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Posted by admin | News | Posted on April 30th, 2008

The News Review:

- Wine and Beer Calendar
- Beer conference reveals several craft projects
- Drink a beer and lose the fear – study
- Beer For Free?!? I guess…

Wine and Beer Calendar
New York Times – Apr 30, 2008
at Rock Center Café 20 West 50th Street. The cost is $52 plus tax and tip: (212) 332-7620. However You Say It.

Beer conference reveals several craft projects
San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 30, 2008
CNTENT>A six-pack of beer trends poured at this month's Craft Brewers Conference in San Diego:1. Beyond hops: Due to a global shortage of this raw material brewers seek other sources for aroma and bitterness. “I've heard people say yeast is the new hops” said Bryan Pearson of Colorado's Brewing Science Institute. r how about lemon grass dill and marjoram? “We've had a lot of interest from brewers” said Jack Vince of Indio's Golden State Herbs. Small is beautiful: Anheuser-Busch Miller and Coors increasingly produce smaller-batch boutique beers – think Blue Moon – basking in what beer analyst Benj Steinman terms “the craft halo.

Drink a beer and lose the fear – study
NEWS.com.au – Apr 30, 2008
article-tools –> By Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago April 30 2008 06:54am DRINKING alcohol dulls the brain’s ability to detect threats US researchers said today in a study that helps explain why drunk people get into bar fights and drive their cars. The researchers said the study was the first to show how alcohol affected the human brain as it responded to threats. "You see this all the time. People get into confrontations when they are intoxicated that they probably wouldn’t get into when they are sober" said Jodi Gilman of the National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism whose study appears in the Journal of Neuroscience. Ms Gilman studied 12 people who were given intravenous infusions of alcohol and then monitored their brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging while they looked at pictures of frightened and neutral faces.

Beer For Free?!? I guess…
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Apr 30, 2008
ne of my first conversations with my brother upon his move to DC for grad school went something like this:ME: “Are you meeting new people?”HIM: “Yeah we threw a house party the other night keg food everything. ME: “Make any money?”HIM: “No… ME: “Make any money?”HIM: “No. It’s kind of weird. Everyone on the East Coast has this notion of if you’re throwing the party everything is on you. Nobody kicked us anything.