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Behind the Scenes at Crabtree Brewing Co., Greeley, Colorado
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In 2003, Jeff Crabtree started dabbling in homebrewing. Shortly after, the Union Colony Brewery—the only brewery in the industrial farm community of Greeley, Colorado—went out of business. Bitten by the brewing bug, Jeff got a loan and snapped up Union's brewing equipment. At the time, Jeff was studying business at the local college, and with commercial brewing ambitions on his mind, and a significant amount of commercial brewing equipment in storage, he used his degree assignments to explore the viability of operating a local brewery.
After graduating, Jeff hedged his bets and took a job in the corporate world, and started Crabtree Brewing as a side project in a gritty corner of Greeley. For the first few years he focused on brewing the beers he thought the local community would want. Progress was slow, and some frustration followed. The tipping point came when Jeff decided to work full time at the brewery, and brew only the beers that he wanted to.
Today, Crabtree's beers are distributed throughout Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas. Jeff is a brewer fascinated by all styles of beer and thinks nothing of routinely brewing the likes of a braggot, a saison, or a Berliner Weisse in between batches of the brewery's year round staples. Many of Jeff's beers find their way into some of the many spirit and wine barrels that dominate a large corner of the brewery tasting room. Crabtree is also the first brewery in Colorado to take advantage of a new mobile canning service to cost effectively get 16-ounce cans of its beers to market.
Jeff will shortly be announcing some significant expansion plans for Crabtree, including the construction of a much larger tasting room.
We visited Jeff at Crabtree early on a Saturday morning just as the tap room opened and he was kind enough to take us on a tour and make sure that we didn't leave until we had tasted all of his creations. Check out the slideshow for snapshots of our morning at the brewery.
Tap Room: Open Monday to Thursday 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Friday and Saturday 1:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.. Growlers, bottles, and cans are available to go.
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breeding, in agriculture and animal husbandry, propagation of plants and animals by sexual reproduction; usually based on selection of parents with desirable traits to produce improved progeny. In conventional breeding, progeny inherit genes for both desirable and undesirable traits from both parents. Breeders conserve desired characteristics and suppress undesirable ones by repeatedly selecting meritorious individuals from each generation to be the parents of the next. This process leads to a population expressing a combination of inherited traits that distinguishes it from the rest of the species. In plants, such a population is described as a variety or cultivar; in livestock, it is called a breed. Purebreds result from one or more generations of inbreeding, or mating of close relatives, such as brother to sister or offspring to parent (backcrossing).
Inbreeding produces families or lines with increasing degrees of genetic uniformity, or homozygosity, in successive generations. In highly homozygous families, dominant genes are uniformly transmitted and expressed; recessive genes are also more likely to be expressed, and to produce undesirable traits, including loss of general vigor and fertility. In some plants, such as wheat, that are naturally self-fertilizing and homozygous, deleterious traits are readily eliminated by natural selection; there is no loss of vigor.
In naturally cross-pollinated or open-pollinated plants, and in animals, loss of vigor in inbred lines can be restored by outbreeding to unrelated or distantly related lines; a first-generation hybrid is more vigorous than either of its purebred parents. Animal breeders exploit the phenomenon of hybrid vigor, or heterosis, in producing crossbred cattle, sheep, swine, and other domestic animals. Much of the corn (Zea mays mays) grown in the United States and other agriculturally developed countries is the hybrid of two different inbred lines, or the double-cross hybrid of four inbred lines.
Selective breeding developed with the domestication of useful species during the Neolithic period: the oldest known remains of cultivated crops and domestic animals show signs of purposeful improvement. For centuries, selective breeding proceeded empirically. Beginning in the 18th cent. various breed associations formed to register purebred herds and flocks and keep track of pedigrees. Plant breeders collected seeds and documented their genealogies. The basic principles of heredity, originally published by the Austrian biologist Gregor Mendel (see Mendel, Gregor Johann) in 1866, were rediscovered in 1900.
With subsequent discoveries in genetics, and progress in artificial insemination and other breeding techniques, plant and animal breeding have become increasingly scientific. More recent advances in biotechnology and genetic engineering allow breeders to transfer specific genes and gene complexes among plants and animals, bypassing the limitations of conventional sexual reproduction. Knowledge of genomes and the techniques of genetics also enhance conventional breeding: In marker-assisted breeding, genetic markers are used to identify the desired characteristics in a plant while it is a seed or seedling, reducing the time needed to find the most promising individuals with those traits. Seeds and seedlings selected using marker-assisted breeding must still be grown and evaluated and then subjected to field trials in a variety of growing regions to determine their ultimate value.

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Actress Liz Dawn who played feisty Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street has died.
A post on the Coronation Street Facebook page says: "It is with the greatest sadness that we have learned our beloved Liz Dawn has passed away last night. Her family at Coronation Street are heartbroken.
We extend our heartfelt condolences and sympathy at this very sad time to Liz's devoted husband Don, her loving children Graham, Dawn, Ann and Julie, their families and her six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
We have been blessed to have Liz in our lives, as she was such a kind, considerate and caring friend and colleague. As Coronation Street's Vera Duckworth for 34 years, Liz brought so much joy and happiness to so many. She was a wonderful actress who will forever be a true Coronation Street legend."
A statement from her family adds: "We are devastated and heartbroken at the passing of our much-loved wife, mother, sister, grandmother and great grandmother, the incredible Liz Dawn.
Liz died peacefully last night at home with her loving family around her.
She has been the love, light and inspiration in our lives and we are bereft at her passing."
On behalf of ITV and the programme Coronation Street's Executive Producer, Kieran Roberts said:
"Liz Dawn was a true Coronation Street legend, a brilliant actor and a wonderful person. Everyone lucky enough to have worked with Liz during her thirty-four years playing Corrie icon Vera Duckworth will remember her with huge affection."
After being diagnosed with emphysema, Dawn was written out of the soap in 2008 when Vera died in her sleep.
Two years later, she made a moving comeback as the much-loved Corrie resident.
Just before he passed away, Jack saw a vision of the wife who had spent years nagging him and they shared a last dance together.
In 2012, Tarmey died in Spain. At the time, she said: "You couldn't wish to meet a more lovely man and a true gentleman."
Speaking about her health on a celebrity version of the Jeremy Kyle Show in 2014, the actress revealed: "I take a lot of tablets. I just live every day and get on with it."
Born Sylvia Butterfield, the actress was best known by her professional name Elizabeth or Liz Dawn.
She was awarded an MBE in the 2000 birthday honours.
Coronation Street's executive producer, Kieran Roberts, said in a statement: "Liz Dawn was a true Coronation Street legend, a brilliant actor and a wonderful person.
