10 Best Home Brewings

Are you passionate for craft beer and you love making your own brew under your own roof at home? Then this home brewing accessory is perfect for you. Makes a great surprise for any home brewer or …

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A Happy Valley of Beer — Investigating the Pubs and Breweries of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England

Many of these local venues collaborate to support Hebden Bridge Craft Beer Festival every April, with tap takeovers, events, and live music.  Strolling through town late on a warm summer Sunday evening, thoughts of such busy events slip far from my mind The laid-back atmosphere feels far away from the plots of crime drama, although in this community of sharp contrasts, that might be exactly the town’s and TV series’ appeal?  I stop by the Picture House—a typically nonprofit cinema operated by the local council—where I find Nightjar Brew Co.’s eponymous bar I sample a pint of Lost in Ikea, Nightjar’s DDH Session NEIPA, while a healthy crowd of drinkers of all ages relaxes in the bare-bricked, softly lit ambience. Here in Hebden Bridge, it seems they’re living in a very happy valley indeed

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The Ghostly Outline of a Shadow — Tracing the Footsteps of Whiskey Near-Legend Jokichi Takamine

as a delegate to the 1884 World Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, where he met his future wife, Caroline Hitch, an 18-year-old debutante, at a party.  Because Takamine spoke English and carried himself in a dignified way, “the press took him as royalty,” Lyman explains, noting that Takamine’s knowledge and temperament “made for easy entrée into polite society.” When he returned to Japan, he was tapped to lead the Japanese Bureau of Patents and Trademarks; patenting many of his discoveries would become part of his business model (and legacy) throughout his life. Then, he took a leave to establish Asia’s first superphosphate factory, which is where he made his fortune, enabling him to marry Caroline in 1887. His first client: a U.S.

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