The other day I stumbled across this at Beer47. A few days ago I posted an article about California Assembly Bill 1598, which is currently in committee and will, as currently written, potentially outlaw any malt beverage that contains caffeine, including the beloved craft beer styles that include coffee such as espresso stouts, coffee porters, and more. Now I’m [...]
Jan
03
The Blog o’Beer 2009 Awards
The highlights and lowlights of 2009
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Dec
03
Count your alcohol the gadget way…
The BBC have reported on a fancy new app for the iTunes / iPhone / iTouch family.
The NHS “Alcohol Tracker” designed to help you count your alcohol intake, but why would you want to use an application for this?
Surely if you did care.. you would simply try not to drink too much?
If you are interested, then you can find the tracker here.
BBC News
Nov
29
Do you fancy a Nuclear Penguin?
Why are people getting wound up about a Tactical Nuclear Penguin
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Nov
19
Fancy a Beer?
Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.
The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.
Female drinkers did not benefit to the same extent, the study in Heart found.
Experts are critical, warning heavy drinking can increase the risk of other diseases, with alcohol responsible for 1.8 million deaths globally per year.
The study was conducted in Spain, a country with relatively high rates of alcohol consumption and low rates of coronary heart disease.
The research involved men and women aged between 29 and 69, who were asked to document their lifetime drinking habits and followed for 10 years.
Crucially the research team claim to have eliminated the “sick abstainers” risk by differentiating between those who had never drunk and those whom ill-health had forced to quit. This has been used in the past to explain fewer heart-related deaths among drinkers on the basis that those who are unhealthy to start with are less likely to drink.
Oct
13
Free Beer!
Well its free Carling…
The Carling website is offering a free pint for the rest of this month.
Maybe worth while checking out!
Oct
07
Another Reason Not to Vote Conservative
DRINKERS will face late night ‘alco-tax’ under a Conservative government in a bid to crack down on Britain’s binge-drinking culture.
The Conservatives also plan to increase taxes on super-strength beer, cider and alcopops to stop teenagers getting “very drunk quickly and cheaply”.
A four-pack of super-strength lager would rise by £1.33 and a large bottle of alcopop would increase by £1.50, shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said.
He told the Conservative party conference in Manchester the tax rises would not hit “responsible drinkers”.
He said: “The ordinary pint in the pub will not be affected and there will be exemptions for some local traditional products.
But we’ll call time on the drinks that fuel antisocial behaviour.”
Daily Express
To put it simply. The Conservatives are saying that they will slap more tax on super-strength beer, cider and alcopops. I have a few worries about this. How strong does a beer have to be to be “super-strength”? Is this going to affect perfectly normal ciders that perfectly sensible people like drinking? And…well… I dont care too much about alcopops… There are comments about some local traditional products being exempt but how do small businesses go about proving they should be exempt?
Surely this is just another tax on a stressed out population who just want to have a drink!
This is all against the back drop of Conservatives not following their own ban on expensive alcohol during the conference. David Cameron being the latest person to be caught out (see left!)
MailOnline
Sep
27
Pubs set to serve beer in two-thirds of a pint glasses
Saw this on the Telegraph website The Government has decided to end more than 300 years of history by relaxing the law on pub glass sizes. Currently beer can only be served in pint, half and third of a pint measures. Surely this is crazy. Ok so pubs dont HAVE to do it, but its [...]
Sep
18
Devon Beers help Beer Industry
Well if you’re the sort of person that thinks that Devon has the best Beers – you now have moe evidence! Brewers such as Otter and Dartmoor are helping the Beer industry buck the national downward trend. From BBC News … Rise in local brewers’ popularity CAMRA says sales in Devon are bucking the national trend [...]