Beer News Roundup

I'm just stumbling over beer news in my normal news perusal, so here, look over my shoulder:

BBC News: the seemingly weekly news of booze being healthy:  "Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.  The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men."
 
Los Angeles Times: Beer bars booming in L.A. (And L.A. gets its first brewpub--or so the article claims.)