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Why Beer Lovers Are Aging Their Beers Like Wine

StorageArea June 25, 2018Fun Stuff, Self Storage Leave a Comment

It’s no secret that we’re smack dab in the middle of the Golden Age of craft beer. Early pioneers in the microbrew scene like Anchor, New Albion, Sierra Nevada, and Sam Adams, began brewing more flavorful and meticulously crafted beers throughout the 70s and 80s, introducing a small population of Americans to a brand-new world of hops and grains that was distinctly delicious compared to the conventional adjunct lager. Though these breweries were cranking out exceptional beer, it took a while for the craft beer phenomenon to sweep through the nation, but toward the end of the 90s, with the rise of breweries like Dogfish Head, Lagunitas, New Belgium, and Goose Island, there seemed to be an ever-growing market of beer lovers who were ditching their Coors or Bud for a 90 Minute IPA or Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Lord Imperial Stout.

Did You Know the Octopus Decorates Its Home?

StorageArea June 19, 2018Fun Stuff Leave a Comment

The American interior design industry brings in somewhere around $18 billion a year and employs over 145,00 people. That’s a heck of a lot of money, energy, and time devoted to making people’s houses as beautiful, comfortable, and impressive as they can be. Though it might seem like home decorating is a skill that only humans, with our ability for complex abstract thinking, can master, even animals who aren’t as well known for their powerful cerebral cortexes, enjoy adorning their abodes with whatever materials they have available to them.

Austin’s Container Bar Repurposes Shipping Containers for Hip, Upscale Concept

StorageArea June 13, 2018Fun Stuff, Self Storage Leave a Comment

Austin is no stranger to quirky bar concepts, but the Container Bar, which opened in March of 2014, and was three years in the making, stands out in a city that wears its flamboyance on its sleeve… or maybe cowboy hat is a more appropriate idiom. The welcome spectacle is stacked right in the heart of Rainey Street, a former just-west-of-35 neighborhood that has been turned into Austin’s newest fashionable bar mecca.

Top 10 Transportation Logistics Companies From 2014 to 2018

StorageArea June 12, 2018News Leave a Comment

Transportation Logistics have changed over the past five years with several companies moving in and out of the top ten largest companies. The most notable of these companies is XPO which has come from below the top ten until 2015 to number one for the last two years in a row.

The data below shows how these positions have changed since 2014.

Why Is Whiskey Aged for So Many Years?

StorageArea June 7, 2018Fun Stuff Leave a Comment

Whiskey lovers around the world will tell you that the longer a whiskey is aged the better it’ll taste. All of those distinctive flavors that whiskey connoisseurs adore in their tipple—tobacco, leather, vanilla, cedar, smoke, peat, caramel—are imparted to the “white dog,” or raw whiskey, by the barrel used to store the spirit. Whiskey in its purest form is pretty much moonshine. Before the barrel can work its magic on the freshly distilled concoction, it’s a perfectly clear liquid that packs quite a wallop. This pre-barreled mixture retains the original flavor of the mash bill, which usually includes some combination of corn, rye, barley, or wheat.

5 Tips to Make Your Cramped Studio Feel Like a Spacious One-Bedroom

StorageArea May 30, 2018Fun Stuff, Organization Leave a Comment

Chances are you’ll live in a studio apartment at some point in your life. Whether it’s your first place out of college, a transitional spot in a new city, or a money-saver while you’re squirreling away for something bigger, studios are an affordable and essential piece of real estate that few renters understand how to maximize.

Fed Up with Moving? Learn How to Move Your House to You

StorageArea May 25, 2018Fun Stuff, Moving Leave a Comment

Like filing your taxes, waiting in an airport security line, or navigating your way through gridlock traffic, moving is one of those necessary headaches of life that everyone anticipates with more than a little dread. We’ve all been there: the mountains of cardboard boxes, the tangled balls of packing tape, the car backseats stuffed to the roof.

So, You Think You’re Ready? How to Prepare Yourself to Move Out of Mom and Dad’s

StorageArea February 8, 2017Moving

It is not uncommon to live with your parents anymore and many people do live with them until well into their 20s. While previous decades would leave the nest at 18, many adults these days do not leave until they are married or heading off to college.

Tips to Help You Keep Your Refrigerator Organized and Decluttered

StorageArea February 2, 2017General

There is nothing too much worse than trying to locate something in your refrigerator and finding out that you cannot find it and you have to empty every drawer and shelf to discover that it is hidden behind the tub of butter in the back.
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Ways to Reward Friends and Family Who Help You Move

StorageArea January 20, 2017Moving

Moving by yourself is not fun and it is back breaking work, especially if you have a lot of furniture and heavy items. If you ask your friends and family to help you move, they may be willing to do it, but of course, you will need to reward them after the fact.
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