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CBS Local Phantom Gourmet: Ginger Beer Taste Test CBS Local BOSTON (CBS) — Phantom recently purchased four brands of ginger beer at a local supermarket. The carbonated contenders were Capt'n Eli's, Goslings, Maine Root, and Reed's. See if you can guess which bottle ended up at the top of the food chain.

Voice of America (blog) Beer Poses as Soda to Get into Saudi Arabia Voice of America (blog) But when customs officials in Saudi Arabia looked more closely at the shipment, they found beer instead. The officials tore off the Pepsi labels on the cans. Underneath were Heineken beer labels. The reason for the trickery is clear. Alcohol is ...

OCRegister Comics and musicians share beer, wine and thoughts backstage at Cali Uncorked OCRegister Guests lined up for unlimited beer and wine tastings starting at 1 p.m. and definitely got their money's worth as several of the more popular breweries were tapped out by the 4 p.m. cutoff. Between samples, they wandered the sprawling, g ...

Asheville Citizen-Times How many calories are in that beer? Soon, you'll know Asheville Citizen-Times While the new law only deals with restaurant menus, breweries are concerned that they may eventually have to include that same nutritional information on beer bottles or cans. That would mean new packaging and extra costs and might cha ...

USA TODAY Beer Man: Smooth, complex Velvet Merkin will delight USA TODAY Beer Man is a weekly profile of beers from across the country and around the world. This week: Velvet Merkin. Firestone Walker Brewing Co., Paso Robles , Calif . www.firestonebeer.com. This review had a rough start. I was going to write that Velvet ...

Grist Ready to make home-brewed beer your next big project? Here's a helpful guide Grist I can't remember exactly what was going through my head when I called Bitter and Esters, a home brew shop in Brooklyn, asking about their starter beer-making kit, but it went something along the lines of this: “I like beer, so it should be a ...

Daily Record Morris area home brew crew celebrates beer Daily Record Members of the home brew community came together Saturday for the Second Motown Mash, hosted by the Morris Area Society of Homebrewers (MASH), at Nicole's Ten in Randolph. “This is about celebrating beer and feedback,” said Meghan Jambor, ...

Crain's Detroit Business From nuts to beer: Company builds revenue as craft brews grow Crain's Detroit Business Photo by LON HORWEDEL Treeborn CEO Brian Polowniak hoists a beer glass full of chestnut chips in the atrium of the Michigan State University Innovation Center, where his company, and several other startups, share office space ...

Washington Post (blog) Data geniuses have figured out what the ultimate beer-drinking road trip looks ... Washington Post (blog) So much beer, so little time. If you're a beer lover who lives in the U.S., you might be familiar with this problem. The U.S. has tons of fantastic breweries -- 3,464 in total in 2014, about 1,800 of which we ...

What beer are you drinking now? #1106 BeerAdvocate.com Today's beer is in anticipation of New Beer Sunday and is from the Genesee Brewhouse and it is their Salted Caramel Chocolate Porter. Now the porter is a really good beer with which to observe the changes that happen in beer as it warms. I suggest ...