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  • 17.19.109,000 Year-Old Dogfish Head Beer

    Dogfish Head brewery is known for making exotic beer with ingredients like crystallized ginger or water from Antarctica. One of its recent creations is a brew flavored by grapes and flowers… and the recipe came from a Neolithic burial site in China.


  • 07.13.10Beer Bottle-Opening Shirt Gets Robotic Too

    Only minutes after posting about the future of beer and the robots that will serve us, I got an email from ThinkGeek about their BeerBot Bottle Opening Shirt. Ah, robots… is there anything you won’t be able to do?


  • 17.13.10The Future of Beer Gets Robotic

    When I saw the words “beer” and “robot” in a Tweet on Friday I figured I had seen this post before… it was either the irritating Japanese beer pouring robot, or the radio controlled “robot” cooler. But after reading through what I thought was an elaborate April Fools joke, I was convinced… these guys built a beer serving robot.


  • 17.4.10Joey Chestnut Still Top Dog at Coney Island

    Competitive eater Joey Chestnut has held on to his title and the Yellow Mustard belt at the 95th annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest at New York’s Coney Island. Chestnut chomped down on 54 hot dogs in 10 minutes on Sunday to win the annual Nathan’s International Hot Dog Eating Contest for the […]


  • 17.3.10American Beer for Independence Day

    Happy Independence Day, America. The 4th of July is the star of the month, and what better way to celebrate the first weekend of what should be called American Beer month than buying a selection of American Craft beer.


  • 06.23.10Like Salt? Maybe You’re a Supertaster

    If you love salty snacks and reach for the saltshaker regularly, you might think you have dull or underpowered taste buds that need a boost to get excited. But just the opposite may be true.


  • 46.17.10Turbo Que Grilling Fan

    We usually dislike so many things that Brookstone sells for your grill, so it was nice to see something that looked like it might be helpful for certain types of grilling. The Turbo Que is a fan that turns your gas grill into a convection oven.


  • 06.17.10Pour Your Own Beer at a Bar Near You (Someday)

    There is self-service for gasoline at the pump, soda at the fast-food joint, and groceries at the supermarket. So the next time you’re at a corner bar, how about you get your own beer? A pub in Philly is trying just that.


  • 06.17.10Does Beer Ever Expire?

    Will a beer left sealed in the bottle ever expire? The short answer is yes. But the longer answer is that it depends. We’ve all wondered about it, TheKitchn recently looked at the science a bit… and it got us thinking…


  • 36.2.10Budmillors Sales Down, Pabst and Yuengling Up

    The $100 billion U.S. brewing industry is staggering into the summer, drunk on the profits of yesteryear’s strong economy. Sales of 11 of the biggest brands fell recently… big beer titans Bud Light, Coors Light and Miller Lite all declined. Maybe Drinkability®™ didn’t have so much Profitability®™ after all.


  • 35.28.10Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Alton Brown

    Alton Brown, the creator, writer and host of The Food Network’s “Good Eats,” wants to teach American cooks to stop being recipe followers and become hackers. We spoke with Alton to find out more about one man’s quest to educate the culinary world about food and heat.