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Sexy Beer: Hopf Erotic Beer, the New Viagra? - ABC News
Source: ABC News

Some refreshingly different news for a change. Who couldn't learn to love sexy beer?

Mothers Against Drunk Driving slam N.J. Turnpike-themed beer
Source: NJ.com

A New Jersey brewery is using the state's congested and often-derided turnpike to promote its beer, an idea that concerns the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and a group that opposes drinking and driving.

Odell Makes Beer Crafted By Users On Twitter
Source: cbs4denver.com

Brewing beer can now be added to the ever-growing list of ways to use Twitter. Odell Brewing Company in Fort Collins is preparing to roll out a special edition beer created partly by Twitter users.

Brewing with Synthetic Biology
Source: Technology Review

Synthetic biology rests on the hope that biological "parts" like DNA and proteins can be engineered and assembled just like a machine or computer circuit, but the field still has some way to go before this is the case.

Home brewers could save Germany's sacred beer tradition
Source:

The declining variety of German beers is encouraging many people to make their own at home, online brewing retailer Brauen.de reported in honour of Beer Day on Thursday. ... In the 18th and 19th centuries, high-calorie beer was considered a diet staple in Germany.

Recession making German beer cheaper
Source: thelocal.de

German beer brewers will likely lower their prices to maintain beer sales during the recession, President of the DBB German brewer's association told daily Berliner Zeitung on Wednesday.

Foster's woos spurned beer drinkers
Source: business.theage.com.au

Brewing giant Foster's is sheepishly reversing a marketing brain snap in Australia that tried charging the same price for less beer in a smaller "European-style'' stubbie.

Drink Beer, Make Fuel
Source: Live Science

A brewing company in Chico, Calif. is adapting a new system at its brewery that will make its own high-quality ethanol fuel from discarded beer yeast.

Review: The Mr Beer Homebrewing System

Christmas brought me a surprise under the tree, a Mr Beer Brewing system from my Mother-in Law that thinks its interesting that I'm making my own beer. These are my observations for the system:

Latest Brew: Scottish 60 Shilling aka 60/-

I'm not a big fan of what most people call American beers, Lagers and Pilsners made light with very little body. Thin and watery, like the Monty Python joke, its like making love in a canoe... @!$%#ing close to water.

Earthlings, space beer has splashed down in Japan
Source: Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Space beer, the result of a five-month mission to boldly grow, where almost no one has grown barley before, has landed in Japan.

My Kitchen the Brewery

I like to word hiatus, it's a nice highfalutin word meaning took a break, goofed off, or did something else and I've spent the last six months largely doing something else.

Green Mountain Coffee and Keurig In Grocery Stores Nationwide - 12 Count Pack of K Cups Debuts
Source: singleservecoffee.com

WATERBURY, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Keurig has ignited a revolution in coffee making as the market leader in single-cup brewing. Now, in response to feedback from its customers and consumers, Green Mountain Coffee and Keurig, divisions of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.

InBev completes Budweiser merger
Source: BBC News

Belgium-based brewer InBev has said it had closed its $52bn (£35bn) takeover of the US's Anheuser-Busch to create the world's largest brewer. "Effective today, InBev has changed its name to Anheuser-Busch InBev," InBev said in a statement.

Ancient Yeast Reborn in Modern Beer
Source: Discovery.com

Trapped inside a Lebanese weevil covered in ancient Burmese amber, a tiny colony of bacteria and yeast has lain dormant for up to 45 million years.

The Beer That Takes You Back . . . Millions of Years
Source: The Washington Post

"I was going through my collection, going, 'Gee whiz -- this is pretty nifty. Maybe we could use it to make beer,' " says Cano, 63 , now the director of the Environmental Biotechnology Institute at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

The Beer That Takes You Back . . . Millions of Years
Source: The Washington Post

Fossil Fuels Brewing Co. ferments a yeast strain found in a piece of Burmese amber dating from about 25 million to 45 million years ago.

Is American beer any good?
Source: Toronto Star

"U.S. craft beer is probably the most diverse and interesting brewing scene in the world," beer aficionado Cass Enright said at a recent dinner in Toronto at the Academy of Spherical Arts to celebrate the Ontario launch of Southern Tier Brewing's India Pale Ale.

Chocolate beer 3000 years old
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

People in Central America were drinking beverages made from cacao before 1000 BC, hundreds of years earlier than once thought, a new study shows. These early cacao beverages were probably alcoholic brews, or beers, made from the fermented pulp of the cacao fruit.

IPA brewer to roll out the barrel worldwide
Source: Edinburgh Evening News

IT'S an Edinburgh institution and famously a favourite tipple of Inspector Rebus. But now Deuchars IPA could be set to become a worldwide brand after a successful trial in the United States....

Coors Brewery Shortening and Automating Tours
Source: Westword.com

The Coors Brewery in Golden, Co is shortening its tour and making it self-guided with audio.

Looming Worldwide Beer Shortage Another Effect of Global Warming
Source: TreeHugger

A perfect storm is brewing, coming together with the potential to create a shortage in the world's beer supply.

Sam Adams Selling Hops to Craft Brewers During Shortage
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For a couple of months now, we've all been facing the unprecedented hops shortage and it's affected all craft brewers in various ways.

Prehistoric Breweries in Ireland? Beer From the Bronze Age
Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

The mounds have been a longstanding riddle. Some experts argue they were for cooking meat: Hot stones would have been used to boil water to cook and preserve the meat. Others say they were prehistoric saunas. Or tanneries, or smithies, or dye-works.

A Look at the 25 Best Microbreweries in the Country
Source: airlinecreditcards.com

If you think Bud Light is the best beer in America, prepare to have your world rocked by these purveyors of high quality beer. In our collection of microbreweries, you'll find people that truly love the craft of beer making.

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