Like this one here, it's not quite working yet:
Posted on 04/04/2004 8:52:05 AM PDT by southernnorthcarolina
Guy walks into a bar, orders a 12-ounce bottle of Corona Extra. Another guy walks in, orders a 12-ounce Guinness draft.
Whose drink is healthier?
If the guidelines are less alcohol, fewer calories, fewer carbohydrates and, to top it off, protection against heart attacks and blindness, 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.
Could this be the same Irish stout that looks like a root-beer float and tastes about as filling as a quarter-pounder with cheese?
Yes.
The 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.
Aw man!! How come nobody ever asks me to be part of these studies? Geez!
Like this one here, it's not quite working yet:
It is the beverage of choice for all of the young hoodlums that hang around in the parking lot at night in the apartment complex where I live, when it's warm out. Dozens of broken Corona bottles all over the lot on Sunday mornings.
Good Lord, I wish I could find a granny-unit to rent in Northern Virginia. I'd break the lease here in a minute.
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Guinness is among my favorites; so to are a variety of English ales -- Newcastle, Bass, Tetley, Boddington's, any number of "India Pale Ales," and so on. I've spent a fair amount of time in pubs in London, and I've concluded that kids (drinking age is 18 there) are the same the world over. The younger customers were drinking cans of Bud and Miller Lite at prices considerably higher than the wonderful English ales. What is difficult (or expensive) to obtain becomes more attractive. When I was in college, people were paying outrageous prices for Coors, because it wasn't available in the East at the time. Now that it's commonly available, of course, we realize it's very ordinary (to give a generous assessment).
I laugh when people go to Mexican restaurants and order a Corona like they think they are being authentic. Most people from Mexico wouldn't touch the stuff. If you want to order a Mexican beer without looking like a dweeb, order a Dos Equis or a Negra Modelo.
When I was younger, the hoodlum crowd drank malt liquor like Colt 45. Now that stuff is nasty and will give you a throbbing headache the next morning.
Having some real neighbor noise problems, so I can barely hear myself think. How 'bout
"How 'bout one more? I can't make myself pull the lever for Kerry yet."
Lame, but I'm not at my best today.
The hoodlum crowd that I referred to is from Mexico and Honduras, mostly.
My first (legal) drink was a Schlitz Malt Liquor at the enlisted club at Camp Lejeune. I remember thinking "THIS is what all the fuss is about?! Agghk!" I finished it up and went back to the squad bay and downed a couple of aspirin.
Now I usually drink scotch or a local microbrew. Foggy Bottom Ale and Old Dominion Ale are passable. There is a brewery in Fredericksburg called "Blue and Gray", which I am keen to try.
I tried EKU 28 once. Tasted like concentrated beer syrup.
One that I kind of like is "Arrogant Bastard Ale", although it has a very high alcohol content, and comes in HUGE bottles.
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