Beer drinkers are simply fat asses that like college football. Its science.
This is my review of Nost Brewing Project Age of Innocence Bohemian Style Pilsner:
Today we start with wacky world of science! ™ with this article that summarized a study conducted to determine if the type of alcohol plays a factor in overall diet quality.
None of the alcohol-using groups came close to achieving the 80-point score that is considered an adequate diet on the 100-point Healthy Eating Index, Novack said, but the beer drinkers scored lowest at 49. Wine drinkers scored 55, and both liquor-only drinkers and combination drinkers scored nearly 53.
Beer-only drinkers, who were more likely to be male, younger, smokers, and low income, also reported the highest total daily caloric intake, adjusting for body weight, and the lowest level of physical activity. Previous studies have found that dietary quality declines with increasing alcohol consumption of any type, but little has been reported on the influence of specific alcoholic beverage type.
Thus far its not too bad but they eventually stumble over the “no shit professor” in the next section:
Novack said the differences in diet quality among drinkers could be attributed to the context in which food and alcohol are consumed together. In the U.S., beer is often chosen in settings where the available foods tend to be low in fiber and high in carbohydrates and processed meats. On the other hand, wine — particularly red wine — is often paired with meals complete with meat, vegetables, and dairy.
Where would they possibly get an idea like that?
Then what hits you? Is Bud Light gay or not?
This beer is not, I repeat NOT reference to the 90’s easy listening band Enigma, with the Indian guy chanting through the song’s chorus. I’m going to go ahead and link it here anyways if you don’t know what I’m talking about. I don’t know if this outfit from Virginia is one of those breweries that prides itself on their female staff but apparently her name is on the can. Which means I know who is responsible for the floaters. Okay, that’s one can I will throw away. Next can? Floaters—chunk it. Third can? Okay this one looks safe. That’s about what I will say. It was physically safe to drink with my choice of meal that day. Yes, I made burgers. My two sons rather like when I grill burgers. Exceptionally low bar they tripped over on this one, but it was certainly safe to drink. Nost Brewing Project Age of Innocence Bohemian Style Pilsner: 1.5/5
Beer is just liquid bread.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
There are even beers made out of stale bread.
Didn’t they start out that way?
You have to wonder about the people who first said, “Hey! This carbohydrate-infused waste water is starting to cloud up and bubble! Lets’ drink it!”
Same guys who pulled oysters out and said, “we should eat what’s in here”, I imagine.
SarumanTheGreat:
Possibly, but not likely. There’s the malting process that’s used for brewing but not breadmaking.
Richard:
It’s one of the reasons I can believe in higher forms of life. The steps from seed grain to fermented beverage are complex enough, with little gain in the intermediary steps, that I can believe it was fully explained.
@Slumbrew – Hunger makes the oddest things palatable.
The same could be said for the steps in smelting metals from ores.
@Richard my hypothesis on how people got to smelting is this. For lack of choice someone had to set up a campfire over wet clay and saw the baked ground and went “I could make stuff from this” thus pottery began. In futzing with ways of making pottery people figured that hotter fires were better, so they began experimenting with simple kilns. In the bottom of one they found those funny green rocks had turned into shiny stuff. copper gave the first rung onto metallurgy and things went from there.
Is heat all that’s needed to distill copper from green rock ore? Northern Vermont is lousy with low-grade black iron ore. When I was a kid I used a big magnet to collect such dust from sand and gravel. I’ve often wondered if I could make iron by mixing it with ground-up charcoal and heating it in a kiln.
Copper does require carbon monoxide – but you get that from incomplete combustion of fuel, which can happen accidentally.
Iron is hard to do with just heat, typically you’d stack ore charcoal and limestone, with the calcium soaking the oxygen from the ore, since iron doesn’t like to give that up.
Darn you UCS! Blinding me with science!
I’ve decided I’m going to dispose of some of my 50 year old jar of iron ore dust by giving it and some magnets to my neighbor’s kids and their slightly older cousins. After playing with the magnets and demonstrating the attractive/repulsive magnetic field I’m going to cover a magnet with a piece of paper and sprinkle iron ore dust over it to make the magnetic field visible. I fully expect that just minutes later the magnets will be covered with dust.
“Nost Brewing Project Age of Innocence Bohemian Style Pilsner”
Sounds like it needs a shorter name.
Is 1 star the lowest possible score? If it is, why did this get an additional half star?
He didn’t vomit? I assume one star is for involuntary surrender of stomach contents.
Because the third attempt was actually a pretty decent German Pilsner.
You are a very forgiving reviewer.
beer is often chosen in settings where the available foods tend to be low in fiber
Aren’t peanuts high in fiber?
None of the alcohol-using groups came close to achieving the 80-point score that is considered an adequate diet on the 100-point Healthy Eating Index,
What did the teetotalers score? Never mind that the “Healthy Eating Index” is likely as much pseudoscience as the government’s food pyramid.
The Healthy Eating Index “is a measure for assessing whether a set of foods aligns with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA).” The DGA is just what you think it is, the Fed’s dietary’s recommendations.
Right off the bat: “Start your day with fruit at breakfast. Top cereal with your favorite seasonal fruit, add bananas or chopped apples to pancakes, or mix a spoonful or two of raisins into hot oatmeal” they are trying to kill you. How about you start your day with some fucking protein instead of a giant spike in blood sugar?
Amen. And some fat!
Yeah; my weekend breakfast is scrambled eggs with a slice of cheese and deli meat mixed in. Usually have yogurt three weekdays and oatmeal the other two.
Fried eggs (in butter, or butter/bacon fat if I have any), cheese, pork of some sort. Daily.
Low-carb Greek yogurt with slivered almonds stirred in to make it more filling without adding too many more carbs.
Which means I know who is responsible for the floaters. Okay, that’s one can I will throw away. Next can? Floaters—chunk it. Third can?
I wouldn’t have bothered with the third can.
I’d still probably drink it, but wouldn’t buy from that brewery going forward. If they can fuck up a lager that badly, why would I trust their ales?
Well they can’t all be winners, can they?
Greetings from Vermont. We’re finally getting some November weather. It’s cloudy, drizzling, and in the upper 30’s. The NWS forecast for the next seven days uses the word “snow” a lot but I doubt there will be any accumulation in my sheltered river valley.
It’s the middle of Vermont’s two week rifle season for deer. Yesterday I went up to my neighbor’s camp with a backpack full of margarita components. My hunting enthusiast neighbor, one generation down from me, was there. He had his kids, ages three and four, so their grandmother agreed to come up to watch the kids during today’s expedition. I know all of the adults present like margaritas hence my preparations.
The kids glommed on to me for entertainment as usual. They were a bit young for it but I showed them a 1906 Indian Head cent I got in change that afternoon when buying orange juice. Then I explained the concept of “change” with a dollar bill, four quarters, and an imaginary candy bar. The kids were uninterested in commerce but demanded that I show them how to spin a coin on a table when I did it once as a lark.
For those who are wondering, it’s the second Indian Head cent I got in change in the 30 years I’ve been in Vermont. Of course I still have the first. Both are highly corroded and only an eagle eyed numismatist would have spotted them.
I’m killing time until this evening’s episode of Deer Camp. My neighbor and his compatriots have multiple cellular trail cameras set up and multiple pictures of the Big Bucks they’re after. Even if they don’t get anything the stories are always entertaining.
You like Big Bucks and you cannot lie.
LOL. I wasn’t raised into hunting and while I very much enjoy my friends’ enthusiasm my worry during the two times I went out is that I would shoot something because then my problems would just start:
– getting the deer out of the woods
– getting the deer to a reporting station
– getting the deer to a butcher
– doing something with the product
Of course my friends would have taken care of most of it, except for paying the butcher.
The first time I went out I saw a small deer in the distance. The second time I startled a mount-worthy buck while I was headed to my ladder stand. The deer ran right up to my neighbor’s blind and he shot it.
My sister got a deer thursday.
With her Jeep.
I hope your sister came out of it without damage. The jeep is probably less lucky.
She s fine. It was still driveable and now at a repair shop.
So the big question is, what happened to the deer? I think that in Vermont if you run into something you can’t just load it up in the back of your pickup truck but if you come across something previously road-killed you can. Unless you instantly report the incident to a Game Warden, he (or she) comes out, and says you can have it, which I’ve heard has actually happened. I blame cell phones and small town society.
