Beer Pipeline
Bars in the Veltins-Arena, a major football ground in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, are interconnected by a 5 km long beer pipeline. It is the favourite method for distributing beer in such large stadiums, because the bars have to overcome big differences between demands during various stages of a match; this allows them to be supplied by a central tank. In the city of Randers in Denmark, the so-called Thor beer pipeline still exists. Originally, copper pipes were running directly from the brewery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_transport#For_beverages
Court declares beer "essential service"
Tribe Suing Beer Makers
A Native American tribe has sued some of the world's largest beer makers, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota said it was demanding $500 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services, and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation. The lawsuit targeted four off-site beer stores in Whiteclay, a Nebraska Panhandle town that, despite having only about a dozen residents, sold nearly 5 million cans of beer in 2010. Most of its customers come from the Pine Ridge reservation on the town's border. Leaders of the tribe blame the Whiteclay businesses for chronic alcohol abuse and bootlegging on the reservation, where all alcohol is banned.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57374180/tribe-suing-beer-makers-over-alcohol-problems/
Beer is good for your bones
Researchers have found that beer contained a substance that boosts bones and could reduce the risk of osteoporosis. Beer contains high levels of silicon known to slow down the bone thinning that leads to fractures and boosting the formation of new bone.
Studies have shown that silicon can aid bone growth, and that moderate beer drinking increases bone density. Charles Bamforth and Troy Casey at the University of California, Davis, have discovered how much silicon each type of beer contains. The pair found that lighter-coloured beers made from pale malted barley and with a greater use of hops, such as pale ales, are richest in silicon, while low-alcohol beers contain the least, along with stouts, porters, and wheat beers. Beer contains silicon in the form of orthosilicic acid (OSA), up to half of which can be absorbed by the body making beer a major contributor to silicon intake. The study was published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7168666/Beer-boosts-bones-and-fends-off-osteoporosis.html
Theory: Thirst for Beer Sparked Civilization
Alcohol could have been a catalyst for human civilization, when man decided to start farming, according to archaeologist Patrick McGovern. Humans may have turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture as the result of an urge for alcoholic beverages. "Alcohol provided the initial motivation," said McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. "Then it got going the engine of society." Why not make bread instead of beer? McGovern said beer was simply easier to make. "Alcohol was always present right from the beginning," McGovern said, adding that early man also relied on the beverage for rituals and medicinal purposes. In a new book, titled Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer and Other Alcoholic Beverages, he further the details his research on the history of alcohol brewing.
"Õlu on elu," the Estonians say -- "Beer is Life."
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