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# BYCU
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/50785/
- Published: 2020-07-31T06:35:15.000Z
- Updated: 2020-07-31T06:35:15.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Barrel of Gifts

The naked dude with a barrel really was once a thing. But it apparently wasn't for broke people, but for hungover people. If someone got really drunk, **[bosses from James I to Civil War commanders made the drunkards wear them as punishment](https://vinepair.com/articles/barrel-shirt-drunkards-cloak-history/?utm%5Fsource=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm%5Fcampaign=1869e51a64-JULY%5F30%5F2020&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fterm=0%5Fb653fb8c99-1869e51a64-47635377&mc%5Fcid=1869e51a64&mc%5Feid=f5bbfea87e)**.

The article linked to this advertisement: **[The Five Essential Gifts for Beer Lovers](https://vinepair.com/picks/best-gift-beer-lovers-2018/?recirc=true&ref=thedailyeudemon.com)**. I wasn't sure what I'd find, but *the* five *essential* gifts consist of things I never once used during my heavy beer drinking days, and I got along just fine:

Tulip beer glasses  
 Beer log  
 Leather koozie  
 Magnetic catch bottle opener  
 Beer socks.

I think it's pretty obvious that this alcohol website is written by hipsters, for hipsters. None of those things are essential, and the addition of beer socks? I actually felt bad for the publication.

The beer log, incidentally, is a notebook where you record your notes about the beers you try. Yikes. I wouldn't be caught dead carrying one of those things into a bar.

Dude at Bar: "Hey man. What's that?"  
 Me: "It's my beer log. Tee hee."  
 Dude at Bar: "WTF's a 'beer log.'"  
 Me: "It's a journal where I record my thoughts and feelings about the different craft beers I try."  
 Dude at Bar (standing up aggressively): "You f'in' with me!?"  
 Me (covering my beer log with my elbow so he can't read it; responding in nasal twang): "No. It's my beer log. Stay away, stay awaaaaaaaay."  
 Dude at Bar (turning to his friends): "This dude's f'in' with me. Who wants to see me kick his ass?"

But I kept a drinking diary during my young adult years. It consisted of (i) did I drink that day, (ii) how much did I drink, and (iii) how bad was the hangover (1-5). Occasionally, I would scratch in extra notes. I ran across the diary during my recent move. It brought back a lot of (non) memories.