In American brewing's early days, a barrel of whiskey brought more at market than the same of beer, so for farmers liquefying their assets, so to speak, stronger stuff made more sense.

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While people in north Wales agreed with their west Walian counterparts in identifying landscape and mining as the most important elements of their heritage, and picked a miner's lamp and a beer barrel as objects that should be preserved for the future.

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We round off the visit tasting a couple of barrel-aged beers, the 2008 edition of 25 Dodici (25th December, their Christmas beer) and two barrels of Sedici Gradi (Sixteen Degrees, their strong, dark barley wine).

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