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Know your Hops for IPA Day

In my last BGOTW column with homebrewer Jeremy Vallimont, I learned about the trials and tribulations of the finer points of homebrewing. This is something I have thought about for a while, what would it be like to be a fully devoted homebrewer? I absolutely do not foresee this in my future in spite of how much I enjoy an excellent a craft beer.

However, I thought it would be fun to experience a…

Steambirds, also available for iOS, Android devices and Windows Phone 7 is also, technically, a browser game and a quite good one at that. By Radial Games and Spry Fox, Steambirds has you set on October 15th 1940, also known as The Battle of Britain. Your goal, in a simultaneous turn-based manner, is to take out as many of the German opposition as possible, in order to give the fair citizens or Britain enough time to evacuate. You’re told that you cannot save the city and while that is a morbid sentiment, you and your over eager compatriots fend of as many foes as possible, regardless.