This summer we finally purchased a new Barbecue grill for the backyard. Its a Weber and we were able to use it a few times before the weather got a bit too cool and cold. Looking forward to using in more actively next summer!

A great set of photos of classic beer cans. Genesee Beer, Keg Beer, Dixie, Cobra, Busch..they have them all

If you are a little bored heading into tonight’s critical VP debate, consider spicing things up with the Official Vice Presidential Debate Drinking Game. This is just laugh out loud funny, against both candidates. Several more can be found here.

Someone in Ireland drove into the Guinness factory in Dublin with a truck, and took off with a trailer loaded with 400 kegs of Guinness, Bud, and Carlsberg beer. That’s an impressive beer run.

According to the article:

• “This is likely to be the largest carry out of drink this Christmas” I would hope so. Hmm, who’s up for 500 kegs! Anyone?!?
• “Police will be on the lookout for any large quantity of stolen drink flowing through Dublin’s traffic.” Yeah sure…finding “large quantities of drink” in Dublin will be a breeze. There’s only a bar on every corner.
• “They were able to find the trailer, but all the kegs were removed” Removing 400 kegs from a trailer without being seen…that’s impressive.

I would have left the Bud and Carlsberg kegs, but that’s just me.

A worldwide shortage of hops will mean higher beer prices worldwide for the foreseeable future. This definitely provides more leverage to repeal the beer tax but weakens this argument.

Seen outside a bar in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen/Clinton neighborhood today:

Fixed Income Special
8AM-4PM Pabst’s Blue Ribbon – $1.25

If you have to ask wether the deal was for cans or bottles, then you just don’t know… PBR at 8AM…now that’s dedication. I would have taken a photo but I was driving.

I saw this absolutely hysterical story today. It seems that a bear out at Baker Lake, WA downed 36 beers and then passed out on the lawn of the Baker Lake Resort in Washington state after raiding several camping sites. And in a very interesting market research study, the bear had two brands of beer to choose from – Rainier Beer and Busch Beer – and displayed a definite preference because all 36 cans that he drank were Rainier. If I were the brand manager of Busch Beer, I would not be too happy with the results of this study. :-)

I was listening to the 80’s Alternative station on Radio@AOL and the song “Eighties” by Killing Joke (Album: “Laugh? I Nearly Bought One”) came on. While an udergrad at Syracuse, my friends and I went to a great watering hole called Chuck’s (Hungry Charlies). Every time this song came on, this one guy whom I never actually met, would get up on one of the tables and just start stomp dancing. The coolest thing was that when the song came on, and if he was there, everyone in the bar knew what was going to happen and would stop what they were doing and just watch. Listening to that song brought me back there.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!! Everyone is Irish today!! Hope you had the chance to enjoy a Guinness with a Shamrock on top.