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		<title>Aces &amp; Ales Strong Beer Festival &#8211; Day One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Winewench and I haven&#8217;t been going anywhere new lately.
Our weekly outings have been limited to stopping by Yard House, mainly because lately we&#8217;ve been interested in beer on Fridays and frankly Yard House has the best selection of beers we like, and it&#8217;s nearby.
That all changes this weekend, with the arrival of  Aces &#38; Ales [...] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jimmy Kimmel at Starbucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jimmy Kimmel has his take on the &#8220;controversy&#8221; of Starbucks following local laws when it comes to customers carrying firearms.
(Video: Watch this video on the post page)
...And This Is Why We Drink&#8482; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best of Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Splendor In The Glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday, Winewench and I attended Splendor In The Glass, a wine and beer tasting event held by our local PBS affiliates.
The event was held at the Las Vegas Hilton, and had wine and beer from about 65 wineries.
Malbec seemed to be the up and coming wine, as it seemed every table had at [...] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paso Robles &#8211; 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day one of our Paso Robles Wine Tasting found us at our rental house in the tiny village of Cambria. We like staying in Cambria, as we can rent a nice 3 bedroom house overlooking the Pacific Ocean for less than the cost of a decent hotel / motel stay. This way we have a [...] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is Not Disney Land!  There is No &#8220;Q&#8221;!  Pick a Lane!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I needed to pick up my prescription at Walgreens and with it 110 degrees out, there was no way I was going to park and turn off the A/C, so I decided to go through the drive-thru.   They have two lanes that you can go through and what do we have when I pull up, but a [...] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Tastings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just updated our Wine Tasting Page with some new fun places.
The Wine Wench
...And This Is Why We Drink&#8482; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checking out the libations at M &#8211; The Hostile Grape</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read about our attempt to get a beer at 32° Draft Bar, you might think we were discouraged and went home.
Not so fast.
While we were in the mood for beer, wine is always also high on our list, so we decided to check out The Hostile Grape while we were there.
The results were much [...] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checking out the libations at M &#8211; 32° Draft Bar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So WineWenchLV and I decided to check out 32° Draft Bar at the newly-opened M Resort, located at Las Vegas Boulevard and St. Rose Parkway at the southern end of Las Vegas.
The results were not good.
Always looking for a bargain, we were first going to stop at the Rewards Center to pick up our Rewards [...] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little extra effort</title>
		<link>http://www.andthisiswhywedrink.com/wordpress/2008/11/19/a-little-extra-effort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was due for an appointment with the gynecologist later in the week. Early one morning, I received a call from the doctor&#8217;s office to tell me that I had been rescheduled for that morning at 9:30 am. I had only just packed everyone off to work and school, and it was already around 8:45am.. [...] [...]]]></description>
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