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News After 25 years, iconic He’Brew beer shuts off the tap
Jeremy Cowan, who launched He’Brew beer in San Francisco in 1996, has decided to close the spigot on the brand that brought high quality craft beer—and innumerable Jewish puns— to weddings, bar mitzvahs and liquor stores around the country. Cowan has been the face of He’Brew and its Shmaltz Brewing Company – the only identifiably…
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Fast Forward German Locals Buy Town’s Entire Beer Supply To Dry Out Neo-Nazi Festival
Neo-Nazis visiting a small town in Germany for a far-right festival were forced to go without beer after police confiscated more than a thousand gallons and locals worked together to buy the rest of the town’s supply from supermarkets ahead of time, the BBC reported Monday. Police seized 4,200 liters of beer on Friday after…
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Fast Forward L’Chaim! Israeli Scientists Brew Beer From 5,000-Year-Old Yeast
Israeli scientists were able to brew beer from ancient strains of yeast excavated from archaeological sites, with one flavor coming from a 5,000-year-old sample, the Times of Israel reported. A group of scientists led by biologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well a local brewmaster, were able to sequence the DNA of six…
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Food In The Heart Of Oregon — A Kosher Brewery Thrives
To make the Janis Hoplin beer from Leikam Brewery, first gather all the ingredients for a 6-8 hour brew day. Meld the grains for an hour and a half. Put in about 400 pounds of barley. Then put the beer in the fermenter for about three weeks. Then bring the beer to a conditioning tank….
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Culture Germany And Israel Collaborate On A Brewtiful Beer
What better way to celebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary this summer than a one-of-a-kind cold one? To honor Israel’s septuagennial, the German Embassy in Tel Aviv led an initiative to craft a commemorative brew, one of several projects the embassy is doing to mark the occasion. The beer, simply named “70,” is a collaboration between Israel’s…
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News Rabbis Banned His Beer. But He’s The Most Jewish Person Ever.
The Sunday before Passover, New York’s biggest beer mogul, Simon Bergson, found an ultra-Orthodox rabbi waiting for him in the lobby of his apartment building. The rabbi brought some strange news: He needed Bergson to sell all of his beer. Symbolically. Just for a week. Then he could buy it back. Bergson had never heard…
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News Orthodox Rabbis Order Jews To ‘Stick To Budweiser’ — Or Skip Beer
Better put down that pint of Guinness, and don’t even think about cracking a Corona. This month, some Orthodox rabbis are telling New York Jews they should stick to Budweiser — or not drink beer at all. The unusual edict was made after the rabbis who keep watch on New York’s kosher food supply realized…
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