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I watched Hardwired last night. It was such a cool movie. I think any fan of Shadowrun could appreciate it. It wasnt traditional SR, of course, but the theme and setting was great. It was near future, and the corporations had taken over. The evil mega-corporation had a plan to subvert people to its will and make even more money. Then enter the runners, who find out about this evil plot. Again, since this was not traditional SR, the runners are not motivated by money and power, but morality
So, I was reading through some old campaign notes last night. It was the beginning of a Mystara (OD&D world) campaign with some of my variations put in. I never got a chance to get the campaign of the ground before my hiatus. Reading through it really got the creative juices flowing again, though. I think I would really like to run this campaign.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan police and soldiers manned checkpoints at almost every intersection Thursday, searching vehicles and frisking drivers in a massive security operation ahead of elections to choose a new president to guide the country after international combat forces withdraw.
Insurgents fighting the Western-backed government have intensified attacks ahead of Saturday's runoff vote, and the Taliban issued a new statement warning voters to stay away from the polls. The first round in April passed relatively peacefully, but a recent assassination attempt against one of the two presidential hopefuls left in the race has caused fears of more violence to spike.
"The Islamic Emirate deems it necessary to alert the people and warn them for the last time that they should not participate in this American process, deliberately or inadvertently," the Taliban said Wednesday in a statement posted online.
Still, the senior U.N. envoy for Afghanistan expressed confidence Afghan voters would turn out as they did in the first round to decide their future by picking a new leader to oversee the transition after most U.S. and allied forces pull out by the end of this year.
Jan Kubis, the U.N. secretary general's special representative for Afghanistan, also called on the candidates to give electoral authorities time to tally the ballots — most of which will come from remote regions, often transported by donkeys — and resolve any complaints amid widespread fear of fraud.
"Give a chance to due process, respect the work of the Commissions, don't jump to conclusions," he said. "Don't make statements or comments in anticipation of the results. it will just mislead the people. control yourself, act as responsible politicians."
He was referring to the likelihood that Abdullah and Ahmadzai's campaigns will start releasing their tallies from monitors at polling sites before formal results are announced. The official timetable is for preliminary results to be announced on July 2 and final results on July 22 in order to allow time for ballots to be secured and fraud complaints investigated.
The stakes are high as the winner will replace President Hamid Karzai, a one-time U.S. ally whose relations with Washington have soured, in the first peaceful democratic transfer of power in the country's history. Karzai has governed the country since the Taliban were ousted following the U.S. invasion in 2001. Karzai but is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.
The Obama administration also is watching closely. Both candidates have pledged to sign a security pact with the U.S. that would allow thousands of international forces to stay in Afghanistan in a largely training and advisory capacity. Karzai has refused to sign it.
Afghan security forces were widely praised for the April 5 elections, which were held without major violence despite a series of deadly attacks in the weeks beforehand.
Karzai held a video conference with commanders Thursday to urge them to remain impartial and refrain from interfering in the second round balloting.
"All forces must provide the opportunity for the people to cast their votes," he said, according to a statement released by the presidential palace.
Traffic was snarled even more than usual on the streets of Kabul as police set up extra checkpoints and set up extra barriers on many roads to allow only one car through at a time. They also searched many drivers and passengers for possible explosives or other weapons.
The Afghan Interior Ministry also announced that it was banning most trucks and people from other provinces from entering the capital on Election Day.
"Trucks loaded with vegetables that are in danger of being spoiled will be allowed to enter the city after a very careful search process by police," it said.
The Cabinet also has approved a week off for school and university students that began Tuesday because of security issues.
Violence, meanwhile, continued.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed a police officer Thursday in the southern city of Kandahar, according to Dawa Khan Menapal, a spokesman for the Kandahar provincial government.
In another report from the country's south, Taliban insurgents attacked several police checkpoints and killed nine police officers on Wednesday in Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province, a provincial official confirmed on Thursday.
Dost Mohammad Nayab, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said reinforcements had arrived and were searching for the attackers. A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack in Uruzgan province.
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The Girl Who Played With Fire, the sequel to last year's David Fincher-directed The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, will not be in theaters late next year as had originally been hoped, a source close to the production tells EW. Dragon Tattoo screenwriter Steven Zaillian is still working on the script, and nothing will move forward until the screenplay is nailed down. While there's still no director attached, Fincher remains the first choice and hasn't ruled out returning. And despite the uncertain timetable, the film is still definitely moving forward, although the source says that they are not in a rush and at this point there is no information about when it might be released. In November, Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman Amy Pascal told us that stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig were both locked in for the sequel.
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In a move completely ignored by the establishment media, the Virginia House of Delegates has voted in favor of House Bill 1160 (HB1160), legislation that codifies in Virginia law noncompliance with the "kidnapping provisions" of section 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA).
The final vote, held on February 14, was 96-4. The bill was sponsored by Delegate Bob Marshall and was introduced on January 16th of this year.
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is on record as opposing the legislation.
HB 1160 reads as follows: "A BILL to prevent any agency, political subdivision, employee, or member of the military of Virginia from assisting an agency of the armed forces of the United States in the conduct of the investigation, prosecution, or detention of a citizen in violation of the United States Constitution, the Constitution of Virginia, or any Virginia law or regulation."
Passing the legislation demonstrates the power of local grassroots activism. A number of groups opposed to the federal NDAA bill petitioned the government in Virginia and motivated a Sub-Committee #2 Civil vote followed by a vote of 16-0 by the Courts of Justice Committee which led to the passage of Bob Marshall's final bill earlier this week.
"Under the recently passed 2012 federal Defense Authorization Act American citizens may be indefinitely detained, incarcerated, not presented with charges and denied counsel based on an accusation by federal agents of collaboration with or support of terrorists," Marshall told the Tenth Amendment Center. "While Virginia cannot directly undo this purported law which undermines the Sixth Amendment, I introduced HB 1160 which will prevent the use of any Virginia agency or member of the Virginia National Guard or Virginia Defense Force to assist in any way to unlawfully detain a citizen of Virginia on behalf of the United States Government in violation of the Constitution of Virginia."
The Tenth Amendment Center is currently tracking the progress of legislation in opposition to the NDAA in other states.
The legislation "is inimical to the liberty, security and well-being of the people," the Tenth Amendment Center states, "and was adopted by the United States Congress in violation of the limits of federal power in United States Constitution."
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Search Less, Understand More: evri Demo
The Paul Allen-backed start-up evri began as Hypertext Solutions. Led by Neil Roseman, the former vice president of technology at Amazon, evri's business is semantic search, its MO "search less, and understand more."
