My Goodness My Guinness – Exploring beer history in Dublin

Developing consumer’s brand-fidelity is one of today’s great marketing goals. Nevertheless, very few brands have managed to accomplish being something like a national icon. We could mention Harley Davidson, Mercedes and – Guinness...

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Wine, Beer and The Class System

Did you ever realize how the consumption of beer and wine was used to divide the classes as far back in history as you can imagine? Workers and lower class people could not afford to drink wine but would only drink beer.

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Beer style of the month: Märzen

The history of the famous beer of the Oktoberfest began in March!

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Final Fantasy XIII: Chapter 1 - Initial Impressions

Last night I ran out and picked up a game that I have been waiting for awhile. I would go into my history with Final Fantasy games, but I’m sure no one cares. I get home, crack open a beer, and pop in the disc. The hairs on my arm stand as I watch the intro CGI scene. This CGI is beautiful.

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Malt Advocate names its whiskeys of the year | Jacksonville.

I'm not really a whiskey drinker. Prefer beer and wine. Good beer and decent wine. But I kind of like the whole culture, history and color of good whiskey. Malt Advocate, a fine magazine, has named its whiskeys of the year.

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DAS BOOT - The Boot of Beer | Beer Articles | Beer Universe

The premise behind drinking beer out of a boot is certainly interesting. Thankfully, the boot that you are drinking out of is glass and not made of leather (can you imagine how that would taste?). We wanted to take a few minutes to explore this tradition and the history around the creation of Das Boot.

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NBTextra : Dr. Bill Sysak’s Cellar : 1999 Bellevue Sel

The second half of the EPIC New Brew Thursday episode filmed in Dr. Bill Sysak’s personal cellar. In this edition of NBTextra, we try a 1999 Bellevue Selection Lambic Gueuze and talk to Dr. Bill about his history with beer.

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History Lesson: The Story of Beer [INFOGRAPHIC]

A history of beer from 9000 BC to 2000 AD

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Stag-Do City Guides: Like Real Travel Guides Minus The Crap

It’s taken a fiendishly long time but we’ve finally got around to publishing our stag-do city guides. They include all the information you’d find in proper travel guides but with all the history and cultural crap ripped out. What you’re left with are stag essentials: good food, good beer, where to pull, strip clubs, useful vocab and some trivia.

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Russian Imperial Stout Recipes

This week on the BeerSmith blog we turn to the Russian Imperial Stout beer style, the king of stout beers. We will explore the origin, history, beer style and some sample Imperial Stout beer recipes for home brewers.

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