Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Big Eddy Russian Imperial Stout


I like that Leinenkugel's keeps trying new beer recipes. A lot of “non-sophisticated” beer drinkers trust the Leinenkugel's name and are more likely to try a new kind of beer if Leinie’s presents it to them instead of a small microbrewery.

JSonline is reporting that Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co. is rolling out a new brand of stout for sale in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Big Eddy Russian Imperial Stout will be available in the Milwaukee, Madison, Detroit and Grand Rapids areas. It is the second brand from Leinenkugel's that uses the "Big Eddy" name, which comes from the name of the spring that feeds the Leinenkugel brewery in Chippewa Falls.

Leinenkugel's earlier this year began test marketing Big Eddy Imperial IPA (and it's good).

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Rowland's Calumet Brewing Company


Why haven't I heard of the Rowland's Calumet Brewing Company? I've been to a lot of different beer tastings with breweries from around the state, but I don't believe I've ever had any of their beer. They weren't at the Great Taste of the Midwest, so maybe they don't do beer events. Chilton is less than two hours north of Milwaukee so I think I'll have to check out their brew pub the next time I'm nearby.

From the Fond du Lac Reporter:

CHILTON — Oktoberfest beer made by Rowland's Calumet Brewing Co. of Chilton has been named one of the Top 10 Oktoberfest Beers in the country by Draft magazine.

Draft said Rowland's Oktoberfest Beer, "never falters." The beer was featured in the September/October 2007 issue of Draft.

"This is a complete surprise," said Pat Rowland, son of Rowland's founders Robert and Bonita Rowland. "We didn't even know that we were being tested. This is a real honor."

"Oktoberfest Beer started out as a seasonal beer for us and the demand was so high that we just started brewing it all year round since 2002," Bonita Rowland said.

Rowland's makes about 25 beers, 11 of which can be ordered on tap at any time at the company's beer pub. Rowland's also brews a draft root beer and a handful of specialty beers like "Pumpkin," used in local fall festivals. The Rowland family has been brewing beers since 1990.

The brewery and beer pub are located at 25 N. Madison St. in Chilton (Highway 57).

Monday, October 29, 2007

Sam Adams the Beer vs. Sam Adams the Man


The online edition of the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Portland city commissioner Sam Adams decided to run for mayor.

Some local radio hosts registered the Web addresses http://www.samadamsformayor.com and http://www.mayorsamadams.com, and promised to give them to Adams if he discussed his mayoral platform on their show.

The radio hosts then received a cease-and-desist letter from the Boston Beer Company last week. “Boston Beer has used the trademarks SAM ADAMS and SAMUEL ADAMS since 1984,” said the letter.

The radio hosts — who detail the “brew-ha-ha” here — have responded by broadcasting the sound of a Sam Adams pint being poured into the toilet.

Friday, October 26, 2007

New Beer on Tap - Lakefront IPA


My Lakefront Oktoberfest keg was tapped-out in just one night at Oztoberfest (ok, so I first tapped it a week before, but that was I could get the CO2 levels just right, I promise), so I cleaned my tap lines again and Heather went to get some new beer for us at Lakefront Brewery.

I was in a hoppy mood so she picked up some Lakefront IPA. I don't know why it doesn't have a special name, but Lakefront was against making an India Pale Ale for years before Luther from Onopa Brewery (now Stonefly Brewery) joined their team. I'm glad they're experimenting with new recipes.

The only Lakefront IPA that I can find listed on Beer Advocate is called Mangy Rabbit. I'm not sure if it's the same beer or not, but I think it is. It was rated a 4.22 out of 5, but with limited reviews.

I had the IPA on the brewery tour two weeks ago and it was great. The barrel we have tastes very fresh and the keg is only 14 days old. They didn't have any quarter barrels available, so she bought me a half, so it should last quite awhile (keg deposits at Lakefront are up to $30, due to the good recycling costs).

