Kaffir Beer

A Case of Alastrim (Kaffir Pox)

Beer Sheba

The name of this venerable town means literally “the well of seven.” The Semitic words for “oath” and “swear an oath” are derived from the consonantal root of the number seven, and this etymological relationship is stressed in the biblical explanations of the name Beer-sheba. The name was first given because there Abraham and Abimelech king of Gerar swore an oath of mutual allegiance (Gen. 21:3...

Beer Hipsters: Exploring User Mindsets in Online Beer Reviews

Online product rating systems are frequently used to generate recommendation systems to boost sales. However, these systems do not take into account how user reviews are influenced by previous reviews of the same product. We wish to model how users interact with previously posted reviews. Namely, we want to see if there are distinct categories of users who tend to agree with previously posted r...

Chromatography of Beer

Beer is a popular beverage all over the world. It has been established many times that the moderate consumption of beer exerts favourable influences on human’s health such as nutritional benefits, anti-mutagenic and anti-carcinogenic effects, reduction of cardiovascular diseases, hypolipidemic effect, stimulation of immune system, anti-osteoporosis effect and the reduction of the risk of dement...

Physics of beer tapping.

The popular bar prank known in colloquial English as beer tapping consists in hitting the top of a beer bottle with a solid object, usually another bottle, to trigger the foaming over of the former within a few seconds. Despite the trick being known for a long time, to the best of our knowledge, the phenomenon still lacks scientific explanation. Although it seems natural to think that shock-ind...