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Bacon. Coffee. Beer.  Why not put these wonderful things together? As an avid homebrewer that likes to tinker with extreme style beers, that’s the question I found myself asking. Make the base beer an oatmeal stout, add some high quality coffee and infuse with bacon—breakfast in a bottle. As I write this I am waiting for the sparge to finish up, so the process of creating the ultimate nerd’s beer is already well underway. Over the course of the next month or so, I plan to document the progress of the beer, culminating in a taste test of the final product. Given the flavor profile I’m going for here, I have to believe that this might actually taste pretty damn good. We’re talking a medium bodied stout with a rich coffee flavor, a hint of chocolate and bacon and the smooth mouthfeel that comes with brewing with oats. Plus you get a kick of caffeine and alcohol. So, I’ll start sometime later this week with details on the brew day, and drop in over the next few weeks to keep you updated on the various steps as they happen. With any luck, this little experiment will churn out one crazy awesome bacon brew.

3. People will do anything for Beer Seriously, they will. During Prohibition in America people took to drinking hair tonic and posing as members of the clergy to get alcohol. Sometimes people come together on a large scale in the never ending quest for free beer. In Australia on Easter weekend in 2001, a beer truck blew a tire and overturned into a river. The driver was able to escape but his cargo sank to the bottom of the river. Hearing about the accident, people gathered at the scene, some in full scuba gear, and spent the entire weekend recovering the beer. One man managed to get 400 bottles. Did they return it to the company? Of course not. Despite a warning from police that what they were doing was theft, the divers took off with the whole lot.

7. The World’s Oldest Brewery It’s a terrible stereotype that Germans are all huge beer drinkers. However, their country of 80 million did until just a few years ago have more breweries than the 300 million strong USA. They also lay claim to the oldest brewery. Located in Bavaria, Weihenstephan Abbey has been making beer since 1040. That’s almost 1000 years of continuous beer production. While it hasn’t been a religious house in 200 years the brewery is still in operation.

Holy crap is that…BEER! I can’t believe they let us get this close to it! Indeed, even a Heineken seems awesome when magnets are floating it inside a rotating display case with with LEDs.

Now there’s another reason to continue drinking beer. Other than drowning my problems and celebrating holiday’s I didn’t even know existed just to feel that cold liquid refreshment, I learned it can save my life! Don’t let your wife or girlfriend tell you you’re getting too fat because you drink too much beer. Let her know that you are working on a natural body armor. According to a UK paper The SUN,  Snaz Martin, a local pub boss was stabbed with a three inch blade when he told a patron to leave the knife outside. When he was rushed to the doctor, he was told that the only thing that saved him was his fat belly. The fat he had was enough to protect his vital organs from being shanked to pieces. What I have learned reading this article is that if someone brings a nice into a bar, chances are they will use it against you, so stay away. Second, if I continue drinking beer, my liver my give, but at least I know it won’t give to a stab wound.

The No. 2 burger chain in the world might be hoping to become No. 1 with the help of a little booze. Burger King will soon begin offering moderately-priced beer at select locations in the U.S., according to a story in The New York Daily News. Earlier this year, the chain already opened its first so-called Whopper Bar in Orlando, Fla.: a restaurant with a smaller footprint than a regular Burger King joint and limited menu options. That location does not yet serve beer. But a Whopper Bar that is about to launch in Miami Beach, Fla. will. Additional Whopper Bars, all featuring beer on the menu, might be in the works for New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

It matters where we are, for it helps determine who we are. Or, as the quote often attributed to Napoleon states: Geography is destiny. That destiny extends to drink, as demonstrated by this map. Where we are determines to a statistically significant degree what kind of alcohol we prefer. Or is it the other way around: the kind of alcohol preferred is determined by the place where it is produced?

This map shows Europe dominated by three so-called ‘alcohol belts’, the northernmost one for distilled spirits, a middle one for beer and the southernmost one for wine. Each one’s existence and extension are a mix of culture and agriculture.

Beer! An American pastime. I found a great compilation of Beer Ads on the internet that’s definitely worth sharing.I ran across the photos below on 10stepsSG, a design site. Most of these are newer ads, but there are a couple of real classics as well. By the time you finish looking through these photos, I’m sure some you are going to be quite thirsty

If you’re looking for your ice cream fix, we know the place to go – The Old Lyme Ice Cream Shoppe LLC.But before you head on out looking for your typical vanilla and chocolate ice cream, be warned. The menu includes beer-infused premium ice cream.Yes, you read that right -- beer-infused premium ice cream! Seems like best of both worlds. The Old Lyme Ice Cream Shoppe is now serving The Brewer’s Cow beer-infused premium ice cream, made with the best 16 percent butterfat cream that New England has to offer, according to Jason Conroy owner of the ice cream parlor.

The Sixpack is a minimal wire rack with a singular purpose: carrying bottles. It is also worryingly close in form to the terrible, home-made twisted-coat-hanger candle-holders you get every year for Christmas from your cheapskate, hippy cousin. The blurb:”It’s perfect for those BYO dinner outings where a normal 6 pack gets destroyed after you rip out one beer.”

I don't know whether I read this somewhere, or dreamed it. "Belgium is the Disneyland of beer."

That’s right—it’s a portable chair with a compartment for holding gear or frosty beverages. Just make sure you know where that beer has been before you decide to take a sip.

It might be your preference to crack open a bottle of red wine at the end of a hard day but you may be better off pouring a pint. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg have discovered that beer contains a powerful molecule that helps protect against breast and prostate cancers. Found in hops, the substance called xanthohumol blocks the excessive action of testosterone and oestrogen. It also helps to prevent the release of a protein called PSA which encourages the spread of prostate cancer. Scientists have long known that substances in hops help to block oestrogen. This is the first time, however, that they have been found to also inhibit testosterone.

Lego Beer Song

the Beer Song animated with Lego (the original) idea and stopmotion-animation by my brother and me song by unknown the melody is by the March Of The Toreadors Programmes used: Pinnacle Studio 9 ...  

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Drunken pub fights in Britain are set to get safer with the invention of a strengthened beer glass that health authorities hope will cut the huge bill for treating inebriated brawlers. The traditional pint glass -- which holds just over half a litre of beer and is favoured by drinkers across Britain -- has been redesigned so it is harder to smash, said Design Bridge, the company behind two prototypes. And even if the new models are smashed, the dangerous shards of glass are held together by a layer of resin, said the company when at a launch event Thursday.