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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Money

Boozle Hunts Down Cheap Drinks In Your Area

10:00AM Angus Kidman | Throwing a party but don’t want to spend a fortune on alcohol? Boozle lets you search by location to find the cheapest provider of a given beer, spirit or premix in your area. More »
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Organise

RateBeer Finds You a Good Brew

12:00AM Adam Pash | Web site RateBeer contains an enormous user-rated database of beers to help you find your new favourite beer. Last weekend we highlighted Beer Suggest, a new site scouring the net to bring you a good beer, but several commenters pointed out RateBeer (and BeerAdvocate) as sites that have been around for much longer—which means they boast more reviews and a more robust database of brews. So while you’re enjoying some nice late spring weather this weekend, check out RateBeer to find something tasty to relax with. RateBeer More »
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Saturday, October 6, 2007

How To Make A Beer Battery

7:51AM Annalee Newitz | Beer batteries create energy from bacteria that feed on waste water. The technical term for them is “microbial fuel cells” (MFCs), and they earned the nickname beer batteries because beer company Fosters has funded the development of MFCs in Australia that run on waste water produced by the beer-making process. The best part about beer batteries, though, is that you can make them at home, based on instructions developed by a high school student named Abbie Groff. She won an international science fair prize for her work. Image by Abbie Groff. Groff’s MFC tutorial More »
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