Posts Tagged: Beer and Health
Thank Heavens We Maintained The Canuck Stereotype
Posted by on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 in - 2 comments
Lesson: Whatever you do to a Canadian in a time of confusion and crisis, however you restrict his liberties... you can make it all better with a beer: • Quebec students put under a seven-day quarantine in a small hotel in northern China are getting beer and McDonald's delivered and spending … read more »
Book Review: "Everyday Drinking - The Distilled Kingsley Amis"
Posted by on Sunday, April 19, 2009 in - 1 comment
There are days and there are days. Some days you have club soda instead. You go for walks. You have a salad and are good to yourself. And other days you do not. That is the way things go in these times of the general awareness of the need to be healthy. But not so long ago there were not these …
What Beer Cocktail Is Made With Buckley's Mixture?
Posted by on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 in - 3 comments
I am far too sick to taste a beer today. The slap back on this cold that has been doing the rounds has a real anesthetizing effect on the taste buds. I have resorted to eating sardines with habanero sauce to see if I can detect flavour. Not much happening. And I am too far gone to even imagine …
Stout: Oyster Stout, Marston, Burton-on-Trent, England
Posted by on Monday, February 23, 2009 in - leave a comment
I am slightly spooked. Spooked by the calories of big beers, spooked by how much effort it takes to balance off a big beer and stuff like that. But I have a low freaking tolerence combined with a with a high resistence to change so it isn't the end of the world. Had I only taken up fencing when I …
So How Many Calories Are In That Beer Anyway?
Posted by on Friday, February 20, 2009 in - 23 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 …