- Founder Roseman takes the stage. Compares evri to an army of grammar students graphing the Web. Is it search? asks Walt. Roseman says no. We're about organizing content.
- The application graphs the Web via grammatical information. Searching on Obama. Page looks a bit like your typical social-network page. "What's Obama doing?" (Celebrating his recent endorsement by Rupert Murdoch, perhaps?) Swapping in Sarah Jessica Parker for Obama to demonstrate the site's video-categorization feature.
- Jumping from "Sex and the City" to new "Indiana Jones" movie via the application's "most popular" tag.
- Pulling up Walt's "canonical" page, Roseman points out that Walt's graph is already linked up with Ballmer and Murdoch, presumably because of the events of the past few days.
- Roseman says evri is about "connecting people with the content they care about."
- Kara asks how this is different from Mahalo. Roseman says Mahalo is driven by editors, evri is driven by an algorithm.
- Roseman says search needs a better user experience. The goal: to connect content to content the way social networks connect people.


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"Money is a political construct, a construct of community, a construct of a society, that must be political. And if we do not control this, by definition, political force, because money is a force—it makes the world go round, as we know—if this political force it not controlled democratically, then we do not live in a democracy."
Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece at the height of Europe's debt crisis, was at the Appel Salon as part of the TPL's #OnCivilSociety series, to talk about his new book "Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism",
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Utah police ticket abandoned Barbie Jeep
Officer with a sense of humor 'cites' girls for leaving toy in the road
Serious relationship news to report in a Utah neighborhood, where police cited Barbie for abandoning her vehicle.
As you might imagine, Ken is ready to kick Barbie to the Dreamhouse curb.
It all started when Barbie abandoned the family Jeep last week.
An officer out patrolling the Cedar Hills suburb of Salt Lake City noticed the pink Jeep parked in the road -- blocking a driveway. Barbie, Ken and the gang were asleep, so the officer left a bright orange tag on the hood that read, "Abandoned Vehicle," according to Salt Lake City TV station KUTV.
The officer was concerned the Jeep could be swiped or involved in an accident so he moved it into the driveway.
The tag was discovered the next morning by the father of two sisters, ages 7 and 9, who had been playing with the Jeep. The unidentified girls reportedly left their Jeep in the street after the battery died.
"It had nothing to do with the girls," American Fork police Lt. Sam Liddiard told ABC News of the police warning. "It was his [the officer's] attempt at humor to let the residents in the area know that he'd been patrolling the neighborhood.
"He just thought it'd be a cute idea to put a tag on the car."
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There's a video available now of the Kima project which I worked on with Eugenia Emets' Analema Group. I was happy with how it turned out on the whole although, like always, there are a tonne of additional things I wish I'd had time to get finished. This was the most complicated art project I've worked on in terms of collaboration with other artists and it's an experience I'd like more of.


text: The South Pacific is full of gorgeous islands, but you'd be hard put to find a Pacific nation more beautiful than Tahiti. Even the people here are renowned for their friendliness and kindness to strangers, which makes this destination even more appealing. This is a world where Polynesian culture collides with the added flair of French sophistication. A land where the wild mountainous landscapes appear to plunge into the most unbelievably surreal coloured waters. Black sand beaches hug the coastline while valleys and mountainsides filled with towering waterfalls provide the most dramatic backdrop you've ever appreciated. Read more Don't live your life without experiencing Tahiti via cruise - find a Tahitian cruise that's right for you, and start looking forward to a South Pacific experience which you'll remember for a lifetime.


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This hat is a play on the juxtaposition of cables and lace. The brim's cable is dense, textured, and thick—great for keeping your ears protected in a blustering storm. The body of the hat is worked in broomstick lace, which is also textured, but light. At first glance, you might think the openwork would not be very warm, but the twisted loops of broomstick lace have little pockets of air in the center, which help trap warmth. This pattern can be found in Kristin Omdahl's Crochet So Fine.


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Amazingly enough, I didn't hate Country Bitch's tricked out white dress she wore for the carpet. Comparatively, that is. From her, we've seen a lot worse. And it was better than the dark brown green, again bedazzled, situation she put on to perform with Tony Bennett. That...was not my favourite mash-up. In fact, it was almost a sound abomination for me. But not as much as whatever it was that was happening with her eyes. I mean, there's costume makeup and then there's makeup that's meant to simply enhance. It's not so offensive in these photos than it was during the show, when she was onstage. There's something terribly distracting about disco dust and feathers on top of an eyelid. It amazes me why a girl so pretty feels she needs so much to complement what's already there. To say nothing of her ongoing hair problem.
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Nope, 3 starters (and Volquez and Harang are All-star quality), a closer, and some useful set-up guys.
The cupboard is FAR from empty in the minors, Thompson is about half a year away. Bailey is still a possible help at some point (or, if Walt is as good as I hope he is, a piece to be shined up and sent somewhere for more help for this team), and there are others that are coursing up behind those two. Maloney actually should be here now in place of Belisle in the rotation, with Belisle to the pen and Fogg to the next boat out of town to wherever.
It's closer than you think it is FCB. Again, watch and see.


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So regulars will know I live near Vancouver, BC. We have pretty much every option for outdoor entertainment and adventure within easyish reach. The North Shore Mountains (Cypress Mountain, Grouse Mountain and Mount Seymour) are very popular ski destinations in season. You can pop there after work and get in a few hours of floodlit skiing or boarding pretty regularly. Much more convenient, if admittedly less spectacular than Whistler/Blackcomb.
I'm no ski/boarding fan. To this day I remember a primary school teacher calling me Barbapapa because I couldn't walk the length of an upturned gym bench without falling off. Funny what sticks in your mind from when you're about 8, eh? I don't have what you'd call a highly developed sense of balance. Of course, I have also been explicitly called unbalanced, but that's something different for another posting. Anyway, where was I? Oh yes – North Shore Mountains. So anyway, Grouse has done a particularly fine job of making its non-ski persona nearly as profitable as its ski self. There's a bear sanctuary, wolves, a modern windmill ("Eye of the wind") with a viewing deck, a year round lodge to allow you to buy over-priced tea and coffee. Coconut milk. The usual. The mountain itself is liberally adorned with trails allowing the resolute or foolish to walk to the top. The main route has become very well established as a common local cardio exercise, and The Grouse Grind has gradually turned from an annual race into a daily challenge for many city workers. There's electronic timing stations top and bottom, and for $100 or so you can get an annual pass that will allow you to time your ascent each trip, and give you free passage down on the Swiss-made Skyride gondola.
