FAA grounds beer drones
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Were you looking forward to having lifeless automatons bring you beer in the wilderness? Of course you were! But it looks like you'll have to wait. Local brewery Lakemaid was testing a new drone delivery system t...
How Evil Twin came up with their beer brand names
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The brewer gives the low-down to Thrillist. This one was my favorite: Even More Jesus actually came from a lost in translation thing, with me being from Denmark. I was discussing something about prices with a bus...
Open beer faster
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Sometimes you just can't open it fast enough, I guess. Some say this is nothing but a frivolous toy. Try going to a patio bar in New Orleans the weekend that Abita Strawberry comes out and then tell me it's pointl...
German brewers demand changes to “fracking” regulations
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Hydraulic fracturing or "Fracking" is something you've probably heard about. It's a relatively new technology to extract natural gas and other materials from deep deposits under the Earth. Critics all over the world...
Lightweight beer “mix” for outdoor excursions
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Anyone that's ever been backpacking or camping knows how important minimizing your carry weight can be, but also probably knows how delicious a cold beer is after a few miles in the backcountry. It's not a new idea...
Man charged with boosting $38k worth of Guinness
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I don't even know how you get this dumb, but it may involve consumption of way too much Guinness while hatching a plan to make money. He allegedly admitted to Saddle Brook police that he drove to Pennsylvania, broke ...
It’s against the law to show ABV in Maine, apparently.
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That is some wacky, idiotic nonsense. Maine has a decades-old law that prohibits advertising or otherwise promoting the alcohol content of beer. For a long time this law was unenforced. Yet as Jacob Sullum reports, ...
How untappd came to be and continues to be awesome
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Medium has a great condensed (quick-read) interview with the 2 guys (yeah, it's just 2 guys) that founded and run untappd. There's a handful of things I found very surprising about their success: they've never adve...
How fresh is your beer?
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Clearly the beer is 7 stars and Full-Lion old. Dan over at TheFullPint.com calls out the non-dating breweries. What really bothers me, more than breweries that flat out don’t label, are breweries that make it diff...
Night Shift Sours Available for Preorder
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How do you make sure your customers get a shot at their favorite limited batches? Setup-up a pre-order, of course! That's what Night Shift is doing, anyway. We think it's a delightful way to gauge demand for prod...