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Miller Offers Ice Cream That Tastes Like a Dive BarWould you like to taste a low-end bar that is cleaned irregularly and certainly doesn’t offer champagne or a Manhattan cocktail? Food Network reports that the Miller Brewing Company is now offering that flavor as ice cream.The iconic Eskimo Pie (now Edy’s Pie) was developed about a hundred years ago. To celebrate this milestone in American cuisine, Miller teamed up with Tipsy Scoop, a company in New York City that produces alcoholic ice cream. Miller wanted an ice cream bar that evokes the tastes of its High Life beer in its natural environment: the dive bar.This vanilla ice cream bar has a bit of peanut butter in it (to reflect discarded peanut shells), a whiff of tobacco flavoring, and caramel. It also comes, appropriately, with some Miller High Life inside, so don’t eat and drive.-via Dave Barry#IceCream #Beer

Algae is the Secret to Blue BeerA French brewery named Hoppy Urban Brew has an extensive line of craft beers, and now they have one in a lovely shade of blue! The beer called Line is made blue by the algae spirulina, which produces the chemical phycocyanin. The algae is grown by Etika Spirulina, a French company promoting algae as a dietary supplement. The brewery adds phycocyanin to its craft beer to turn it blue. Those who know say the algae adds only color to the beer, and it does not taste any different when phycocyanin is added. The collaboration between the algae firm and the brewery has paid off well so far, with the distinctive blue beer drawing a lot of interest. Read more about the new blue beer at Reuters. -via Real Clear Science(Image credit: REUTERS/Ardee Napolitano)#beer #algae #phycocyanin #spirulina #bluebeer #blue

Ancient Pots Found In China Suggest That Humans Have Been Drinking Beer Since 9,000 Years AgoHow long have we been acquainted with alcohol? Turns out we’ve been acquainted with the beverage way before the dawn of some of the oldest civilizations in the world. Researchers have found ancient pots at a burial site at Qiaotou in Southern China. These pots are said to date back 9,000 years, and the microfossil residues found in these pots suggest that they were used to hold beer made of rice.Because these beer vessels were found near an ancient burial site, the researchers believe that the beer was used in ceremonies which honored the dead.The beer inside the pots were not the only ones that were deemed special; the pots themselves were special, too.The ancient pots were discovered in a platform mound, which was surrounded by a human-made ditch, based on ongoing excavations at Qiaotou. No residential structures were found at the site. The mound contained two human skeletons and multiple pottery pits with high-quality pottery vessels. As the study reports, these artifacts are probably some of “the earliest known painted pottery in the world.” No pottery of this kind has been found at any other sites dating to this time period.(Image Credit: Leping Jiang)#Alcohol #Beer #Fermentation #AncientChina #Culture #Archeology #BeerMaking #Rituals #Ceremonies #AncientCivilization

In Germany, Doctor Octopus is Doctor OctoberfestDragonCon 2021 is in full swing in Atlanta. The cosplayers are in force, including this gentleman who offers beer steins in his lederhosen.Photo: Adam Baker-Siroty#cosplay #DragonCon #beer #Oktoberfest #beerstein #lederhosen #DocOck #DoctorOctopus

How Ancient People Fell in Love with Bread, Beer, and Other CarbsConventional wisdom tells us that the world changed at the beginning of the Neolithic period, when people settled in a specific place and developed agriculture. Before that, nomadic bands of hunters survived mostly on meat. That is indeed a big change, but recent research suggests that ancient people ate grains long before they learned to cultivate them. Consider the ruins of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, a settlement dated to 11,600 years ago. The many fossil bones found there led scientists to conclude that it was the site of huge gatherings of hunters who celebrated by eating meat.Now that view is changing, thanks to researchers such as Laura Dietrich at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. Over the past four years, Dietrich has discovered that the people who built these ancient structures were fuelled by vat-fulls of porridge and stew, made from grain that the ancient residents had ground and processed on an almost industrial scale1. The clues from Göbekli Tepe reveal that ancient humans relied on grains much earlier than was previously thought — even before there is evidence that these plants were domesticated. And Dietrich’s work is part of a growing movement to take a closer look at the role that grains and other starches had in the diet of people in the past.In fact, there is some evidence of humans eating grains 100,000 years ago! Why are we just now figuring this out? It's because meat leaves better evidence behind than food made from plants. But new scientific techniques are enabling archaeologists to study remains of plants in ancient dishes. Read about these new and rather different methods for finding out about the everyday diets of our ancestors at Nature magazine. (Image credit: Dosseman)#beer #archaeology #carbs #food #grains #diet

Heineken's Cute Beer Cooler Follows You Around While Carrying 12 Cans of BeerNow this is one "bot" that we won't mind tagging along with us!Meet the "Beer Outdoor Transporter" or BOT from Heineken. The autonomous bot is basically a cooler on wheels that can hold up to 12 cans of beer and follow you around like a puppy dog.#Heineken #beer #deliveryrobot #AutonomousDeliveryVehicle #cooler

Treasure Inside Beer Bottles From 120-Year-Old Shipwreck: Long-Lost Strains of YeastIn 1895, the cargo steamer Wallachia sank off the coast of Scotland. Today, over 120 years later, amateur diver Steve Hickman retrieved bottles of beer from the shipwreck for the treasure inside.No, the treasure isn't the beer inside the bottles - that had decayed and gone bad. Instead, it's the long-lost strain of yeast used to brew the beer.From BBC Future:The bottles they retrieved were handed to scientists at a research firm called Brewlab, who, along with colleagues from the University of Sunderland, were able to extract live yeast from the liquid inside three of the bottles. They then used that yeast in an attempt to recreate the original beer....Genetic testing revealed that the Wallachia stout contained two different types of yeast – Brettanomyces and Debaryomyces. In a paper about the work, Thomas and his colleagues explain that it's unusual to find Debaryomyces in an historic beer, though this type of yeast has turned up in a few Belgian beers made using spontaneous fermentation, which relies on leaving pre-fermented liquid open to the environment, so that yeast strains may settle on it.Image: Steve Hickman#beer #brewing #yeast #shipwreck #bottle