Since the start of COVID-19 restrictions, the Maltose Falcons have gathered online each week to explore the wide variety of craft beers found in Southern California and lend much-needed financial support to the best of L.A.’s sales-starved craft breweries.

In the business, it’s common to speak of financial return on investment: maximizing return on a given expenditure. Homebrewers can maximize value and intrinsic factors by addressing the return on investment from cost, quality, and holistic perspectives.

Drinking too much beer at once is not healthy, but as recently as the early 20th century, beer was considered a healhy alternative to gin. Some Belgian towns even built reputations on purported health benefits of the local brew.

Believe it or not, the process of brewing manioc root chicha is remarkably sterile, eliminating both human pathogens and the natural toxins in the root itself. This is an ancient tradition, fine-tuned over millennia by the native peoples of the Amazon and Caribbean. Chew, spit, repeat.