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Dry food, such as hay, used as feed for livestock.
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This word came from a guy named [business card on my desk] who stopped in on a recent Friday to visit our Gift Shop & Tasting Bar. I was in my office and had just finished up this label for the Stone 7th Anniversary Ale. Someone came in and told me that there was a guy from Texas out at the Tasting Bar that was a fan of the nonsense that I write on the back of the Stone bottles. This seemed both flattering and odd. I mean, it’s hard to imagine anyone actually reading some of the drivel, let alone thinking that it’s great... so I invited him into my office to chat for a few minutes. During the conversation, he mentioned that "provender" was a really cool word that he had come across while reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy to his kids. I thought it would be cool if he could see his submission on the label, but it was way too packed. There was nowhere to work it in. So, I put it at the top!
I meant the context of the word to imply that we don’t use livestock feed in our brewing…most specifically corn, which is a very common livestock feed and is also a product used in some “macro” style beers. Translation: We don’t sell beer made with livestock feed.
However, in hindsight, we actually do have “provender” as a result of our brewing…. Our barley, once we are finished brewing with it, becomes what is termed “spent grain” and local farmers pick it up to feed their livestock. However, we do not sell it --- they pick it up for free. So, I guess you could still say the phrase “We don’t tender provender” is true here at Stone Brewing…we give it away!
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Chairman & CEO
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| fungible "things" n. |
sometimes merely called "fungibles," goods which are interchangeable, often sold or delivered in bulk, since any one of them is as good as another. Grain or gravel are fungibles, as are securities which are identical.
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Tom Bobzin
Director of Compliance
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| hullabaloo n. |
Great noise or excitement; uproar. See Synonyms at noise.
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Jarrett Harwood
Northern California Sales Rep.
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| soliloquy n. |
1. a. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
b. A specific speech or piece of writing in this form of discourse.
2. The act of speaking to oneself.
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Chris Cochran
Marketing & Promotions
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| quotidian adj. |
1. Everyday; commonplace: "There's nothing quite like a real... train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute" (Anita Diamant).
2. Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of malaria.
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| ennui n. |
Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom: “The servants relieved their ennui with gambling and gossip about their masters” (John Barth).
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Marketing & Promotions
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| imbue tr. v. |
1. To inspire or influence thoroughly; pervade: work imbued with the revolutionary spirit. See Synonyms at charge.
2. To permeate or saturate.
3. To stain or dye deeply.
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Marketing & Promotions
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| obfuscate tr. v. |
1. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: “A great effort was made... to obscure or obfuscate the truth” (Robert Conquest).
2. To render indistinct or dim; darken: The fog obfuscated the shore.
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| felicitous adj. |
Very well suited or expressed
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| imbibe v. |
1. drink
2. to take in liquid
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| promulgate tr. v. |
1. to make known by open declaration : PROCLAIM
2. a : to make known or public the terms of (a proposed law) b : to put (a law) into action or force
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| gumption n. |
1. Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness.
2. Guts; spunk.
3. Common sense.
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| nebbish n. |
Yiddish Slang - A person regarded as weak-willed or timid.
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Lead Brewer
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| conundrum n. |
1. A riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.
2. A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma: “the conundrum, thus far unanswered, of achieving full employment without inflation” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).
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Aaron Floyd
San Diego Sales Manager
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| instinctual adj. |
Of, relating to, or derived from instinct. See Synonyms at instinctive.
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Connie Green
Accounting Supervisor
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| onomatopoeia n. |
The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
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Darcy Johnson
Office Manager
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| chutzpah n. |
Yiddish slang. Supreme self-confidence. Utter nerve; effrontery: "has the chutzpah to claim a lock on God and morality"
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Mike Palmer
Webmaster & Graphics Guy
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| despot n. |
1. A ruler with absolute power.
2. A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant.
3. a. A Byzantine emperor or prince.
b. An Eastern Orthodox bishop or patriarch.
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| bugaboo n. |
1. An object of obsessive, usually exaggerated fear or anxiety: "Boredom, laziness and failure... These bugaboos, magnified by imagination, keep [the workaholic] running" (Dun's Review).
2. A recurring or persistent problem: "the bugaboos that have plagued vision systems: high price and slow throughput" (Lawrence A. Goshorn).
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John Egan
Lead Brewer
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| venal adj. |
1. a. Open to bribery; mercenary: a venal police officer.
b. Capable of betraying honor, duty, or scruples for a price; corruptible.
2. Marked by corrupt dealings, especially bribery: a venal administration.
3. Obtainable for a price
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| bevvy n. |
British slang for a beer.
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Chad Tomich
Brewer
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| bamboozle tr.v. |
To take in by elaborate methods of deceit; hoodwink. See Synonyms at deceive.
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Lars Gilman
Brewer
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| non-sequitir n. |
1. An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises or evidence.
2. A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it.
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| lupulin n. |
1. yellow powder on hop cones, used as sedative.
2.a. like a hop-cluster. lupulinic, a. pertaining to lupulin or hops.
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Chairman & CEO
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| incommode tr. v. |
To cause to be inconvenienced; disturb.
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Larry Hazen
Brewer
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| ursine adj. |
1 : of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae)
2 : suggesting or characteristic of a bear <a lumbering ursine gait>
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Chris S.
Midlothian (in the Trinity Valley), TX
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| This word came from a guy who stopped in on a recent Friday to visit our Gift Shop & Tasting Bar. I was in my office and had just finished up this label for the Stone 7th Anniversary Ale. Someone came in and told me that there was a guy from Texas out at the Tasting Bar that was a fan of the nonsense that I write on the back of the Stone bottles. This seemed both flattering and odd. I mean, it’s hard to imagine anyone actually reading some of the drivel, let alone thinking that it's great... so I invited him into my office to chat for a few minutes figuring he must be nuts, and as a result, interesting. I was right. During the conversation, he mentioned that "provender" was a an interesting word that he had come across while reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy to his kids. I thought it would be cool if he could see his submission on the label, but it was way too packed already. There was nowhere to work it in without changing the font size to smaller than 7.7 --- So, I put it at the top! |
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| quizically adv. |
1. mildly teasing or mocking <a quizzical remark>
2. expressive of puzzlement, curiosity, or disbelief
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| nonplussed tr. v. |
to cause to be at a loss as to what to say, think, or do
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| schism tr. v. |
1. division, separation; also : discord, disharmony
2. a : formal division in or separation from a church or religious body b : the offense of promoting schism
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Jason Rosenfeld
Los Angeles On-Premise Sales
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| Brewmeisetermasterbrewer |
(origin Stone Brewing Co. 21st century)
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Remember the old animated Christmas classic “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”? In that movie there was a character named “Burgermeister Meisterburger.” It’s been probably 20 years since I saw the show, but for some reason that popped into my head as I talked to Steve at that moment, so I gave him the title Brewmeisetermasterbrewer. I think that Burgermeister Meisterburger was a puffed up politician sort of a character. Fortunately, that doesn’t describe Steve at all.
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| flapdoodle n. |
nonsense (origin unknown)
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| harrowingly adv. |
to pillage or plunder
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