A place for interesting beer-related articles.

[Don]

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Need I say more!

[Don]

I think I know this guy.

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[john mills]

That man obviously has a drinking problem. He totally missed his mouth!
It must be that he doesn't like hair in his drink!

[Don]

I thought he look like he might be related to Chris N, but since he drinks beer with his nose, I must be wrong.

[Chris Norrick]

it's my father.

[john mills]

Be careful how much beer you drink this New Year's Eve. Your manhood may depend on it!
http://www.bspcn.com/2009/03/04/why-men ... king-beer/

[Don]

Bacon beer!
http://hoosierbeergeek.blogspot.com/2010/01/bacon.html

[Chris Norrick]

A bourbon-bacon homebrew beer. It was linked off of Don's link: http://groceryeats.com/2009/03/26/bacon-beer/

[Dwayne_Delaney]

Bacon beer!
http://hoosierbeergeek.blogspot.com/2010/01/bacon.html

Mmmmmmm BEER.

[Dwayne_Delaney]

From the LA Times:


Ind. lawmakers consider changes to alcohol laws, including some takeout beer sales on Sundays

MIKE SMITH AP Political Writer
January 14, 2010 | 5:03 a.m.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Microbreweries could sell beer for takeout on Sundays under a bill endorsed by a Senate committee Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a House committee held hearings on bills that would allow alcohol sales during voting hours on Election Day and extend the hours that restaurants and bars open on Sundays can sell alcohol on premises from 12:30 a.m. Monday to 3 a.m. Nobody spoke in opposition to the bills, but no votes were taken on them.

A summer study committee did not recommend that microbreweries, which have limits on how much beer they can make each year, be allowed to sell their beer for takeout on Sundays.

But Republican Sen. Ron Alting of Lafayette, chairman of the Senate Public Policy Committee, filed a bill that would allow such sales, and it passed his panel 9-2 on Wednesday and moved to the full Senate.

Supporters noted farm wineries in Indiana are allowed to sell their products for takeout on Sundays and said microbreweries should have the same privilege.

"It's really an issue about tourism and equalizing the playing field between farm wineries and microbreweries," said Sen. Vi Simpson, D-Bloomington. There are 32 microbreweries in Indiana, according to the Brewers of Indiana Guild.

Alting's bill would limit the amount of Sunday carryout sales from microbreweries to about three cases per transaction.

Even if the bill clears the Senate, its chances of passing the House aren't good.

Some lawmakers worry the bill could be amended to include Sunday carryout sales from other venues or to expand takeout cold beer sales to places other than liquor stores and certain bars. Sen. Phil Boots, R-Crawfordsville, has filed a bill that would allow those changes.

Alting said he will not give Boots' bill a hearing, and he vowed to kill the microbrewery bill if it is amended with such changes.

But Democratic Rep. Trent Van Haaften, chairman of the House Public Policy Committee, has still expressed concerns that Alting's bill could become a catalyst for more sweeping changes in alcohol sales. Alting's bill likely would be assigned to Van Haaften's committee if it passed the Senate.

Nobody testified against the Election Day sales bill in Van Haaften's committee or against extending the hours that restaurants and bars can sell alcohol into the early hours of Mondays.

Supporters of both bills said the laws were antiquated and cut into sales and tax revenue.

[Michael Erwin]

Not really an "article," but you will enjoy...

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/beer

[john mills]

Just in time for the supspaniel: asparagus for Hangovers

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/TIP03577/As ... overs.html

[Michael Erwin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koXqVwfWWW8

Very funny!

[Chris Alvey]

Not technically beer-related (yet) but this is an article about a coating with nano-stuff (tm) that can be sprayed on surfaces to decrease bacteria adhesion, etc. Imagine brewery gear with this stuff and infections could definitely be lessened on things like fermenters, lines, etc. Interesting.

[sirgiovanni]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35296759/ns ... ?gT1=43001