
Happy Monday, folks! Welcome back to Booze In The News, where you’ll find the latest, funniest and most obscure newsworthy, alcohol-related bits all in one place. We’re still recovering from non-stop wine tasting all weekend long, and hope yours was just as epic!

Did you know that there could be up to .05% alcohol in your nonalcoholic beer? However, “Kirin Free” in Japan claims to be the world’s first alcohol-free beer with 0.00% alcohol. Now we’re just waiting for disinfectants that can kill more than 99.9% of germs and we’ll be all set.

Check out this super-effective law in Arlington Heights, Chicago. Starting in January, single cans of beer (larger than 24 ounces) and bottles of beer (larger than 12 ounces) cannot be sold chilled. However, multi-packs may still be purchased cold. Community-building at its finest!

Over 100 years ago, polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton left behind two cases of Charles Mackinlay & Co. whisky in Cape Royds, Antarctica after he couldn’t reach the South Pole. Some hope to sample the recently rediscovered whisky or auction it off, but after being frozen for a century, the taste remains a mystery.

Westvleteren 12, ranked the number one beer in the world by beeradvocate.com and ratebeer.com, is brewed by monks. Despite the exposure, the monks of the St. Sixtus abbey in the village of Westvleteren still aren’t boosting production, marketing in new places, creating a Twitter account or praying more. The only way to purchase their beer is from their website, exclusive cafes, or from the monks directly.
See y’all next week!

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