A recent article in the NY Times has raised a lot of huff-n-puff in the beer, blogging and beer-blogging world.

The article is about a Czech professor’s study that relates beer consumption with publication of findings. The relationship is inverse.
This is sad to know, I mean yeah you can guess that I would be true, a hung-over scientist is much more likely to facial himself with a toad while a sober on successfully milks the little critter. But what are the implications for everyone else?

To answer this I will make a little chart. We will assume that there are three beers being consumed and then we will analyze the effects that this consumption will have on the work ethic and quality.*


Begger
Con-gets angry at the world and possibly violent
Pro- plays a beach boys tape he has in his boom box and dances around
making people happy and loose with their change

Construction worker

Con- drops things from high places, demolishes the wrong building, falls and dies

Pro- gets the balls to work the high steel (guys on the far right) and keeps America moving forwards, the flowers of the adjacent buildings 8th floor get watered

Bus driver
Con- crashes the bus everybody dies

Pro- crashes the bus full of Nazi’s everybody dies

Teacher

Con- goes to jail

Pro- makes a great kindergarten teacher
small people and swings, Hell yes!

Cook
Con- Throws up in the food, drowns in the marinara

Pro- there’s nothing like a drunk cook who doesn’t drown in the marinara



I hope this gives a better rounded picture of what beer does to the average money making man and women in America. Till next time!!! Woo beer blog!!! Woo!!!

* This study has no scientific backing what so ever

LA Roja The Red

Okay, Okay-- I know I said I was heading to Europe to try there beers, and I since then I have I only tried one. That may be true, but even though I haven’t been drinking European beers I have been drinking European-style beers that are brewed by our own guys and gals here state-side.

These beers are starting to grab the attention of everyone in the nation not just us NoCo’ers, Washington recently passed legislation to help microbreweries get there name out to the public, by giving samples at grocery stores!

The beer I am giving free advertising to today is La Roja from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales in. It’s a Flanders style amber ale extenuated by sour cherries which are, in the sprit of the region, allowed to naturally ferment in oak casks.

This beer is tart but not too sour. Case in point, you can serve it a dinner party (which is where Roja was drunk) and it will go over fairly well.

The beer is quite beautiful with a light head and a nice mistiness that comes from Pumpkins’ filter-less style.

There are hints of flavor that shoot your taste buds in all kind of directions based around the sour cherries. This beer makes you want to drool as your drinking it. Yet it’s never too over powering; the tart never gets into your cheeks.

It’s the calmer, more well mannered cousin of La Folie; if I were to make any compressions.

The brewery is something else too, the small operation tucked away in the village of Dexter, MI. It puts out quite the quality of beer, most of which beers is barrel aged.

Roja is quite pricey going for about $10 a bottle, so go in on it with a buddy or a cutie girl who likes a sour beer.

If you’re not sure about “sour beer” this is a good steppingstone to invigorate your taste buds. So go for it life’s too short to not drink sour beer.

hard times for the beer belly

I want to talk to guys about something very serious today. What reality!? Well even as drinkers we need to face facts sometimes.
There is a serious problem among the drinking community today. I am talking about the world-wide hops shortage. That is affecting beer drinker’s world wide

I learned about this yesterday when I went into Wilbur’s to get my bi-weekly beer. As of last year erratic weather combined with a rising demand for ethanol has sent the hop down a scary road.

First the weather. Last year Europe one of the world largest (and best) hop buckets took an extremely wet summer; molding most of the crop. At the other side of the spectrum and the world, Australia took a heavy drought which killed off much of its hop crop.

Closer to home many Oregon hop growers are facing a hop-killing diseases that doesn’t show until about two generations in and according to some in the industry is being spread by the harvesters cutting blades according to a home brewer and Wilburs employee.

The second issue is coming from the high demand of corn to produce ethanol. The higher pay-offs and quicker turnaround on crops has led many hop farmers to uproot their crops.

The affected—the brewers and the drinkers. If you have noticed beer prices have risen in the past months and are feared to go up more.

It’s a truly sad time for beer because in recent years brewers have begun to push the traditional boundaries of beer and this hit has hot them hard. The next summer and winter might determine the future of the micro-brewer in America, who doesn’t have the large corporate backing of large American beer giants.

a week with no beer

Today is a big day for American politics being that the internal battles of both parties will end once the final delegates are tailed in Texas and Ohio primaries.

The vote today is being labeled as the most decisive since Super Fat Tuesday back in early Feb.


As the last leg of a drawn out beat down campaigning event is a bout to end tonight, bars across the country getting ready to sud up both Republicans and Democrats.

Journalists are all ready beginning to relate the candidate of choice with the voter’s drink of choice, calling Obama supporters “wine drinkers” due to their education and/or affluence.

While Clinton supporters have been low-browed as “beer drinkers: working-class voters who make up the less educated, less affluent base of the party's support.”

Thanks Jonathan Mann; first for low-browning beer drinkers, and second for low-browning beer.

I don’t know what watered down Rust Belt suds you grew up on, or if it was the poor east coast weather left you so feebishly weak that you could not put this ambrosia to your lips.

But where do you get of man; in the words of Eli White, “WTF, mate.”

I know several handfuls of Obama fans that will be drinking beer while we are waiting for the results.

Don’t get me wrong here in Fort Collins we drink our wine, but wine is pricey and hard to satisfy all plates. While beer is the peoples drink.

Beer is what made helped our forefathers get the idea for this country and build up the balls to fight the red coats.

So let’s not label men and women as beer people or wine people because tonight at the bars it won’t matter. In the end we are Americans, mostly, and it’s in our rights as stated in the 21 amendment;

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use there in of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.



Just as we have the right to bear arms.