Posts tagged as Beer
Man Eats Beer To Live
Venturing out into difficult terrain? Don't forget to bring some beer: It just might save your life.
Don't Ask What Pope Beer Is Made Out Of
"A number of commemorative souvenirs have been produced to mark Pope Benedict XVI's four-day visit to Germany. One brewery in Berlin has gone as far as creating a special beer in his honor. But no ordinary brew would do: This beer was serenaded by Gregorian chants by the light of the new moon."
Coming Soon To A Music Snob's Fridge Near You: Switched-On Beer
A North Carolina brewery will introduce a beer in honor of the electronic-music pioneer Bob Moog later this month. Moog Filtered Ale is described as "an American-style pale ale with distinctive notes of caramel and pine... a very accessible beer that reflects the Moog legacy" by Asheville Brewing Company brewer Doug Riley. No word yet on whether eight-ounce "mini-Moog" bottles of the brew will be available, but here's hoping that Riley's use of the word "accessible" doesn't raise any hackles on the part of psych-rock purists. [Via]
Will Oldham Stars In Very Funny Long-Form Beer Commercial
This video is eleven minutes and five seconds long. But it is very much worth that amount of your day. It is essentially a commercial for Dogfish Head beer, which people who like beer with strong beer flavor seem to like a lot. (I prefer beer than tastes more like water myself, but I am a philistine from New Jersey.) But the video comprises three of the my favorite things in the world: Louisville singer/songwriter Will "Bonnie Prince Billy" Oldham, footage of industrial processing plant machinery, and jokes about robots taking over the world from humans. It's pretty great, have a look. READ MORE
Would You Trust 7-Eleven To Make Your Beer?
This month, the ever-metastasizing convenience-store chain 7-Eleven will roll out an in-house beer called "Game Day." This is actually the second time that 7-Eleven has tried to market a beer to go along with its sausage-shaped foodstuffs — in 2003, 7-Eleven tried to launch the Corona-"inspired" beer Santiago de Oro. But it flopped. So what's different now? READ MORE
Pigs In Zen (Or Maybe They're Just Drunk)
What animals are truly most like human beings? Humpback whales, who mate for life and communicate with complex, melodic songs? The upright-walking, chronic masturbator bonobo chimps? Bears, who seem to want to inhabit our homes and drive our cars? An article in today's New York Times points to a different answer, and one that shouldn't surprise anyone who's looked in the mirror lately. As Natalie Angier reports, "Last week, an international team of biologists released the first draft sequence of the pig genome." According to team-leader Lawrence Schook of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The pig genome compares favorably with the human genome." READ MORE
Budweiser Somehow Most Appealing Ingredient In Disgusting Beverage Combination
Dude, I'm sorry, this is just fucking nasty.
Will Stabby Britons Lose Their Pint Privileges?
Anger in Britain, where a government plan to redesign the pint glass is coming under fire from publicans, a group normally swift to embrace change. The British Beer and Pub Association is protesting the potential move to plastic glasses, a response to figures showing that "5,500 people are attacked with glasses and bottles every year in England and Wales." A Beer and Pub spokesman expressed concerns that pub-goers will be put off by the new cups, noting that the current tankards just feel better, but designer Nick Verebelyi thinks it is possible to innovate while still keeping the steins "desirable and acceptable and cool." From this side of the pond, the whole thing seems like a useless bit of government interference: The main takeaway from the whole controversy is that Britons will turn pretty much anything into a knife, even beer mats. They love the stabbing, Britons do.
Meanwhile, Back In Cambridge
Henry Louis Gates' neighbors are trying to start a conversation of their own, apparently.
Bud Light: When You Need Something Suitable To Help Stop The Bleeding
Our national conversation on beer will hopefully reach its conclusion this evening at 6 P.M., when President Obama, Henry Louis Gates, and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley gather together in the White House and crack the top on an ice-cold Bud Light. The obvious political pandering in the selection of beverage ("Democratic political consultant Chris Lehane noted Bud Light traces its roots to Missouri, one of the nation's hardest fought electoral battlegrounds in recent years") has caused some controversy, in that Bud Light is neither technically American (Anheuser-Busch was acquired by Belgian-Brazilan consortium InBev last year) nor technically beer (Bud Light is a combination of frog urine and carbonation), but given that the whole event will not technically be any kind of real conversation about race, it seems oddly appropriate.
