Beer Found to be as Healthy as Wine 517
Matt Clare writes "Researchers at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) recently found that beer has the same positive qualities that wine has previously been found to have. The media release quotes professor John Trevithick, 'We were very surprised one drink of beer or stout contributed an equal amount of antioxidant benefit as wine, especially since red wine contains about 20 times the amount of polyphenols as beer.' For more info on how beer helps police harmful free radicals in blood, The London Free Press also has an article."
mmm (Score:4, Funny)
Re:mmm (Score:4, Funny)
Soko
Re:mmm (Score:3, Funny)
A word from Darl McBride (Score:4, Funny)
Darl McBride SCO (Scamers, Crooks and Opportunists)
Re:mmm (Score:4, Funny)
Re:mmm (Score:3, Funny)
MSBeer's EULA prevents you from driving after you drink it.
Re:mmm (Score:4, Funny)
Re:mmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:mmm (Score:5, Funny)
-- Benjamin Franklin
Re:mmm (Score:3, Funny)
I think I speak for all of us ... (Score:5, Funny)
"WOOHOO!!"
Re:I think I speak for all of us ... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I think I speak for all of us ... (Score:3, Insightful)
It only mentions "positive" qualities.
Re:I think I speak for all of us ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Really? I thought they already knew that one or two drinks a day is positive, but more are not. I don't see how this changes anything (except what to drink). I've never heard of a single study showing that two drinks a day is bad for anyone without specific contradictions (mostly liver related).
Re:I think I speak for all of us ... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I think I speak for all of us ... (Score:3, Funny)
I think I speak for N.O.M.A.A.M when I say STFU.
Re:I think I speak for all of us ... (Score:5, Informative)
(Who hoo! I'm going to get +3 informative, just because I actually bothered to RTFA. Karma karma karma.)
Medicinal (Score:3, Informative)
No wonder Guinness used the slogan "Guinness is good for you" for many years in their advertising.
However, I do think it's a bit cruel that just down wind of St James' Gate (the Guinness Brewery in Dublin) is an old Hospital where they used to treat alcoholics. You would often
Re:I think I speak for all of us ... (Score:5, Informative)
I concurred. And then I jokingly asked if the study was sponsored by a brewery.
But that's no joke.
"The research was funded by Labatt and Guinness," said Trevithick, adding each brewery paid about $25,000 to finance the study. "But it's an unconditional grant and we made it very clear to them that if we had any findings we viewed as being appropriate to publish, that we'd publish them whether or not they were harmful to Labatt or Guinness."
Don't get too excited (Score:5, Funny)
For more info on how beer helps police harmful free radicals in blood...
It's time to write your representatives, folks!
Do we really want... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I think I speak for all of us ... (Score:4, Informative)
Even though red wine contains more polyphenols than beer, this study showed the body absorbs about equally effective amounts of bioactive molecules such as polyphenols from beer and wine. Beer, wine, stout, and matured spirits (rum, whisky, sherry and port), which extract tannins from the oak casks they are matured or stored in, all contain significant amounts of polyphenols.
As if I needed another excuse to drink [scotchwhisky.com].
Interesting.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Interesting.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interesting.... (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't think cost is the issue in the beer/wine debate. It's a lifestyle difference. Wine drinkers will have a glass with dinner. Beer drinkers chug a six pack watching the game on Saturday.
Re:Interesting.... (Score:5, Informative)
On the other hand, I only need to drink 15 oz of wine to get the same buzz. Wine only has 106 calories per glass, so I'd be about as well off with wine as I would with light beer, though I'd probably enjoy it more as light beer doesn't hit the spot the way nice glass of Merlot would. Shit, drinking a whole bottle of wine is only 500 calories. So drink up, man...5 drinks for the caloric intake of 3, that's my idea of a party.
Re:Interesting.... (Score:5, Funny)
Whiskey has an even better buzz to calorie ratio.
