Quench your thirst for INFOGRAPHICS

For whatever reason, the office buzzword these days is "infographics"—you know, those neat graphics popularized by USA Today to give us new and interesting ways to display data in a pie chart (like, for instance, make the slices actual pie, etc.). Imagine my pleasure to receive this one, relating solely to strange and wonderful beers. Honestly, if you'd seen this as a bar graph, would you have given it a second look? I didn't think so. (Hat-tip: Dan Barker).

There is some truth to the idea of "12 oz. curls"

Finally, the news I've been waiting for. I can now move on to scouring Lexis-Nexis for the headline "Donuts and pizza make you handsome."

Pizza + Beer = Pizza Beer?

It's true, and horrifying: these people actually put a whole pizza into the mash, let it ferment and bottled it. And who knows? Maybe it's good (though I sincerely doubt it). My biggest issue is that they left out all the meat, which for me is like kissing your sister. If you're going to put a pizza into a bottle of beer, have the decency to include some sausage or something. In any case, it sounds disgusting, but I'd be happy to hear from y'all with dissenting views. (Hat tip to Ashley B for the link—Ash, I owe you a pizza beer).

I Have Seen My Future…

…And it involves brewing in the basement of the old folks home. This is actually a pretty cool story about how a bunch of Depression-era guys are reliving their old moonshinin' days by brewing beer at their retirement home.

Beer: Good For Bones

Here's yet more proof of what I've suspected for years: beer is good for you! Specifically, it's good for your bones. I'd venture to say that trumps every negative potential consequence of beer consumption. (Hat-tip: Ashley Bowles. Thanks, Ash!)

This bud's for you, man

I'm a guy who likes to multi-task, even when it comes to food—why eat a meal of individual meat, bread and vegetables when I can just have a pizza?—so I can appreciate the motivation behind combining beer and weed. If you could just drink your THC and alcohol simultaneously rather than alternating drinking and toking, imagine how much time you'd have to listen to Phish albums! Alas, according to this Homebrewer's Hints piece (scroll down past the picture for the article), it's not so easy; even though cannabis and hops are from the same family, hops impart a desirable aroma and flavor, whereas cannabis does not. Worse, adding pot to the boil has the effect of boiling off the THC, so you're left with dry-hopping (which requires a fair amount of the substance and leaves your beer tasting like pot) or adding it to individual bottles at bottling time (which also leaves your beer tasting like pot). Bummer.