Why One Can Enjoy Golf

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Logical Burn

An interesting conversation . . . . .

. . . . . and an example of male logic.

Woman: Do you drink beer?

Man: Yes

Woman: How many beers a day?

Man: Usually about three

Woman: How much do you pay per beer?

Man: $5.00 which includes a tip (this is where it gets scary!)

Woman: And how long have you been drinking?

Man: About 20 years, I suppose

Woman: So a beer costs $5 and you have three beers a day which puts your spending each month at $450. In one year, it would be approximately $5400 correct?

Man: Correct

Woman: If in 1 year you spend $5400, not accounting for inflation, the past 20 years puts your spending at $108,000 correct?

Man: Correct

Woman: Do you know that if you didn’t drink so much beer, that money could have been put in a step-up interest savings account and after accounting for compound interest for the past 20 years, you could have now bought an airplane?

Man: Do you drink beer?

Woman: No.

Man: Where is your airplane?

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Did You Know - Guinness Edition

11 Fascinating Facts About The History Of Guinness Beer You Probably Didn’t Know 


Random Piece of Guinness Trivia #1: 9,000-year lease

Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease for his brewery at St. James Gate back in 1759. That means there are 8,742 years left on the lease (it will be 8,741 years on January 1st). That’s 454,584 WEEKS left on the lease, or 3,190,830 days left. Having lived in NYC for a decade where 1-year leases are the norm, the fact that someone would ever give another individual a 9,000-year lease on a business absolutely blew my mind. If you look closely at that image above you can see the lease’s rider, and that’ll give you an indication of why the lease might’ve been so favorable. All of the equipment included in the lease was basically in complete disrepair.



Random Piece of Guinness Trivia #8: Arthur Guinness was as prolific of a family man as he was a brewer

Get this: Arthur Guinness had TWENTY ONE children, all with the same woman. He lived to the ripe old age of 77 and had 21 kids with wife Olivia Whitmore. I can’t imagine even having one child let alone 21. Just let that sink in for a while.

Complete list (BroBible.com)

Bud Light, An Honorable Player In The Beer Business (This Time)

Bud Light Sent A Hilarious Cease And Desist To A Craft Brewery Making A ‘Dilly Dilly’ Beer 


Another week and Bud Light’s Dilly Dilly continues to take the nation by storm. As Dilly Dilly continues to explode in the culture, other beer brands are trying to fly close to the flame. I.E.: Modist Brewing, a craft beer brewery in Minneapolis.

The brewery planned on releasing an IPA today called Dilly Dilly. In their own words, it’s a “massively dry-hopped double IPA brewed with a “dilly of oats and English floor malted barley.” They claim it to be “ultra hazy, ultra soft, and a dilly of a good time.”

Except, like — That’s Bud Light’s catchphrase. So rather than getting buttoned-up lawyers involved, they sent a cease and desist in the most awesome way imaginable: By sending an Olde English town crier to the brewery to tell them to chill out with making the beer.

AB InBev also gave the brewery a pair of Super Bowl tickets since the big game is in Minneapolis this year.


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That's A Lot Of Buds

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Did You Know - Beer Edition

6 Facts About The History Of Beer In America That You Definitely Didn’t Know 
 
Adolphus Busch made insane money selling beer

• Adolphus Busch was the German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. At the time of his death in 1913, Busch was worth an estimated $60 million dollars. According to the inflation calculator, $60 million dollars in 1913 equals about $1.4 billion today. Busch was so rich he bought his own private train to get from town to town. HIS OWN TRAIN!!

Complete list (BroBible.com)

Did You Know - Beer Brands Edition

Party Smarter By Knowing How 8 Great American Beers Got Their Name

1. BUDWEISER

“Adolphus Busch’s friend Carl Conrad, a wine and liquor importer, had tasted an incredible beer in a monastery in Budweis, a city that is now located in the Czech Republic. Conrad took the idea back to St. Louis, and he and Busch decided on the name ‘Budweiser’.”

2. SAM ADAMS BOSTON LAGER

“Using his own money and a family recipe for Louis Koch Lager that he found in an attic, Jim Koch founded Boston Beer Company in 1984. He named the dry-hopped lager after 18th-century Samuel Adams, who was a Founding Father, a governor of Massachusetts, a part of the American Revolution, and a brewer.”

3. MILLER LITE

“In 1967, Joseph L. Owades worked for Rheingold Brewery and discovered an enzyme that digested all of the starch, resulting in a beer label called Gablinger’s Diet Beer. Meister Brau of Chicago first manufactured the light beer until Miller Brewing bought Gablinger’s. In 1975 they changed the name to Miller Lite, and it became the first nationally distributed reduced-calorie beer.”

4. COORS BANQUET

“Back in the late 1800s, miners in Golden, Colorado, worked hard every day and would gather after work and drink Coors beer in a celebratory banquet setting. In 1937, out of respect for those miners, the name Coors Banquet became official.”