Not long after we moved to Canada we did the Grind as a family, replete with granddad – then already well into his 60s – and last born who at the time was about 4 years old. Like the Grand Old Duke of York, we marched right up to the top of the hill, had a cup of tea and an ice cream, and marched right down again. At the 1/4 mark (3/4 of the way down), we pulled to one side to let the after office hours crowd have their turn. I was amused, as we stood there all cool and collected at the stage whispers and loud tuts of "fancy bringing a kid up HERE". One particularly sweaty gentleman grinned at first born and said encouragingly "keep it up son – you're already 1/4 of the way there!" I hadn't the heart to tell him we'd already been up and most of the way down.
But that was over ten years ago. In the interim, probably many thousands of boots and trainers have pummeled the poor hillside. The path of the Grind has now apparently been "improved" – a euphemism for covered in hardcore and steps. I haven't seen it myself. As a proponent of Leave No Trace, I am willing to sacrifice a small percentage of the natural beauty underneath such "improvements" if it avoids the steady broadening of the path, and destruction of the woodland as more and more feet try to find purchase in mud and other less favourable walking conditions (it rains a lot in BC). The Grind is now extremely popular with the Lululemon and "look at my abs of steel" crowd, and even early risers, I am told (I would never have personal experience, after all!), can find the path crowded.
So these days, it's one-way. Up only! The fact it's $10 to come down on the Skyride, and Grouse has a living to make is neither hear nor there. So back to the hiking…
Regulars will recall my tales of The Stawamus Chief up in Squamish. Well, after the 10 year absence, I decided a few weeks ago to try Grouse again. But I just couldn't face the madding crowd (and the quite distracting Lululemoned bottoms, it has to be said.) Instead I took the path less travelled – The Flint and Feather trail. Named after a collection of poems by Mohawk/English Canadian Emily Pauline Johnson, it starts and ends at the same place (read "bottom" and "top") as the Grind, but runs off a little to the East. Not for the faint of heart, it includes a little scrambling and rock climbing. Much more peaceful though. The way nature should be experienced. Without being intrusive. Next time up – a couple of weeks ago – I took the BCMC trail. Positively genteel by comparison. But longer. Roughly a two hour ascent.
Last night, I went with a few guys from work, and Mrs E asked to tag along too (I don't think she believes I actually go up!). Again we did the Flint and Feather… but not the one I did the first time! Started the same. Ended the same. The bit in the middle? Not so much…
At the end of the day though, if you keep heading up and stay on a path, you can't go much wrong. Unless a bear gets you. Or you fall. Or get lost. Or it goes dark…
I took a couple of snaps with my BlackBerry from the rock outcrop. Wonderful views all around. You get a sense of the steepness of the hill from the pictures, I think.
So, if you're in the area either with or without Lululemon, why not find something to Grouse about?


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In the Orthodox tradition everything is understood in a universal context, from the creation of the world to the vision of the new heaven and new earth. The human enterprise as a whole and the salvation of the entire world remain the basic themes of Holy Scripture. In this work, Archbishop Anastasios discusses the Orthodox perspective on human rights, the dialogue with Islam, and the relationship between culture and the gospel and provides an understanding of world religions. His words invite us to broaden our field of vision and encompass the whole earth.
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(04-11) 20:28 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- While attorneys for a women's rights advocate and prominent Twitter engineer accused of raping her estranged wife say the accuser is "out for revenge," a friend who says she was present after the incident said Friday that the wife just wants to teach her children that criminals must face justice.
Dana McCallum, 31, was arrested Jan. 26 on suspicion of rape. She was charged a few days later with five felonies: three counts of spousal rape, one count of false imprisonment and one count of domestic violence, according to the San Francisco district attorney's office.
McCallum, whose legal name is Dana Contreras, had been separated from her wife for about a year but maintained a polite, and at times sexual, relationship with her, authorities said.
She went over to her wife's two-bedroom home in San Francisco the morning of Jan. 26 while she was highly intoxicated, according to Erin Caton, a friend of the wife's. Her three children and one of their friends had let McCallum in without realizing she was drunk, Caton said, so the wife steered her into another room, where McCallum allegedly attacked her.
"(The wife) called me that morning and told me that she had been raped and asked me what to do," Caton said. "She was crying nonstop."
Caton said she told her to call the police, and she rushed over to provide support. She said the wife had deep scratches on her back, and they went to a hospital so doctors could perform a rape test.
The Chronicle is not naming the accuser because she is the victim in a sexual assault case.
John Runfola, McCallum's attorney, said there's no evidence of an attack because nothing happened. His client is "outraged" over the allegations, he said.
"This is just all about destroying a person publicly and trying to grab hundreds of thousands dollars, or perhaps more, all by making these false accusations," he said.
Runfola said McCallum was about to come into money through her Twitter stock options, and her wife knew about this and wanted to take advantage.
He said if the accusations had merit, the children who were in the next room would have heard more than they had.
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Caton said the daughter heard much more than that and that it was "ridiculous" for Runfola to say otherwise.
"When she came out of the room, she said she saw her daughter curled up in a fetal ball, crying at the foot of the door," Caton said.
In addition to her job at Twitter, McCallum writes about women in technology and advocates for women's and transgender rights. A month before the arrest, she was listed as one of the most important LGBT people in tech by Business Insider.
McCallum returns to court on April 17 for a pretrial conference.
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Maurice Taylor, CEO of tire-maker Titan International, wrote a letter to French Industrial Renewal Minister Arnaud Montebourg to explain why his company wouldn't buy an ailing Goodyear factory in Amiens. The ministry confirmed the letter as authentic however attempts to obtain comment from Titan have been unsuccessful.
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- Title: Grand Theft Auto IV
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- PC: Not announced
- Official Website: http://www.rockstargames.com/iv
- Publisher: Take2 Interactive
- Developer: Rockstar North
- Rating: M
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What does the American Dream mean today?
For Niko Bellic, fresh off the boat from Europe, it is the hope he can escape his past.
For his cousin, Roman, it is the vision that together they can find fortune in Liberty City, gateway to the land of opportunity.
As they slip into debt and are dragged into a criminal underworld by a series of shysters, thieves and sociopaths, they discover that the reality is very different from the dream in a city that worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
Developed by Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto IV will be simultaneously available for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and will be in stores worldwide on April 29, 2008.
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Demand for IT staff jumps, claims employment agency
Summer arrival for green shoots?
Recruitment agency CV Screen is seeing a big improvement in job prospects for IT staff.
