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Excerpt: No one expects to find any craft beer in a socialist country (something about suppressing the minds of the freethinkers), without a doubt everyone expects to find mass produced pale piss lager.  Why not?  Beer has been used as a tool of persuasion by the powerful over the ages to win people’s allegiance.  Beer built the pyramids in Egypt.  All the pharaohs had to do was promise the workers enough beer and no one seemed to care that they were working all day in the blistering sun, dragging monolithic stones across the desert.  The church used it to leverage control…