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5 unusual facts about Beers


Beers

Beers, North Brabant, a Dutch place in the North Brabant municipality of Cuijk

De Beers, a Johannesburg-based diamond mining and trading corporation

Beers, Steers, and Queers

"Something Wonderful" includes the eponymous sample from the climactic scene from the movie 2010: Odyssey Two.

The original version was released in 1999 on the compilation Alternative Press presents Industrial Strength Machine Music (The Framework of Industrial Rock 1978-1995).

Hook 'em Horns

A variant of the Horns, formed upside down with the thumb pointed outward, is often used by rivals of the Longhorns and is considered insulting, especially when performed by a player or coach of the team in question.


BarCraft

In May 2011, the user o Oskar posted a topic on reddit saying that on May 11, 2011, people could go to Chao in Seattle to watch that day's North American Star League games while drinking a few beers and enjoying the company of other StarCraft fans.

Beer in Asia

Kingdom Breweries, Cambodia's only premium craft beer brewery, brews top-quality dark, pilsener, and gold lager beers in Phnom Penh.

Beer in Mexico

This same group created the company Cervecería Revolución with beers dedicated to Che Guevara, Maquiavelo and Emiliano Zapata.

Beer in the Netherlands

The monks that run the Koningshoeven Brewery in Berkel-Enschot brew several beers, mostly branded La Trappe, and has been active since 1884, while the De Kievit brewery of the Zundert abbey was only founded in 2013 and brews a beer named Zundert.

Beers Criteria

The late Mark H. Beers, MD, a geriatrician, first created the Beers Criteria in 1991, through a consensus panel of experts by using the Delphi method.

Beijing Beer

It is possible to purchase in most convenient stores, particularly 7-Eleven, supermarkets and restaurants although not as widespread as China's two most popular beers, Tsingtao Beer and Yanjing Beer.

Ben Lewitt

Ben also now works in the family brewing business The Warwickshire Beer Company, where some of their beers hold awards from Campaign for Real Ale.

Big Hole

On the 13 March 1888 the leaders of the various mines decided to amalgamate the separate diggings into one big mine and one big company known as De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, with life governors such as Cecil John Rhodes, Alfred Beit and John Rhodes.

Bob L. Beers

Originally from Eureka, California, Beers attended Arcata High School and Humboldt State College.

BrewDog

On September 2013 a TV show titled Brew Dogs premiered on the US television channel, Esquire Network where James and Martin travel across America visiting different American beer towns, celebrating distinctive craft beers and creating their own locally-inspired brews.

Brouwerij De Molen

De Molen and several of its beers were listed among the "Beers of the Year 2008" at noted UK beer journalists Roger Protz and Tom Cannavan's website beer-pages.com.

Carlton Draught

Carlton Draught is a pale lager which is sold on tap in its home state of Victoria as well as in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, and is one of Australia's most popular selling tap beers.

Castle Rock Brewery

Castle Rock also brew a range of one-offs and seasonal beers and also a "Natural Selection" wildlife ales, in conjunction with the Wildlife Trusts.

Charles Wells Ltd

Charles Wells Pub Company has an estate of more than 200 pubs predominantly based across the Eastern and Northern Home Counties regions, while Wells & Young's beers are distributed through both the Charles Wells and Young's pub estates.

Charlotte Beers

Charlotte Beers (born July 26, 1935 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American businesswoman and former Under Secretary of State.

Edward M. Beers

Beers was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served until his death in Washington, D.C. Interment in the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery in Mount Union.

Full Sail Brewing Company

In July 2003, Full Sail began contract brewing three beers for SABMiller under the almost 150 year-old Henry Weinhard's brand: Henry Weinhard's Hefeweizen, Northwest Trail Blonde Lager, and Amber Light.

Gisenyi

Gisenyi is also home to Bralirwa, the only brewery in Rwanda, which manufactures various local beers Primus and Mützig, as well as Amstel, Guinness and a range of Coca Cola brand soft drinks.

