Posts Tagged: Beer and Health
So How Many Calories Are In That Beer Anyway?
Posted by on Friday, February 20, 2009 in - 17 comments
You would never confuse me for a jogger. I am big. I like that. I was over six foot at twelve. A small giant. I can pick up things others can't. Move large objects. I am often asked by little old ladies to reach the high shelf for them at the grocery store. But you have to watch it. Over two …
Scientific Discovery Leave Us Asking Same Questions
Posted by on Saturday, December 27, 2008 in - 3 comments
I recall a George Carlin news item joke that I may have posted somewhere here somewhere before: "scientists have discovered that saliva causes cancer but, fortunately, only when taken over a long period of time in small amounts." That is the sort of reaction I had when I read today's beer and …
Pre-Drinking: What Is Old Is New Again
Posted by on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 in - 12 comments
I am not sure what it is about journalists these days but they seem to have entirely forgotten what life was like in the 1980s. People seem to think that, you know, the special friends relationship of hooking up was invented by those with a Blackberry and that facing economic tough times is …
Beer And Health: A Booze Intake Calorie Calculator
Posted by on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 in - 9 comments
This little tool over at the BBC calculating the calories of drinks is actually quite handy. I just learned that five pints is the same as a danish, a hot dog, a pizza slice, a couple of onion bhaji and a couple of jaffa cakes. Two doubles of hard liquor are only worth a pizza slice and one jaffa …
We Used To Expect People To Publicly Pee In Comfort
Posted by on Thursday, October 23, 2008 in - 3 comments
Blogging upon other people's bloggy observations is one other the lowest forms of blogging. Yet, when someone like Pete Brown goes about actually going to real events and doing things like taking a cask of IPA to India by boat, well, that is really more like conveying actual news … read more »
Session 20: Beer Memories And Me
Posted by on Friday, October 3, 2008 in - leave a comment
So, I suppose it is a little ironic that I forgot this edition of the Session until today. But, given that beer is more related to the erasing of memory than the fixing of it, maybe that is natural. Interestingly, there is one memory related story - possibly apochrophal - that experiences during …
Did Franklin Know That Much About Beer Goggles?
Posted by on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 in - 1 comment
I doubt not that moderate Drinking has been improv'd for the Diffusion of Knowledge among the ingenious Part of Mankind...drinking does not improve our Faculties, but it enables us to use them. • Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, No. 12, 1722. • Franklin was 16 or 17 when he wrote that under … read more »
A Thief Misinterprets The News About Beer Goggles
Posted by on Sunday, August 10, 2008 in - 1 comment
Sadly, it appears that one sicky fingered felony in Chicago misunderstood this week's news about beer goggles: • Police in the Chicago suburb of Buffalo Grove are asking for the public's help in returning a $150 pair of special goggles that are used to simulate the effects of intoxication …
Why Don't They Study Slam Dancing And Health Anymore?
Posted by on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 in - 3 comments
Another day, another bunch of odd academic studies from labcoated laboratorians or policy documents from lobbyist trying to tell us all what beer does with you or what you do when you are with your beer: • From France we learn that "when the music gets loud, we tend to drain our mug of brew …
BrewDog Is Encouraging You To Do Bad Bad Things
Posted by on Thursday, July 10, 2008 in - 1 comment
What a burden it must be to be a firm with cheeky humour in a land...known for its cheeky humour. What would Billy Connelly say about this new move by the clearly irresponsible madmen in charge of this brewery?!? • Earlier this year BrewDog, the award-winning microbrewery, faced being … read more »
