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— Dos Equis (@DosEquis) May 1, 2015

Labels: beer, Castillian Empire

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Dos Equis has decided to celebrate the Castillian New Year this year instead of el Día de la Batalla de Puebla. http://www.dosdemayo.com/

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Fenians

Labels: A Christmas Story, antics, beer, drunk Irish ambulation, too much good stuff

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Make Some Noise



Mtv.com - Beastie Boys' 'Fight For Your Right Revisited': Five Things You Might Have Missed: Star-studded film is packed with nods to the Beasties' past and present

The above video picks up where the below video leaves off.

Labels: another word for pirate treasure, antics, Beasties, beer, Hiphopanonymous, History, inter-dimensional cross-rips, kids these days, Music, nyc

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Deep Fried Beer

From Field and Stream's The Wild Chef:

I sincerely hope the committee that hands out Nobel Prizes in the science fields have taken notice of one Texas chef who recently achieved a gastronomical breakthrough: deep-fried beer.

Labels: beer, Food

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Survival

This is part of a screen grab from ClarionLedger.com yesterday. I marked the important part.

Labels: beer, Global Warming

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And He Went for More Beer

Labels: Agent Tom, beer, drunk Irish ambulation

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Survival of the Sudsiest

George Will has a great column this week discussing beer's role and necessity in civilization. Read it here in its full and unedited form (if you get the Clarion Ledger like I do and read it there, you'll find much of it cut out). Here are some excerpts:

The development of civilization depended on urbanization, which depended on beer. To understand why, consult Steven Johnson's "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World": "The search for unpolluted drinking water is as old as civilization itself. As soon as there were mass human settlements, waterborne diseases like dysentery became a crucial population bottleneck. For much of human history, the solution to this chronic public-health issue was not purifying the water supply. The solution was to drink alcohol."

Johnson notes that historians interested in genetics believe that the roughly simultaneous emergence of urban living and the manufacturing of alcohol set the stage for a survival-of-the-fittest sorting-out among the people who abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and, literally and figuratively speaking, went to town.

To avoid dangerous water, people had to drink large quantities of, say, beer. But to digest that beer, individuals needed a genetic advantage that not everyone had -- what Johnson describes as the body's ability to respond to the intake of alcohol by increasing the production of particular enzymes called alcohol dehydrogenases. This ability is controlled by certain genes on chromosome four in human DNA, genes not evenly distributed to everyone. Those who lacked this trait could not, as the saying goes, "hold their liquor." So, many died early and childless, either of alcohol's toxicity or from waterborne diseases.

The gene pools of human settlements became progressively dominated by the survivors -- by those genetically disposed to, well, drink beer. "Most of the world's population today," Johnson writes, "is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol."

Suffice it to say that the good news is really good: Beer is a health food. And you do not need to buy it from those unhealthy-looking people who, peering disapprovingly at you through rimless Trotsky-style spectacles, seem to run all the health food stores.

Benjamin Franklin was, as usual, on to something when he said, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Or, less judgmentally, and for secular people who favor a wall of separation between church and tavern, beer is evidence that nature wants us to be.

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Labels: beer, dismal science, fun for the whole family, hobbies, renouncing math

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Beverage Advancement

Butch Bailey, founding member of Mississippians for Economic & Beverage Advancement, has this column in the Hattiesburg American today: State alcohol laws antiquated [h/t: RS]

Labels: beer, politics

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Basil's Belhaven

Nathan Glenn is opening up Basil's Belhaven in the old Brent's Drugs next to the McWynnJitney. It will be like Basil's Downtown and Basil's Fondren for lunch; but it will be full service at night and a great new local hangout.

Labels: beer, Food, The Haven

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Anyone Interested in Buying a House?

I drive past the place nearly every day...I think the sign went up today. Notice the basement door was open - I thought about looking inside but something moved and I fled.

Labels: aquariums, beer, Castillian Empire, evil, incessant ghostbusters references, insanity, loose women, Matthew Gardner, Mulligan, night of the lepus, road to hell is paved with, the final battle

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Arts, Eats and Beats

Block party in Fondren on Thursday.

Labels: beer, Fondren, Going To "Jail" For A Good Cause

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Canoe Trip

I'm gonna be in the great state of Mississippi from May 12 - 19, and my brother and I are planning on a canoe trip down the Black Creek from south of Hattiesburg to the Pascagoula River. It's a three day paddle, and we plan on doing it within the window of Monday the 14th - Friday the 18th. Anyone that wants to join us is welcome, and we could adjust which days we go if it would be helpful. The more the merrier. Even if you can't go or don't want to, if you'd be willing to share any gear with us such as dry bags, maybe a tent, loose women, beer - stuff like that - it would be awesome.

Oh, yeah, and you'd have to provide your own canoe or kayak, or borrow one.

All of the surrounding land is either national or state park land and legal to camp, and this is considered one of the best canoe trips in Miss.

Regardless of whether I'm able to see some folks on the canoe trip, I plan on making a trip up to Jackson, so let's hang out, and let me know if I can use your couch for a night...

Labels: beer, canoeing, loose women, Matthew Gardner

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