I'm a big fan of harsh, bitter IPA's, like Bitter Woman IPA from Tyranena. The Lakefront IPA is more smooth, but a great beer, very hoppy, citrusy, and relatively light.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Stupid Brew Pub Law Update


As I discussed in an earlier post, under current law, a Wisconsin brew pub can operate only two locations if it produces more than 4,000 barrels of beer a year. That is stupid. Why limit businesses like that?

Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co., a Madison-area brew pub operator, opened its third location earlier this year, but is not allowed to serve their own beer there. So instead, they have to serve their competitors' beer. That is stupid too.

Earlier this year, Great Dane asked for a change in the law to lift the production limit to 10,000 barrels and allows up to six locations. That sounds like a good plan, except that 10,000 is too low, especially for places like Lake Front Brewery. But it's still a good start.

But the beer distribution industry (who has strong connections in Wisconsin government) doesn't like brew pubs and microbreweries because they are able to distribute their own beer.

When they heard about Great Dane's proposal, they were quickly able to get a provision added that bans a licensed brew pub operator from also owning a brewery that produces beer for packaged sales.

It also prevents breweries that are currently producing over 10,000 barrels from obtaining a restaurant permit. And if a brewery is under the 10,000 barrel limit, the brewery will be able to get a restaurant permit but will never be able to grow above 10,000 barrels unless they give up the restaurant.

The budget proposal also includes a provision banning Wisconsin wineries from selling their vintages directly to restaurants, liquor stores and other retailers. Instead, wineries would be forced to sell through wine wholesalers.

Since a lot of brewery business models in the state have been built on having a restaurant in their facility, this is a very damaging addition to the bill.

This bill was in the spotlight last July and was successfully tabled by opposition from microbrewery and brewpub owners in Milwaukee and the rest of the state. But this weekend the bill was quietly added to the proposed state budget, which was passed and now goes to Governor Doyle to sign. He does have power to veto any part of the budget, including this stupid brew pub law.

At least two Milwaukee breweries will be affected by the law if the budget is signed as-is. Lakefront Brewery would not be allowed to open another location (like a restaurant or bar) and sell their own beer there. The production limit might require him to close the Lakefront Palm Garden restaurant, which operates at his brewery, 1872 N. Commerce St. Lakefront Brewery this year will produce around 9,600 barrels and is expected to exceed 10,000 barrels in 2008.

The Milwaukee Ale House is building a stand-alone brewery in Walkers Point. But if this law is passed they may be forced to convert the 2nd Street brewery into a brew pub - a move that would require a large investment.

JSOnline has the full article about the Ale House.


10/26 Update: It appears that Doyle has signed the budget with the new brewing restrictions intact. I guess time will tell how this affects our state microbreweries and brew pubs.

I really don't think Great Dane should be vilified for wanting this change to Wisconsin law, even though Tyranena and other state breweries are mad at them. The Wisconsin Wholesalers Association and the Wisconsin Brewers Guild are the main culprits. The law that was passed puts limitations on the microbreweries in Wisconsin in order to aid the beer distributing businesses. Artificially limiting the success of a business can't be a good thing.

Considering Wisconsin's brewing heritage, we should try to be as brewery-friendly as we can in this state, and do everything possible to promote this unique craft industry, not limit its growth.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

The original Budweiser may be sold to the imposter Budweiser


The Associated Press is reporting that within a few years, Budejovicky Budvar NP — one of Europe's last state-owned breweries — may be sold.

The Czech government has kicked off a privatization process that could lead to the sale of one of the state's most prized possessions: their beloved brewery considered as much a national treasure as the premium lager it insists is the world's original Budweiser.

Czech beer lovers fear that Budvar could even wind up owned by its arch rival, U.S. beer giant Anheuser-Busch. For more than a century, the two companies have been locked in a bitter trademark battle for rights to the Budweiser name.

