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Beer hacks: from warm booze to missing openers, tips and tricks for your favourite drink

Ben Robinson’s illustrated guide of 100 tips, tricks and projects involving beer will make you a better beer drinker. Here are some of the highlights

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Beer snobs, turn away. Ben Robinson has some hacks involving your favourite foamy beverage.

The editor-in-chief of New York online newspaper the Observer has written an illustrated guide of 100 tips, tricks and projects involving beer.

Heading to Munich for Oktoberfest or perhaps just out to a sports game? He has the best ways to partake. Forgot that bottle opener? Robinson’s got you covered. Want to stash some for later? You can do that under the right conditions.

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At 37, Robinson, from Long Island, has been drinking beer since his college days. But why write an actual book about the stuff? It’s still a passion, he says.

“I went to college in Wisconsin, which is a place that is very devoted to beer in many ways,” he said. “In college is really when I had my first very good beer. There was a brew pub called the Angelic that we would go to. Back then, if you went to a bar with your parents [before the age of 21] and your parents said it was OK, they would serve you beer.”

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A waitress carrying mugs of beer during the opening day of the 185th Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany on September 22, 2018. Photo: EPA-EFE
A waitress carrying mugs of beer during the opening day of the 185th Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany on September 22, 2018. Photo: EPA-EFE
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