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Brews You Can Use III

Snobs try to ruin everything: > It looks like champagne and costs just as much. But the latest vintage bubbly coming to Britain's restaurant tables is a Â£32 bottle of beer. Deus, brewed in the Belgian village of Buggenhout, is matured in the Champagne region of France.

Brews You Can Use II

I'm not sure I've ever been prouder of my home state: > "Michigan Beer Cans (MBC)" is an attempt to show pictorially all known variations of beer cans produced from our home state, providing a useful, evolving index to aid the Michigan specialist. To

The Real Thing

I would've thought that inhaling soda through the nose stings: > Nasa Indians in southwestern Colombian have launched a soft drink made from coca leaves, a staple among indigenous Colombians for centuries and the main ingredient in cocaine. The amber-colored soda, its promoters say, offers a home-grown alternative

RIP, Great Man

He helped dieters enjoy beer, or at least something like it: > Joseph L. Owades, the biochemist credited with inventing light beer and creating the formula for several leading brands including Samuel Adams Boston Lager, has died. He was 86. Link [http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4268791&

West Continues to Truckle to Those Who Hate Us

From Australia [http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,17598854%5E2761,00.html] : > A WA hospital has scrubbed baked ham from its Christmas menu, fearing Muslim patients could be offended. > It has also overhauled its entire menu so that all meals are now halal

Healthy Red Wine

The evidence seems to keep piling up. Now, if they could only come up with similar studies for potato chips and beer: > When your host offers you red or white wine at her annual holiday party this year, there may be a good reason to choose red. In a

The Road to Hell is Paved with Gold

The U.S. mass upperclass is taking ostentatious consumption to new levels: eating gold and silver. They're shavings that are sprinkled on top of food and in drinks. The purpose? Pure show, like parsley, but about 1,000 times more expensive. They say it was popular in Renaissance

Brews You Can Use III

Modern Drunkard Magazine says its roots stretch back 100 years to a publication in Boston known as Genteel Drunkards Drink at Hiram Rich's Real Irish Saloon, which started as a response to a Boston Globe writer's (Mr. Hollis') printed criticism of Hiram Flannery Rich'

Brews You Can Use II

> Scores of independent breweries across the nation have begun brewing a special beer to honor Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday in January. Poor Richard's Ale was formulated to resemble a beer that Franklin himself might have enjoyed and brewed. Link [http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/

Brews You Can Use

A bloody Harry: > A Japanese brewery and determined pub owner teamed to produce a tomato-based low-malt beer. > Tomato Bibere combines the sweet flavor of a tomato with the bitter taste of hops. One tomato is used in the production of each 330ml bottle of reddish beer. Link [http: