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Oct. 30, 2002
MR Stuff Brews Up A BeerMeister 2.0 Release
MR Stuff Software has released a new version of BeerMeister, a shareware beer recipe organizer designed to help homebrewers organize and create beer recipes. BeerMeister is a cataloging application designed for the management and searching of home beer brewing recipes. The latest version, 2.0, features a recipe creation guide and Mac OS X support. BeerMeister is the easy way to organize your homebrewing recipes. Developed by a homebrewer for homebrewers, it is a full-featured database designed explicitly for the needs of brewers. Read the full story at The Mac Observer
Oct. 25, 2002
Beer for the Bones
The latest research, from King's College and St. Thomas Hospital in London, England, determined that beer contains high levels of silicon which comes from the soil. They say that half a pint of beer, which would be a fairly large glass, will give the imbiber 20% of daily requirements. It seems to be absorbed better from the liquid source than from a food source such as string beans, cereals, and breads. By extrapolation, it would take a large pitcher to fulfill the daily needs...a bit of a stretch and not to be recommended. These findings are currently being presented to a prestigious scientific conference in Brussels to point out that 2,700 men and women have benefited from the silicon in beer. Read the full story at Bella Online
Oct. 15, 2002
Beer Beats Vodka for Young Drinkers
By Peter Baker. The Washington Post. A decade ago -- even a few years ago -- passing up vodka for beer would have been unheard of here. But Russia is undergoing another revolution, this one playing out as much in the bars as on the streets. The country famed for its vodka-swilling is turning quite dramatically to pale ales, stouts and their cousins. Consumption of beer per capita has nearly tripled in the last six years, and marketing firms predict beer sales will outpace vodka sales this year for the first time in Russia. In a country that believes its founding father chose the Orthodox religion because it was more permissive toward alcohol, the eclipse of vodka still remains hard to imagine. "The Russian soul is a mystery," said Alexander Boyarkov, 52, who has owned Russian Style bar since the end of communism in 1991. "That's how we drink. If you've got a problem, you drink. If you're happy, you drink. If you go on a picnic, you drink. That's how we have fun. But now in a Western market economy, we don't have as much time. Everybody's too busy and you can't drink as much." Read the full story at TheMoscowTimes.com
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