In fact, if you drink enough, the shakes will help burn more calories.
Re:Interesting.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interesting.... (OT) (Score:5, Interesting)
White wines generally has fewer calories than red wines, but also has less antioxidant content than reds as well. The exception to the calorie count will be dessert wines, which have so much sugar in them it's pointless compare them to reds anyway. Also, not to put a damper toward white wine drinkers, but almost all 'light' whites are on the bottom of the list. These include Sauvignon Blanc and Rieslings (from almost any region, but veering towards colder regions like Alsace and Germany). Of the whites, the only wines that seem to rank well in antioxidant count(among other whites - none rank well against reds) are alcoholic, tannic chardonnays(from wood barrels) from very sunny regions, like Chile and Australia. I guess the sugar content helps there in the fermentation process.
Red wines with more tannins were generally ranked higher on the antioxidant list. I haven't really checked whether the tannin count is from the barrels they aged in, or the grape skin itself, but the highest ranking 'healthy' red wines listed were from chile and some parts of australia. But there were plenty from france and California as well.
Of the reds, small sized grape varietals seems to have more 'good stuff' in them; Most of the wines up on the list were Cabernet Sauvignon, some Cabernet Franc, and the occasional Shiraz/Syrah. Absent from the list (or I just don't remember seeing any) was primitivo/zinfandel, along with pinot noir. Most of the merlots were on the bottom of the list.
In terms of alcohol content, the 'healthiest' wines had the highest amount of alcohol in them, generally all above 14-15 percent. I'm guessing this is due to the length of time the wines are allowed to stay in the barrels(forgive my lack of winespeak, it's been a while). Also, very very few steel barrel wines ranked high in terms of antioxidant content and 'other stuff.'
I guess that's about it atm. If you want to drink healthy, make sure to aim for heavy, tannic wines made from the small grape varietals that have been aged in wood, which happens to have lots of calories, and lots of alcohol(disclaimer:there is no scientific basis on anything I've just said, this is all based off of my experience). :-) I haven't RTFA as of yet, but I'm curious of the types of beer high up on the list of 'goodness' reflect the wine criteria for 'goodness.' In particular the 'aged, high calorie, alcoholic' portion of it.
One thing about heavy tannic wines: in my experience I've gotten the worst hangovers from them. I'm guessing it's from the tannins themselves, as light reds and whites don't affect me nearly as much.
and not to be a downer on your post, but if I was looking to get a quick hit, my suggestion would be to aim straight for the vodka (not that I'm advocating that or anything). Vodka has some of the highest alcohol/dollar ratio making it super cheap, plus (if you buy good vodka) is has very little impurities so you don't have to worry too much about hangovers. And, it's pretty low on the calorie count compared to wine and beer. The problem with vodka is that because it's so clean, people have a hard time judging whether or not they have had enough.
I used to drink wine very heavily, so I've built quite a tolerance to alchohol. I don't drink as often as I used to, but every once in a while I enjoy having a beer or a glass of wine, and I notice that I get a nice little buzz, even with my heavy tolerance. Man, work must be more stressful than I thought. :-P
it's not the alcohol... (Score:3, Informative)
The chemical compounds found in red wine are called resveratrol, polyphenols and anthrocyanidins. Resveratrol [wikipedia.org] is described to be "a potent anti-oxidant (about 20-50 times as effectively as vitamin C alone) and act synergistically with vitamin C enhancing the effects of each. Resveratrol has been demonstrated to have an anti-clotting effect that prevents the formation of thrombi or blood clots in the blood vessels."
The article [advance-health.com] I found goes on to explain why alcohol can cause a hangover and why it is bad f
Re:Interesting.... (Score:3, Insightful)
I think the people who buy $8 beer are likely to just drink a glass with dinner, as a replacement for wine. I believe a good beer can be just as good an accompaniment as wine. Just depends on the food, or your mood.
