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Beer. We know it. We love it. We drink it to the tune of 133 billion liters — that's 35 billion gallons — each year. So much for 99 bottles of beer on a wall...

The pause that refreshes, or the nectar of the Gods — Beer is many things to many people. But mostly, it is an alcoholic beverage made through a brewing process combining water, a starch source like barley or wheat, and flavoring usually with hops.

Beer is also the world's third most popular beverage — trailed only by water and tea — and the source of a brewing business that as of 2006 generated some $294.5 billion in revenue. In countries like England, Germany, and increasingly America, beer is also an integral part of the culture.

Beer has become synonymous with everything from being the "guy's guy" beverage of choice, to armchair spectator sports (those Super Bowl ads), to more high-brow endeavors like beer tastings and festivals. Beer varieties vary from common commercial lagers like Budweiser and Coors, to golden, amber and pale ales, to microbrews and darker varieties like brown ale or the stouts brewed by companies like Guinness.

In the blogosphere, beer is celebrated on sites like the Beer Advocate, BeerMe.com, and the Beer Church. Chug-a-lug.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “beer”

 

• Georgia Folks – Look For Budweiser Mail In Rebate

  
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  Georgia folk, if you are buying Budweiser and other grilling items like Kingsford or Johnsonville sausage be on the lookout for a nice rebate tearpad. You might as well score some money back for your purchases. The items are on sale this week at Publix too! Johnsonville Italian Sausage or Bratwurst, 19 oz, $3.99 ...
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• How to Open Beer with a Chainsaw!

  
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  LMFAO! what an epic win! share it about guys! Please remember to drop a like! For beast fifa vids – THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO i do not own this video, the real version is here: go subscribe to the beast who made this video: Copyright issues? Contact me to get them resolved. Opening Beer with Chainsaw Opening Beer ...
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• DNA on beer can needle ‘likely’ belongs to Clemens – Pekin Daily Times

  
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  DNA on beer can needle likely belongs to Clemens Pekin Daily Times By Anonymous AP A needle stored with a beer can appeared to contain an extremely tiny amount of Roger Clemens DNA, which turned out to be good news and bad news for both sides in the perjury trial of the seven-time Cy Young Award winner. ...
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• Free beer

  
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• The Hidden QR Pint Glass

  
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  Guinness created this brilliant QR code pint glass in a cool marketing effort. When you scan it, “it tweets about your pint, updates your facebook status, checks you in via 4 square, downloads coupons and promotions, invites your friends to join, and even launches exclusive Guiness content.” Wow, that’s a lot ...
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• Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is drowning in beer – Denver Post

  
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  Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is drowning in beer Denver Post By Lisa Wirthman In this 2002 file photo, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe sits outside the Arrow Inn, a convience store that sells beer in Whiteclay, Neb., just across the state line from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. (Karl Gehring, ...
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• Slow But Micro Powerful: Living Snail Turned Into Fuel Cell

  
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  I’m sure that if gastropods (snails and their ilk; word mean “stomach-foot”) could speak, they’d have a few words of protest over this exploitation of their enzymes… but one snail at least has been ‘harvested’ — for its energy output — without being harmed, say the experimenters. Recently, ...
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• Quails’ eggs, organic beer and local jams: Family-run service station on the M6 the first to be given a five star rating

  
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  http://www.dailymail.co.uk Quails’ eggs, organic beer and local jams: Family-run service station on the M6 the first to be given a five star rating Tebay Services in Westmorland, Cumbria, was awarded five stars following a survey by the Highways Agency and VisitEngland. It boasts a restaurant, farm shop ...
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• Northern Star: The Caledonia is two

  
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  One the corner of two streets in Liverpool’s sometimes-bohemian, sometimes-beautiful, sometimes-rough-around-the-edges Edwardian Quarter (is there an Edwardian Quarter? Yes, yes there is now) is one of the best pubs in Liverpool. It was not always like this. Go back a decade and it had washing machines stacked at ...
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• Game Day Beer Review: Birrificio Del Ducato Verdi Imperial Stout

  
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  (8.2% ABV) I have this thing about Italian craft beer: I try it whenever I see one in the store or on a bar menu.  Its funny, cause most people thing of only one thing when they think Italian: Wine.  Not me, though.  I think craft beer, a space in which the Italians are real up and comers.  I spied this baby ...
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• Cows busted for crashing backyard beer party

  
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  Cows busted for crashing backyard beer party A group of cows are caught red handed crashing someones backyard party! From: WJAR10 Views: 718 21 ratings Time: 00:52 More in News & Politics
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• Craft beers brew up booming business across USA – USA TODAY

  
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  USA TODAY Craft beers brew up booming business across USA USA TODAY By Chuck Raasch, USA TODAY Oscar Wong has been a beer man since the day he and a buddy caught the lusty aroma of a homemade brew from a janitors Pepsi bottle back at his alma mater, Notre Dame University. "We said, That aint ...
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• The Beast Fist Beer Koozie

  
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  Show who is the Boss in the house! This giant Koozie ( BTW what is Koozie for a word anyways? Koozie just doesn’t sound very em bossy at all!) It kind of reminds me of the HULK fists! So beer is finished and a slam on the table will get you a new full beer can. Or a totally smashed apartment in the case of you ...
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• Chilli-off

  
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  Friday evening, and I thought Id do a chilli-themed Transatlantic Taste Test . Two quite different beers, with a chilli link. The first is from the Cave Creek  brewery in Mexico and the second from Fallen Angel down in Sussex. The theory was that I could get to taste the beer once the initial shock of the chilli ...
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• After NYC beer museum tour, hop on over to its bar – CBS News

  
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  CBS News After NYC beer museum tour, hop on over to its bar CBS News NEW YORK — Beer was hip in New York long before hipsters were into craft brews, according to a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that traces the history of beer all the way back to drunken Colonial times. And ...
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• Hilarious facebook status of a friend

  
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• Starr Hill Undertakes Major Expansion

  
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  The new legislation recently signed by Governor McDonnell is providing some impetus for major expansion underway at Starr Hill Brewery . NBC29.com is reporting: Starr Hill founder and brewmaster Mark Thompson helped write the new laws and worked on seeing them passed. His brewery will take advantage ...
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• The Ultimate Easy Potato Salad Recipe Returns

  
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  With Memorial Day here I want to repost my Ultimate Potato Salad recipe. This potato salad recipe has been tweaked over the years and has aspects from multiple recipes I have encountered. The largest influence being my Mom’s recipe. Truth be told this is a bit of a a smashup of my chicken salad recipe and ...
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• Bill’s Beer Garden: City approves liquor license transfer as construction … – AnnArbor.com

  
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  Bills Beer Garden: City approves liquor license transfer as construction ... AnnArbor.com The bar and bathrooms are underway at Bills Beer Garden in downtown Ann Arbor. Mark Hodeshs vision to create an outdoor gathering spot in downtown Ann Arbor where people come to eat, drink, socialize and listen to ...
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• Dog at the bar

  
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