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Our show has been cancelled by blip.tv, our RSS feed is going dark, but is this end of our intrepid beer adventurers?   Hell no.  So much so that we continue on enjoying some great Oktoberfest beers and pushing on with our ultimate villain challenge.  

Beer Experts Say These Are The 20 Best Beers In The World Megan Willett, businessinsider.com

Two Stan­ford com­put­er sci­en­tists have demon­strat­ed that beer geeks have great taste.

Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty com­put­er sci­ence post-doc Julian McAuley and assis­tant pro­fes­sor Jure Leskovec released a paper ear­li­er this year…

The Insidious Genius of Hello Kitty-Branded Beer Jordan Weissmann, theatlantic.com

Hello Kitty, hav­ing been slapped onto just about every other imag­in­able con­sumer prod­uct on this lit­tle blue mar­ble of ours, is now being used to mar­ket beer in Asia.*

Con­sumers in China and Tai­wan can now pick from six fruit-flavored…

This Beer Was Brewed Using Yeast Grown in a Beard Erin, mentalfloss.com

Beer basically consists of four things: hops, barley, water, and yeast. The hops add that flavor that we’ve come to know as beer, but without yeast, no one would experience its intoxicating effects. Of the more than 1600 strains of yeast, only a…

Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut Michaeleen Doucleff, npr.org

This med­ical case may give a whole new mean­ing to the phrase "beer gut."

A 61-year-old man — with a his­to­ry of home-brewing — stum­bled into a Texas emer­gency room com­plain­ing of dizzi­ness. Nurs­es ran a Breath­a­lyz­er test. And sure…