Although Budvar considers itself the maker of the original Budweiser, it has exported its lager to the U.S. under the name Czechvar since 2001 because Anheuser-Busch has firm control of the U.S. trademark on the name.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Mmmm... Brains


When I was in Madison this weekend for the Wisconsin Badger football game, I witnessed a parade of zombies marching through the streets, protesting for more zombie rights.

According to the zombies, they prefer the word lurch instead of parade, and here’s what they say on their website:

Zombie Lurch!
Tired of your rights as a member of the living dead being violated? Sick of people putting you down or worse, screaming and trying to smash your head with a cricket bat? We don't deserve to be treated like this! We will no longer stand for being viewed as lesser citizens. We need to fight for our rights and demand equal treatment.

The Coalition Of the Living Dead (COLD) will gather on Saturday October 20th at 2:00 pm at the state capitol in Madison Wisconsin and lurch for our rights as zombies. COLD encourages zombies and zombie supporters to come equipped with signs and slogans to make our point. We will raise our voices and we will not be ignored. We will lurch from the capitol down State Street to the Memorial Union.


I, for one, am a supporter of zombie culture. I see nothing wrong with the zombie lifestyle and I know it’s not a choice – zombies are born that way. If two zombies want to get together and do zombie things to each other, I see nothing wrong with it as long as they don’t bother anyone.

But I put my foot down when it comes to zombies getting married. Marriage should be between a man and a woman, not brain-eating zombies!

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Brewery offers "lifetime supply" of beer in return for stolen laptop


The Croucher Brewing Company in Rotorua, New Zealand, is offering a lifetime supply of beer in exchange for the safe return of a company laptop computer that was stolen from their brewery earlier this month.

The computer contains proprietary brewery information but doesn't have a lot of street value, according to the company.

But I guess the phrase "lifetime supply" doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. The brewery says that the person who returns the laptop will get "one dozen Croucher Brewing boutique
beers every month for the rest of their life!
"

While 12 boutique beers a month is a good start, but what am I going to drink the other 3.3 weeks each month?

Maybe if Croucher ups their offer to 30 beers a month, I'll think about returning the lapper.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Brad Pitt chooses fatherhood over beer


Don't let this happen to you! You can have both!

Brad Pitt thinks drinking beer made him a neglectful dad.

The Ocean's Thirteen star decided to massively cut down his alcohol intake after seeing his adopted daughter Zahara, two, choke on an ice cube.

He said: "It's not easy to be a good father when you've had a few drinks.

"About a year ago I'd had a couple of beers and my daughter Zahara had this piece of ice that had been dropped on the floor, and she was putting it in her mouth and began to choke on it, and that was it.

"You have to be absolutely on top of every situation. The other shit doesn't work anymore. When they wake up in the middle of the night you have to be there.

"And you can't deal with children when you have a hangover - that's just a misery!"

Monday, October 15, 2007

Great American Beer Fest Winners


The Great American Beer Festival is a three-day annual event hosted by the Brewers Association held at the end of September or the beginning of October in Denver. The GABF brings visitors from around the world to sample more than 1,600 different American beers. Over 100 beer judges from the US and abroad participate in the evaluations of one or more beer styles, ultimately judging 2,300 beers entered by more than 450 domestic breweries. Gold, silver and bronze medals in 69 beer-style categories are awarded, though not every medal is awarded in each category.

The 2007 GABF was this weekend. Here are the winning beers from Wisconsin:

Fruit Beer or Vegetable Beer - 94 Entries
Gold: Leinenkugel’s Berry Weiss, Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co., Chippewa Falls, WI
Silver: The Great Pumpkin, Elysian Brewing Co., Seattle, WA
Bronze: Raspberry Tart, New Glarus Brewing Co., New Glarus, WI

Herb and Spice Beer - 58 Entries
Gold: Summertime 69, Gunnison Brewery, Gunnison, CO
Silver: Sigda’s Green Chili, CooperSmith’s Pub & Brewing Co., Fort Collins,CO
Bronze: Frederick Miller Classic Chocolate Lager, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI

Gluten Free Beer - 8 Entries
Gold: RedBridge, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., St. Louis, MO
Silver: New Grist, Lakefront Brewery, Milwaukee, WI
Bronze: Shakparo Ale, Sprecher Brewing Co., Glendale, WI

I didn't realize that Sprecher made a gluten free beer. That is a definite Lakefront copycat rip-off. I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but is Milwaukee a big enough town for TWO gluten free microbrews?

