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A weekly look at the draft selection in beer-friendly bars across the country.

The passing of Labor Day means back-to-school season is officially here. Many college students have already landed on campus. Hopefully, they have a bar like Stub & Herbs to help them lament the end of their summer vacation.

Located at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Stub & Herbs is a campus icon, opened way back in 1939 with the plan to serve great burgers and drinks. Though their cheeseburgers are still a staple, a lot has changed in the drinks department, especially recently.

"Over the last two years, I got creative freedom to pick whatever we wanted," says general manager Jon Landers. "Our taps are now 100 percent all-American craft beer." He pushed college standbys like Coors Light and Bud Light onto the bottles list and began using their 32 taps to focus on independent breweries, especially local and "blossoming" ones. "The Midwest has a reason to be proud," Landers continues. "They're turning out some great stuff."

Have a great beer bar at your school or alma mater? Fill us in in the comments! And see Stub & Herbs' complete draft list, as of Tuesday, after the jump. ...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota recently performed a study that was funded by the United States Department of Agriculture to see if vegetables grown in soil that was fertilized by manure that contained antibiotics would then in turn also contain antibiotics. They focused specifically on corn, lettuce and potatoes, growing them in a green house, in soil that was fertilized by pig manure that contained antibiotics. They discovered that all three varieties of vegetables soaked up the antibiotics, and that the amounts in the potatoes were especially high, possibly because the edible portion of the plant comes in direct contact with the soil.

What this means for those of us eating these antibiotic infused vegetables is still unknown. The researchers believe that this could be a cause of allergic reactions in children and other sensitive populations. This finding could also have an impact on organic farms, because in order for them to be organic, they have to keep antibiotics out of their crop stream. The interconnectivity of our food chain always impresses me.

Via the Science Blog
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