For Strength.
Posted on 05/31/2004 10:35:19 PM PDT by ForeverPure
Hot weather brings on a beer drought
May 31 2004 Robin Turner, The Western Mail
THE spell of hot, dry weather has caused a beer drought in South Wales.
Stocks of Tomos Watkin OSB in bottles have been completely exhausted over the past fortnight.
The award-winning old style bitter which is brewed in Swansea has been selling at four times its usual rate.
A massive 48,000 bottles have been sold since the hot weather descended on the region.
While the Hurns Brewing Company which makes the beer normally sells it at a rate of 6,000 bottles a week in the past fortnight the 24,000 bottle per week rate has left officials there staggered.
Hurns' managing director Phil Parry said yesterday , "We have completely sold out of bottles and we did not anticipate it so we're struggling to keep up with demand.
"It is usual to see a bit of an uplift in sales when the hot weather hits but this really has been phenomenal.
"This is the first year we have been supplying OSB in bottles throughout the summer and the sales data seems to indicate that people are stocking up for barbecues at home or at-home socialising as well as enjoying a bottle or two when they're out and about so orders have just shot through the roof.
"The trade seems to still have stocks of the product even though we as a brewery are low on supplies so the good news is all our customers should be OK for the Bank Holiday.
"However we will busy overseeing another bottle run at the brewery to ensure if this good weather continues throughout June we will be able to keep up with demand."
Me neither.
You like stout?
LOL. We call it the beast here too. Icehouse is known as #%^#house.
If that's Milwaukee's best, I'd hate to see its worst.
Some of them. It's hit or miss with me.
I also like some Pale Ales. Mackinac Pale Ale at Michigan Brewing is a real good one.
Someone else told me that not too long ago.
I used to hang out in a place that had PBR on tap.....50cents a mug!!!
Hey, I like Milwaukee's Best!!!!!
Like the Twins? 
Coors stinks; the Twins don't.
Gotta go now though, I'll check back later.
It's called Twang, and it's essentially salt with citrus juice in it. Check the counter of your favorite convenience store; it's usually right there next to the lighters and koozies. It's GOOD in beer that lacks flavor, as low-cal and low-carb beers tend to do.
Neither one has been worth the attempt at drinking, since the San Antonio breweries were closed.
March 17, 2004
By KEVIN HUNT, The Hartford Courant
A man walks into a bar, orders a 12-ounce bottle of Corona Extra.
Another man walks in, orders a 12-ounce Guinness draft.
The two men turn to each other, raise their glasses and say, "Here's to
your health."
Question: Whose dietary and health interests are better served by the
12-ounce beer?
If the guidelines are less alcohol, fewer calories, fewer carbohydrates
and, to top it off, protection against heart attacks, blindness and
maybe even impotence, then it's the Guinness drinker, hands down.
No joke.
Guinness, in fact, is lower in alcohol, calories and carbohydrates than
Samuel Adams, Budweiser, Heineken and almost every other major-brand
beer not classified as light or low-carb. It has fewer calories and
carbohydrates than low-fat milk and orange juice, too.
Could this be the same Irish stout that looks like a still-life
root-beer float and tastes about as filling as a quarter-pounder with
cheese?
Yes, the same Guinness that beer expert Michael Jackson (this MJ, the
British king of hops, has recognizable human facial features) calls the
world's classic dry stout. It's a favorite of Bono (obviously), Madonna
(with a good cigar) and Matt Damon (no, Guinness does not make teeth
unnaturally white).
This tastes-great, more-filling formula defies nutritional expectations
because Guinness is so low in alcohol, a source of empty calories.
Guinness is 4.2 percent alcohol by volume, the same as Coors Light.
Budweiser and Heineken check in at 5 percent.
"That surprised me," says Dr. Joseph Brennan, a Yale-New Haven Hospital
cardiologist of Irish heritage and a confirmed Guinness drinker.
"I could never understand why one or two wouldn't leave me
light-headed."
Brennan, like many cardiologists, recommends a drink! a day for his
cardiac patients. Red wine, in particular, has been shown to help prevent
heart attacks. Now maybe it's beer's turn. A University of Wisconsin
study last fall found that moderate consumption of Guinness worked like
aspirin to prevent clots that increase the risk of heart attacks.
In the study, Guinness proved twice as effective as Heineken at
preventing blood clots. Guinness is loaded with flavonoids, antioxidants
that give the dark color to many fruits and vegetables.
These antioxidants are better than vitamins C and E, the study found,
at keeping bad LDL cholesterol from clogging arteries. Blocked arteries
also contributes to erectile dysfunction, as does overindulgence in
alcohol.
Guinness has a higher concentration than lighter beers of vitamin B,
which lowers levels of homocysteine, linked to clogged arteries. And
researchers have found that antioxidants from the moderate use of stout
might reduce the incidence of cataracts by as much as 50 percent.
It's milk's line, but beer gives you strong bones, too.
"The reason, we think, is that beer is a major contributor to the diet
of silicon," says Katherine Tucker, an associate professor of
nutritional epidemiology at Tufts University's Friedman School of
Nutrition
Science and Policy.
Tucker recently participated in a study that showed beer, either dark
or light, protects bone-mineral density because of its high levels of
silicon, which allows the deposit of calcium and other minerals into bone
tissue.
In Ireland, where the slogan "Guinness Is Good for You" was born, the
stout's medicinal uses are the stuff of legend. The U.S.
distributor of Guinness, makes no claims about its medical benefits, says
spokeswoman Beth Davies from the company's offices in Stamford.
But a visitor to Ireland might hear accounts (most no longer, if ever,
true) of Guinness administered to nursing mothers, blood donors,
stomach and intestinal post-operative patients and mothers recovering from
childbirth.
"Pregnant women and racehorses, one a day," says Michael Foley of
Wethersfield, standing over a pint of Guinness in the subterranean bar at
the Irish American Home Society in Glastonbury.
Racehorses?
Foley, who left Castlemaine, County Kerry, 43 years ago but retains a
Guinness-thick brogue, returns a cocked-head glance that says, loosely
translated from Gaelic, "Duh."
"It's made from barley, you know," he says.
True. Roasted and malted barley (it gives Guinness its deep ruby
color), hops, yeast and water from the Wicklow Mountains, south of Dublin.
Guinness gets its rich, creamy head from a mixture of nitrogen and carbon
dioxide when dispensed from a tap.
Our man who ordered that 12-ounce Guinness obviously wasn't in an Irish
pub, which serves the stout in a 20-ounce imperial-pint glass after a
deliberate, often agonizing, two-part pour that allows the beer to
settle. But if he knows what's good for him, maybe he'll stick around for
one more.
"Most health research," says Tucker, "suggests that benefits, including
protection against heart disease, are noted with up to one drink per
day for women and up to two a day for men. Above this amount, the
negative effects of alcohol seem to outweigh the positive effects."
Yep .. and I'm still Y2k ready .. one must always have a backup plan :0)
Y2K?? Backup plan??
Yikes, it seems to take a near total effort for some of us just to get enough beer and food stockpiled for a weekend.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
I don't know which puts me in more of a tzzy......running out of beer, coffee, or cigarettes!!!!
I think it's beer!
It's a mom thang .. we've learned to be prapared for everything
It's in the rule book :0)
I prefer domestic lagers.
PBR is a good beer.
I love cheap beer.
I will not shell out a lot of extra dough to look hip.
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