American Style Lager - 33 Entries
Gold: Hamm’s, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI
Silver: Miller Genuine Draft, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI
Bronze: McHenry Lager, Clipper City Brewing Co., Baltimore, MA

American Style Specialty Lager - 16 Entries
Gold: Icehouse, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI
Silver: Mickey’s Ice, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI
Bronze: Mickey’s Malt Liquor, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI

Whoo-hoo! A Miller sweep. Too bad I don't like any of those beers.

European Style Dark/Münchner Dunkel - 18 Entries
Gold: Dunkelstilsken, CB & Pott’s Restaurant & Brewery (Highlands Ranch),
Silver: Capital Munich Dark, Capital Brewery Co., Inc., Middleton, WI
Bronze: Munich Dunkel, Redrock Brewing Co., Salt Lake City, UT

American-Style Dark Lager - 12 Entries
Gold: Roadrunner Red Lager, Thunder Canyon Brewery, Tucson, AZ
Silver: Henry Weinhard’s Classic Dark, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI
Bronze: Elevator Dark Horse, Elevator Brewing Co., Columbus, OH

Baltic-Style Porter - 13 Entries
Gold: Killer Kowalski, Flossmoor Station Brewing Co., Flossmoor, IL
Silver: Foothills Baltic Porter, Foothills Brewing, Winston-Salem, NC
Bronze: Amnesia, The Grumpy Troll Restaurant & Brewery, Mount Horeb, WI


The entire list of categories and winners is here: http://www.beertown.org/events/gabf/pdf/gabf07_winners.pdf


Update: The eight medals Miller won at the Brewers Association's annual Great American Beer Festival were more than any other beer brewer that took part in the competition.


Since 1996, Miller has won 113 awards between both the Great American Beer Festival and the bi-annual World Beer Cup, more than any other large brewer, according to the company.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

The boy who can only eat 6 foods


I feel bad for people who can't eat dairy. Then there's people who can't have any gluten (so beer, among many other things, is out. Although you may be able to drink Lakefront New Grist).

But the kid in the article below can barely eat anything! He's alergic to wheat, gluten, dairy products, eggs, soy, and most other things he's tried.

Twelve-year-old Tylor Savage doesn’t have to ask what’s for dinner. It’s chicken or tuna with carrots and potatoes and maybe some grapes or an apple — the only foods to which he is not allergic.

MSNBC has the complete article.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Ringxiety


Oh man, this happens to me! I regularly think I feel my BlackBerry vibrating in my pocket, as if someone is calling me, when it's not. Now I know that I have a disease, and the government should pay to fix it.


Is that your phone or your imagination?


By ELLEN SIMON, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK - If your hipbone is connected to your BlackBerry or your thighbone is connected to your cell phone, those vibrations you're feeling in the car, in your pajamas, in the shower, may be coming from your headbone.

Many mobile phone addicts and BlackBerry junkies report feeling vibrations when there are none, or feeling as if they're wearing a cell phone when they're not.

The first time it happened to Jonathan Zaback, a manager at the public relations company Burson-Marsteller, he was out with friends and showing off his new BlackBerry Curve.

"While they were looking at it, I felt this vibration on my side. I reached down to grab it and realized there was no BlackBerry there."

Zaback, who said he keeps his BlackBerry by his bed while he sleeps, checks it if he gets up in the middle of the night and wakes to an alarm on the BlackBerry each day, said this didn't worry him.

