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Drinking beer can be as simple as chugging it down after opening its can. But in order to really taste beer, gulping it down is not enough. You don't get to enjoy it. You won't be able to distinguish the flavors and the feel of it in your mouth. In order to do that, one has to take it slow.

If you have been reading the reviews you might have noticed that we have changed some things. Some of the changes have been planned for a long period of time and others we just jumped into.

The first thing we changed was the 5 star rating. Let's face it, a 5 star system doesn't give that much opportunity to rate a beer. Therefore we brought up a 10 star system like for example IMDB uses. All older values where recalculated. We think that the 10 star system will sooner or later become the standard in beer rating. Numbers or local school grade systems are of no use if the system is used globally, whereas the 10 star system is known world wide.

Small beer fests are popping up all over the planet. It seems like CraftBrewing is lifting off. While reading through the Brewing newsfeeds I found the news about the Canadian Beer Festival which takes in Victoria, Canada.