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iPhone 5 Back Made of Beer Cans? Not Likely

File this one under “extremely unlikely”. A journalist writing for the International Business Times is racking up some iPhone 5 rumors, including one that says the next iPhone will have a back plate made of beer can material, and another that suggests we'll be using sign language to input commands.It...

17 March 2012
17:21 GMT

Mobile Canning Service Greens Up Beer

An innovative business strategy coming from San Francisco is planning to revolutionize the activity of small craft breweries by helping them improve their eco-conscious attitude. Their ‘Can Van’ project aims to bring canning equipment meant to guide owners towards financial savings while minimizing their ecologica...

6 December 2011
04:23 GMT

URKontinent Is Google's First Beer, Courtesy of Dogfish Head

Google is known for doing a lot of things and it's not afraid of jumping into something it hasn't done before. It still manages to surprise though, it's latest venture is in the beer business.Granted, it's not going to start brewing its own beer, but it has gotten together with Dogfish Head to cre...

1 October 2011
08:21 GMT

Coca Cola Comes Out with Tumult, Soft Drink that Tastes like Beer

Coca Cola is branching out again, trying to tap into a segment it couldn’t reach before. Available only in select stores in France for the time being, Tumult is a carbonated soft drink that comes in two flavors: fruit and beer. As WallStreet.ro informs, the new beverage also brings additional health benefits, l...

10 August 2011
14:51 GMT

Genetics, Beer Combine to Boost Gastric Cancer Risk

Specific variations that occur in three genes boost the risk of developing non-cardia gastric cancer in patients who are also heavy beer drinkers. Investigators made the announcement in a new study, which was recently presented in the United States. Experts showcased their latest research on Monday, April 4, at the 1...

5 April 2011
08:01 GMT

Texas State Fair to Sell Deep Fried Beer

For all those beer lovers out there comes a little deep fried treat that will show the world that, if one person is willing to try it, beer can also qualify as food.About three years ago, Mark Zable set out to prove that if there’s one thing more fun than having a beer with a friend or at home on the couch, tha...

31 August 2010
15:41 GMT

Beer May Be Promoting Bone Health

Experts have been recently able to demonstrate that beer actually has a number of good effects on the human body, including the fact that it promotes bone health. That is to say, the investigation has evidenced the fact that the fermented beverage is actually a major source of dietary silicone, which is one of the ke...

8 February 2010
03:17 GMT

Moderate Drinking Boosts Bone Strength in Women

Though it may seem a bit like a stretch, a new Spanish study has found that women who regularly drink moderate to low amounts of alcohol have stronger bones than those who rarely touch alcohol. The study, which was conducted on more than 1,700 women, is detailed in the latest issue of the respected journal Nutrition,...

17 August 2009
06:59 GMT

Making Beer Taste Last Longer

For a long time, the drink industry has been troubled by a very serious obstacle in providing consumers with better products – the fact that their drinks degrade over time on account of chemical reactions that go on inside. A large part of these reactions is caused by riboflavin (vitamin B2), which catalyzes ph...

3 August 2009
06:30 GMT

Beer Residues Make for Alternative Fuel Resources

Beer is, undoubtedly, one of the most popular beverages in the world, and, as such, it is produced in vast amounts around the globe, from the largest metropolises to the smallest villages. And, in all breweries, the same process is followed, resulting in roughly the same byproducts. Now, a joint study by researchers ...

10 July 2009
04:59 GMT

Live Five Years Longer by Drinking Half a Glass of Wine Daily

It's common knowledge that drinking wine can be beneficial to your health, but its long-term effects on the human body have never before been analyzed at such a large scale. In a study lasting for 40 years, between 1960 and 2000, Dutch researchers monitored the life expectancy and drinking habits of more than 1,...

1 May 2009
12:01 GMT

Beer Foam Gives Birds' Feathers Color

Almost all things that are colored in nature, from ourselves to the beautiful feathers of some birds, get their hues from pigments, which are produced by the skin, scales, hair, or whatever is covering the respective creature. However, some birds get their coloring from tiny, nano-scale structures that resemble beer ...

6 April 2009
09:02 GMT

How to Make Beer at Home

Maybe you got tired of the same brands of beer and you want to try something new, or maybe those small bottles in which they serve it are simply not enough. Whatever your reasons, you should know that making beer at home is fairly easy, and requires no prior experience. In fact, because you would be the owner of your...

21 February 2009
05:58 GMT

Beer Affected by Global Warming

The effects of global warming are generally known to the public, and everyone keeps saying that the problem needs to be tackled at an individual level. However, very few people know what tackling problems at an individual level means. In the case of college students, for example, the possibility of beer going “...

16 January 2009
13:01 GMT

Study Shows Beer and Wine Increase Risk of Cancer

Although numerous other studies have shown that both wine (be it red or white) and beer are beneficial for one’s health if consumed moderately, a new finding of the World Cancer Research Fund reveals that two units of alcohol “increase the risk of bowel cancer by 18 per cent and liver cancer by 20 per cen...