…excellent.
I decided early on that the main reason to go hunting was the stories.
The first time I went hunting I got up at dark o’clock so I’d be in my ladder stand half an hour before sunrise when it’s legal to shoot. It was 10F so I dressed for it. (Unlike this year where it hasn’t been below freezing yet. Yay Global Warming!) I wasn’t uncomfortable (Which my friends say means I was doing it wrong.) until the sun rose and was right in my eyes. I was wearing a warm Winter hat but I didn’t bring anything to keep the sun out of my eyes. I couldn’t see a damn thing. Entire herds of Big Bucks could have passed by and I wouldn’t have known it. I finally decided I was being silly and went back to my cabin. For some reason my friends never fail to mention this during Deer Camp.
Deer camp is a time to relive all the embarrassing moments from camps gone by. In days not too long ago (15 years) we had a gang of 7, we’re down to 2 now and then only on weekends. While we still live some of the old stories and miss the other guys it isn’t the same.
Richard, we see a big change after tomorrow, temp wise. Not any snow to speak of, I’ve been running one load of wood through the furnace but in a couple days it’ll be fire most of the day.
Down here in Southeast PA we had winter mix yesterday, but no solid precipitation. Parts of Sussex County NJ (far north part of the state) got up to 20 inches.
“Indian Head Penny”
I haven’t seen that coin in circulation EVER. Someone must have gotten ahold of someone’s coin collection and spent it. I used to occasionally get Buffalo Nickels in change in the early 1970’s.
My penny was so corroded it took even anal-retentive me a few moments to identify it. My first thought is that it was a foreign coin which in my Canada border town isn’t unusual and I’m not counting Canadian coins which, except for the occasional cent which Canada hasn’t used for many years, don’t circulate on the U.S. side. I’ve gotten several quarters from Bermuda in change from a local gas station/convenience store that gets a lot of Canadian gas business.
The Indian Head cent may have been a recent release from great-grandpa’s change jar but I like to think that it actually had been circulating for 118 years.
Talking point, off the port bow
It’s been just over two weeks since the election and, because of the pace at which California counts votes, it’s only now that we almost have the final vote tally for the entire election. And guess what?
Yes, Donald Trump won the election. He will be the next president. There’s no question about that. But it’s also one of the narrowest popular vote wins in U.S. history. He got less than half the votes cast, winning a plurality but not a majority of the popular vote.
Trump won by about 2.5 million votes out of more than 150 million cast. That means his lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the popular vote is down to about 1.6%. In fact, when comparing Trump’s margin of victory to every presidential election going back to 2000, the president-elect boasts the smallest margin of anyone who’s actually won their election and the popular vote.
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So take a step back and keep all of this in mind when you hear Trump and his supporters suggest that the election was this enormous wave in which a transformation swept across the country, in which Americans were just begging for a MAGA makeover.
That is the line Republicans are selling — and lots in the mainstream media are granting it in various ways — but it’s just plainly not true. And we’ve gone through this all before. Just compare all the postmortems in the past two weeks about “what the American people really wanted” when Trump won by 1.6 points nationally to the postmortems we got in 2016, after Clinton beat him by 2.1% nationally, but lost in the Electoral College. It’s all the same stuff.
This razor thin victory means Trump has to respect his opponents and not make any abrupt course corrections. Just like Joe did.
Fuck Commiefornia.
Nothing good happens there. Where’s Bugs Bunny and his saw?
The delayed count was to ensure Trump didn’t win a majority of the vote. How many of those ballots were created?
Yeah, well that’s the problem with the whole conceit of mandates. Take the win and STFU.
I’ll wait for the confession in Time that they tried to steal 2024 just like they succeeded with 2020 but oops it didn’t work this time.
Until then MSNBC can shut the fuck up.
Yep, and I am a flying reindeer.
Double down on the stupid Fartblossom. Please do.
Because what we’re talking about was essentially down to tiny portions of the electorate switching votes at the last minute.
Not mentioned: 8 million votes for Joe Biden in 2020 that seem to have disappeared in 2024.
Having read through the links, I can only hope that the trans bullshit does a very quick death.
I mean a fat guy claiming to be a woman threatening to beat women if they object to him in the bathroom.
