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March 2007 Archives

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.

"I conceived it right after I got out," said Cornwell, a May 2006 graduate from Huntington, N.Y. "I missed the college scene. It embodies the college spirit that I didn't want to let go of."

It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.

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By Rick Armon
Akron Beacon Journal

They’re big.

They’re bad.

They’ll knock you on your fanny if you’re not careful.

Extreme and big beers — those with high alcohol content and colossal flavor — are all the rage among craft brewers and many beer drinkers nowadays. Triple India pale ales. Imperial stouts. Belgian-style ales. And even, gasp, imperial pilsners.

Craft brewers are pushing the limits when it comes to alcohol content and flavor profiles. Sometimes quite literally, considering state liquor laws.

It’s no longer unusual to see beers with double-digit alcohol content on the grocery store shelf, a feat previously reserved for wine and liquor. (In Ohio, you can thank a change in state law in 2002 that boosted the legal limit in beer to 12 percent.)

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