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To Chris Schryer, beer is a hobby, a passion and a side job. And for the 40 days of Lent, it is also virtually the only thing keeping him alive.

“I look pretty healthy now, but by the end of the 40 days my wife figures I’ll look like a castaway on account of my bushy beard,” said Mr. Schryer on Monday, soon after finishing off the pint of ale comprising his afternoon snack.

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7:30 a.m.

One 341 ml bottle of Amsterdam Brewing Company doppelbock (the batch of thick, high-alcohol beer was prepared specially for Mr. Schryer’s fast)

One cup of heavily sugared tea

9:30 a.m. – noon

Three pints of watered-down juice

Noon

One pint water

One 341 ml bottle of doppelbock

One dose of multivitamins

1 p.m.

One pint of watered-down juice

Mid-afternoon

One review beer (Mr. Schryer is a beer reviewer). On Monday he drank a pint of Granite Brewery’s Peculiar Ale.