Well Great, Even Our Beer Has Microplastic in it Now
Plastic’s everywhere these days: in seal bellies, dead whale bellies, our bottled water, and now our freaking beer, man.
Reddit Bans Slew of Communities Amid New Rule Targeting Sales, Trades, and Giveaways
Reddit’s bread and butter may be links and comments, but the site has a long history as a facilitator of gift swaps, and a backwoods marketplace. New site rules enacted today make much of that behavior prohibited.
Alamo Drafthouse Has a Plan to Bring Back the Video Store, VCR Optional
At a time when the movie theater business is struggling to make it, the Alamo Drafthouse chain has thrived by doing things a little differently. Now, it’s trying to bring back the video store. Not only will it offer DVDs, Blu-rays, and VHS, but if you need a VCR it’ll rent you one of those, too.
We've Run Out of Beer Names and AI Is Here to Help
Craft brewers are running out of beer names. NPR reports that companies are having to compromise over shared a name, or getting in Twitter fights over them. Even lawyers are settling spats over imagery, or hop puns like Hopscotch and Bitter End.
Watch a Blacksmithing Patriot Forge a Knife Using Beer, Bacon, and French Fries
After apple pie and baseball, it’s hard to think of anything more American than giant weapons and fast food. So Steve Calvert, from YouTube’s Green Beetle channel, combined the two, using beer, bacon, and french fries to forge a “‘Murica!” knife that promises to at least make the country’s kitchens great again.
Sierra Nevada Recalls Beer in 36 States Over Concerns About Broken Glass
The Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. has announced that the company is recalling eight different beers in 36 states. The voluntary recall is in response to concerns that some bottles may have a flaw that could cause glass to break off and fall into the bottle. No injuries have been reported so far, according to the company’s…
Can You Brew Beer On the Moon?
When some apocalyptic event in the very near future forces humans scurrying to another planet, we’re probably going to have the same question.
Making an Edible Pizza Beer Koozie Is the Only Kitchen Skill You Need
Do you have zero skills in the kitchen? There’s nothing to be ashamed of, but it doesn’t hurt to have at least one dish you know how to make. But don’t waste your time with grilled cheese, pasta, or soups when a beer can koozie made from pizza is useful on so many levels.
Now We Know How Beer Foam Stops All That Sloshing
There’s something especially satisfying about a nice cold brew with a thick head of foam. But that foam also serves a purpose: not only does it enhance the flavor of your beer, it also helps dampen the inevitable sloshing when you and your pals clink glasses. Scientists now think they’ve figured out why.
Brilliant Beer Mug Won't Block the TV While You Chug
Make no bones about it, life is a struggle. From navigating the daily rat race, to raising a family, to trying to watch TV while enjoying a frosty brew from a giant mug. Every time you take a sip, the other side of the mug usually blocks your view, but not with the brilliantly engineered TV Beer Mug.
Dynamite Makes Wasting Beer Exceptionally Easy
Wasting beer is usually indefensible—unless you plan on blowing up whole kegs with dynamite.
You'll Actually Want to Dress Up For Parties With a Beer Koozie Tie
There’s no better indication that a party might suck than it having a formal dress code. How are you supposed to relax with a stiff collar and silk noose tied around your neck? It’s not completely impossible, though, thanks to a bunch of geniuses who invented a necktie that doubles as a beer koozie.
Teens Love Weed
The results are in: Teens are inhaling The Good Plant like never before.
Beer Will Finally Get Nutritional Labels
After 81 years of remaining relatively silent on just what’s in that brown bottle you’re about to down, America’s largest breweries are about to stick nutritional labels on their beers. What took them so long?
You Can Thank a Mysterious Yeast Mutation for the Invention of Cold Beer
Lager has been around for 500 glorious years, and yet, we still don’t know much about its origin. Sure, we know how it’s made and how to drink more than our doctors recommend, but researchers have always been unclear about where exactly the domesticated hybrid yeast used to make lager came from.
This Is the Most Brilliant Way to Smuggle a Beer
The immense popularity of Starbucks means that every other person you see on the street is holding one of its highly recognizable green and white paper cups. So what better way could there be to hide a can of beer in plain sight than with this special plastic lid that lets you camouflage it inside a coffee cup?
9 Summer Drink Ideas for Your Long Lazy Weekend
Hello summer! Symbolically, at least.
Archaeologists Discovered a 5,000-Year-Old Beer Recipe in China
Step aside with your claims to long legacies, craft breweries! This reconstructed beer recipe is over 5,000 years old. It’s the earliest beer recipe—and the earliest known use of barley—in China.
Short Animation Shows How Beer Is Destructively Necessary (NSFW)
Directed by Nerdo, this short animation interprets the poem about beer from Charles Bukowski and it’s so dark and bitingly true and just totally spot on about the dependency that someone could have on beer (or wine or whiskey or whatever). We get in the mind of a man who has accepted what beer has done to him but…
Will Barnes And Noble Save Itself By Selling Alcohol?
Barnes and Noble hasn’t been doing so hot this year. The book retailer has struggled in the face of stiff competition and recently began looking into getting liquor licenses for a location in New York: will this save the chain?
