This week’s best of the beer web

Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer

Chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2000 years ago shows they were ingesting the antibiotic tetracycline on a regular basis, likely from a special brew of beer. (Wired.com)

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The Australian Media Series Audio Webcast

The big beer ad: what’s next in the beer wars? The Australian’s marketing writer Simon Canning talks with the Gruen Nation’s Russel Howcroft, chairman and Managing Director of George Patterson’s Y&R, and Tom Moult, one of Australia’s foremost creative directors and chairman of Euro RSCG.(The Australian)

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World’s ‘oldest beer’ found in shipwreck

Salvage divers have recovered what they believe to be the world’s oldest beer, taking advertisers’ notion of ‘drinkability’ to another level. (CNN.com)

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Award winning beer spawned by poker

A former sea urchin researcher and two-time New Zealand poker champion has big plans to grow his micro-brewed beer label, which took out an industry award last week. (nzherald.co.nz)

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Bitter vs Lager: A rant from David Mitchell

British comedian David Mitchell is a little unfamiliar to Australians, unless you’ve ever caught his brilliant comedy series Peep Show, or seen his occasional appearance on QI. He is brilliantly funny in that self-deprecating, nerdy, but incredibly intelligent way that only very few comedians pull off. And here, in this great short video, he expounds on his love of bitter, and it’s dominance over lager – and particularly his pet peeve, ‘creamy’ lager.(via Thirsty Critters.com.au)

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