Entries from July 2006 ↓

Click on over to the Hopmalt Beer Blog which looks to be a new beer blog with a nice look and some great content in the first few days. Reading about the Sam Adams Brewer Patriot Collection is making me thirsty…

If you paid any attention to the Tour de France, you know that in Stage 16 Floyd Landis fell apart and lost almost 8 minutes and pretty much dashed his hopes of winning or even placing in the top three in Le Tour. According to Velonews, at a press conference after this stage:

[...] the former race leader was asked, “How do you deal with this from a mental standpoint?”

His reply: “I don't know. Drink some beer? That's what I'm thinking about now.”

Well, the beer must have helped because the next day he won the stage and managed to make up all but about thirty seconds of the time he lost the day before in what is being called one of the greatest moments in cycling. At that day's press conference:

Asked why he kept calling for water, more water, alternately drinking it and pouring it over his head, Landis quipped: “It was very hot. Maybe that was the explanation, or maybe it was the beer I had last night.”

Velonews wants to know what kind of beer it was and so do we. Hopefully, someone will get to the bottom of this. Personally, I like to have a nice Guinness or Anchor Porter the night before my rides but I'm not anywhere near the league of the pros.

Link via: TdFblog

The contenders:

Which one will keep your beer the coldest? You'll have to click to find out. While the scientific results alone are worth the click, the alternative material cozies created for further testing and their results are the real prize. Rice crispie treat, space blanket, sweatbands – which material will reign supreme?

UPDATED: I forgot to note originally that this link came to us via A Good Beer Blog (sorry Alan!).

By now, you've probably seen the Bud Light commericals where they are playing basketball and one of the guys is a primitive jungle dude (I'm sure that's a technical term). The dude is named Zagar and he is roommates with Steve according to their web site and Steve's blog. So, now you can keep track of your favorite fictional ad character online without having to wait for the next commercial break.

Link via: Adrants

These are very cool:

As the story goes, Heineken was strolling along by the sea in Jamaica, and was shocked at the number of beer bottles littering the beach. He was also concerned with the lack of cheap building materials, and at the resulting living conditions for the poor. Putting two and two together, he envisioned a “World Bottle” which would be imported for drinking but kept for construction.

Just think how much you could have saved in housing costs in college…

Link via: BoingBoing