It reckons there's been a 25 per cent increase in demand in a month for staff and a 27 per cent drop in the number of applicants for each post. CV Screen interprets this as evidence that IT professionals are getting new jobs more quickly.
The agency said PHP, Linux and SharePoint skills were most in demand.
Mathew Iveson, director at CV Screen, said: "Following a tough first quarter to the year, we are seeing signs that optimism is returning to the industry and we fully expect that the second half of the year will be a busier time for the IT jobs market."
Iveson told the Register demand had been greater for contractors during the first quarter, but now firms are looking for more permanent staff.
A City recruitment contractor told El Reg this week that there had been a bounceback in demand for contractors, adding that this could be treated as leading indicator for a broader revival in the market.
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The second screen is proving a potent portal for business. A report released by Nielsen on Monday showed that mobile advertising on tablets is leading to an impressive number of purchases on other devices. Among owners of tablets like Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Italy, 29% made purchases on a PC after seeing ads for those goods on their tablet.
Additionally, 17% of those consumers actually went to bricks-and-mortar stores to buy goods they saw in tablet ads. Even when readers aren't purchasing, the ads are creating interest, with 20% searching for additional information on a product after seeing an ad for it on their tablet.
The tablet advertisements are working, which means that advertisers are going to spend on the platform in ever increasing numbers.
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Considering Apple maintains a 62% share of the global tablet market, you'd think that this Nielsen data would be most interesting to that company's foundering iAd platform. And what about that rising star of the tablet market, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN)? The company's Kindle Fire tablet seized a 14% share of the global tablet market in 2011 after just a month and a half on store shelves. IHS iSuppli estimated that Amazon sold nearly 4 million Kindle Fires last year. That's a whole lot of advertising portals. Is Amazon carving out a place for itself in the mobile advertising space in the same way it has in the tablet market?
It is certainly trying. Amazon's mobile advertising initiative kicked off before the Kindle Fire tablet hit the market, of course. Early in 2011, Amazon released a cheap version of its Kindle e-reader whose lower cost was subsidized by advertising, though only in the U.S. The ad-supported Kindle became a quick seller. By September, the Kindles with "Special Offers" were the best-selling devices at Amazon and the Kindle Fire further established Amazon's portables as advertising-rich platforms.
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All told, though, Kindle doesn't seem to be as effective an ad platform as Apple's iPad. A February report at Business Insider broke down data from online marketing agency Rimm-Kaufmann Group and found that Kindle devices account for just under 3.5% of ad traffic on tablets, well ahead of competing Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android tablets like Motorola's (NYSE:MMI) Xoom and Samsung's (PINK:SSNLF) Galaxy, but still crushed by Apple's iPad, which accounted for more than 88% of tablet ad traffic.
On the other hand, it's still early. The iPad is entering its third year as a mobile advertising platform whereas the Kindle is entering only its second. Provided Amazon can maintain Kindle sales momentum, the competitive landscape could look quite different by 2013.
Ultimately the Kindle is just one component of Amazon's larger growth in advertising. The company's annual revenue from advertising across all its businesses totaled just $1 billion for the very first time. That's small beer compared to Google's $38 billion annual ad pull, but as more and more consumers search for advertised goods directly through Amazon's website and on its portable devices, that figure is going to grow and grow.
The Kindle isn't the ad earner it could be, nor is Amazon's total operation. One billion dollars today, quite a bit more tomorrow if the company's ad presence keeps growing.
As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at @ajohnagnello and become a fan of InvestorPlace on Facebook.


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Memory foam mattresses and latex mattresses are becoming extremely popular because of their many benefits. Memory foam has been used in the medical industry for decades. Latex foam has been around since 1929, but has recently gained a lot of momentum.
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The Department of Labor announced Wednesday that it has reached a settlement with the Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams Co. that will provide $80 million to current and past participants of its Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan.
The agreement comes after the department's Employee Benefits Security Administration investigated whether Sherwin-Williams, seeking to take advantage of tax breaks, improperly managed the plan in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
The settlement also requires Illinois-based GreatBanc Trust Co. to undergo an audit of its pension plan activities.
Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of labor for EBSA, said in a statement announcing the settlement that "When fiduciaries expend retirement plan assets, they have to act with undivided loyalty to the plan participants and make sure that the plan receives full value for its money." The fiduciaries' job, she said, "is to manage plan investments to provide a secure retirement, not to help the plan sponsor secure tax breaks that are wholly disproportionate to the benefits actually provided to retirees."
EBSA's investigation focused on two transactions, one in 2003 and one in 2006, in which Sherwin-Williams and GreatBanc caused the plan to purchase specially designed stock issued by Sherwin-Williams solely for the purpose of the transactions. The investigation also looked at whether Sherwin-Williams had forwarded employee salary deferrals appropriately and promptly to their individual plan accounts, according to EBSA.
After conducting its investigation, the department concluded that as a result of Sherwin-Williams' and GreatBanc's violations of their fiduciary duties and the design of the transactions, the stock purchases did not provide benefits to the plan and its participants commensurate with the amount the plan paid for the stock, the transactions were not primarily for the purpose of providing benefits to plan participants, the transactions did not promote employee ownership of Sherwin-Williams and, at times, employee salary deferrals were not appropriately paid to the plan. As a result, the department concluded that Sherwin-Williams and GreatBanc were responsible and liable for violations of ERISA.
EBSA found that "Sherwin-Williams' purpose in the transactions was to take advantage of substantial tax benefits designed to reward companies that provide their workers with significant stock ownership while, at the same time, ensuring that its employees did not actually receive stock or retirement benefits in amounts close to what the plan spent on the transactions or that the company claimed on its government filings."
In October 2011, Sherwin-Williams reached a settlement with the IRS in connection with the transactions for excise tax and penalty claims, according to EBSA. The IRS settlement did not address violations of fiduciary duty under ERISA or resolve the department's concerns relating to Sherwin-Williams' use of employee salary deferrals.
The settlement will result in payments totaling $80 million to current and former participants in the plan as well as to their beneficiaries. In addition, GreatBanc will audit its engagements involving plan investments in employer stock and submit a full report of that audit to the department.
As of Dec. 31, 2011, the most recent Form 5500 filing, the plan had participants of 34,591 and assets of $2,496,931,983.


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Monday, January 14, 2013
Daniel Bouju Cognac
Having done a number of Cognac reviews in the past, I've been focusing on Armagnac during this series, but I did want to feature one Cognac that has piqued my interest and seems to be highly regarded. Daniel Bouju is a small grower/producer in the Grande Champagne region of Cognac. It seems that much of their Cognac isn't available in the U.S. or is very hard to find, but I was able to get some samples from a friend. Like many of the Armagnacs I tasted last week, the Bouju Cognacs exhibit a bolder flavor profile than the typical syrupy sweetness that we find in many Cognacs.
