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		<title>Our Online Store Is Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On our path to website legitimacy, we&#8217;re one step closer with our addition of the online store!  Your hand will be totally soaked if you try to drink a beer without having it in a container&#8230;so buy a mug!  Got a head?  Put a hat on it!  Our shirts are specifically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blackstar.coop/blogs/workers-assembly/our-online-store-is-up/</link>
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		<title>Spring Membership Drive Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Co-op grew by 48 new members during the first week of our Spring Membership Drive! That&#8217;s 48 down, 52 to go.
As a reminder, we set a goal to get 100 new member-owners this month and aim to have 2,000 members by the time we the brewpub opens.  For the month of March, each new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blackstar.coop/blogs/workers-assembly/spring-membership-drive-update/</link>
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		<title>If I Had a Hammer&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I&#8217;d like to share a project we are extremely excited to be working on incorporating into our construction and design: LEED certification!
For those of you who are unfamiliar with LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, it&#8217;s basically a set of standards put forth by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blackstar.coop/blogs/workers-assembly/if-i-had-a-hammer/</link>
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		<title>Austin Business Journal: Progress at Midtown Commons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Published on March 1, 2010 with a shout out to Black Star!

Austin transit-oriented developments look to getting back on track


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		<link>http://www.blackstar.coop/in-the-news/austin-business-journal-progress-at-midtown-commons/</link>
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		<title>Chapstick-Flavored Beer or Beer-Flavored Chapstick?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hydroxybenzenes, carbolic acids, phenyl alcohols&#8230;phenols.  They go by many names, but you may know this class of compounds as &#8220;smokey, medicinal, spicy, clove-y.&#8221;  I know this group of aromatic alcohols as the bane of my brew-existence.
If you take a ring of carbon, alternating double bonds, tag on an hydroxyl group, then combine it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blackstar.coop/blogs/workers-assembly/brew-blog/chapstick-flavored-beer-or-beer-flavored-chapstick/</link>
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		<title>Investment Campaign &#8211; Makin&#8217; it Rain!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Workers’ Assembly hosted the first Investor Q&#38;A Happy Hour at our development office. A little more than twenty people came by to hear more about our offering of Member-Investor Shares with a some new members joining the Co-op and some members coming by to sign subscription agreements. The night was a big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blackstar.coop/blogs/workers-assembly/investment-campaign-makin-it-rain/</link>
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		<title>Spring Membership Drive &#8211; You can help!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an exciting time for the Co-op.  We recently installed a “Coming Soon” sign to the side of our building at N. Lamar and Airport Blvd., which is attracting lots of attention to the brewpub.  We completed the first round of permitting with the City of Austin and are still on track to begin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blackstar.coop/blogs/workers-assembly/spring-membership-drive/</link>
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		<title>Snow Day at Black Star!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The scene at the Co-op&#8217;s development office on February 23rd. We&#8217;re warm and hard at work. Just imagine that the next time one of these hits Austin you&#8217;ll be able to come to the brewpub and enjoy a hearty meal with a pint of Recalcitrant Dockhand!
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		<link>http://www.blackstar.coop/blogs/workers-assembly/snow-day-at-black-star/</link>
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		<title>Austin360: Make Room for More Craft Brews in Austin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a good article from Patrick Beach about some up-and-coming breweries in Austin&#8230;explain to me what the &#8220;comparative elder statesman category&#8221; means!
Make Room for More Craft Brews in Austin
by Patrick Beach
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		<link>http://www.blackstar.coop/blogs/austin360-make-room-for-more-craft-brews-in-austin/</link>
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		<title>BSC Tour Montage by Beertown Austin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Black Star Co-op Brick and Mortar Tour
Courtesy of Beertown Austin
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		<link>http://www.blackstar.coop/blogs/workers-assembly/bsc-tour-montage-by-beertown-austin/</link>
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