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Odd Consumer News

Sounds a tad ridiculous, but what the heck. Eric Scheske drinks wine, but he knows very little about it. This could help quite a bit. But does the chip explain how to shake off a wine hangover? > A "talking" wine label could soon tell consumers in Italy

Odd Consumer News

This place has devised an alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon. Link [http://www.mathlete.com/portfolio/wakeNbacon.php] . > Once the alarm goes off, it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked it such

Brews You Can Use

We've been meaning to get back to New York: > [A bill in New York] would create a tourism mechanism similar to the New York State Wine Trail, a state program promoting tourism and marketing at state wineries."We have over 50 breweries in New York state

Leno on McDonald's

> McDonald's has announced they're going to start selling their own skateboards and bikes. Apparently they feel our kids have gotten so fat and lazy now, the only way to get them to a McDonald's is to roll them in.

Brews You Can Use II

> Pabst Brewing Co. has discontinued selling Falstaff beer, once one of the largest selling beer brands in America. Link [http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002585.php]. We shed a tear. Back in the 1980s, Eric bought many cases of this stuff. At $5.00, it couldn't

Brews You Can Use

The Chinese are out-malling us (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1133/]) and competing with us in food and sex (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1369/]), but we still got 'em in the beer arena: > The beer industry in China is way behind in levels of sophistication....you're talking

Brews You Can Use: Beer Tub

First blush: Paradise. But after thinking about it a bit, we're guessing we'd decline: > An Austrian holiday resort is offering guests the chance to swim in a pool containing 42,000 pints of beer. > The Starkenber Beer Myth resort located in and around the

More Time for Eating!

Modern science has improved the modern vomitorium: eat and eat, purge and purge (through exercise). > Six minutes of intense exercise a week does as much good as six hours, according to a study. > People could cut their workouts from two hours a day, three times a week, to

Eatin' and Drinkin' Fast at Applebee's

Tennessee resident Michael Oliver is accused of pulling a fire alarm at Applebee's, after being refused a drink. Link [http://www.wrcbtv.com/news/news.cfm?DID=14118]. "Eatin' good in the neighborhood" is Applebee's slogan, but it might as well be "

Brews You Can Use

We have no idea if this guy knows what he's talking about, but we're reproducing this beer review because (i) we like the name of the beer ("Shakespeare Stout"), and (ii) we appreciate his fine attention to detail: > The first impression is of