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  • On-the-spot pours (also avail in growlers to go) are spread over twelve taps, with the opening rotation including Arcadia's Jaw-Jacker Pumpkin Ale, Oskar Blues 'Dale's Pale Ale, Coney Island Sword Swallower, and a a house favorite, "extravagantly hopped, full flavored, medium bodied, and copper colored" West Coast IPA from Green Flash, so good you'll think you're the savor-er of the universe.

    Thrillist: Good Beer NYC: Beer To Go...Or Stay Thrillist 2010

  • The Sword Swallower He drew from influences ranging from the leading thinkers on capitalism and a sword-swallowing Swedish health expert to Norman Borlaug, the plant pathologist who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Green Revolution that boosted food production.

    Wealth of Ideas: Bill Gates Issues 2008

  • Sword Swallower thinking about giving Birdy Num Num a bath:

    Archive 2007-06-01 GuyanaHHH 2007

  • Sword Swallower thinking about giving Birdy Num Num a bath:

    Run 553 - Mocha/Arcadia Mud Slog GuyanaHHH 2007

  • Edith Clifford: "Champion Sword Swallower of the World" driving the bayonet suddenly down her throat.

    Miracle Mongers and Their Methods 1920

  • "The Sword Swallower" and has privately tipped Olie off as to the functions of the table fork.

    The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

  • By this the boy knew that the Mexican Sword Swallower had not relented -- but that his mother had been kind.

    The Mother Norman Duncan 1893

  • And descending to the third floor of the tenement, he came to the room where lived the Mexican Sword Swallower: whom he persuaded to return with him to Mr. Poddle's bedside.

    The Mother Norman Duncan 1893

  • His Memoirs of a Sword Swallower opens with this excellent sentence: I probably never would have become

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • His Memoirs of a Sword Swallower opens with this excellent sentence: I probably never would have become

    The Guardian World News Daniel Kalder 2010

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