Re:Interesting.... (Score:3, Interesting)
"I think the people who buy $8 beer are likely to just drink a glass with dinner, as a replacement for wine. I believe a good beer can be just as good an accompaniment as wine. Just depends on the food, or your mood."
This is true. In fact, in Belgium [visitbelgium.com] they do use beer in place of wine. Belgium is a small country, yet it has 130 breweries and over 400 types of beer.
mmmmmm, beer
Re:Interesting.... (Score:5, Informative)
Only an alcoholic would mod this informative.
Re:Interesting.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interesting.... (Score:3, Interesting)
I did point out he was eating candy that contained gelatine which was typically nonvegan. He just shrugged it off. Still it was in the UK so eating meat (esp beef) was probably risky - so he may have the last laugh yet (or I might be laughing mad with vCJD).
Actually the evidence is that humans are v
Re:Interesting.... (Score:3, Interesting)
which act as lipase inhibitors, slowing the absorption of fat.
A bit one-sided... (Score:5, Interesting)
But the key is moderation. The researchers found three beers would have the opposite effect.
The study was funded by beermakers Guinness and Labatt. But the university says the financial support had no influence on the outcome.
Re:A bit one-sided... (Score:5, Funny)
So just make sure your two beers are both liters/quarts!
Re:A bit one-sided... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A bit one-sided... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but those are canadian beers, right? That means you either drink a third of a german beer, or six american beers...
Re:Alcohol is no health food (Score:3, Informative)
This is also the reason a little radiation or a little arsenic may be good for you.
Re:Alcohol is no health food (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, there are several "good" studies--published in reputable journals, with good methodology and solid statistical methods--that show an association between moderate alcohol consumption and appreciably reduced risk of a number of diseases. (Here, moderate is a range from approximately 1 to 3 drinks per day, depending on the study.)
Reduced risks include cardiovascular diseases (heart attack, stroke) and neurological disorders (Alzheimers, other dementias, Parkinson's). There is a correlation with an overall reduced risk of mortality, even after controlling for income and education.
Consumption of alcohol to excess definitely does systemic damage to quite a bit of the body, but there is no evidence that moderate consumption is harmful. Sure, the benefits aren't huge, but for most people there's definitely no reason to describe alcohol as the 'most damaging' food product they can consume*. Only half in jest, I would recommend the Big Mac for that title, or maybe a Krispy Kreme doughnut. Alcohol would definitely be waaaay down the list. Quite right--most reputable physicians and researchers wouldn't recommend taking up drinking solely for health reasons, but no reputable scientist will tell you to drop drinking entirely, either.
*Exceptions include individuals who have a genetic inability to digest alcohol (defects in aldehyde dehydrogenase or another enzyme), or a predisposition towards alcoholism, or a liver or kidney disorder.
Re:Alcohol is no health food (Score:3, Insightful)
If you want to watch your health, instead of drinking a glass of wine, drink a litre of grape juice, or a kilo of grapes. Much more healthy than intoxicating your liver with ethanol.
Come on, people here should be educated. Wine = alcohol. Wine = healt
Re:Alcohol is no health food (Score:3, Informative)
The Rotterdam [nih.gov] prospective study of 5395 individuals (6 year study, 99.7% participant followup) found that incidence of dementia was significantly reduced in moderate drinkers, even after controlling for "age, sex, systolic blood pressure, education, s
Re:Alcohol is no health food (Score:3, Informative)
From Wikipedia: "In colder climates, strong alcoholic beverages are popularly seen as a w
yes, but define beer... (Score:5, Funny)
The guy from Corona sits down and says, "Hey Senor, I would like the world's best beer, a Corona." The bartender dusts off a bottle from the shelf and gives it to him.
The guy from Budweiser says, "I'd like the best beer in the world, give me 'The King Of Beers', a Budweiser." The bartender gives him one.
