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Brews You Can Use III

The season is almost here, and here's a list of holiday beers [http://www.realbeer.com/edu/2005holidays/beers.php]. There are some great names in there. Abita Christmas Ale - Louisiana Alaskan Winter Ale - Alaska Anchor "Our Special Ale" - California Anderson Valley Winter

Brews You Can Use II

Cell phones with built-in breathalyzers [http://www.akihabaranews.com//en/news-10535-LG%27s+phone+with+breath+analyzer.html] .

Brews You Can Use

> Research at Oregon State University shows that beer contains a micronutrient that inhibits cancer-causing enzymes [http://www.thedrunk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=888].

Google Print

Joe at Chesterton and Friends ran a novel search at Google Print: He looked for "beer" in Hilaire Belloc's The Path to Rome [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/]. Pretty good results, a Top Ten List of sorts. But if you search "wine," you get 81

Brews You Can Use

Wow, drinking news has been rather "dry" this week. This is the best I could do. In case you have a 25-year-old six-pack lying around [http://www.bidtrendz.com/collectible/archives/2005/11/01/billy-beer-6-pack/]: > A reader asks what an unopened six pack of Billy Beeer might

Healthy Chocolate

> After more than a decade of effort and a year of anticipation, Mars Inc. is finally rolling into stores with what it says is a healthy new sweet: a line of chocolate bars and chocolate-covered almonds. . . > [I]t is the glob of granola, rice and flavanol-filled cocoa powder

Beer Speech Constitutional Issue?

Lighten up, Connecticut. > A constitutional battle is brewing over a holiday beer that state officials are trying to ban because they say its label might entice children to drink. > The state believes it would be really awful for kids to see the label on the British import Seriously

Letterman on McDonalds

> How many folks been to McDonalds lately? They're trying to improve their image. They now have big screen TV's and leather coaches”¦I'm thinking wouldn't that money have been better spent on actual beef?

Brews You Can Use III

You get paid money for that? Frat boys will be lining up for miles. > A Japanese artist has been paid Â£5,000 of taxpayers' money to drink 48 bottles of beer and then fall off a wooden beam. > The performance, at an arts centre in Cardiff,

Brews You Can Use II

Cooking with Beer [http://www.beer100.com/cooking/index.html].