Special guest on the podcast this week, Ben Patridge (Portland beer Ben), and W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) discuss horror stories and other things gone wrong with backups, while drinking a couple of Trappist beers from Belgium.
(BTW, neither of us got the pronunciation of Westmalle correct. Here it is if you’re interested: ).
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