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Here’s a bit of beer advertising history that Molly and I left out of our St. Paddy’s Day podcast, courtesy of Stuff Mom Never Told You listener Erin. The old “Guinness Is Good for You” slogan fostered some medical myths about the beer’s supposedly healthful properties. For instance, pregnant women were thought to benefit from [...]
Women Slowly Brewing Their Way Toward Beerquality
by Cristen Conger | March 15, 2011
I think The Atlantic had a spy in Stuff Mom Never Told You podcast studio the other week when Molly and I were recording a very special St. Patrick’s Day episode on women and beer (by popular Facebook request!). Mere days after chitchatting about the dearth of women brewing beer, this article pops up on the magazine’s Web site: “Shattering Beer’s Glass Ceiling: The Rise of Women Brewers“.
In Search of the World’s Oldest Beer (Again)
by Josh Clark | February 10, 2011
Being a renowned professional taster would have its perks, especially anytime a shipwreck with old beer is discovered. Four such lucky ducks recently had the chance to try what is thought to be the world’s oldest drinkable beer after an early-19th century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea was found to contain a number of intact bottles of booze. Among the cargo of the ship that had set sail from Copenhagen on route to St. Petersburg were bottles of champagnes, and until one bottle exploded on the deck of the salvage ship, it was thought that all 145 bottles were vintage champagne from between 1800 and 1825.
Invention – Beer cups with holes that fill from the bottom – How?
by Marshall Brain | January 14, 2011
This video says it all – it’s a beer dispenser that fills its cups from the bottom rather than from the top. The advantage is that the bartender can fill far more cups per minute with this machine than would ever be possible with a fill-from-the-top tap: How is this possible? How can there be [...]
The problem with Alcohol and caffeine living together
by Marshall Brain | October 29, 2010
What happens if you take the amount of alcohol in a six pack of beer, mix it with a 165 mg caffeine, add a lot of sugar and put it in a can? Four Loko Company Defends Caffeinated Booze After Washington Students Sickened at Party The aftermath of the party, at which police found students [...]
MIT Paper Works out Paradox; Fry may not be own Grandfather
by Josh Clark | August 19, 2010
This, the “grandfather paradox,” is so named because of the thought experiment used to illustrate it. A time traveler could theoretically go back in the past and murder his own grandfather, which would render the time traveler non extant, and thus would lead to the paradox of the time traveler never having been able to go back in time in the first place.
You would think that it would be hard to create a wine vending machine in the United States. After all, it is illegal to sell alcohol to minors, or to someone who is already intoxicated. How is the machine going to know? The answer is contained in this video…
When you make your own beer at home, it’s called homebrewing. And most people tend to think that it is complex, expensive and equipment-intensive. Homebrewing can be all of those things, but it doesn’t have to be. This video shows you the simplest possible rig to make a gallon of beer at home…
Look, I will admit it: I know absolutely nothing about football. I don’t know Peyton Manning from Eli Manning, and I only know who Tom Brady is because of the famous women he has babies with. But nevertheless, I am psyched for Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Colts and the Saints. Even though I had to look up just now who was playing, the Super Bowl will be fun. Why? Because of Super Bowl parties.
Fun facts about beer – America’s favorite way to consume alcohol
by Marshall Brain | December 1, 2009
Millions upon millions of Americans drink beer. Next to coffee, beer is America’s second most popular drug delivery system. In beer’s case, the drug is alcohol. Beer is America’s most popular alcoholic beverage. How much beer is consumed in America? According to this page: “200 million barrels (6.2 billion gallons) of beer are produced in [...]
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