29 December 2008
03:46 GMT

NanoBrewMaster, the (Almost) Instant Beer Machine

It's with a smile on our faces that we can bring beer lovers an exceptional piece of news: you'll soon be able to brew your own beer, at home, with the sensational NanoBrewMaster! The NanoBrewMaster is a no-nonsense spectacular machine, which will help you brew your own beer, at a much lesser cost than that...

16 December 2008
06:59 GMT

Space Beer Attempt from Japan

Sapporo Breweries, one of the most ancient beer producing companies in Japan, apparently said "why not?" to the concept of space beer. Since they have so much history, background, experience and success supporting them, the company's officials were likely to extend their views on their main product. But space be...

8 December 2008
04:25 GMT

Native Americans Drank Beer Before the Arrival of the Europeans!

We know that beer was first testified 5,000 years ago in the Old World, in the ancient Sumer (now southern Iraq) and Egypt. But the ancient Native Americans did not stay dry till the arrival of the Europeans. A new research, presented at the Materials Research Society meeting in Boston, revealed that Pueblo Indians b...

3 January 2008
03:56 GMT

Google Maps Beer

Ok, so, people are constantly saying that Google is turning into Orwell's Big Brother, that it follows them around and even in the privacy of their home they cannot be free to surf the web for anything, because the Mountain View based company is spying via the cookie it sends whenever you are using the search en...

12 December 2007
14:21 GMT

How to Make Pilsen Beer

Beer is as old as human civilization and we have not decided yet if it's good (as least for the heart and skin) or bad. 5,000 years ago, Sumerians, Babylonians and Egyptians already had over 19 varieties of beer. From Middle East, Europeans adopted this booze and at the beginning of the first millennium it had a...

10 December 2007
09:29 GMT

New Discovery: Chocolate is 3,000 Years Old!

Perhaps you cannot imagine life without chocolate. And many women give up sex for chocolate easily. Now we know when it was discovered: over 3,000 years ago, five centuries earlier than previously thought. A new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that chocolate was an "acciden...

13 November 2007
04:05 GMT

Beer, the Best Rehydrating Liquid after Exercising

Those guys hanging out at the pub with their buddies till morning do not avoid the company of their wives, they are just rehydrating. The Spanish got it right: a new research made at the Granada University points that after a game of football or rugby, a beer is more efficient in rehydrating the body than water, even...

6 November 2007
05:18 GMT

No Matter What Kind of Alcohol a Woman Drinks, This Will Destroy Her Boobs

After small quantities of alcohol have been considered to improve heart health for such a long time, recent researches show that this also can increase the risk of breast cancer. And one of the largest individual researches focusing on the effects of alcohol reveals that it does not matter what a woman drinks: wine, ...

28 September 2007
14:36 GMT

The Oldest Beer Breweries: 4,500 Years Old

Ancient Sumerian cuneiform slates from the Middle East testify that beer was processed in the area 5,000 years ago. Beer was very popular also among the Babylonians and the Egyptians of the same period, who knew more than 19 varieties. The oldest recipe also comes from ancient Egypt. From the Middle East, beer passed...

14 August 2007
06:14 GMT

Beer is the No 1 Alcoholic Drink for Bingers

If you watch too many movies, you might think that the favorite drink of the binge drinkers is spirits. But a new research shows that this may be what teens prefer; American adults are more likely to have a beer can in hand than a shot glass. These 'mythbusters' are the result of two researches made by the ...

8 August 2007
04:57 GMT

What Can You Do With Beer, Besides Drinking It?

Guys love beer and that can be easily seen in beer ads, where besides the actual product, you can see all kinds of sports and beautiful women, mostly naked or who are about to lose their clothes to the happy owner of a can/pint.But there is more to beer than meets the eye. Many interesting stories circulating on the...

30 July 2007
05:00 GMT

Beer for Kids

We live in a world in which everything goes faster and if we used to play with toy cars, now kids can grab the wheel of a toy SUV. And before learning how to read, they master a cell phone. They are assaulted with information and offers from all sides. "There is this focus on a more savvy, more informed, more inclus...

7 July 2007
05:33 GMT

What Gives Beer the Skunk or Stale Flavor?

A beer is a dynamic molecular world that does not stop evolving once it is in the bottle. Over 1,000 chemicals have been found in beer, giving it nearly 125 different flavors, referring to tastes, odors, and mouthfeel. About 40 flavors are common to the two broad types of beer, ales (pale ales, amber ales, and stouts...

31 May 2007
15:41 GMT

Beer, Found Healthier Than Wine

"The beer belly" is a misnomer as the beer per se does contain many calories.But beer is indeed an appetite stimulant and its consume can lead to storing pounds. Beer also has high levels of purines, which boost the levels of uric acid in the joints, aggravating the gout.Black beer was once promoted as a rich source ...

28 May 2007
14:51 GMT

Mathematics and the Best Beer

Besides a big belly, beer can mean pure science. And to get the best beer head, you must use mathematics. New found formulas could explain why the foam of lager disappears in a moment, while a Guinness's sticks around. This mathematics applies not only for beer brewing, but in metallurgy, too. The foam of a beer...

26 April 2007
04:09 GMT


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