The guy from Coors says, "I'd like the only beer made with Rocky Mountain spring water, give me a Coors." He gets it.
The guy from Guinness sits down and says, "Give me a Coke." The bartender is a little taken aback, but gives him what he ordered.
The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask "Why aren't you drinking a Guinness?" and the Guinness president replies, "Well, I figured if you guys aren't drinking beer, neither would I."
Re:yes, but define beer... (Score:5, Funny)
A Texan walks into a pub in Ireland and clears his voice to the crowd of drinkers. He says, "I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers. I'll give $500 American dollars to anybody in here who can drink 10 pints of Guinness back-to-back." The room is quiet and no one takes up the Texan's offer.
One man even leaves. Thirty minutes later the same gentleman who left shows back up and taps the Texan on the shoulder. "Is your bet still good?", asks the Irishman.
The Texan says yes and asks the bartender to line up 10 pints of Guinness. Immediately the Irishman tears into all 10 of the pint glasses drinking them all back-to-back.
The other pub patrons cheer as the Texan sits in amazement.
The Texan gives the Irishman the $500 and says, "If ya don't mind me askin', where did you go for that 30 minutes you were gone?".
The Irishman replies, "Oh...I had to go to the pub down the street to see if I could do it first".
Re:yes, but define beer... (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, a couple of more, from here [ahajokes.com].
An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman each order a Guiness in a pub. Upon being served, each finds a fly in their beer. Repulsed, the Englishman sends his back. The Scotsman gently flicks the fly out of his mug and begins drinking. The Irishman, carefully lifts the fly up by its wings and screams, "Spit it out! Spit it out!"
An Irishman walks into a bar and orders three glasses of Guiness, drinking them one at a time. Noticing this odd ritual, the bartender explains that the beer goes flat when poured and informs the man his beer would be much fresher if he ordered one glass at a time.
The Irishman explains he began this custom with his two brothers, who have moved to America and Australia, respectively. This is their way of remembering all the time they spent drinking together.
The man becomes a regular at the pub, well-known for always ordering three beers at once. One day he walks in and orders only two beers. Assuming the worst, a hush falls among other patrons.
When the Irishman returns to the bar to order his second round, the bartender quietly offers his condolences. The man looks confused for a moment, and then explains, "No, everyone's fine. I gave up beer for lent."
Re:yes, but define beer... (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, Budweiser truly deserves the title 'King Of Beers'. Not the American version, though. I'm talking about the original [budvar.cz]!
Mmmmm.... Budweiser....
Re:Please define it (Score:3, Insightful)
now go out and get some chimay.
Re:Please define it (Score:3, Informative)
Hey, are you that Alaskan who stuck his tongue to a frozen flagpole [slashdot.org]?
Related story... (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Conrimfming thiss study (Score:5, Funny)
ok, I'm outta here! (Score:5, Interesting)
Seriously though, I've always wanted to start drinking a glass of wine or beer with lunch at work. Think about it long term; it would be a health benefit. One beer isn't going to make anyone loopy, and you'd be at your desk or in the kitchen, so you wouldn't be going outside like smokers, plus you'd only do it once a day unlike smokers.
Hmmm...perhaps I should send this article to our HR department...
CB!@#$%^&*
What they didn't say... (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:4, Insightful)
Well heck! (Score:4, Funny)
I guess that means I'll live to be 100!!! Excuse me while I crack open another cold one!! WooHoo!
I thought this has been known... (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyway, the point is when he was recovering, the doctor asked him about his life-style. My grandfather, a wine-drinker, answered a solid "NO" when asked if he drank beer. The doctor recommended that he change that and start drinking a beer per day.
The doctor was under belief a beer per day would keep the prostate cancer from returning, and it (among other things) seems to have worked. My grandfather celebrated his 80th a few years ago and is still going strong.
