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1 hr ago | The Indianapolis Star

Editorial: Indiana's peculiar liquor laws may drive you to drink

So a motorist in Indiana can pull up outside a package liquor store, plunk down a few bucks for a six-pack of cold beer, hop back into the car and speed off for home — or farther down the highway.

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Related Topix: Indiana, Indiana Government, Wine, Opinion

5 hrs ago | Patch.com

What's in Your Package? PA Beer Distributors call for Six-Pack Sales

By Melissa Daniels | PA Independent HARRISBURG - A simple six-pack of beer is becoming a focal point of the most substantive legislative debate on Pennsylvania alcohol laws since Prohibition .

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6 hrs ago | Chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk

Real ale bar celebrates a year

The Ale House, based in two of the viaduct arches next to Chelmsford railway station, toasted 12 months of success at the end of April.

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11 hrs ago | Patch.com

Free Iced Beverage at Deerfield Starbucks

Cool down this weekend with a free iced beverage from Starbucks . The coffee giant is offering a free tall iced drink when you buy an iced VIA.

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Related Topix: Coffee

15 hrs ago | Bloomberg

Cocktail Bars Making Better Drinks With Chemistry Tricks

When chef Michael White opens The Butterfly in New York in mid-June, the cocktail bar will pay homage to White's native Wisconsin with a brandy old-fashioned, a favorite libation in the Badger State.

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Related Topix: Cocktails, Life, Fruits, Food, Ferran Adria

19 hrs ago | City Paper

Azur Axes $40 Cocktail, Revamps Drink Menu

Apparently there is a limit to how much people will pay for a cocktail, and it is somewhere south of $40. Chef Frederik de Pue 's new seafood spot Azur opened with a $40 cognac-based cocktail as well as several $20-plus drinks on it initial menu.

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Related Topix: Cocktails, Life, Food, Dining, Seafood

Fri May 17, 2013

Albany Times Union

Pa. coffee run leads to hatchet hitchhiker arrest

Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker.

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Related Topix: Coffee

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Despite fire, Gibby's re-opens

The ice cream stand at Gibson's Dairy Farm is once again open for business, despite a three-alarm fire late Tuesday night that destroyed the warehouse and distribution building, the farm store and garage.

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Related Topix: Milk

Phoenix New Times

Five Things to Eat and Drink This Weekend in Metro Phoenix

Looking for something to put in your mouth this weekend? We've got you covered. Check out what's on our plate.

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Related Topix: Phoenix, AZ, Life, Food, Food Festival, Queen Creek, AZ, Fruits, Beer

KMIZ

Caffeinated toothbrush in the works

Forget coffee. Caffeine addicts may soon be able to get their fix when they brush their teeth in the morning.

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Related Topix: Coffee

Broward-Palm Beach

Sweetwater Brewing's Freddy Bensch Wants You To Drink 'Something Fresh, Something American'

You may have noticed a little extra tie-dye on your tap handles as of late, as Atlanta's signature Sweetwater Brewing has made its way down to the South Florida market.

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Related Topix: Florida, Beer

WANE-TV Fort Wayne

Happy Hour | It's All In The Glass

Tamre Mullins, a Cicerone Certified beer server and beer advocate, explains why the right glass can mean everything when it comes getting the full flavor out of your brew.

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Related Topix: Beer, Entertainment

The Washington Post

Puerto Rico seeks to revive coffee industry amid island's lowest production ever

Coffee production in Puerto Rico has hit the lowest level ever in the island's history, leaving farmers and government officials worried about how to revive a once burgeoning industry amid a deep economic crisis.

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Related Topix: Coffee, Agriculture, Science, World News

Thu May 16, 2013

Connecticut Post

Wineries want to help raise a glass to veterans

This undated publicity photo provided by courtesy of Murphy-Goode Winery shows a bottle of Murphy-Goode Homefront 2011 red wine.

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Related Topix: Wine, Pop/Rock, Wild Turkey, Bourbon Whiskey, Liquor, California, Life, Veteran Affairs

Boulder Weekly

Extra special

Once upon a time - like five years ago - all a craft microbrewery needed was an empty warehouse and a good recipe for an IPA, and it was ready to roll.

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Related Topix: Beer, Life, Homebrewing, Hobbies

The Gazette

Lowering drunk-driving limit would hurt craft brewers and those who love them

If you love craft beer - which is tastier and usually stronger than the mass-produced domestic swill that lines most liquor store shelves - you've probably heard about the effort to lower the national standard for drunk-driving to .05 percent blood-alcohol content.

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Related Topix: Beer

The Austin Chronicle

Think Pink

290 E., Fredericksburg, 830/990-8800 Lunch, Tue.-Sat., 11am-2:30pm; dinner, Thu.-Sat., 5:30-9pm; Sunday brunch, 10am-close www.pinkpigtexas.com Anyone who has paid the slightest attention to fine dining in Central Texas over the last two decades should be familiar with Rebecca Rather.

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Related Topix: Texas, Fredericksburg, TX, Recreational Vehicle, Award, Wine

National Public Radio

Researchers Don't 'Wine' About The Cold, Their Grapes Thrive

A dozen universities are collaborating on a sort of extreme winemaking project: How cold a climate can a grape survive and still make good wine? The Northern Grapes Project is inventing wines the world has never seen before, winning wine awards and creating a new crop for struggling rural economies.

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News24

Motsoaledi to fight beer plans

There is one thing that nearly led to the demise of the ANCYL and that also renders other political youth structures irrelevant, says Ace Moloi .

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Related Topix: Beer, World News, South Africa

Wed May 15, 2013

Decanter Magazine

Bordeaux 2012: Pichon Lalande, Malartic Lagraviere, Beychevelle release

The last two days have seen a few attempts to get what has been described as the 'forgotten Bordeaux 2012 campaign' finally moving, but customers are 'turning their backs on the vintage', merchants say.

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Related Topix: Wine