We have covered many, many reasons that beer is good for you in moderation. Now Men’s Health has jumped on the bandwagon with 6 more reasons to drink beer and includes beers that illustrate those reasons. They choose a top pick for each category but also give several alternatives as well. So if you can’t [...]

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Burleigh Brewing, a small independent craft brewer in Queensland, Australia, claims to have created the first no-carb beer. The 88 calorie BIGHEAD Beer is a “full-flavoured, full-strength lager that is 100% natural, free of additives and preservatives, and has a smooth, clean taste.” That’s an impressive claim.
Burleigh Brewing’s CEO, Peta Fielding, said BIGHEAD’s arrival would [...]

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So as the days get colder I always joke that it is great beer drinking weather since your beer stays cold. But sitting here drinking my morning cup of joe looking at one of my favorite sites lifehacker.com I ran across this story about mulled beer. Mulled beer is hot spiced beer. It was all [...]

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I’ve never been concerned about the calories in my beer. I would rather exercise a little more or skip dessert than drink less-than-full-flavored beer. But even if you are concerned about beer calories, you don’t have to drink beers that taste watered down.
Most light beers save only about 20 to 50 calories per bottle—and some [...]

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A team of biology students at Rice University are working on genetically modifying a strain of beer yeast to produce resveratrol during fermentation. Resveratrol is “a chemical in wine that’s been shown to reduce cancer and heart disease in lab animals.”
While this is infinitely better than Jessica Simpson’s “vitamin beer,” I have my doubts that [...]

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I ran across an interesting article that explains how drinking beer was essential in the development of modern, urban society. And through natural selection, those with a genetic advantage which allowed them consume alcohol without getting sick or falling over were the ones that ended up building civilization as we know it.
As people migrated to [...]

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Forbes.com has a story that looks at 8 ways that medical research has shown that drinking beer can good for your health.
1. Reduced the risk of heart disease
“A 2006 study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard School of Public Health found that, among men with healthy lifestyles, those [...]

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File this one under Rants.
I came across an article with a provocative headline: Body builder alert: beer degrades muscles. “Oh no!” I thought. “My favorite libation could be causing me to turn into a flabby old man prematurely.” No doubt this is exactly what the author wanted me to think when I read the headline. [...]

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Found this on Olivaria beer web site.

Beer improves metabolism, and many doctors consider that it is better to drink beer often (maybe every day), but with moderate portions (100-200 ml), than rarely but with huge portions.
1. Beer strengthens cordial muscle.
There are lots of potassium, magnesium, phosphorus in beer and it is excellent prophylaxis of myocardial [...]

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