5. PABST BLUE RIBBON AKA PBR

“The Best family emigrated from Germany to Milwaukee and started Best and Company in 1844. Jacob Best Sr.’s daughter married Frederick Pabst, and in 1889, Pabst named the brewery after himself. They purchased about a million feet of silk ribbon, and workers hand-tied the ribbons around every bottle of their Best Select beer. At the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, the beer won a blue ribbon award, and Best Select’s name switched to Pabst Blue Ribbon in 1898. “

6. BLUE MOON BELGIAN WHITE

The Belgian Wit (meaning white, or wheat) beer that’s served with an orange wedge derived from baseball. In 1995, Keith Villa, who is one of only a few Americans with a Ph.D. in brewing, began brewing beer inside Denver’s Coors Field stadium. Called the Sandlot, it was the first brewery inside of a Major League stadium. Taking his experiences from Brussels (where he earned his doctorate), Villa brewed a Belgian beer called a Bellyslide, made with Valencia orange peels and coriander. The Coors-owned beer was in such high-demand that they needed a better name than Bellyslide. “So one day, when a bunch of us were tasting beers, our admin called out, ‘You know, a beer that tastes this good comes around only once in a blue moon,'” their story reads. “And with that phrase ringing in our ears, the Blue Moon Brewing Company was born.”

7. MICHELOB

“In 1896, Adolphus Busch named his new lager after the then-Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) town of Michalovice.”

8. COLT 45

“When it was first created in 1963, the National Brewing Company named the beer after Baltimore Colts running back Jerry Hill, who played for the football team from 1961 to 1970, with the jersey number 45.”

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Is Your Team's Beer Pairing Fair?

The Perfect Beer for Every NCAA Tournament Team

California Golden Bears

• Berkeley, CA
• The beer: Fieldwork Good Conduct
• A reminder to everyone involved with the Golden Bears to keep everything up and up in light of one of their assistants being dismissed recently amid sexual harassment allegations -- in the form of an easy-drinking brown ale! Good luck, guys.

CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners

• Bakersfield, CA
• The beer: Lengthwise Brewing Co. Ale Ya
• After watching the Roadrunners hit a last-second 3 to win the WAC tourney and send them to their first Dance, the only reasonable reaction was... unprintable. But Ale Ya, a 9.5% ABV imperial IPA, is a fine PG substitute for those unprintable words. Roadrunner fans likely said more unprintable words when they saw that the team drew Oklahoma in the first round.

Fresno State Bulldogs

• Fresno, CA
• The beer: Tioga-Sequoia Brewing Co. Piece of Cake
• The Bulldogs drew #3 Utah as their first-round game. It'll be a Piece of Cake, most likely, and as sweet and smooth as the 7.2% ABV sweet stout Piece of Cake from Tioga-Sequoia. Yep, definitely a piece of cake and not a Utes blowout. You know why? They just got done playing in Vegas the weekend before, and they probably still need a few more days to recover. Oh wait, Fresno State played there too. That game's gonna be a mess.

USC Trojans

• Los Angeles, CA
• The beer: Eagle Rock Brewery Solidarity
• The Trojans backed into the tourney a bit dropping seven of their last 10, and don't necessarily have any one superstar player. But they're balanced (five players score 11 or more per game) and as long as they stick together (Solidarity!) they have a shot, just as fans will have a shot to enjoy this easy-drinking, locally brewed mild ale.

Complete list (Thrillist.com)

This Commercial Is Still Funny After All These Years

Holy Crap, Guys. The 'Whassup?!' Commercial Is 17 Years Old. 

Ah, 1999. The year Lou Bega ruled the charts, and every dude in America picked up his cordless dorm room phone to say, "Whassssssssup?!" to literally anyone who called it.

It might seem like simple nostalgia now, but that famous "Monday Night Football" Budweiser commercial put a Dukie-sized crater in the pop-culture zeitgeist. And now it's freakin' 17 years old -- older than "Damn Daniel" and his damn Vans, our current meme of the week.

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I Recognize Them

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Truth In Advertising

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Did You Know - Beer Edition

13 Facts Every Self-Respecting Beer Drinker Should Know

2. The four main ingredients of beer are grain, hops, yeast, and water Just like baking bread, the ingredients that go into beer play huge parts in their own rights. Grains (usually malted barely, but sometimes a blend of rye, oats, or other grains) give beer the sugar needed for fermentation. Water (which, at 95% of the product, is often the unsung hero) has to be treated to make sure nothing affects flavor or fermentation, and allows for all of the chemical reactions to take place. Hops act as a preservative and provide the bitterness to counterbalance the sweetness of beer and give it beautiful aromas. Yeast is the actual worker behind it all, converting sugar into alcohol and actually creating beer.

The process is so tried and true it’s even been legislated: in Germany, purity laws called Reinheitsgebot have ensured the ingredients have stayed the same since the 1500s (although actually sticking to it these days is sort of considered to be optional).

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