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1. A lot of women drink beer. According to a 2003 Mediamark Research Inc. report, female beer drinkers constitute just under 40 percent of total beer drinkers in the U.S. The amount of beer they actually consume comes to about 20 to 25 percent of the total volume. Chances are, however, that if you’re reading this column (or writing it, for that matter), you consume more beer than most of the men you know.

Knokke, Belgium 1993; when being American was semi-Kool

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Cask conditioned ale (also referred to as real ale) is beer free of flavor-sacrificing processes and not subjected to tongue-biting CO2 to push it to the bar. All draft beer was cask-conditioned before the widespread introduction of the pressurized keg and gas cylinder.

In between shows Ed Stoudt was sweeping the floor. His wife Carol was swatting flies in the shop.

Travels with Barley — the name is a spin on Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley — is author Ken Wells’ journey down the Mississippi in search of the Perfect Beer Joint. At least, that’s how it started out, and that would have no doubt been a fine book.

Every month new beers become available and every season breweries are producing specialty beers that are available only for a limited time. Some breweries are marketing beers truer to the more traditional styles while others are producing more experimental products.

A man sitting alone at a bar is a person having a drink. A woman sitting alone at a bar is a more complicated thing.

Few people realize how long skates have been in use, but the history of skating parallels the rise of civilization. The first skates were ice skates, which have been traced back to the 11th century Viking era.

When thinking about beer from Japan one generally does not think of innovative brewing. Actually, Japanese consumers are known for coveting some of the best products on the market and beer is no exception.

The next time you reach for a pint of your favorite beer, consider what’s in the glass. A fine concoction of yeast, malt, water and hops, for sure — but a growing number of beer lovers are wondering if anything else might lurk in their luscious libations.

It takes roughly 11 hours to fly from Toronto to Brussels via London’s Heathrow Airport, whereas Cooperstown, NY, is considerably closer, if somewhat less exotic. And so it was that rather than heading off to Belgium again this past August, I instead hit the road to welcome ‘Het Bierland’ to my backyard in the form of Brewery Ommegang’s annual Belgium Comes to Cooperstown extravaganza.