All this is preparation for an evening spent feasting on slow-roasted lamb or venison, accompanied by home-brewed nettle beer.

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The town even has its own Nordic zoo, along with licensed taverns where you can drink home-brewed beer from wooden flagons.

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Empire blames bad weather and higher gas prices, but it also might indicate the Swedes have sated their appetite for home-brewed soda.

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Those looking for a home-brewed bath can even order Spa Beer (or badebier) online, brewed by the monastic Klosterbrauerei and used for treatments at nearby Landhotel Kummerower Hof in Neuzelle, Germany.

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In a surprise news release Oct. 18, Schering-Plough announced positive results for its home-brewed compound, precipitating a first big drop in Vertex shares--even though Schering isn't presenting any details at the liver meeting.

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When North Korea delivered an 18, 000 page report on its plutonium activities to the American government in May, it is said to have contained traces of HEU (though it is not clear where it came from, it was not necessarily home-brewed).

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In a surprise news release Oct. 18, Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) announced positive results for its home-brewed compound, precipitating a first big drop in Vertex shares--even though Schering isn't presenting any details at the liver meeting.

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