The house has a wooden kitchen floor convincingly painted to look like a signed Matisse cutout, holographic art created by her father, a little red panic-like button that has no purpose whatsoever, and, best of all, a large downstairs with a daybed (and bathroom) for me to share with her beer-brewing equipment.

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Its business was limited almost exclusively to North America and the UK, where beer brewing is a slow-growth business.

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Indeed, more than 40% of Taybeh's sales are within neighbouring Israel, and this tiny Palestinian beer seems to have kick-started a micro-brewing trend.

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As the thorough and at times interactive tour moves up each floor, visitors learn about the beer's state-of-the-art brewing process, its "cooperage" (barrel-making) and how it's transported to more than 150 countries.

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America may have been founded by beer lovers--Massachusetts governor Samuel Adams came from a brewing family, and Ben Franklin famously loved to tipple--but for ages domestic brews were considered watery, weak and near undrinkable.

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Created for Big Boss Brewing Company, Beercade is the first-ever beer-dispensing arcade game that takes the snore factor out of beer sampling.

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Inside, a bar and cafeteria-style restaurant serves chunky seafood chowder and a hoppy beer produced by local Howe Sound Brewing.

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Some grew out of other operations: Rogue, from Oregon, makes gin, rum and whiskey, but is better known for its line of craft beers, just as Anchor, a San Francisco brewery, began making a first-rate Junipero gin and Old Potrero rye only after a century of brewing beer.

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Unlike Pete Kraemer, a fifth-generation brewmaster who heads Anheuser-Busch's North American brewing operations, Ms. Reid says there was very little beer in her house growing up.

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