For this week’s Beer Video of the Week, we take a brief look back at a post Miles did a few weeks back about BrewDog’s End of History beer. It’s a 50% ABV beer that is sold in a dead squirrel. Yes, dead squirrels and beer: the combination of the year. Check out the video below and see why BrewDog still makes the best beer-related videos on the Internets. (Slightly NSFW, so be careful, late Friday workers.)
Hope everyone out in Montana has a great time at the Montana Brewers Festival, and that everyone else in D.C. finds some great beer this weekend. As for me, I will be hoping Michigan can pull off a great win versus Notre Dame this weekend. Dogfish Head Bitches Brew goes well with the sound of Irish people crying, right? Have a good weekend, everyone. Cheers.
I do have some questions about the tidiness of the operation, though. Do I want foam pouring out of the top of my Bell’s Batch 9000? Absolutely not. Come on, guy, get your act together, and let me know when you can open 200 bottles without them foaming out everywhere. Amateur.
A new feature here at BarBEERians. Every Friday, we’ll let you kick back and relax to wind down the week with our Beer Video of the Week (BVotW). This week’s video comes from Slate V. Have a good weekend, everyone. Cheers.
Wired Magazine has an interesting article up about the connections between geologists and their love affair with beer. Turns out that many of them drink a lot, and the writer from Wired has a really interesting explanation, complete with brain imaging scans, charts, and complex video evidence. Just kidding. Turns out they just like getting drunk.
So the real question is why the bond between geologists and beer is so strong. I decided to do some research this week to get to the bottom of the phenomenon. So, beer in hand, I asked as many of the 16,000 or so geologists, geophysicists, hydrologists and atmospheric scientists at the meeting as I could and got some very interesting responses. (Full disclosure: I am also a geologist, and I like beer)
The most popular theory I heard was that it must have something to do with the amount of time spent outside doing fieldwork.
“When it’s hot, and you’ve been hiking all day carrying 50 pounds of rocks, do you want a Merlot? No,” said thermochronologist Jim Metcalf of Syracuse University.
“It goes down a lot easier than water because a lot of the places we go, we can’t drink the water,” said structural geologist Jonathan Gourley of Trinity College.
I would have liked to have seen the article pitch for this story: “No, there really is a connection between geologists and drinking! Let me show you! *chug chug chug* Look! I’m still a geologist! Point proven!”
But in all seriousness, it’s kind of a cool article about the power beer has to bring people together and how it might, might open up possibilities for different types of thinking and exploration. Except any idea I’ve had when drinking turns out to be really stupid the next morning, so hopefully geologists have more discretion than I do.
