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Gallery: Limit your exposure. Click through to see what to avoid -- and how.

Beer
Next month, the Blue Mountain Brewery in rural Nelson County will become the first Virginia microbrewery to can its beer. Using a hand-operated filler and seamer, owner Taylor Smack will package his Full Nelson Pale Ale in 12-ounce aluminum cylinders -- at a laborious 20 cases per hour -- and ship...
 
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