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(Welcome to Bar Fight, the weekly competition where two beers, liquors or mixed drinks fight it out and only one can come out on top…before hitting the bottom of our stomach. In our next match-up, stouts try to knock each other out.) When most people think about a stout they think it is heavy and filling ...

‘Tis the season for craft breweries to release their Christmas beers.

Consider this the legalization of “kegs and eggs.” The Wisconsin Assembly is scheduled to vote on a bill that would allow beer and liquor sales to begin at 6 a.m. The current law prohibits the sale of liquor before 8 a.m.

Beer manufacturers know nothing about their customers. Perhaps ad agencies are to blame. Whoever makes the decisions on beer commercials must be drunk. Not the fun kind of drunk, the “do dumb things that seem smart” kind of drunk that often lead to bad decisions like drunk driving or engagements.

How many floaters get tossed after house parties, tailgating and pre-gaming before a proctologist appointment? Sad. Leftover beer is an issue to beer makers as well. If only there were a way to salvage all that tasty waste. The Great Lakes Brewing Company has, dare we say, a Nobel Prize winning idea — make it into ice cream.

So you think you know Oktoberfest? Well there are many versions here in the United States, but you have to go to the Old World to find out the real story.

Hard to believe that with all of the beer in the world that can be consumed, there are 8,  yes 8, beers that Americans are not drinking any more.

While scientists have yet to perfect artificial intelligence, they’ve at least perfected artificial beer preference. When it comes to brewskies, this thirsty robot named DARwIn-OP know what it likes — the folks who built him over at Trossen Robotics actually programmed him to have a drink of choice. Given the option, the little guy will ignore a can of Bud Light and go for a cold Tecate every time

Thanks to craft beer company BrewDog, you can now look hobo-chic while drinking your beer. That's because the UK-based firm --co-owned by James Watt and Martin Dickie - has created a potent bottle of beer served inside an actual squirrel, weasel or hare carcass.

You can get soda, potato chips and candy bars from a vending machine. Why not booze?