Drinking as much as you used to could lead to greater intoxication.
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Tolerance happens when the brain adapts to the effects of alcohol – eventually causing us to need more to achieve the same effects.
Three women dressed in Middle-Age period garb as alewives.
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Today, beer is marketed to men and the industry is run by men. It wasn’t always that way.
Used bear bottles in a factory in Nigeria.
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Nigerian students are consuming alcohol in alarming quantities, and for psychological reasons. What can be done?
Would you drink beer made from wastewater?
To continue to sustain or grow populations — and economies — more is going to have to be done with the same amount of water, or even less.
Refreshing in the scientific-medical sense, not just the pints-after-work sense.
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Remove the alcohol and calories, and it turns out beer is a drink that has many qualities found in health drinks.
Cylinder seal (left) and modern impression (right) showing two people drinking beer through long straws. Khafajeh, Iraq (Early Dynastic period, c. 2600–2350 B.C.).
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Beer was extremely popular in ancient Mesopotamia. Sipped through straws, it differed from today’s beer and was enjoyed by people from all walks of life.
A tapster delivers a frothing tankard to seated alehouse customers in this 1824 etching.
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The traditional English pub where customers stand at the bar to be served is actually a fairly modern addition.
A farmer carries farming tools to her sorghum field in the arid Turkana County, northern Kenya.
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A consistent, predictable and friendly policy environment can attract private sector investments in agriculture to drive transformation.
An invisible organism with worldwide influence.
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Yeast is a single-celled organism that’s everywhere around us. Understanding how yeast works can help you make better bread and appreciate this old friend of humanity.
Shopping for wine in Seattle, where many liquor stores are considered “essential businesses.”
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Sales of alcohol have reported jumped by around a quarter as people bulk buy wine, beers and spirits. That could lead to a range of short-term and long-term problems.
Public intoxication is illegal in every jurisdiction in Australia.
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At what point does good-natured inebriation become criminally-tinged intoxication?
A Zulu household, from an 1895 book called The Colony of Natal: An Official Illustrated Handbook and Railway Guide.
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A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state.
These foods are all dependent on microorganisms for their distinctive flavor.
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Bread. Yeast. Wine. Cheese. All these delicious foods are courtesy of various forms of domesticated fungi. So how, exactly, did humans tame wild fungi into the cooperative species that make our food?
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In the UK today, the term ‘craft beer’ has so many associations that there’s a danger it may end up meaning nothing at all.
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Beers with sexist names and labels were banned from the Great British Beer Festival this summer.
Ultimately, just as in pregnancy, there is no known safe level of alcohol consumption while breastfeeding.
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Does beer help a new mother’s milk come in? Does ‘pumping and dumping’ allow you to drink and breast-feed? A doctor sorts the evidence from the myth.
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The practices and values of craftsmanship correspond well with the requirements for a sustainable economy. But they’re threatened by industry.
Research out of the US tested different varieties of beer and wine for the presence of glyphosate – but there’s lots to consider when interpreting the findings.
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The amount of alcohol you’d have to drink before glyphosate posed even a negligible risk would harm you well before the glyphosate would.
Brooklyn Brewery was sold to Kirin, Japan’s second-biggest brewer, in 2016.
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The likes of AB InBev and MillerCoors have been trying to jump on the craft beer bandwagon by snapping up artisanal breweries. Do consumers care?
A sorry sight.
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Boarded up pubs are becoming a common sight, and it’s having a real impact on rural village life.