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Hey, Snickers, Leave Those Kids Alone

You can't get a bag of chips, but you can get the morning-after pill. > Food for thought is taking on a new meaning as students across the nation begin a new school year. Chicago is just one of many school districts that have mobilized to replace high-fat,

A Righteous Battle

> Hundreds of looters battled police all weekend at the site of a beer train wreck in violence that left one woman dead, South African police said on Monday as they kept a heavy guard on the remaining alcohol. > The train carrying 180,000 crates of beer from South

Pope Beer

Awhile back, we mentioned that a Bavarian brewer was making Pope Beer, in honor of B16. Link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/727/]. Well, we hear the beer was a favorite at WYD. Here's a picture of a young man and a bottle of it:

The Techno v. The Snob . . .

. . . Who will win? A scientist has developed a technology for manipulating grapes and the resulting wine. We can't say we fully understand it. This article either does a bad job of explaining it or we're ignorant about wine. Either way, it sounds kind of interesting. Link

Brews You Can Use IV

The Drink Tower. It holds more beer but stays cooler longer due to a sealed lid. Link [http://drinktower.com/]. Thanks Hail the Ale [http://www.hailtheale.com/blog].

Brews You Can Use II

Great passage from Steven Shapin's essay/review of Tom Standage's A History of the World in 6 Glasses in The New Yorker: > The taking of certain drinks could itself be society-making. The Greek symposium was, literally, a “drinkingtogether,” and the watered wine was both such

Brews You Can Use

Beer caps as currency? Eric Scheske would be a rich man in Cameroon! > Beer bottle caps with prizes on the inside are replacing currency in parts of Cameroon, gripped in a fierce promotional battle between competing breweries. > Almost every $1 bottle of beer has a winning cap, with

Brews You Can Use II

Clearly, this is a malt beverage for homosexuals: > Anheuser-Busch Co. has rolled out another caffeinated malt beverage - this one aimed to be even less beer-like than B-to-the-E, which debuted nine months ago. > Tilt, a raspberry-flavored drink, targets 21- to 27-year-old males who want a beverage that helps

Brews You Can Use

> A Japanese company has turned a non-alcoholic brew called Kidsbeer into a surprising success. > The drink started out as Guarana, a cola beverage sold at Yuichi Asaba's Shitamachi-ya restaurant in Fukuoka. Asaba renamed the sweet carbonated drink Kidsbeer, a move that made it an instant hit.

Brews You Can Use

No, it's not Friday yet, but it's been a rough couple of days, so we're drinking early: > For more than 160 years the Trappist monks at Saint Sixtus monastery in Flanders have been producing a rich, dark-brown, beer renowned for its exceptional flavour