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Anchor Makes Football Wager With Brooklyn Brewery; Coffee Bars Are Not Making Your Tea Correctly

• Much like 21st Amendment made that World Series bet with a Texas brewery back in 2010, Anchor Brewing has just made a NFC championship bet with Brooklyn Brewery in New York, promising to pour the other city’s beer for a week in their tap rooms if their respective teams lose. Go Giants! Er … Go 49ers! [Scoop]

• Christopher Lee, formerly a butcher and chef for Chez Panisse and Eccolo in Berkeley and a co-creator of Oakland’s Pop-Up General Store, relocated to New York where he’s been heading up the salumi program at Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria. [NYT]

• Here’s a roundup of seven “secret,” off-the-Silverado-trail wineries in Napa. [7x7]

• Tea drinkers of the world, unite and take over! It turns out the hot water that comes out of your average espresso machine in a coffee bar is ten to twenty degrees too cold to brew a proper cup of black tea. Are you going to stand for that? [Chow]

• Some reflections on the joys of a food fight. [Guardian UK]

• Wines grown in the Galicia region in Spain’s northwest corner are very different than other Spanish wines, with far more minerality. [NYT]

• Yes, there is a Kosher weight-loss camp. [Jew & the Carrot/Forward]

• Manganese, which is abundant in nuts and whole grains, may be an antidote to E. coli. [AP via HuffPo]

Anchor Makes Football Wager With Brooklyn Brewery; Coffee Bars Are Not Making