Bouju claims that they don't use any additives or caramel, but these things are all as black as night which certainly makes me suspicious. They don't carry any age statement, but I'm told that the Royal is 15 years old, the Extra is 35 years old and the Tres Vieux is 40 years old. The Royal and the Tres Vieux are cask strength (brut de fut).
Daniel Bouju Royal, 60% abv
The nose is dry and a bit musty. On the palate, there's an initial sweetness yielding to a dry palate, some spice and some of the mustiness from the nose as well as some medicinal notes. The mouthfeel is thick and syrupy. The finish is peppery. This tastes like some kind of Cognac concentrate, thick and rich and syrupy.
Daniel Bouju Extra, 40% abv
The nose is quite spicy with fruit underneath. The palate is sweet with freshly dried prunes, raisins and ends in spice which joins the prunes in the finish with just a touch of bitterness.
Daniel Bouju Tres Vieux, 50% abv
The nose on this is dry and woody, more like a bourbon than a Cognac. On the palate, it comes on astringent, though not in a bad way, with a fair amount of acid as well as spicy tobacco notes, yielding to some fruit, then menthol. The fruit comes back for the finish, mixed with some spice, then trails off with a palate numbing menthol.
After all of that Armagnac, I had to adjust to the sweetness of these, though they are not as sweet as most Cognacs. Of these three, I most enjoyed the Royal, with it's concentrated flavor, but also liked the Tres Vieux which had a lot going on but may not have had as many high notes. I didn't care as much for the Extra, which was overly bitter on the finish. All of these are very intense such that a little goes a long way.
24 comments:
Hi Sku,
Great reviews of these. Daniel Bouju lost his importer to the US a year or so ago, which accounts for the difficulty in finding his products. With the exception of his Family Reserve, everything is 100% Ugni Blanc. Bouju is extremely well known not just for not using additives, but also for advocating against further restrictions on their use in Cognac.
The color is extremely dark and deep because of the wood influence. I received a set of coffrets that includes all his primary releases, and it provides the age, wood type, and grape varietal for the various expressions. The wood influence really changes the color with time (and whether it's new oak or old oak).
You're definitely right on about the style; he's iconoclastic (to borrow a turn from Jay Erisman of The Party Source), and really likes to show wood influence, which carries some of the flavor - the sense of being sweet without actually being sweet - and more rancio.
I'm curious to hear how you compare the Tres Vieux Brut de Fut to the Tres Vieux, which is 40% and lightly filtered (non-chill). The Family Reserve is a fairly different animal as well (in addition to Ugni Blanc, it has Folle Blanche and Colombard - and spent some time in ash). Of the three, I preferred the TVBdF and then the Royal, and then the Extra behind both.
- January 14, 2013 at 8:20 PM
Quick correction - Bouju is fighting to increase restrictions on the use of additives. He is very anti-additives.
- January 14, 2013 at 8:33 PM
I tried a number of the Bouju cognacs a decade or more ago. Although I very much like cognac, and I have tried many cognacs over the years (including many from small producers), I disliked the Bouju products. All were, as Sku mentioned, very dark, and all had a bitter finish. Bouju claims not to use coloring additives. But his cognacs are much darker than Pappy Van Winkle 23 year old, a spirit, as we know, that is aged in new, charred barrels. And in warehouses exposed to high summertime temperatures. So I am skeptical that Bouju can get his cognacs so dark with barrel aging alone. And even if he can, why bother to impart such an overwhelming oak bitterness to a perfectly good brandy? If a U.S. importer is looking for great Grande Champagne cognac, he or she should try to bring in the Ragnaud-Sabourin line. All of their products are outstanding, they used to be available in the U.S. under Chateau & Estate. But I have not seen them here in a long time. Of course, taste is highly individual. So fans of Islay malts might find the Bouju bitterness to be highly desirable. Not me, though.
Tom Troland
- January 15, 2013 at 9:41 AM
Good suggestion on Ragnaud-Sabourin. I'd also recommend Chateau de Beaulon, which is also additive free (other than water).
On the color issue, I don't think that PVW 23 is the best indicator. For instance, Glenfarclas 20 is much darker than the PVW 23, which really isn't much darker than the PVW 15 or the 20 despite the increased age. I know that Bouju puts a lot of emphasis on the lack of additives in his Cognacs, a claim supported by Jay Erisman, and a book on Cognac by Axel and Bibiana Behrendt.
Having seen the progression of 5 and 10 year Boujus with new and old oak, it's possible to see the color development. All the same, I think that some of it is also the method used in distilling, ageing, and replacing the angel's share.
His style is definitely unlike most all other Cognacs on the market. It has a bitter, woody edge to it, though it also tends to emphasize the 'rancio charentais' quality that is hard to find in more floral, lighter Cognacs.
I think that perhaps people who prefer the very old sherried whiskies would like Bouju more, but the bitterness in Bouju is more obviously 'wood' rather than from a sense of chocolate/coffee from the sherry profile. Of course, as you rightly say, taste is highly individual :)
- January 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Very thoughtful comments! And, yes, Beaulon is also a great producer. I would be surprised if Bouju loudly championed the cause of no additives then stuffed their cognacs full of colorants! So, I should certainly assume they are honest since I have no proof to the contrary. But whatever Bouju does, I don't happen to like it. Another excellent Grande Champagne producer, sometimes available on the U.S. market, is Frapin. According to the classic book Cognac by Nicholas Faith, Frapin uses a lot of new wood (just the opposite of Delamain). And the Frapin cognacs I have tasted show real wood influence, but not the bitterness of the Boujou products.
Thanks, Sku, for letting a couple of brandy enthusiasts hash this out! We all love whiskey, especially folks like me from Kentucky, but brandy brings pleasure as well.
Tom Troland
- January 15, 2013 at 2:56 PM
Thanks! Frapin's got a lot of great and well-respected offerings out there, like the Fontpinot. I've also been thoroughly impressed by the Tesseron range (especially the Lot 53), which gives a small hint of rancio without the heavy oak influence.
With French brandy, it'll always be a challenge in the US because of the real lack of availability (on a consistent basis) of a wide spectrum of producers and their bottlings. Aside from special release expressions, you can go into any decent liquor store in the US and find the standard offerings of Ardbeg, Talisker, Macallan, Glenmorangie, etc, but you'd be hard-pressed to find anything other than the VS and VSOP of the big four Cognac houses, which is a real shame.
