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Beer Marshmallows? Yes, at Truffle Truffle in Chicago!

Beer marshmallows for all those who love beer and marshmallows! Yup, a Chicago based chocolatier, Truffle Truffle, has somehow created something only dreamt of: beer marshmallows. This is possibly the perfect concoction for a great weekend camping trip. Read the full article at www.news.gather.com, by Evalynn J. Saeyang.

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Finns hope to re-brew ancient ale found in 19th century shipwreck

HELSINKI — Finnish scientists are analyzing a golden, cloudy beverage found in a 19th century shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, hoping new beers can be modeled on an ancient brew. The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland said Tuesday that through chemical analysis it aims to determine the ingredients and possibly the recipe used in brewing what it called "one of the world's oldest preserved beers." Read the full article here, written…

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Professor brews beer with 45 million-year-old yeast

A California Polytechnic State University professor’s mission to turn a 45 million-year-old yeast into an ingredient for a beer has proven successful — and now he hopes to grow his operation locally. Raul Cano, a Cal Poly biology professor, discovered the yeast in amber that came from Myanmar (previously known as Burma), while conducting research in the 1990s. Read the full article at www.thestar.com, by Nick Wilson.

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How humans survived on bread and beer

BOOK - Bread, Beer and the Seeds of Change: Agriculture's Imprint on World History Not until you read this intriguing little volume do you realize what a radical concept it was for a Jewish carpenter to declare at the pinnacle of the Roman Empire that man does not live by bread alone. During the 5,000-year span of the agricultural epoch - from the ancient Sumerian civilization in the Middle East to the British Empire in…

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Bottoms up: Inventor creates backward-pouring beer dispenser

Josh Springer's “Bottoms Up” tap fills a specially-designed cup, as it says: An upside down approach to conventional wisdom. The cups have holes, with magnets, that open and seal the beer at super speeds. Springer claims the tap can fill 56 beers in a minute. Read the full article at www.king5.com, by Chris Daniels. Here you can also watch a video of the dispenser in action.  

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Strangford Lough Brewing Company: A Quare Bunch Of Lads (and Girls)

Text below from The Beer Prole's blog: I’m off to the National Winter Ales Festival this morning, so just a quick note to say thanks to Grace from Strangford Lough Brewing Company for sending me through these three beers for review. After Christmas I grumbled in a fairly mean-spirited way about a bottle of their St Patrick’s Best which I’d bought out of date and I thought tasted a bit dodgy.  Although this was entirely my…

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Here’s what an Iron Age beer tastes like!

An archeobotanist has discovered a 2550 year-old recipe for ancient Celtic malt beverage. Hans-Peter Stika of the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart has been spending time at ancient Celtic sites, figuring out how the local groups made their beer, reports Science News. Read the full article at www.hindustantimes.com. 

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‘A pint of beer a day keeps the doctor away’

Drinking a pint of beer a day is good for you, a new study claims. Moderate drinking of ale and lager can cut the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure and even help people lose weight, doctors say. Read the full article at www.thepublican.com. 

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Just discovered: A 2,500-year-old recipe for Celtic beer

An archeobotanist has figured out how they made beer in 500 BC. With a ditch in the back yard, some barley seeds, and some henbane, you too can drink up like the ancient Celts. Read the full article at www.io9.com. 

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Beer as medicine? Scientists say ancient cultures used it as an antibiotic

I need a beer. It's a phrase uttered by many contemporary workers after a long day at the office, but new research shows that ancient cultures were probably using the alcoholic beverage to treat much more than the stress of everyday life. Read more at www.santacruzsentinel.com, by Catherine Meyers. 

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