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Yo-Ho Brewing: A Window Into Craft Beer in Japan
Japan is the world's 7th largest beer producer, and beer and beer-like beverages accounted for 67% of Japan's 9 billion liters of alcohol consumption in 2006. Here's a short review of some of the beer Japan's favorite craft brewer has brewed.
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Florida Brewers Pushing To Legalize Beer Growlers
Florida now restricts beer sales to containers of 32 ounces or less, or 128 ounces or more — but nothing in between. But, brewers are now pushing to change these distribution laws.
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Beer Brewing Byproduct Makes Bricks Insulate Better
Beer and brick have both been essential to humanity for thousands of years, dual pillars that helped us build the societies we know today. Now, scientists have combined them, fortifying bricks with grains left over from breweries to create bricks that keep a building better insulated. Turns out beer really can keep you warm on a cold day.
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Best Dives
We've assembled this list of the country's greatest dives, places where the drinks are as strong as the parking-lot brawlers, the…
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VIDEO: Behind the scenes of Cigar City Brewing in Puerto Rico
Cigar City Brewery in Puerto Rico. CCB is brewing Dry Hopped on the High Seas Caribbean-Style IPA in Ponce, Puerto Rico. We had the opportunity to interview Joey Redner Founder and CEO as well as Wayne Wambles, Head Brewer of Cigar City. Talked about the experience of creating a beer in Puerto Rico and future plans with its other brands.
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Prost! Germany seeks UN protection for historic beer purity law
Germany's brewers are pushing to have their amber treasure to be protected by the same UN agency that has safeguarded the Great Wall of China, the Grand Canyon and Egypt's pyramids.
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Party Trick: Open a beer like a boss
Tip: Make sure that your hands are warm so it will build up a pressure in the bottle making the cap pop. Tapping the cap prevents the beer from skiming over.
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A New Study Suggests That People Who Don't Drink Alcohol Are More Likely To Die Young
A new study found that non drinkers are more likely to die early than those who drink moderately.
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10 Gifts for the Beer Snob in Your Life
No matter what you celebrate, it’s quite possible that you’re looking for gift ideas for that special someone in your life. In this case, that special someone is your favorite beer snob. Here are the best ten beer gifts to get for your favorite beer snob.
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26 Interesting Facts About Beer
In the latest episode of Mental Floss, host John Green shares “26 Interesting Facts About Beer” from the Sunking Brewery in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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The Internet history of the showerbeer
As far as I can tell, the showerbeer is as old as showering itself, a tradition passed on from generation to generation like a folk remedy or a secret recipe. Family legend suggests my grandma enjoyed a brew in the bath (although now I think my dad was just fucking with me—see right).
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Carlton Dry Silly Beer Commericals
We threw four guys into a share house together, gave them a couple of beers and then made a stack of videos about it.
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Is A 500-Year-Old German Beer Law Heritage Worth Honoring?
Germans are serious about their beer. Serious enough for the European country's main brewers association to urge the United Nations to recognize that fact. The brewers association wants a five-century-old law governing how German beer is made to become part of the UNESCO World Heritage list. It would join the Argentinian tango, Iranian carpet weaving and French gastronomy, among other famous traditions, that are considered unique and worth protecting.
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Winter Warmers: A Beer Style Designed to Keep You Warm
Winter warmers are another wildly popular seasonal amongst beer geeks. As the name implies, this seasonal is only brewed in the winter and all have a slightly higher ABV to help “keep you warm” during the holiday season.
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7 Steps to Becoming a Better Beer Drinker
Lose weight. Go to bed earlier. Balance your checkbook every week. Boring. Get serious about your beer education in 2014? Now that’s a resolution that you can stick to! If you’re interested in learning more about craft beer, developing your palate, or even becoming a certified beer geek, here are some ways to get started on your beer journey in 2014.
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Will Legal Marijuana Take a Pot Shot at Colorado Craft Beer Sales?
A new era in Colorado leisure activities began as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve and the sale and use of marijuana for recreational purposes was made legal. Now that it's officially legal, many are left wondering if cannabis will cannibalize craft beer sales in the state?
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Iceland's Newest Beer Ingredient: Whale
Iceland doesn't treat cetaceans the way most of the world wants them to be treated. Like Japan and Norway, Iceland has continued to hunt fin and minke whales in defiance of an international moratorium on the practice. It's not a challenge to find a restaurant serving whale meat in the capital city of Reykjavík. With all this in mind, is it really surprising that Iceland's whaling business has recently teamed up with a brewery to produce "whale beer"?
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Tomb of ancient Egypt's beer maker to gods of the dead discovered
Imagine a warm brew of lager so heady you had to plunge a straw through the thick surface scum to get to the fermented liquor below.
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Guinness planned to advertise in Nazi Germany with posters featuring Zeppelins and Swastika flags
These days, it’s known as the quintessential Irish drink and is a firm favourite in British pubs. But Guinness almost faced a very different fate – as the tipple of choice for Nazi Germany. These draft posters, found by former brewer David Hughes and dating back to 1936, reveal the firm’s planned advertising campaign for the Third Reich. Drawn by John Gilroy, who produced most of the company's classic advertising, the collection was produced in 1936, the same year as the Berlin Olympics.
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The scientific explanation of why beer overflows when a one bottle is bumped against another
Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) reveal the physical phenomenon that explains beer's rapid transformation from a liquid to a foamy state as the result of an impact. This research has applications in the area of naval engineering or in studies related to the prediction of gases in volcanic eruptions.
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