Brew Your Own (Digital!) Beer

Like their colleagues on the other side of the Rhine, professionals in the German drinks industry, particularly those in the beer sector, are teetering on an economic cliff edge. Restrictions due to public health measures have taken a heavy...

At Abydos, in Egypt, archaeologists have uncovered what seems to be the oldest “brewery” ever discovered. Beer, which Romans hated because of “the drink’s lack of nobility” and its smell “of wet goat”, is nonetheless recognized as the first...

From man to elephant, by way of shrew, goat, cats, and dogs, mammals have a natural propensity to booze, as soon as booze finds a way in via a fermented bunch of grapes from a wild vine. But we...

Ten million litres or 2.6 million gallons? We are not trying to start a dispute about units of measurement, but simply making the point that that amount of liquid would fill the equivalent of four Olympic swimming pools. On...

A Californian who’d run out of fire retardant solutions, but who had no shortage of ideas came up with an excellent one: putting out a fire essentially with beer... https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/09/17/wildfire/