Entries from August 2005 ↓

It's a very important question that Chris and I have been discussing at
some length.  What Would Flying Spaghetti Monster Drink?  At
first Chris thought it would be wine.  Wine, what is he a
Gotti?  Flying Spaghetti Monster drinks beer damn it! 

We have scientific evidence that says FSM uses his noodly appendage for
consumption, but the question remains what kind of yeasty, malty, hoppy
brew?

Our thoughts on the matter:
1.  Peroni or Moretti since they are Italian like pasta.
2.  AleSmith IPA (previously Irie Pirate Beer) for Pastafarianism.
3.  Gaslight Pirate Pale Ale, Mad Crab Pirates Pilsner, Rock
Botton Pirate Pilsner in memory of all the pirates who died due to
global warming.
4.  Brewery Midget Malt Stout in honor of the “midgit” he created.

If you have your own ideas, feel free to drop us a line.  And if
you are out of touch with FSM, here's a link to the discovery of FSM.  BoingBoing has also been kind enough to provide extensive coverage with almost daily updates!

Beer sometimes makes people do stupid things. Also, stupid people do things that are stupid and involve beer.  For example:

POCATELLO, Idaho –A 420-pound man was charged with felony robbery, accused of stealing beer from the same store he stole from in January, authorities said.

Levi Timbana, 23, of Fort Hall was accused of walking into the Cowboy Oil store Aug. 9 and taking a swing at a clerk who refused to sell him beer after hours. Prosecutors say the clerk held Timbana at bay with a metal pipe until police arrived; Timbana's companion allegedly fled with two cases of beer.

Police said Timbana punched a different clerk at the store during a January beer heist. He spent 43 days in jail in that case.

Link via: boston.com

and:

A Benton County [Tennessee] teacher has been suspended after police charged her with allowing three teenagers to drink alcohol in her presence, Benton County School Superintendent Randall Robertson said Wednesday.

 ”An investigation was conducted and it was learned that she went to a convenience store in Benton County and purchased two six packs of Smirnoff beer and allowed them to consume it in her vehicle on the way back to her house,” he said.

Link via: The Jackson Sun

Please boys and girls, don’t do stupid things with or for beer.

Not as attractive as the Pilsner Urquell girls getting nekkid, but pretty fun to play:

34.5 seconds is my high score.

Yes, that WSJ—the Wall Street Journal. Reporter Ken Wells has written a couple nice pieces on our favorite libation recently. A couple weeks ago, he wrote about The Lager Challenge:

Lagers are easy to drink and easy to find, and, believe it or not, there's a froth of controversy about them (but more about that later). So I decided to organize a lager tasting, in part to answer a burning question I've long had: Could a group of beer drinkers of average sophistication, met with a blind tasting, really tell the difference between different kinds of lagers — the mass-produced U.S. brands such as Budweiser and Miller, the European lager brands including Heineken and Beck's, and the lagers made by a new wave of smaller U.S. brewers? And which would they prefer?

So, what was the answer? You’ll have to read it to find out. Don’t worry, it is a free article.

Today, he writes about bottled versus canned beer in Can It:

Can the lowly beer can and high-style craft beer coexist?

The mere juxtaposition of the two is an oxymoron to some and heresy to others. Yet after years of resistance, if not outright disdain, a growing number of small U.S. brewers are braving beer snobs' barbs and putting their beer in aluminum. To find out whether tasty beer can come from a pedestrian can, we held a blind tasting — and found an interesting answer.

Again, you’ll have to read for the answer.

I guess I’d fall in the beer snob category and will choose a bottle over a can any day with a few exceptions—the beach and boating just feel like they were made for canned beer. The last canned beer I had that wasn’t by choice was a tall boy Yuengling. I typically don’t even get Yuengling in a bottle since I think it tastes dramatically better on tap, however this canned version did surprise me and served it’s purpose (you shouldn’t ride a bike with bottled beer).

I’m enjoying these WSJ articles, but my only complaint is that they use regular photos instead of the cool illustrations like the dead tree version of the Journal.

I stumbled across a fine list of beers
which lists if they are suitable for vegetarians. Also notes vegan-safe
brews. So, if eating things with a face isn’t your thing but drinking
beer is, check it out.