I KNEW IT!

| September 30, 2014

On a day when bad news abounds, there IS a glimmer of hope.

Beer flavonoid may boost brain power!

As a diabetic I have to be careful,  BUT who didn’t know that beer boosted brain power anyways?

There IS a caveat in the article: “While hops are the only dietary source of the rare compound, it would require drinking 2,000 liters of beer— or 5,636 bottles of beer— for a person to get the same effect.

Gonna take some math and scheduling to make this work… Oh wait! Just need more beer.

Category: Geezer Alert!

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A Proud Infidel®™

BEER! It’s not just for breakfast anymore!!

CLAW131

Beer over Wheaties=Breakfast of Champions!!!

A Proud Infidel®™

Beer over BEER! *BUUUUURRP!*
Yeah, that and some microwaved leftover pizza…

Green Thumb

Word.

A Proud Infidel®™

“Beer is proof that GOD loves us and wants us to be happy.” – Benjamin Franklin

Flagwaver

If this is the case why are Corporals not the most intelligent creature on the planet?

Mustang1LT

Clearly it’s because they aren’t drinking enough!

Green Thumb

A true “Mustang” should be able to outdrink the platoon.

Ex-PH2

Okay, but that does not excuse my brother going through two 6-packs in one hour. And he certainly did not get any smarter afterwards.

HS Junior

Sheesh, what’s the big deal about this libation called “beer”, anyways? It just tastes like bitter crap to me; I’ll drink the contents of a battery of a battery if I’m after that.

A Proud Infidel®™

You’re not officially old enough to enjoy it yet, Padawan. If you were, I would tell you to pray to Bacchus for your blasphemy of BEER!

/sarc

A Proud Infidel®™

“…pray to Bacchus for forgiveness of your blasphemy of BEER!”

Can we get an “edit” option someday? Even one that allows us to do so within an hour of posting would be great!!

Green Thumb

And the bad thing is; when you puke: you are reminded of Phildo.

Ex-PH2

Foster’s Lager is imbibable. Guinness Stout (dark) is smooth, mellow, does not bite or grow sour or flat.

Guiness is good with bangers and mash, pizza, polish and fries, and ribs.

Foster’s goes with everything else, including beef bourgignon and cheesecake.

A Proud Infidel®™

AAAhhh Guinness. Every time I enjoy a mug or three of that fine brew, I have a fork handy so I can enjoy the chunks from the bottom of my mug!!

Green Thumb

No way.

Fosters has the “Oil Can”.

12 in a case.

Hondo

Fosters makes an ale as well (green can, also “oil can” size). On the bitter side, but excellent IMO. Recommended.

riflemusket

Zero; try some of the new craft beers out there. In my opinion they’re better quality.

OWB

Well. Even if I can’t consume enough to see maximum benefit, a partial dose sounds worth doing.

What do hops taste like by themselves? Could you add them to a protein shake? Maybe with a beer chaser?

Farmgirl with a mosin nagant

I’m not a brewer by trade, but I know a little about this as it’s tangential to my actual business (I have a small winery focusing on what are known as ‘country wines’ – not grape wines). Hops are one of the traditional ‘bitter herbs’ used for flavoring and stabilizing beer, and as the classification says, they’re very bitter. Usually they’re dried before use, which depending on the drying mechanism used, can mellow or intensify the flavor – but a great deal of the bitterness typically remains.

You could get hold of hops easily enough through any homebrew supply place (including mail order), or some health food stores have it. That said, with this finding, the cynic in me suggests you wait six months to a year – somebody’s bound to start selling hops concentrate, either in pill form or in a suspension that masks or moderates the intensity of the bitter flavor.

CC Senor

Find your favorite:

EODJay

5636 beers? No problem, I got all this smart stuff wrapped up. After all these years though, you’d think I’d make Einstein look like Joe Biden.

Grimmy

Waitaminnit!

Is that number of beers required per day? or over a lifetime?

If it’s over a lifetime, been there, done that, got the boost.

If it’s a per day I’ll need to step up my game a bit.

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

I knew it a long time ago.

One other thing:

The more I drink the smarter I get and the dumber Bernath sounds!

A Proud Infidel®™

MCPO, I’m convinced that beer is completely unnecessary to make Bernath sound dumber and dumber all the time, methinks he does that all by himself!!

Grimmy

I suspect that’s because Bernath is a whine drinker, rather than beer.

CLAW131

5,636 beers? No sweat. Let’s put this into perspective. The 6 man football team from Guernsey,Wyoming on a road trip to an away game at Rosebud,Montana. “5636 bottles of beer on the wall,5636 bottles of beer. Take one down,pass it around,5635 bottles of beer—“

Dave Hardin

BEER….It’s so much more than just a breakfast drink!

A Proud Infidel®™

I’ve already said it many times, and I’ll say it once more right here:

BEER, it’s NOT just for breakfast anymore!!

Green Thumb

You should check out the Great NW.

Dave Hardin

Of course there is always this:

Ex-344MP

I used to like drinking Beer….Then the Doc said no more and I can’t say I really miss it.

Roger in Republic

I saw a billboard on old highway 99 that said Drink Canada Dry! I never did, but they had to put on a swing shift to keep up. Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another BEER!

Derek

“….all you need is a 10 and a fiver, a car and a key and a sober driver…B-double E- double R-U-N BEER RUN!”

The Other Whitey

Well shit! The fact that I don’t drink and never have already causes me to receive all kinds of crap from people telling me I have no right to claim the Irish or German halves of my ancestry. My go-to rationalization has always been that I do enough dumb shit sober, I don’t need chemical assistance. Now you’re taking THAT away from me! Dammit, I need a drink…of coke. Or Pepsi.