re: FBD: Down with Cleopatra

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Microbreweries aren’t just an American phenomenon. Craft brews are not a worldwide sensation.

The Chinese are now developing a taste for craft beer. Large breweries like CR Snow, the makers of Snow Beer, and Tsingtao Brewery, which made of Tsingtao Beer, usually dominated China, the biggest alcohol market in the world.

Chinese craft brewpubs once catered to ex-pats who needed decent drinks in China. These days, more and more Chinese look for craft brews.

Besides brewpubs, more and more home brewing associations are popping up in China.

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The Temperance Movement marked the beginning of a change of attitudes towards alcohol. What was once a harmless beverage was soon an enemy.

The Temperance Movement began in the Industrial Revolution when business owners needed sober laborers to operate heavy machinery.

However, only a select handful of thinkers and doctors pushed for abstinence from alcoholic drinks and the movement never became popular until late into the 1800s.

Despite beer’s significance in medieval Christianity, Evangelical Christians popularized the Temperance Movement in the late 1800s.

During World War I, politicians wanted to conserve funds for the War, and their advocacy for a ban on alcohol gave additional momentum to the Temperance Movement.

This all came to a head when the Volstead Act, which amended the United States Constitution, came into effect on January 16, 1920. The Volstead Act, or the Eighteenth Amendment, is the reason for what we now know as the Prohibition Era and lasted from 1920 to 1933.

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