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FDA's Four Loko Move Makes Microbrewers Jittery

(Nov. 20) -- Experimental craft-beer maker Scott Newman-Bale has made some strange concoctions. Peanut-butter-and-jelly beer. Stout that tastes like s'mores. Next the Michigan microbrewer wants to invent a "spruce-tip pilsner," using fresh treetops. But first he has to ask a question that could ruin it all, one that's...

How Jimmy Carter Gave America Good Beer

(Aug. 6) -- Cheers to Jimmy Carter's legacy! Carter's presidency, a one-termer, is often trashed by political observers, but there's at least one unalloyed triumph of the Carter "malaise" years: good beer. On the occasion of International Beer Day, Aug. 5, blogger E.D. Kain took note of Carter's role in the rise of...