Re:I thought this has been known... (Score:3, Funny)
Some Good Qualities != Healthy (Score:5, Informative)
No such thing as a healthy food... (Score:4, Informative)
That goes for everything, be it beer, crisps, hamburgers, apples, lettuce, hell - even water [0]. Get it out of balance, and it's a problem.
Accordingly, some bad qualities != Unhealthy. For example, my natural [1] diet is too low in salt [2]. So, the odd bag of crisps is not a bad thing [3] for me. On the other hand, I know someone whose got high blood pressure - a single bad of can push him towards the danger area - it's a very bad thing for him. Most people, are in the middle.
With that in mind, what does this research actually mean, for the average person? Bugger all. The odd beer won't hurt, and hey, has some good points too. Too much is still bad.
May I reccomend, "Total diet approach to communicating food and nutrition information", J Am Diet Assoc 2002;102:100, available from
http://www.eatright.org/Public/GovernmentAffair
for some further reading.
And, if your looking for antioxidents, eat more raw fruit and veg. Particular foods may have more than others, but, frankly, if you are worried about antioxident intake, then either any will help, or your micromanaging your food intake excessivly. The human body is not a brittle thing - we've lasted this long by being able to live on a range of inputs, so just eat a broad range, and let the body do it's thing.
[0] Although, granted, drinking too much water is damn hard to do without some other contributry factor.
[1] By natural, I mean the diet I would eat if I didn't really think about it - just eat what I want, when I want.
[2] By too low, I mean averages 500mg of salt daily. Reccomended is 1-3g, recommended limit 6g.
[3] Better would be to have it more evenly distributed, prehaps.
Re:No such thing as a healthy food... (Score:3, Insightful)
Different people have completely different needs from their diets, depending on their lifestyles. There is nothing wrong with eating craploads of sugars and complex carbs if you are going to use them all in the course of the day.
Many athletes have diets which would make an average person unhealthy. Your diet has to match your lifestyle.
Proof of God? Franklin thought so. (Score:5, Funny)
I couldn't agree more.
Re:Proof of God? Franklin thought so. (Score:3, Interesting)
Homer says it best (Score:4, Interesting)
Many other health benefits (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Many other health benefits (Score:3, Informative)
I brew my own, too, and always have some hefeweizen on hand. A wonderful, fruity wheat beer loaded with protien chill haze. And I find the mandatory suspended yeast (mit hefe, bitte!) is better than fiber.
Re:Many other health benefits (Score:3, Funny)
One beer a day to benefit? (Score:5, Funny)
Man, am I glad I didn't go for that post-graduate degree!
Just remember..... (Score:3, Informative)
Reality check (Score:5, Insightful)
Let's drink better beer. (Score:5, Informative)
So let's get edjumucated. (and seriously, what could be more fun?) Here are two lists of (mostly) great beers that have very wide distribtuions--go out and find something on these lists that you haven't had, and try it tonight!
RateBeer's top 'accessible' beer list. [ratebeer.com]
BeerAdvocate's 'Best Most Available Beers' list. [beeradvocate.com]
There are other lists, too, these are just to get you started. You can go to both site's "Top beers" to find a list of even better beers, although many of those could be hard to find.
Less is like more, only better (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm not a physiologist, or even very smart, so the rest of this is pure guesswork:
Probably small amounts of alcohol don't do bad things to you, and may even clean crud from the blood and arteries. Larger amounts make the kidneys work harder, and the excess is eventually converted to fat.
Since most people (in the population that eats enough to read Slashdot) have enough fat already, these negative health effects of alcohol take over with increased consumption.
The formula for health may be formed like:
health = q +
where q is the daily consumption.
It's obviously more complex than that, but as I said, I'm not a medic. The point to my guess is that the effect is not linear, but it's also not exponentially bad for you to drink more. 10 beers/day is not much worse for you than, say, 5. The curve levels off.
