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The 8 Beers You Should Drink This Summer

The smell of burgers searing on the grill is best accompanied by the taste of a cold, refreshing beer. A great summer beer cools you off and quenches your thirst while tasting damn good in the process. So put away the barrel-aged stouts and heavy barleywines and reach for one of these. These…

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Preset Chess Is Ready to Go out of the Box

If you’re one of those people that loves a good game of chess, but wants to save as much time as possible by skipping the whole initial setup thing, you need to check out Preset Chess. The game that takes an afternoon to learn but a lifetime to master has…

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A 3-Week Railway Journey Through Japan

From concerts and sumo matches, to train and taxi rides, In Japan is "a collection of audiovisual moments and memories of a 3-week railway journey through Japan in 2015” that manages to pack more experiences and beautiful scenery into four minutes than you’d find in a feature film or any…

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ZUS Kevlar Charging Cable

ZUS Kevlar Charging Cables can pull 4,000lbs of car, are impervious to cat teeth, assist with 50lb curls and even get the business ends run over by an automobile without losing the ability to charge your Micro USB, Lightning or USB-C devices. Reinforced with Kevlar—yes, the same material you’ll find in bulletproof…

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Carlsberg Father of Quality Lager Is Brewed With Yeast From a 133-Year-Old Bottle

Unbeknownst to most, Carlsberg created a pure yeast over a century ago and distributed it for free to other breweries to combat beer sickness and widespread inconsistencies in repeated brews. The Re-Brew project uses an extracted sample of that original yeast from a 133-year-old Carlsberg bottle recently discovered in an…

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