Tom, have you tried Pierre Ferrand Cognacs? I've been gifted some samples, and became curious about the label's range.
- January 15, 2013 at 3:11 PM
I have not tried any of the Pierre Ferrand cognacs. At least not in their more modern versions. Some years ago, I visited the property, spoke with M. Ferrand, and tasted some of his cognacs. They were excellent. Later, I read in a book that Ferrand went into association with another firm and, as a result, lost the rights to his name. So, according to the book, he began selling his own products under the name Pierre de Segonzac. (His property is in Segonzac.) I assume that the current Pierre Ferrand cognacs come from sources other than Pierre Ferrand since the book suggests that M. Ferrand was not happy with the commercial loss of his name.
Long story, apparently without a happy ending. But the current Pierre Ferrand cognacs may be great for all I know. Try 'em and see!
Now I'll try to prove I'm not a robot. It's not easy!
Tom Troland
- January 15, 2013 at 3:59 PM
- sku said...
Thanks for the great discussion guys.
Numen, you noted that Bouju "replaces the Angel's Share." Do you mean they top off the barrels? Is this common practice in Cognac?
As to the wood, I understand that the wood influence darkens whiskey but these things are black and the three samples I have are fairly similar in color. Even the Royal is very dark. These are darker than any whiskey I've seen except for maybe Loch Dhu.
Glenfarclas is certainly dark but it's sherry aged which tends to add color. Do we know what type of barrels Bouju is aged in?
- January 15, 2013 at 5:50 PM
- sku said...
Oh, and I did review Pierre Ferrand Ambre a few years ago. I wasn't thrilled, but I think it's their lowest end offering.
- January 15, 2013 at 7:07 PM
I'm not sure how common topping off the barrels is with Cognac, to be honest. When people discuss it in terms of Bouju, they suggest that most producers (who do it) use younger distillate. The Maison Surrenne Tonneau no. 1 also refers to 'topping off' in its label story.
Copy-pasting from the website:
In 1922, Surrenne filled an oak tonneau with old petite champagne cognacs. Concerned about evaporation because the tonneau gets direct sun from the half-moon casement over the entry door, Surrenne's successive cellar-masters topped the tonneau every year for 79 years, always with old petite champagne of very high quality. Never used, this rare solera-like blend contains a high proportion of cognac aged more than 100 years. From the Madame facility in Jarnac.
It may be common, but not discussed, infrequent, or just part of the mythos for certain producers.
With the exception of the Family Reserve, which spends some time in ash casks, Bouju uses oak - generally, and the distillate generally spends a long time in new oak. He is supposed to have incredible stocks of aged Cognac, so he can continue to age everything else; there's no rush to get stuff out the door and into bottle. He uses Limousin oak, with wide or medium grain (according to his website). I don't know how, if at all, the barrels are treated, though I think that they are fully air-dried (I may be completely mistaken). He's usually very responsive to requests; perhaps we should email him and ask about the color of his Cognac.
Still, the one thing that this really highlights is that, even when producers have a certain reputation, as long as the industry permits additives and alterations to the spirit, people will wonder about it. I'm hopeful that discussions like this prompt Cognac producers writ-large to be more transparent and up-front about additives and their process, and for the industry to take notice.
- January 15, 2013 at 7:28 PM
I had (but gave as a gift) this coffret collection. On the inside of the lid there was information about the age, status of the oak (new or old), and that sort of detail about each expression.
The items are listed by age (youngest to oldest), so you can see how each one does get slightly darker. The starkest change is really the 5-10 year mark (Selection Speciale, 5 years in new oak, to the VSOP - 10 years in new oak).
- January 15, 2013 at 7:36 PM
One more comment (sorry to spam) to clarify, the Tres Vieux at 50% is called Brut de Fut (even on Bouju's website), though the Royal (15 year, 60%) and Family Reserve (80 year, 42%) are also "Brut de Fut." There is a separate 'Tres Vieux' that is very lightly filtered and 40%.
- January 15, 2013 at 7:46 PM
- David OG said...
Just a little information about some of the questions brought up here. Generally, all Cognac producers are topping up the barrels as often as possible. It is generally done with spirits of a similar age and done across the warehouse and the paradis. This is basically done to eliminate as much evaporation as possible and improve consistency over multiple seasons. Unlike whisky production, the idea of having a single cask and its importance is none existent. While barrels are generally identified in the warehouses by their vintage, they are rarely sold that way and casks from a single vintage are generally interchangeable int the eyes of the cognac producer. The goal in cognac is to gain consistency for a given expression over time as well as minimize the tax obligation - french brandy producers are taxed on the volume they produce less a predetermined loss established by the government, if they can prevent that loss or minimize it they can save money. Generally, it is normal for Cognac producers to "work" the brandy several times a year. That means pumping every drop out of the barrels, aerating, measuring strength and topping up barrels. Another aspect that is very different from whisky is their use of new and old wood. Most cognac producers put fresh brandy into new wood for only a few months before removing it and filling it into older barrels. A barrel will be used 4 or 5 times before it is no longer considered new. This gives the cognac some color and oak tannin and most producers say they remove it from the new barrels to prevent it from getting too oaky. Of course new barrels are also very expensive, so one must consider this as a factor when assessing their statements. Producers will buy as few as they possibly can. Even without enough new oak, the brandies may mature nicely over several decades, but will not achieve that dark dense color that cognac aficionados expect, hence the need for caramel colorant and boise. Bouju seems to be the exception to this rule. New french oak imparts a lot a color especially when you leave it in the barrel for 30-40 years. Certainly the tannins are much darker and spicier than American oak, hence the distinction between European and American Sherry Casks in Scotch production. Bouju seems to be leaving these cognacs in new oak for their entire maturation and this is why they have achieved such a dark product. Wouldn't mind stopping into see the operation for myself. Perhaps we'll make a pit stop in March!
- January 16, 2013 at 12:22 AM
David adds some fascinating insights! Still, I can scarcely imagine how Bouju extracts such dark color compared to bourbon. Bourbon is always stored in new oak, the oak is charred (not merely toasted, as I imagine the French barrels are), and the large seasonal variations in Kentucky (or environs) temperatures ensure close contact between spirit and wood. Plus, very long aging cannot be the answer, I suspect, because most of the tannin extraction from a new or nearly new barrel surely occurs rather early in the aging process.
So, David, if you pull over chez Bouju in March and solve this mystery, please let us know the answer! And while you are in the Grande Champagne, consider stopping in Ambleville and securing some Ragnaud-Sabourin cognacs.
Tom Troland
- January 16, 2013 at 6:27 AM
- tanstaafl2 said...
