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  Beer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hopped beer was imported to England from the Netherlands as early as 1400 in Winchester, and hops were being planted on the island by 1428.
Lagers were discovered by accident in the 16th century after beer was stored in cool caverns for long periods; they have since largely outpaced ales in terms of volume.
Wood-aged beers are any traditional or experimental beer that has been aged in a wooden barrel or have been in contact with wood (in the form of chips, cubes or "beans") for a period of time (Oak is the most common).
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 Lager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lager is the term used in English to describe bottom-fermented beers of German and sometimes of Czech styles, though in the latter case the term Pilsener is more common.
Lager yeast is a bottom-fermenting yeast, and typically undergoes primary fermentation at 7-12°C (45-55°F) (the "fermentation phase"), and then is given a long secondary fermentation at 0-4°C (30-40°F) (the "lagering phase").
Lagers are stored at a low temperature (as low as 0°C/32°F) for several weeks to several months, clearing, acquiring mellowness, and becoming charged with carbon dioxide.
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 Wikipedia Lager Beer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Studies have shown that the double or triple-fermentation beer provides the drinker with needed vitamin B which is present in the yeast.
lager beer - definition of lager beer in Encyclopedia - Lager beers are alcoholic beverages of German and Czech origin, taking their name from the...
Beer - Enpsychlopedia - A typical mug of lager beer, showing the golden colour of the beer and the foamy head floating on...
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 Lager Beer Riot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lager Beer Riot took place in Chicago, Illinois in 1855 after Mayor Levi Boone, great-nephew of Daniel Boone, proposed an ordinance which would close taverns on Sundays and raise the cost of a liquor license from $50 to $300 per year.
On April 21, after several tavern-owners were arrested for selling beer on Sunday, protesters clashed with police near the Cook County Court House.
Waves of angry immigrants stormed the downtown area and the mayor ordered the swing bridges opened to stop further waves of protestors from crossing the river.
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 The Chicago Beer Riots
These were not barroom brawls in which beer inflamed the spirit of the combatants, it was more of a subject and a cause.
To fathom the cultural significance of beer drinking it's necessary to understand its relationship with the development of a community.
The most well known of these disturbances were the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party, but in both of these Beer was used as an agent to embolden the crowd; it was not the cause of the violence.
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 Beer Trivia
At one point, this particular style of beer nearly died away, with one famous exception, though few people know that the 'famous exception' is actually a version of this style of beer and not a different style all together.
This is a wheat beer (a beer brewed with a substantial portion of wheat in addition to the usual barley) from a famous German city considered the most refreshing wheat beer of all -- modest alcohol content, slender body, high acidity.
Beers like this one, meant to be shipped across the world, were made to ferment slowly during their long journey, and to have a higher than usual alcohol content, which would protect the beer from infection.
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 Riot - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Riots or unlawful assemblies occur when crowds[?] of people have gathered and are committing crimes or acts of violence.
To control riots often non-lethal weapons are used, such as water cannons[?], rubber bullets, flexible baton rounds and riot control agent.
Deadly force is used in some repressive countries to stop riots, particularly if martial law is declared or in a country at war.
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 lager
Lager beers are alcoholic beverages of German origin, taking their name from the German lagern ("to store").
Lagers are stored at a low temperature for several weeks to several months, clearing, acquiring mellowness, and becoming charged with carbon dioxide.
Most lagers are of pale to medium colour, with high carbonation, medium to high hop flavour, and alcohol content of 3-5 percent by volume.
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 BEER FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While beer is generally an alcoholic beverage, some varieties exist, originating in the Western_world, which undergo a process to remove most of the alcohol, producing what is called non-alcoholic_beer.
''Beer'', on the other hand, is considered to come from the Latin ''bibere'' (to drink, http://www.bartleby.com/61/69/B0156900.html).
Specialty_beers are a catch-all category used to describe any beers brewed using unusual fermentable sugars, grains and starches.
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 LAGER FACTS AND INFORMATION
Lager is the term used in English to describe bottom-fermented
beers of German and sometimes of Czech styles, though in the latter case the term Pilsener is more common.
Anton_Dreher used the new lagering technique to improve the Viennese beer in 1840–1841.
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 AlterNet: The Invisible Whiteness of the Olympic Beer Riot
And of course the mere labeling of the phenomenon as a "beer riot" in the first place is instructive.
In Chicago, the election of reactionary Mayor Levi Boone in 1855 led to the biggest beer riots in the U.S. during that period.
In the wake of riots at Michigan State and Colorado University, neighbors in the riot zone and local police sought to "reach out," to attempt to "understand their frustrations," referring to the students who had just trashed their streets.
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 April 21, 1855-Chicago's Lager Beer Riot
During this early wave of immigration, the German brewers brought to Chicago the technical knowledge and appreciation for lager beer, the golden colored, highly carbonated, smooth tasting brew, heightened in taste by the use of bottom fermenting yeast and a long, cool secondary fermentation.
The Lager Beer Riot A test trial of thirty-three of the violators was scheduled for April 20, 1855, in the courtroom of Judge Henry Rucker.
The intensity of the riot and the clumsy treatment of the brewers and the German and Irish saloonkeepers and their patrons, affected the fragile coalition that Boone had patched together.
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 Chicago
Louis Lingg, scheduled to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket riot bomb, commits suicide by holding a lit stick of dynamite in his mouth.
The new holiday is actually an appropriation of the banned Beltane (Day of Fire), or May Day, traditionally celebrated by encircling a phallic maypole with delectable fertile virgins.
In Chicago, a race riot erupts at the white-only 29th Street Beach.
