Five Teetotalers in the White House
November 1, 2008 - Rick LykeWilliam Henry Harrison (1841): Even though Harrison was a teetotaler, the Whigs ran a campaign handing out bottles of hard cider to promote him as a man of the people.
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Full Pints - History - Learn BeerThe Real History of Beer
March 1, 2008 - Lew BrysonWe all know how craft beer history goes. Beer was great until the 19th century, when mass production of lagers took over the world, and American brewers put corn and rice in their beer to make it cheaper. By 1950, everyone was hypnotized by marketing into drinking the fizzy yellow beer. It looked bad, but... View Article
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The Irish Heartbeat
At Home or Away, the Pub is About Its People March 1, 2008 - Eileen McNamaraWalk through The Front Door in Galway and the ear-splitting volume of the music and the size of the fashionable crowd spilling between the first and second floors might deceive you into thinking that you have stumbled into a nightclub in Manhattan.
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Beer Lift for the Troops?
July 1, 2007 - Greg KitsockA critic of America’s Noble Experiment once inveighed, “The only thing Prohibition has accomplished is that a man who wants a weak drink is compelled to take a strong one, and a man who wants a good drink is compelled to take a bad one.”
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Stout in a Slump
January 1, 2007 - Roger ProtzThere’s an old saying in England that when the ravens leave the Tower of London, the monarchy will fall. Is there, I wonder, a similar maxim in Ireland when sales of Guinness slump: the Blarney Stone turning to dust, perhaps?
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Strange Alliance
November 1, 2006 - Greg KitsockPolitics can generate some surprising alliances. In July, the National Beer Wholesalers Association—the brewing industry’s most influential lobbying group—found itself siding with MADD, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth and similar anti-alcohol organizations. Their common ground was support for H.R. 864, the Sober Truth on Preventing... View Article
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Raising a White Flag
September 1, 2006 - Roger ProtzIn the small Belgian town of Hoegaarden the windows of stores and offices are decked out with posters that say in Flemish “Hoegaarden Brews Hoegaarden.” The town is about to lose its brewery and the citizens are deeply angered by the decision to close a plant that revived the “white” spiced wheat beers of the... View Article
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Does Washington Lack Hometown Spirit?
July 1, 2006 - Greg KitsockWhen Gary Heurich decided to revive Washington, DC’s brewing tradition 20 years ago, the eager 29-year-old with the handlebar mustache figured he would have his own brewery up and running by 1988.
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Celebrating a Trappist Triumph
May 1, 2006 - Roger ProtzThe Trappist ales of Belgium and the Netherlands, produced in breweries attached to abbeys, are world famous. They include Chimay, La Trappe and Orval, the most widely exported beers. They are produced by monks who help maintain their churches and fund their work in the community with the sales of their beer.