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The NY Times Learns What a Growler Is

An oddity spotted yesterday in the NY Times – apparently, growlers are the future of beer consumption.
“In the beginning we tried to figure out, ‘Who’s going to be our market?’ ” said Ben Granger, 32, an owner of Bierkraft, which began filling growlers in spring 2006. “We thought, mullet-heads and beer-bellied dudes. But the first run [...]

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Would You Like to Super Size That to a Beer? Burger King to Offer Beer at Their New Whopper Bar

Do you remember that scene in Pulp Fiction where John Travolta is telling Samuel L. Jackson that you can order a beer at McDonald’s in France? Well, soon enough the residents of Miami will get to do just that at a particular Burger King restaurant. Burger King announced that it will start selling Anheuser-Busch and [...]

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We Knew It All Along: Beer Cures Cancer (Kind of)

I always knew there was some kind of evolutionary imperative behind my outlandish obsession with hops. Turns out, a chemical compound called xanthohumol found in that wondrous plant shows promise in the fight against breast and prostate cancers. The Daily Mail reports:
Researchers at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg have discovered that beer contains [...]

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