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How much do you drink a day? (Equivalent of 12 oz / 341 ml bottles)
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2002.08.03 @ 23:24 |
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 Looks like some crazy Japanese brewmaster has concocted a recipe for beer based on some heiroglyphics found in an Egyptian wall painting. The BBC reports that Kirin Brewing Company has brewed a test batch of ~36 litres of a brown, tea coloured brew based on translations by Waseda University Egyptoligst Sakuji Yoshimura.
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| A beer-swilling parrot named Bobby in the Romanian capital of Bucharest is being put back on the wagon by it's owners. At first the owners liked giving him drinks as he became more talkative, but after some time he began to become rude, demanding "beer, beer, beer". The couple plans to get the parrot a mate to keep him company, once he sobers up.
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| A griffin vulture from a nearby falconry is swooping down on a Bavarian Biergarten in Riedenburg after patrons started feeding the bird meat. The 15 pound bird with a wingspan of almost 9 feet sometimes even lands on patrons plates, but management says they will get fresh portions when this happens.
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Citing a declining market for Real Ale, WH Brakspear and Sons are closing down after more than 200 years. The company has been in the brewing business since 1779. CAMRA's comment was that Brakspear had "taken the eye off the ball". 1 comments
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| Canada's largest brewer Molson almost tripled it's annual profits from the same period last year. Reorganisation and restructuring saw profits go from 35 million to a whopping 102 million this year. A key part of profits was the new brazilian brewer that Molson purchased.
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| In the latest round of sweeping changes by the new Liberal government, the province of British Columbia is set to privitize it's liquor stores. Government officials report that the goal is to take a slow approach, unlike the way it was done a few years ago in Alberta. Though privitization can often be a good thing, in Alberta it meant that a lot of private retailers only wanted to carry the top selling brands of beer, which marginalized the micro brewing industry.
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| Mike Adams is doing his part to educate Americans about beer. "If Americans are stupid about one thing, we are stupid about beer", he says. Adams holds monthly beer tastings at his small specialty foods shop which draws people in from miles in every direction.
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| Soccer fan Peter Guest had struck a deal with his local pub owner before heading off to the world cup in Korea and Japan : if he could get the pub's banner displayed on TV, he'd get free beer for life! And just as Michael Owen scored the 3-0 win against Denmark, cameras panned to Guest's banner.
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| Beer drinkers in Zimbabwe are dismayed to discover that beer has been added to the ever-growing list of commodoties in shortage. Locals are already used to shortages in sugar, salt, cooking oil, soap, margarine and bread. But a shortage in corn (maize) has lead to a shortage in beer.
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| The small town of Clifton, Virginia, population 225, has been in an uproar since early June of this year when a town council member phoned the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to complain about beer being available in the pop machine at town hall.
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