As interesting as the information on cognac and armagnac has been I was just as interested in learning about the history of Pierre Ferrand cognac and the fact that it is no longer made by Pierre Ferrand.
I will seek out the Pierre de Segonzac cognac (and the Pineau des Charentes which I like as well or better than cognac to be honest!) just to give it a try even if I have to go to France to do it! of course that mey be a while...
- January 17, 2013 at 7:06 AM
- David OG said...
I'm pretty sure that cognac barrels can be charred to whatever specifications the distillers wish. As you say it's common knowledge that most of the color is added in the first few months/years, but obviously over time, as with bourbon, the longer it stays in the barrel the darker it gets. This concept is pushed unanimously by distillers in Cognac who remove the distillate after several months and have a vested interest in spreading the oak tannin through as much eau-de-vie as possible and usually don't have a qualms about using additives. We never question this assumption, yet we all agree that 20 year old bourbon should be darker than 2 year old bourbon. In addition, it is well known that European oak throws a much darker tannin than American oak, so the dark color could be explained by these factors completely. Or he's totally bsing, which would suck. He's definitely the only producer I've ever seen releasing 30 year old cognac that was aged entirely in new oak. We shall investigate...
- January 17, 2013 at 10:26 PM
Hello Sku and everyone (hi Tom),
I'm so pleased to see this rich discussion about one of my favorite Cognac producers. The Bouju style is not for everyone, it is true, but it sure is a nice addition to the Cognac scene. I love the stuff. I just want to say that I'm in touch with the Boujus about getting them fixed up with a new US importer, and this time getting that done right, once and for all. Hopefully we see an American return by this, yes, iconoclast of Cognac later in 2013.
Jay Erisman
The Party Source
- January 21, 2013 at 1:32 PM
- sku said...
Great news Jay! Thanks.
- January 21, 2013 at 2:04 PM
- Cognac Tasting Tour said...
For those willing to get more names of Grande Champagne cognacs from family estates, have a look at www.maisongrandechampagne.com.
Site in French but some worth the discovery...
- January 22, 2013 at 6:00 AM
- The Opinionated Alchemist said...
I think it is a pity that some are speculate any "monkey business" of a producer who shows that much integrity.
Dark color in spirits can have a lot of reasons - in the least cases it is caramel [or burned sugar]. This is used usually only to ensure consistency in color and would be recognizable as a shade.
They might do something like Ron Zacapa rum, which are not only changing more often the barrels [yearly] - but also agitating them [from distillery to warehouse, from warehouse to the bottling facility]. Agitation would increase much the contact with the wood, hence it would not only color faster, but also would increase the wood taste [which is definitely the case, as everyone talked about a bitterness - a result from increased wood influence].
My favorite cognac or even spirit [and I am by no means a cognac person] is Frapin Fontpinot XO. I believe, that cognac which is rather fragrant and floral showcase better its character, than oak rich versions [for example Hennessy is emphasizing a lot on oak].
But I do have a bit different notion about the Bouju. I love, if people follow their own style. Why doing the same as other producers? Just have a distinctive product as this, is in my eyes better, than cater for the taste for the average Joe.
Unfortunately I could not get my hands on Daniel Bouju cognacs - but for me it would be not one or the other, but one and then the other…
- May 4, 2013 at 9:44 AM
Bouju uses additives. No way they acheive get that color in younger products without it. Unless they deny it on the label, I'd assume that stuff is dosed.
- May 23, 2013 at 4:12 PM
Any sense of expertise you were displaying you had is completely scrubbed, with assumptive, asinine comments such as this. I've had several lengthy email conversations with both Daniel and Francois. This is an eighth generation family owned business who continue to make cognac in the same approach as when they first began. They have no interest in mainstream success or expanding beyond their one copper still they have used for many decades-quality and what they feel is the best use of their talent and family tradition is all that matters. They also top the angel's share with 100% Grand Champagne from their estate (count the number of cognac distillers that do that). I also have a pretty extensive and large collection of most of the offerings from Daniel Bouju so I have been able to compare in succession the color and flavor changes side by side. Talk to anyone but the most serious of Cognac/spirits fans and they will say "Daniel who?"
Why on earth would they want to fake their color by making it as dark as possible as you say, when this is completely opposite of the normal that you see in cognacs. No one is going to buy cognac simply because it is nearly black. What possible advantage would they have by adding and then lying about this? Think about it. Like what you like (and you appreciate tasty cognac), but don't tarnish the name of one of the handful of distillers trying to do exactly the opposite of big corporate beverage institutions.
- August 7, 2013 at 8:26 PM
My wife and I stayed at the Bed and Breakfast adjacent to Daniel Bouju (coincidentally right around the same time this Blog post was written). After visiting many grower/distillers in the Grande Champagne region of Cognac, we visited Daniel Bouju and met Francois Bouju. Although we came away with NO proof that the Bouju line of cognacs available contain additives, Francois came across as the most sincere and dedicated grower/distiller that we met during our two week trip to Cognac. Having said that, we tasted his entire lineup with him (including the Family Reserve which had a mouth feel so complex it made me want to chew). It is important to note that during the tasting, he only took credit for the Bouju Cognacs available for roughly the last 25 years. The older bottlings he gave credit to his father, grandfather and great grandfather for making. In fact, when we were tasting the Brut de Fut with him, he mentioned that the Cognac AOC didn't even exist when a few of the older stocks were harvested and distilled. Accordingly, Francois said that he was sure that not all of Bouju's older stocks technically meet today's Cognac AOC regulations (although he didn't say it, this could mean additives). That said, we walked away from our experience thinking more to ourselves that long oxidation is the result of the darker colors in those older stocks. I won't lie though, whenever I drink from the bottles of Daniel Bouju that we brought home with us, I am amazed at the almost Coca Cola color of the Cognac, especially considering there still is a balance of fruit that comes forward with the wood in both nose, taste and finish.
- December 2, 2013 at 1:38 PM
PS - To my earlier post (we are the ones who stayed at the Bed and Breakfast adjacent to Daniel Bouju Cognac), it is important also to provide this context: When the term Brut de Fut is used by Daniel Bouju, this doesn't JUST mean that no water has been added to the spirit; it also means that very very long aging has naturally brought the spirit to roughly 40 percent ABV. This is remarkable when you consider that all unaged Cognac starts at roughly 80 percent ABV. Given this, the complex rancio and almost chewy mouth feel is not a surprise. When looked at this way, the term "cask strength" is over-used and probably not completely accurate (i.e., either some water is added, or you are being served a spirit that is still quite high in % ABV).
- December 3, 2013 at 7:45 AM


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