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This Week's Beer Events & Socials: Keeping Keeping Together Together

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Here’s what we’ve rounded up for this week: This Weekend: If you love meat snacks, you’ll definitely want to attend Dovetail’s Landjaeger and Treberwurst party featuring a conversation with Jesse Brookstein, author of the extremely specific book A PERFECT PAIR: THE HISTORY OF LANDJAEGER IN GREEN COUNTY WISCONSIN.

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A Taproom, a Tease and a Deal: This Week's Beer Events & Socials

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You’ll want to attend Dovetail’s first annual Landjaeger & Treber-Fest on July 26th, which features a conversation with Jesse Brookstein, author of the extremely specific book A PERFECT PAIR: THE HISTORY OF LANDJAEGER IN GREEN COUNTY WISCONSIN. Four chefs, four dogs, one wiener.

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In the Middle Ages, European Beer Was Hallucinogenic

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These bilsenkraut gardens served as the namesake for several towns, including the Czech town of Pilsen, the birthplace of the beloved pilsner. As such, it’s been speculated that the original pilsners actually contained doses of bitter-tasting henbane before the introduction of hops.

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This Week's Beer News: Metro on a Short Fuse

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On Wednesday, the Block Club Book Club is taking a hike, grabbing a beer at Alarmist Brewing and reading “Beer Hiking Chicago.” OnMilwaukee praised the new amber-y pilsner from 3 Sheeps. Job notice: Noon Whistle needs a cellarperson ; credit awarded for including the salary in the listing.

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A High-Tech ‘Beer Printer’ From Belgium Wants to Digitize the Drinking Experience

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The device was inspired, Standaert says, by a 2018 book by Kevin Verstrepen, a professor of genetics and genomics at Leuven University. However, it’s probably safe to guess that there’s some overlap with the categories from the book, since the Bar.on An IPA is easier to pull off than a classic pilsner. Credit: Bar.on

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This Week's Beer Events & Social Updates - Plus CB&B's Best in Beer

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Oh, and his Malort book is done too. (No surprise there; we’re the best.) Former Tribune beer reporter Josh Noel is hosting a conversation at Hop Butcher on Wednesday, Nov. 29 about what’s happened in the five years since publishing Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out.

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Chain Restaurant Cocktails: The Good, the Bad, and the Outrageously Boozy

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In the early days, TGI Fridays was an incubator of bartending skill and discipline during a period when bartending was considered a dead end,” wrote Robert Simonson in his book, “ A Proper Drink: The Untold Story of How a Band of Bartenders Saved The Civilized Drinking World.” The Rum Forest Rum at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

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