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‘I like beer, I like beer,’ group chants. Majority Leader stays inside.___ They like beer, but they don’t like Brett. Protesters threw a “kegger” outside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Capitol Hill home Friday morning to show their opposition to Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The demonstration was planned by The Center for Popular Democracy Action, a group that has been a near-constant presence on Capitol Hill in recent weeks, staging actions to voice opposition Kavanaugh’s nomination and support for the women who have accused him of sexual assault. The group of approximately two dozen protesters approached...

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands. But though they made dozens of teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol. That's because the keg contained root beer. The party was held by a high school student who wanted to show that teens don't always drink alcohol at their parties.

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) - Buying a keg for your next party is a little more expensive. Large breweries have complained about losing thousands of beer kegs a year in Michigan because retail beer customers have been selling off the stainless steel barrels at scrap yards rather than returning them to stores to get their $10 deposit back. As a result, state alcohol officials have boosted the deposit from $10 to $30, The Bay City Times reported Sunday. For scrap-metal thieves, anything is fair game - siding, gutters, spools of electric cable, pipes, even beer kegs. Some of the more...

January 24, 1935: First canned beer goes on salehttp://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihVideoCategory&id=52350 Canned beer makes its debut on this day in 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production. By the late 19th century, cans were instrumental in the mass distribution of foodstuffs, but it wasn't until 1909 that the American Can Company made its first attempt to can beer....