Happy Flowers

The musical group, Happy Flowers, was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1983 by two members of the Landlords, John Beers ("Mr. Horribly Charred Infant", drums, vocals) and Charlie Kramer ("Mr. Anus", guitar, vocals), both students at the University of Virginia.

Hell for Certain, Kentucky

The Bluegrass Brewing Company of Louisville, Kentucky has named one of their beers after Hell for Certain.

History of beer

The popularity of hops was at first mixed—the Brewers Company of London went so far as to state "no hops, herbs, or other like thing be put into any ale or liquore wherof ale shall be made—but only liquor (water), malt, and yeast." However, by the 16th century, "ale" had come to refer to any strong beer, and all ales and beers were hopped, giving rise to the verse noted by the curious antiquary John Aubrey

Homebrewing

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed into law a bill allowing home beers, which was at the time not permitted without paying the excise taxes as a holdover from the prohibition of alcoholic beverages (repealed in 1933).

Ice Bar Sub-Zero

The drink list includes Absolut Vodka cocktails and an assortment of beers as well as warmer drinks like coffee and tea.

Intra-industry trade

For a very simple example, it could be argued that although a BMW and a Ford are both motor cars, and although a Budweiser and a Heineken are both beers, they are really all different products.

Jan van Beers

Van Beers as a teacher was early in the field, with Hendrik Conscience, Willems and others, when the Flemish movement began.

John R. Montgomery

Montgomery worked at Burnett for 33 years, where he served as Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director and handled accounts including McDonald’s (domestic and global), Minute Maid (Coca-Cola), Nintendo, Kellogg, Procter & Gamble, Allstate, 7-Up, Keebler, Green Giant, Miller Beers, United Airlines, Kraft Foods, Nestle and Samsonite.

Kopřivnice

Brewing is also an important industry and some of the country's finest beers are produced in the area.

Magic Hat Brewing Company

It began production in 1994, and is currently owned by Costa Rican company Florida Ice & Farm Co. It brews three year-round beers and several seasonal products and one-off batches.

Motorized recliner incident

On August 31, 2009, he left a local bar in Proctor, Minnesota, after having drunk eight or nine beers, and crashed into a car in the parking lot.

Newman Day

Additionally, some of its members have been known to take part in what is known as The Jonathan Price Holiday Grog, drinking 72 beers in 72 hours.

Peerless Brewing Company

Peerless Brewing Company is an independent microbrewery based in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula, producing craft-brewed beers by combining traditional techniques and fine ingredients with a modern tang.

Reinheitsgebot

Medieval brewers had used many problematic ingredients to preserve beers, including soot and fly agaric mushrooms.

Roseto Effect

The Roseto Effect was first noticed in 1961 when the local Roseto doctor encountered Dr. Stewart Wolf, then head of Medicine of the University of Oklahoma, and they discussed, over a couple of beers, the unusually low rate of myocardial infarction in Roseto compared with other locations.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

In 2010, Sierra Nevada Brewing partnered with the Abbey of New Clairvaux, with the monastery beginning production of Trappist-style beers in 2011.

St. Pauli

To the jubilee the Fan club 18auf12 had recorded a song: One Hundred Beers (Words and music by Henning Knorr & Christoph Brüx).

Stalisfield Green

The pub serves only Kentish beers from its traditional hand pumps; regularly featuring ales from Hop Daemon (Newnham), Gadds (Ramsgate) and Goachers (Maidstone).

Stege, Denmark

The town also has its own microbrewery, Bryghuset Møn, which produces nine different beers and runs a restaurant.

Thornbridge Brewery

Thornbridge's beers were originally brewed by Martin Dickie, a graduate of the International Centre for Distilling and Brewing at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and Stefano Cossi, a graduate in Food Science and Technology at Udine University, Italy.

Venomous Concept

Shane Embury and Sharp were already acquainted, and "some beers, pizza and old vinyl classics by Poison Idea, Black Flag and Systematic Death" renewed their friendship.

Willi Fels

Fels' family were prominent in the arts and culture of southern New Zealand for many years, his cousins, the De Beers (including Esmond Samuel de Beer), and grandson Charles Brasch also making a permanent mark on the country's cultural life.


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