Beer vs. "low carb" nuts (Score:3, Insightful)
Beer still has to battle against the more extreme low-carb advocates out there. One book, the popular South Beach Diet, goes to such an effort to discredit beer that it fallaciously compares consuming beer to consuming 100% pure maltose, simply because beer contains some maltose. The claims in the book made me think the author has some sort of agenda against beer or alcohol that go far beyond low-carb eating.
Re:Beer vs. "low carb" nuts (Score:3, Interesting)
I think the "South Beach" author has some sort of agenda that has nothing to do with dieting, period.
My take on it is that, while flying the banner of health and weight loss, a lot of these books and diets are nothing more than thinly veiled attempts at promoting prohibition and, for want of a better term, puritanism. Lord knows most of the diets themselves are certainly not healthy (Atkins).
</tinfoil hat>
Re:Beer vs. "low carb" nuts (Score:3, Insightful)
I think it is more likely that these authors, like many advocates for various causes, have gained just enough knowledge to think they know what's right for everyone else while causing harm due to the remaining things they don't know. There are so many contradictions among fad diets with real health consequences, that I'm suprised the FDA/FTC/etc. haven't stepped in and declared them all as false advertising and bad advice based on faulty evidence. The profit motive isn't very encouraging, either.
Atkins as a 'hack' (Score:3, Insightful)
1) People eat too much.
2) Eating less just makes you hungry. Ergo, it's difficult.
3) If you look at the rates of ``fullness'' to calories, carbohydrates are way down the list.
4) Thus, if you skip the carbs for a while, it lets the body get used to lower total volume of food, without feeling hungry.
5) After the body is used to lower volumes of food, replace the h
Interesting, but... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Interesting, but... (Score:3, Interesting)
People that drink a glass of red wine everyday tend to live a much more, dare I say it, bourgeois lifestyle than those that don't. That the rich are healthier and live longer shouldn't surprise anyone.
It was actually shown to be a lifestyle difference
Genius.. (Score:4, Funny)
I imagine the research was a real bind
Im thinking of doing some research into proving that an end of night curry or chilli kebab helps prevent a killer hangover. Anyone care to sponsor me ?
Nick...
Most beers have high carb content (Score:4, Interesting)
In the process of trying to lose weight, I've done a lot of reading lately on why low-carb diets work, and most of thee details seem pretty logical and convincing to me. Here in a nutshell, is why I think high-carb beers cannot be healthier than (usually) low-carb wines for people trying to lose weight:
High carb and sugar diets cause the release of Insulin in the body, which is a signal to the body that more than adequate nutrition is available as a result of which, the survival mechanism kicks in and stores any fat consumed thereafter as body fat, with the carbs being used for energy. When carb consumption is lowered, however, Insulin is absent from the bloodstream, and fat is burnt instead for energy.
Hence, from this standpoint, the food pyramid (which suggests low fat instead of low carbs) as well as high carb beers are unhealthier, since they encourage storage of more fat in the body, leading to obesity.
In any case, I'm not a biologist, and I've found this way of eating quite health and effective. Thought I'd chip in with my $0.02.
For those interested in more details, look up Slashdot's earlier coverage of the subject:Hackera on Atkins" [slashdot.org].
Re:Most beers have high carb content (Score:3, Informative)
The low-carb diets fall short where they do not discriminate among different forms of carbohydrate. Of all the fad diets, the ones based on the glycemic index actually make the most sense, as it is obvious that a cup of chick peas will be easier on the pancreas than a cup of boiled potatoes. The pure black-and-white low-carb diets are pretty much based on poor logic and/or all-out misinformation (they really do read like pseudo-science, few citations, many conclusions). For example, ketosis just isn't a
Re:Most beers have high carb content (Score:4, Interesting)
While this may be strictly true, the body's "store as fat" mechanism only happens if your body isn't burning all the Calories it ingests. This is a result of having a low metabolic rate. A low metabolic rate is caused by lack of exercise, surprise.
