Odell Makes Beer Crafted By Users On TwitterSource: 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 BiologySource: 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 traditionSource:
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.
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, high-calorie beer was considered a diet staple in Germany.
Recession making German beer cheaperSource: 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 drinkersSource: 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 FuelSource: 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.

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:

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.

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.
InBev completes Budweiser mergerSource: 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 BeerSource: 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 YearsSource: 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.
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 oldSource: 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 worldwideSource: 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....
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 CountrySource: 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.