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Documentary on Russian River Brewing’s Pliny the Younger and Elder

January 8, 2014Keith Gribbins

Pliny the Younger was a lawyer, author and magistrate of Ancient Rome. He’s most famous for his accounts of the eruption of Vesuvius on August 24, 79 AD. Pliny’s uncle, aptly named Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him. The Elder apparently also created the original botanical name for hops — “Lupus Salictarious” — which awesomely translates to “a wolf among scrubs,” named because of the way hops clung wildly to anything they could grab in the old Roman forests. The Russian River Brewing Co.’s Pliny the Younger and Pliny the Elder brands are both homages to these two historians, writers and naturalists. Pliny the Elder is a Double IPA and Pliny the Younger is a Triple IPA. With triple the amount of hops as a regular IPA, the latter is extremely difficult, time and space consuming and very expensive to make. Both are some of the most sought-after craft beers, and when they’re on tap for a few weeks, folks from all over the world flock to Santa Rosa, Calif., to get a taste of these two brews. Learn why in this excellent documentary above.

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  1. travismelvin says

    January 12, 2014 at 11:43 am

    RT @beerofsc: [email protected] features a short documentary about Pliny the Younger from @RussianRiverBC. http://t.co/v2oFpnyhCq #CraftBeer

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  2. BeerProspector says

    January 9, 2014 at 7:59 pm

    Viva Pliny @CityTavernCC: Documentary on Russian River Brewing’s Pliny the Younger and Elder. http://t.co/uLCMZazPqu

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  3. Calistoga says

    January 9, 2014 at 7:01 pm

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  4. GeoffreyWhite says

    January 9, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    Cool doc about Russian River & Pliny http://t.co/FUZ5Nqxdje @Matt_McKenzie1 @thenharris

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  5. beercountry says

    January 9, 2014 at 6:48 pm

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  6. CityTavernCC says

    January 9, 2014 at 6:46 pm

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  7. beerofsc says

    January 9, 2014 at 8:12 am

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    January 8, 2014 at 7:43 pm

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  9. klwatts says

    January 8, 2014 at 6:50 pm

    Can’t make the Pliny the Younger release in California (..sigh)? Here’s a short doc on why you should try next year: http://t.co/K3geCKR8qe

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