Posts Tagged: Beer and Health
Beer Most Slimming When Not Consumed!
Posted by on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 in - 8 comments
This has to be up there with the "open source beer" clap trap... or maybe the "women better tasters" silliness. It seems the more people need to make a buck the greater the need to foist a 90% rubbishy idea on people. And this one is pure fool's gold: • CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, and the …
Beer Also Makes You Taste Better
Posted by on Sunday, May 2, 2010 in - 2 comments
Not only does it make you funnier, more attractive and a better dancer but it also tastier to insects in the family Culicidae: • The tents used a complex system of tubing to direct the volunteers' body odour into boxes in such a way that the mosquitoes could choose which scent to go after. Half …
Remember To Cut Your Six Pack Plastic Thingies
Posted by on Monday, April 5, 2010 in - 3 comments
I don't get that many six packs and even fewer sixes of cans but I just finished off a six of Dales Pale Ale that I picked up a few weeks ago when I was over to the other side. Apparently, they are actually called six pack rings or six pack yokes if you believe the internet. After I ripped off the …
What Else Do People Do To Justify A Beer?
Posted by on Friday, April 2, 2010 in - leave a comment
I found this article both a bit sad and a bit sensible. I have friend who runs to eat pie and I suppose it makes sense that there are any number of people jogging ("running" is so self-congratulatory) for the same effect: • “I think people who run sometimes use it as an excuse that they can do …
Question: What Claims To Fame Can't Good Beer Make?
Posted by on Thursday, February 18, 2010 in - 5 comments
I think the forces of anti-neo-prohibition are at it again. I have never been sure who the anti-neo-prohibitionists are but that goes for neo-prohibitionists as well. They each stand for everything good as well as everything else and in the end look a lot like each other. Best of all, they aren't …
Healthy Hop Bombs For Big Bone Wannabees?
Posted by on Monday, February 8, 2010 in - 2 comments
I suppose everything will be... then won't be... good for you - and then they will be good for you later. So, I was not too excited by the news that beer seems to be an excellent source of dietary silicon by contributing to bone mineral density... until I noticed this tid bit: • "We have … read more »
Where Are The Paragons Of The New Cocktailians?
Posted by on Thursday, February 4, 2010 in - 2 comments
I don't often repost from the sister station but a 16 hour work day drives a guy to it. And besides, while I like a drink as much as the next guy... am I a Cocktailian? I am not sure I could even communicate with a Cocktailian if I met one in the street or, better, in a cool darkened subterranean …
Who Are The "We" In The Good Beer Community?
Posted by on Saturday, January 23, 2010 in - 14 comments
Martyn, the wise Zythophile, made an observation yesterday that includes a per-supposition that I am not sure has been explored: • It's not said often enough in this argument: we drink because we enjoy it, and the overall happiness that brings to society, I would suggest, vastly outweighs any …
Are There Too Many Questions About What's Too Many?
Posted by on Thursday, January 21, 2010 in - 4 comments
Lots of talk around these days. Pete has posted his series on the media and stories about representing alcohol use in the UK. Jay has had a mirroring series that has been a theem for sometime. I am still not fully satisfied because, while Pete and Jay each have honestly shared past experience … read more »
Has An Unacceptable Level Of Drinking Been Described?
Posted by on Sunday, January 17, 2010 in - 4 comments
Pete Brown has run a series of posts this week and last that delve into stats being issued by various government agencies and health lobby groups in the UK. It is important work that Pete is doing as there is no stat worse than the unexamined stat. Today's post was called "More Hilarity with …