Let’s see how these women’s husbands or fathers or brothers feel about that fat fuck trying to physically intimidate our wives, sisters, and daughters.
This man is a misogynist extraordinaire. Woe to the woman who tries to keep me from their spaces!
These people belong in the fucking asylum.
Generally, what we know is that people felt like the country is on the wrong track. Late deciders did not like higher prices, they felt squeezed, and they wanted something different. But it is ludicrous to read that as a mandate for the absolute avalanche of insanity that Trump and Republicans are planning for his second administration.
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At a certain point, there’s going to be a reckoning about the distance between what the swing voters who gave Trump this majority were voting for and what they’re about to get.
That sounds like a threat.
People weren’t just tired of high prices, pal.
Delivered with no sense of shame whatsoever. Do they read themselves…?
Damn, that’s a young Seth Green!
Tales from the Dark Side – S2/E12
Still recognizable though.
Today’s selection at the beer store is the Huss Oktoberfest. A competent Marzen, but I prefer a little more malt/body. I think I preferred their (Imperial) Stout.
I thought that one was okay, but yes a bit watery. I didn’t mind too much since we still had >100 degree weather at that point.
tOSU is exposing another ranked team as a fraud.
SEC fans squeal with glee.
President-elect Trump is compiling one of the most pro-Israel teams of any administration in history, following a presidential battle that saw Vice President Harris lose support from voters upset the Biden administration armed Israel in its war against Hamas.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4993724-trump-appoints-pro-israel-team/
The Atlantic
Trump is building the most anti-semitic cabinet in decades
https://x.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1860075962479886715?s=19
Spectacular.
It’s been interesting watching October 7 fracture Jewish support in the left.
Good grief.
Do they even read themselves…?
Arabs and Palestinians are semites…
I guess he’s Schroeddinger’s president.
Red herring
Carignan, Canada’s chief of defense staff and the first woman to command the armed forces of any Group of 20 or Group of Seven country, took issue with those remarks during a panel session on Saturday.
“If you’ll allow me, I would first like maybe to respond to Senator Risch’s statement yesterday about women in combat because I wouldn’t want anyone to leave this forum with this idea that women are a distraction to defense and national security,” Carignan said.
“After 39 years of career as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations across the world, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify the contribution of women to their defense and to their service, in their country. I wouldn’t want anyone to leave this forum with this idea that this is that it is some kind of social experiment.”
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Carignan is no stranger to firsts. She was also the first woman to command a combat unit in the Canadian military, and her career has included deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Syria.
For the last three years, she has been the chief of professional conduct and culture, a job created as a result of the sexual misconduct scandal in 2021.
Women in the military are not a distraction. Those testosterone soaked misogynist bullies need special training and consciousness raising.
She was the CO of a Combat Engineer unit. Canada calls those “combat arms”.
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t that mean she wouldn’t see combat unless something went sideways?
Pretty much, we classify them as Combat Support.
“After 39 years of career as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations“
She was, of course, under fire many times. Right?
How ’bout them Spurs! Sloopy will be ecstatic – tOSU wins and ManCity embarrassed.
Bleargh I don’t like the Spurs but today can be an exception.
On the disappearing votes….do we know what states they disappeared from?
My guess is it was an overall decline in Dem turn out, if it was all from the 4 or 5 states that ‘stole’ the last election for Joe the nut jobs would be screeching about it so we’d know.
Just a guess I haven’t done any research and I could very well be wrong.
maybe but I think you are right. They would be screaming.
Not a single comment on the Enigma reference? I thought that would for sure get a few of you to call me names.
It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside… I dunno, something.
Sadly, right about the time I got out listening to lots of current music. I knew little more than the name.
Looks like they like getting tagged for sampling according to Wiki.
Enigma (German band)
Therefore: 2 Live Crew – Me So H
Are you experiencing sadness now?
Yes, I expected at least one of you to call me gay.
*raises hand*
Owns three of their albums, plus several tracks from her husband who had a minor string of German hits in the late 80s….
*raises hand*
Owns three of their albums, plus several tracks from her husband who had a minor string of German hits in the late 80s….
While underhanded, I’m happy to see someone still has the edge.
Not to mention her monster hit while I was living there.
Something tells me I should have had breakfast in the morning rather than waiting until dinnertime.