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A friend of ours, Peter Mellas, travelled to Greece and stayed with family. This is the story of the Greek beers he drank on that 2002 trip.

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Choose a woman, then catch falling Pilsner Urquell bottles in your six-pack. The more bottles you catch, the more she takes off!

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The Millennium Ale Project

What is this “Millennium Ale Project”?

THE PLAN: For 2001, the beginning of the third millennium, brew 100 bottles of homebrew. Oliver and Geoff will be the custodians of half the bottles each. At the end of each year for the next 100 years, Oliver and Geoff will get together and drink one bottle.

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