it was a good beer for that setting.

Some time ago, for my friend Beth’s birthday (and her twin Garret’s), I went to the Lazy Moon pizzariea near UCF. Garret insisted that I sample some of his Great White, a wheat beer they had on tap. I rushed right to the tap to grab a Litre of said beverage, because I loved it. I had some again tonight in a bottle, and it was equally pleasant:

Lost Coast Brewery’s Great White is described as:

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