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5,000 Year Old Beer Recipe Found by Archaeologists
Archaeologists at Stanford University have uncovered a 5,000 year old beer recipe in China which is not only the earliest beer recipe ever found, but also shows the earliest use of barley in China. Researchers uncovered this new find when they were ing alongside Wei River. There, they located a complete set of brewing equipment...
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Robo-beer: World’s first beer brewed by artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is disrupting everything from board games to the betting industry—but how about one of the world’s oldest beverages? London-based IntelligentX is the world’s first firm to brew beer with the help of artificial intelligence. The startup is using an algorithm called Automated Brewing Intelligence (ABI) to collect customer feedback data through a Facebook Messenger bot in order to improve the recipes of its beer. “Over the last six months we’ve iterated the algorithm and improving the algorithm and improving the beers,” Hew Leith, co-founder of IntelligentX, tells Newsweek.
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San Diego to open 'world's first beer hotel'
Stone Brewing, the San Diego-based brewery, will be introducing what’s said to be the world's first beer-themed hotel in 2018. The sprawling 100,000 sq-ft, $26 milllion Stone Hotel, set next to the Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station venue, will feature a bar-style lobby where guests will be welcomed with a complimentary Stone beer on arrival. The hotel will also also offer in-room 'beer growler' service, with draft beer delivered in a jug.
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Sierra Nevada brewery issues 36-state recall of select beers
les of its pale ales, IPA's and other beers after detecting a packaging flaw that could cause a piece of glass to break off into the bottle. In a statement Sunday, it said the recall applies to eight different types of its craft beers purchased in 36 states across the Midwest, the South and East Coast of the United States.
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Best Job Ever: The Smithsonian Just Hired a Craft Beer Historian
Theresa McCulla will be researching beer and brewing history for the National Museum of American History.
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Ideas for organizing a microbrewery
Sometimes it seems like everyone you know is making their own beer, doesn’t it? The rise in popularity of craft beers in America combined with the easy accessibility of brewing supplies and equipment, from those little plastic Mr. Beer kits all the way to industrial grade brewing tanks, means that anyone with an idea for Read the full article...
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Enter the puckering world of sour beers through Flanders red
Welcome to Gateways To Drinkery, where The A.V. Club offers an entry-level course on our favorite libations, and some suggestions on where to start drinking them.Flanders redThe lowdown: Regarded as the most wine-like style of beer, this approachable Belgian is a great entryway into the world of sou
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Danish brewer puts the 'P' in pilsner
The brewery used 50,000 liters of urine collected at the Roskilde Music Festival in 2015 to fertilize fields of malting barley to produce it. Using human waste as fertilizer on such a scale is a novelty, said Denmark's Agriculture and Food Council, which came up with the idea for what could be the ultimate sustainable hipster beer and has already named the concept "beercycling".
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Texas craft breweries find new law hard to swallow
Texas craft breweries are calling House Bill 3287, which just became law after sailing through the Legislature, a “disincentive for growth.” The bill and its impact are complicated, but it all boils down to just how successful breweries can become. “There’s no other industry in the United States and in Texas where a law like this is on the books,” says Justin Engle, owner of two-year-old Town in City Brewing.
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How to Homebrew an IPA That's Worth Drinking
It takes some practice, but keeps these tips in mind so you can create an IPA to rival the very best.
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A Hidden Beer Flavor Has Finally Been Revealed
Researchers brewed 150 beers to determine if barley left a distinct taste.
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Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America
Corporate goliaths are taking over the U.S. economy. Yet small breweries are thriving. Why?
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Optimum Wine & Alcohol Storage
Thanks to the rise in popularity of craft brewing and local wineries, more warehouses than ever before are getting into the wine and alcohol storage game.
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Why bland American beer is here to stay
The unique role of the temperance movement in US history might explain why, when it comes to Americans' tastes, bland beer is still king.
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Canadian company developing cannabis beer
This year’s Canadian Brewing Awards are being held in Halifax, and brewers from across the country are showing off their finest beers. But much of the discussion at this year’s conference surrounds a beer that doesn’t actually exist yet.
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Canada’s Christmas tree in a bottle
First developed by Canada’s indigenous peoples, spruce beer was commonly used to prevent scurvy, even by French navigator Jacques Cartier. Today, it continues to have a following.
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That Time a Heineken Distributor Convinced the Masses That Corona Contained Human Urine
For many beer aficionados “tastes like warm piss” is perhaps the most withering insult one can hurl in the general direction of a given beer. While you wouldn’t begrudge a member of the public making such a claim about a particular beer, you’d think brewers themselves would have a little more decorum.
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This Brewery Is Selling a Beer That Tastes Like a Bowl of Lucky Charms
If you’re one of the people who, like Kylie Jenner, prefers Lucky Charms with the marshmallows only, then we’ve got a beer for you. Smartmouth Brewing Co., a brewery in Norfolk, Virginia known for its wild flavor creations, is releasing a Lucky Charms flavored IPA beer—and apparently it’s “magically ridiculous.”
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How to brew ancient Wari beer
When the people of the Wari Empire (predecessors of the Inca) abandoned the southern Andes around 1100 CE, they made sure nobody else could enjoy their former home by destroyed the brewery that, for 400 years, had provided for lavish festivals held at the provincial center of Cerro Baúl. "They intentionally and deliberately destroyed the site so that it couldn't be used by successor societies when they left," Field Museum Associate Curator & Professor of Anthropology Ryan Williams told Ars Technica.
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Scientists brew beer from 5,000-year-old yeast, then drink it
Ancient history and modern craft brews collided in a resurrection story more delicious than any monster-mummy tale. Microbiologists with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem led a very drinkable research study that involved resurrecting 5,000-year-old yeast culled from pottery shards that were used as beer and mead jugs during the time of the pharaohs in Egypt. The vessels came from four different archaeological sites in Israel.
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