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Drinking Made Boring

We think Dante has a circle in hell for these types: > Alverson's researchers found that students reveal alcohol as a ritual accessory to group behavior. Exclusive brother- or sister-only Greek house meetings accompanied by alcohol help members shed tension before the cross-gender interactions of post-meeting parties, they

Et Tu, Sydney?

Even the hard-drinking Australians are taking themselves too seriously and thereby taking alcohol too seriously: > Alcohol, George Bernard Shaw wrote, enables parliament to do things at 11 at night that no sane person would do at 11 in the morning. But sobriety, it seems, is back in vogue in

Brews You Can Use II

> A US brewer has recreated a beer that was first brewed in China 9,000 years ago. > Sam Calagione of the Dogfish Head brewery in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, used rice, honey, and grape and hawthorn fruits. > He got the recipe from archaeologists who derived it from the

Brews You Can Use

Curious about the economics of homebrewing? A friend sends along the following e-mail: > I just bottled 2 cases of prime quality home brew last night. It tastes pretty good and should be carbonated in a couple of weeks. Variable cost, not including bottles, $0.31/bottle. That works out

ZZ Top's Favorite Culinary Inventor

> Gerry Thomas, credited with inventing the TV Dinner more than a half-century ago and giving it its singular name, has died at 83. Link [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/07/20/national/a091338D12.DTL] . A staple of Eric Scheske's life, age

Site of the Week Award

It's only Monday, but we're confident we won't find another site as neat as this one: Moonshine, a brief history and how to make it. Link [http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/changing/john-barleycorn/making_moonshine.asp] . 1. Furnace surrounds the Core to retain heat

Dry Iraq

A soldier writes about serving in dry Iraq. One of the funnier pieces we've read recently. Link [http://moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/04_05/0405_dry_war.htm] . Excerpt: > Winston Churchill said the Royal Navy promised nothing to its enlistees but “rum, sodomy, and the lash. ” . . . > In

Something for Saturday Morning

Jeffrey Tucker lauds the morning drink. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker55.html]. Excerpt: > It turns out that in the sweep of history, when water was not always safe and orange juice rarely accessible, this practice of morning drinking was the norm for all classes in society, and

Brews You Can Use IV

Brews for Jews. We love the cottage industries, especially when the owners have fun in the process. Link [http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/food/0705/14kosherbeer.html]. Excerpt: > Cowan's idea was to make and market a gourmet kosher microbrew that combines Jewish culture, chutzpah, humor

Brews You Can Use III

This guy deserves the Noble Peace Prize: He invented the "Turbo Tap," a beer tap that pours a flagon in half the time. Link [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB112130747570985459-a6aQ_cM7U3ysPBEVAdU5mR7YbX8_20050813,00.html?mod=blogs] . Excerpts: > "I think this will change the way