This is why starving yourself will also lead to losing weight, and why the minute you stop doing it, you'll gain it all back (as is the case with low carb diets, and any diet in fact, which is not accompanied by exercise.) Your body goes into survival "I'm starving quick store everything I eat who knows when I'll eat again" mode.
Americans (and I say this as an American) are hopelessly overweight, and we have a very weight conscious society. As a result, we spend a tremendous amount of time trying to lose weight. But very few people (especially fat people, sadly) want to do the actual work required to lose it. This is why stuff like the Atkins diet, anorexic self-starvation, and diet pills are so popular. People don't want to actually get off their butts and work out. They want to continue leading their sedentary lifestyles and lose weight.
When you think about it, it really isn't surprising. Americans work harder (longer hours, etc) than essentially anyone else in the world, on average. It stands to reason, then, that we have very little free time, and many of us have office jobs where we sit around all day. So those of us who don't much like exercise to begin with are unlikely to use what little free time we have working out. It's a problem.
But recognize that any diet without exersise will, at best, give you temporary results, which will force you to diet basically forever.
The way you describe the Atkins diet is the same way that people suffering from anorexia describe the celery diet. Celery has negative Calories -- it requires more energy to break it down than you get from it, it being mostly cellulose. Anorexics discovered that they could just eat celery and lose weight extremely fast. They were essentially starving themselves (hello, negative Cals) but it didn't feel that way, because they always had a full stomach.
Low carb diets are the same. Eat only food which is more difficult to burn than fat, and your body will preferentially burn fat. But this is just as stupid as the celery diet, for exactly the same reasons.
If you want to lose weight, exercise. Play a sport. Do something. Get off your ass. And eat what you want.
Expect the Price of Beer to Rise (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Expect the Price of Beer to Rise (Score:3, Informative)
I'm not going to call it the best wine in the world, or even the best bang for your buck, but it's nice with food when one can't afford better (you can replace "one" with "I" in my case).
Re:Expect the Price of Beer to Rise (Score:3, Informative)
And when you read the fine print, it is by only 3%. I.e, this is 6 points for a person with a cholesterol of 200. So oatmeal gets someone down to 194. Big whoop-de-doo. Just lay off the chili cheese fries and quintuple-scoop ice cream, folks.
I JUST FOUND MY DUI DEFENSE! (Score:3, Funny)
LK
Free radicals? (Score:5, Funny)
beer, Police, free radicals, blood, London Free Press?
All the standard ingredients for another protest day in London.
Well, since it's not the alcohol (Score:3, Interesting)
Ideally, you'd use yeast to make a vitamin drink, removing excess sugars/calories. You'd remove the alcohol. Then you'd drink.
Free Beer! (Score:5, Interesting)
[Hey, it's shameless self-promotion, but beer related stories don't appear on Slashdot that often]
You don't even need to know how to brew, because it comes with a brewing primer. To be honest, while the software is free as in pretzels, brewing ingredients might set you back twenty bucks for a two case batch, but that twenty buck is worth it. Now go and make some "Beer Found to be as Healthy as Wine".
[Now I'm starting to feel ashamed about this shameless self-promotion, better wrap up quick]
It's even free for Windows and Mac (but is much cooler under a Free and Open system like Linux or BSD). A new release is due within the month, but why wait? Build now and avoid the rush...
Remember eggs? (Score:3, Funny)
An interesting quid pro quo: (Score:3, Funny)
*wink
Altogether now.... (posix beer) (Score:5, Funny)
That's all I have to say, thanks for coming!
Better question: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Better question: (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:And wine was already as good as... (Score:3, Funny)
That's because Red Grape Juice, when it's 100% juice, is just red wine that's been pasteurized to kill the yeast and boil off the alcohol.
Re:Cheers! (Score:5, Insightful)
And like God, beer can be healthy if you don't over do it.
Re:Drink Local (Score:3, Informative)
uh...which brain cells? (Score:3, Funny)