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Tag: light beer

  • The Lite Beer Blight—Make Your Own!
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    The Lite Beer Blight—Make Your Own!

    July 1, 2011 - Fred Eckhardt

    New York’s Rheingold Brewery produced the first light beer, Gablinger’s Diet Beer, in 1967, but it was a failure (didn’t sell). It had an original gravity* of 9 degrees Plato (1036 British), 4.6 percent ABV (alcohol by volume), but with almost no dextrin sugars at all (0.1 percent), which are what gives beer its flavor.

  • What This Country Needs Is A Good Five-Cent Beer!
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    What This Country Needs Is A Good Five-Cent Beer!

    July 1, 2009 - Fred Eckhardt

    Oh, wait. Not five-cent beer. What we need is five percent beer, although I actually drank what may have been the last five-cent beer ever offered. That was in about 1955, when a local Seattle tavern offered beer in a schooner-shaped jigger for a nickel! Great fun at the time, and one such beer was... View Article

  • Tapped Up or Tapped Out
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    Tapped Up or Tapped Out

    November 1, 2005 - Fred Eckhardt

    The first multiple tap bars had to be found in Europe. Perhaps it all started early in 18th century East London’s Shoreditch area where publicans came to serve a mixture from three different casks. “Three threads,” as it was called originally, consisted of equal parts pale ale, new (actively fermenting) brown ale, and aged brown... View Article

  • Drink Beer, Lose Weight? The Low-Carb Phenomenon
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    Drink Beer, Lose Weight? The Low-Carb Phenomenon

    March 1, 2004 - Julie Bradford

    When it comes to spotting trends, I have a secret tool not available to big-time market forecasters. As the editor of All About Beer Magazine and its related website, I answer the random beer questions that web-surfers type into the ether. So, about four years ago, when the most common question from women correspondents switched... View Article

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