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...looked up from my own pre-dinner brew. A rare moment of clarity for this Psychology concentrator whose blood was probably bluer than his blazer...
...found it. The language was pleasantly buffered, and as crunchy and satisfying as a piece of toast. I swore off coffee and spent the next two or three weeks chewing my way, at a thoughtful, decaffeinated pace, through the book. I’ve gone back to the brew by now—both literally and metaphorically—but I did it knowing that my literary antacid is always at the ready...
...Beer has been brewed in this county capital of 95,000 since the middle ages, and the Budejovicky Budvar brewery was founded in 1895. The company was nationalized after World War II, but has kept producing a premium brew from first-rate water, malt and hops that to this day matures for three months in white lagering tanks in the brewery's chilly cellars. "It is a symbol of Budejovice," says 20-year-old resident Johana Stejskalova when asked what Budvar means...
...That may help calm those locals who subscribe to an anyone-but-Anheuser mentality, believing it would be an insult for their illustrious brew to be owned by what they consider a pretender to the Budweiser name. "It would be a smack in the face," scoffs retired car repairman Milos Homolka, 54. "Americans would still make beer, but it will not be the good old Budvar." Not that it would really affect Homolka either way. He has already switched to pilsner...
...talkative and charming. His interests lay in the history of his native Sparta and in the making, extolling and drinking of large amounts of the well-known (and in my limited experience, best-avoided) pine-resin-laced traditional Greek wine retsina. Trained by decades of exposure to the resinous brew, Nick's brain and liver now presented us with an unusual difficulty: they had become so good at detoxifying his system that it was nearly impossible to sedate...