Posts Tagged: Beer and Health
My New Favorite Beer Fib, Lie Or Utter Falsehood
Posted by on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 in - 7 comments
This is one of the funnier quotes I have read from someone whose livelihood involves getting people to buy more good beer: • The beer belly myth is also something McClelland would like to help dispel. "A lot of Canadians perceive that beer is high in calories, or fattening," he said. "That's one …
New York: Will Hydro Fracking Force Ommagang Out?
Posted by on Monday, January 9, 2012 in - 7 comments
I was really bummed about the prospect of this threat to one of my favorite breweries coming to pass: • A well-known brewery in the Cooperstown area says that fracking may force it to relocate or fold. Brewery Ommegang lays out its case in a friend of the court brief, which it submitted in …
Medicine Treats Methanol Poisoning With Ethanol
Posted by on Monday, September 19, 2011 in - leave a comment
I have no reason to question this bit of medical wisdom from Kenya but it is so simple and elegant that it is worth relaying: • ...when ethanol is introduced, the breakdown of methanol is delayed as ethanol, which is digested faster than methanol, takes over, thus quickly reversing the damage …
Some Beery Links For The Dog Days Of Summer
Posted by on Thursday, August 18, 2011 in - 6 comments
Notice there isn't much going on? I know I have. It is slow. Then I realized it's because everyone is on vacation. I am just back and, I have to admit, my brain is still in patio "yes, I will have some more" mode. I blame waiters. And waitresses. They bring you stuff you want and all they want in …
So What Happens If I Order A Beer And A Coke?
Posted by on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 in - 2 comments
... or, errr, an Irish coffee? • Look, I have no particular skin in the game of caffeinated coolers - what we in Canada at least call some industrial gak in a can that mixes a whole lot of herbs with booze and fluids. They cost 12 cents to make and someone sells them to you for three bucks... or …
Russia's Lawmakers Now Treat Beer As Booze
Posted by on Sunday, July 24, 2011 in - leave a comment
As I noted last summer, the Russian male's public drinking habits are something to behold. But the law classifying beer as booze and not a food passed into law this week and may bring an end to all that - for apparently good reason: • Since coming into office three years ago Medvedev has …
Doubt Craft Beer Drinkers Are Purer, Just A Bit Happier
Posted by on Thursday, May 26, 2011 in - 9 comments
That is what I wrote just now over at Beervana. See, Jeff wrote one of the statements that I never have accepted: • People buy macros to consume in quantity; micros are more often savored. • Just as we have to be careful when considering whether we are important, we also have to consider …
2011's Masses of Boozy Stats From Around The World
Posted by on Thursday, February 17, 2011 in - 5 comments
That is what I would call this document from the World Health Organization instead of the rather dull Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health 2011. I had no idea that over 50% of Andorran women did not drink. Why did Canadian drinking peak around 1982 while it happened 20 years later in the UK …
Should I Like Beer Labeling Or Not Like Beer Labeling
Posted by on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 in - 7 comments
Here is the thing. I am allergic to sulphites. Monosodium bisuphite is a killer to me. Gives me a respiratory reaction, like asthma. It's in some beers. Apparently proposals for beer labeling in Canada would include declarations that sulphites are in the beer: • The labelling changes, first …
The Photo Contest Presents Are In The Mail!
Posted by on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 in - 5 comments
I did it. Finally. After the entries are in, after the judging and the awards, after the indulgence of the season, after the travel, after the laying around doing nothing layered in tinsel, after going back to work and looking out the window and asking myself what the heck all that was about … read more »