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 Judge to deal with beer riot's legal hangover
JUDGEMENT in the case of a beer truck accident, a thirsty mob and a Police contingent accused of passively standing witness to a looting frenzy, was reserved in the High Court yesterday.
The company blames the beer riot on what it charges was inaction on the part of the Police.
The Police officers went to attend to an accident scene, and it could not be expected of them to have done so in riot gear and with rubber bullets and other equipment that might have helped them to bring the crowd under control at hand, he argued.
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 Michigan Beer Guide, The Guide To Craft Brewed Beer in Michigan
The History of Beer and Brewing in Chicago 1833-1978 is not simply a chronology of breweries and their products, but a social history of an industry and its under appreciated impact on one of the most important cities in America.
As a beer writer and subject matter speaker, I frequently bring up the point that the brewing industry has played a larger role in the industrialization of America then it is given credit for.
While the work stops short of the craft beer renaissance with the closing of the Peter Hand Brewery in 1978, The History of Beer and Brewing in Chicago is an easy read for anyone with an interest in local history, breweriana, and the beer industry.
www.michiganbeerguide.com /news.asp?cmd=view&articleid=40   (1377 words)

  
 German-American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The influence of German cuisine is seen throughout the country.
Germans were important in the beer and wine industries.
There have been two presidents of the United States of America who were of German ancestry.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
riot, rout, and unlawful assembly riot, rout, and unlawful assembly, in law, varying degrees of concerted disturbance of the peace.
At common law, an unlawful assembly is a gathering of at least three persons whose conduct causes observers to reasonably fear that a breach of the peace will result.
Haymarket Square riot Haymarket Square riot, outbreak of violence in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
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 Lager Beer Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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In particular Sedlmayr's friend Anton Dreher used the.new lagering technique to improve the Viennese beer in 1840–1841.
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 Lager Beer Riot Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Beer History Book 1
Brewery historian Bob Skilnik discusses the events and policies which affected the local brewing industry and the city, from the Golden Age of Brewing, National Prohibition, Capone, through Repeal and the closing of the last historic Chicago brewery in 1978.
He is a 1991 graduate of the Chicago-based Siebel Institute of Technology, the oldest brewing school in the United States, with a degree in Brewing Technology.
His first work, The History of Beer and Brewing in Chicago, 1833-1978, was the Gold Medal winner of the "Quill and Tankard Award" from the North American Guild of Beer Writers for best beer book of 2000.
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 Richard Carl Lindberg
Noteworthy in Rich's body of work is, To Serve & Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption From the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal, the first published history of the Chicago Police Department to appear in book form since 1887.
The book began as a graduate thesis at Northeastern Illinois University, was published in hardcover by Praeger in 1991, and re-released in paperback in the fall of 1998 by Southern Illinois University Press.
To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal, Westport, CT 1991.
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 Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society: Calling All Cars, Calling All Cars: Technological Innovations of the ...
Police departments developed much as did the cities themselves; they were initially chaotic and were formed in fits and spurts, cobbled together with new policing methods and with new technologies, often when they were either available or necessary.
The problem was that, in the event of a major disturbance, (such as a natural disaster or riot) the police were horribly unprepared.
Members of the new CPD were required to wear uniforms: a blue jacket, a hat, a badge, and the baton/cane ensemble.8 The Lager Riot also brought to light another problem with law enforcement in Chicago: communications.
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 | Book Review | Law and History Review, 21.1 | The History Cooperative
To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal, 1855-1960, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.
For decades, historians like Lawrence Friedman have called for scholars to analyze the law "on the ground," asking their peers to transcend doctrinal history to describe how American public officials have enforced the provisions encoded in statutes and precedents.
You may not reproduce, publish, distribute, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, modify, create derivative works from, display, or in any way exploit the History Cooperative database in whole or in part without the written permission of the copyright holder.
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 Lager Beer Riot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Lager Beer Riot took place in Chicago, Illinois in 1855 after Mayor Levi Boone, nephew of DanielBoone, proposed an ordinance which would close taverns on Sundays and raise the cost of a liquor license from $50 to $300 peryear.
On April 21, after severaltavern-owners were arrested for selling beer on Sunday, protesters clashed with police near the Cook County Court House.
Waves ofangry immigrants stormed the downtown area and the mayor ordered the swingbridges opened to stop further waves of protestors from crossing the river.
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 Lager Beer Riot - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Lager Beer Riot - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 Homicide in Chicago :: Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Compiled in the aftermath of the 1919 race riot, this Report includes a detailed description of demographics and a history of race relations in the city, and an analysis of the conditions encountered by fls in Chicago.
In analyzing the race riot of 1919, the author summarizes previous work and provides background on race relations before and after the race riot of 1919.
Compiled in the aftermath of the 1919 race riot, this Report includes a detailed description of demographics, a history of race relations in the city, and an analysis of the conditions of fls in Chicago.
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 Lager Beer Riot
When the bridge was lowered and North Siders surged across, shooting began.
Boone called in the militia, and the riot ended in minutes.
In March 1856, a heavy German and Irish turnout defeated the nativists, causing the $50 liquor license to be restored.
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 HOMEBREW Digest #555 Mon 17 December 1990
If they stored the beer under high CO2 pressure, too much of the CO2 would dissolve in the beer, and the beer would end up uselessly fizzy.
Beer reaches a particular alcohol level and, boom, the yeast kicks off.
If your beer goes through a temperature shock (a sudden 10F change is more than enough for some yeasts) it can either die or go dormant.
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 Riot
See also police paramilitary military, Riot Act, Demonstration, Riot control agent, CS gas, Plastic bullet, Rubber bullet, Molotov cocktail, Race riot, Anarchism, Black bloc, Hooliganism
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