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| Beer Drinker Passes On In Spain's Murcia region, Joaquín Alcaraz Gracia had just finished 6 liters ( a gallon and a half) of beer in twenty minutes, winning the trophy at a festival. When Gracia raised the trophy he began to vomit continuously for several minutes before apparently falling asleep. He wasn't asleep. He was in cardiac arrest. When the locals discovered he wasn't well, he was rushed to the emergency room, where he soon died.The festival was cancelled and replaced with three days of official mourning. His fellow contestants blamed Garcia's excessive eating habits - he was obese - and his smoking. They did not blame his drinking. --------------- Goodbye - Hello to Bass AB-InBev, the Belgo-Brazilian giant beer corporation, has decided to rename one of the oldest beer brands in Britain, Bass pale ale, a literally iconic IPA, as “Bass Trademark Number One”. Let's see if the uproar in beer circles changes their plans. ----------------------- Beer Beats Wine.... Again Latest health reason to drink beer - it reduces the risk of kidney stones and it does it better than wine. The stats: geer reduced kidney stone risk by 41%.,white wine reduced risk by 33%. red wine reduced risk by 31%. Drink up! |
| You don't say..... PETA once lobbied Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle to change Wisconsin's state beverage from milk to beer. ----------------------------- The late, great professional wrestler Andre the Giant once set a personal record of drinking 119 beers in six hours. ------------------------------------ In a poll of adults who drink, 54% of U.S men claim beer as their favorite alcoholic beverage compared to 27% of women -------------------------------- Bordeaux, France has 284,320 acres of the best vineyards available.. The region can make up to 960 million bottles of wine per year. Little beer is produced there. ------------------------- In 1963, Jim Whitaker became the first American to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. A can of Seattle’s own Rainier Beer made the ascent with him. . -------------------- Beer label warning (Eel River): "The consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, handsomer, and smarter than some really big guy named Chuck." -------------------------- The National Center for Biotechnology has found that people who drink beer are more attractive to mosquitoes. Just one beer could make you a target for the bugs. The study measured ethanol content in sweat, sweat production, and skin temperature before and after the subjects drank of 350 millileters of beer. -------------- Wine is mentioned many times in the Bible but the closest beer got was the phrase "strong drink," which some translate to fermented beverage made from grain or beer. |
| Ya gotta love these guys |
| Johnny Cash "Beer drinkin' don't do half the harm as love makin'." Kevin Hearne "“That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous.” Garrison Keillor "Beer is the drunkard's kindergrten." |
| Veronica Lake "A long experience with people has made me prefer a shabby beer drinker to a well- dressed wine snob." John Whale "Its extraordinary how friendly you can make a lot of people on a couple bottles of beer." John Dos Passos "A can of beer'd be the makin' of a guy a cold mornin' like this.." |
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