"As long as it doesn't mean a tumor is growing on my leg because of my BlackBerry, I'm fine with it," he said. "Some people have biological clocks, I might have a biological BlackBerry."

Some users compare the feeling to a phantom limb, which Merriam-Webster's medical dictionary defines as "an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated."

"Even when I don't have the BlackBerry physically on my person, I do find myself adjusting my posture when I sit to accommodate it," said Dawn Mena, an independent technology consultant based in Thousand oaks, Calif. "I also laugh at myself as I reach to unclip it (I swear it's there) and find out I don't even have it on."

Research in the area is scant, but theories abound about the phenomenon, which has been termed "ringxiety" or "fauxcellarm."

Anecdotal evidence suggests "people feel the phone is part of them" and "they're not whole" without their phones, since the phones connect them to the world, said B.J. Fogg, director of research and design at Stanford University's Persuasive Technology Lab.

"As human beings, we're so tapped into our community, responsiveness to what's going on, we're so attuned to the threat of isolation and rejection, we'd rather make a mistake than miss a call," he said. "Our brain is going to be scanning and scanning and scanning to see if we have to respond socially to someone."

In certain circles, phantom vibrations are a point of pride.

"Of course I get them," said Fred Wilson, a managing partner of Union Square Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York. "I've been getting them for over 10 years since I started with the pager-style BlackBerry."

For others, it's one more tech irritation.

Jeff Posner, president and owner of e-ventsreg.com in New Jersey, which allows users to register and check in for trade shows and other events, stopped wearing his BlackBerry on his belt because of regular false alarms. He put it in the chest pocket of his shirt but found that was worse, because now his phone dials automatically, which has created a new annoyance: It always calls the same person, he said.

"Phones have favorite friends," he said. "It's like your phones have a thing for each other. Of course, it's a female friend, so my wife is like, 'You're calling her all the time.'"

Complicating things further, his own phone is his sales manager's favorite friend.

"Her phone calls me all the time," he said. "I'll get a call and hear whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. It's her, walking."

"Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams wrote on his blog, dilbert.org, that he feels the phantom vibrations, "about 10 times per day" and thinks "'Ooh, it's an e-mail with good news!' So far, the only good news is that my pocket is vibrating, and that's OK because it gives me hope that the condition might spread to the rest of my pants."

Jake Ward, a former press secretary for Sen. Olympia Snowe and current director of Qorvis Communications Inc., a public relations company in Washington, D.C., said he switched his BlackBerry from his hip to his jacket pocket six months ago, but still feels it there.

"Aftershocks," he said.

He also claims to "pre-feel" a new message or call. "I'll feel it, look at it. It's not vibrating. Then it starts vibrating," he said. "I am one with my BlackBerry."

For some, it's a matter of projecting hope onto their wireless device. Don Katz said he came out of retirement to work as director of wireline product management at SpinVox Inc. because he was so impressed with the company's voicemail product. He worked on its recent launch at SaskTel, the telecom company in Saskatchewan, Canada. That may be why, on a recent train trip to New York, he kept checking his phone, because he said he was sure it was vibrating.

"It's like, my phone should be ringing," he said. "It's anticipatory vibrations."

Beer vs Baby Food


The New York Times has an interesting article about the proposed merger of SABMiller and Molson Coors in today's paper.

It seems that analysts feel that antitrust regulators will likely approve the merger. But a similar deal seeking to combine the No. 2 and No. 3 players in a consolidated industry — sometimes called a 3-to-2 deal, because it reduces the industry leaders from three to two — was blocked on antitrust grounds a few year ago.

That was Heinz’s attempt to buy the maker of Beech-Nut baby food, a $185 million transaction Heinz ended up abandoning.

Together, Heinz and Beech-Nut would have controlled nearly 33 percent of the retail baby-food market; Gerber, the industry leader, controlled 65 percent. Compare that with the numbers in Tuesday’s proposed deal, in which a combined MillerCoors would have a 29 percent share of the U.S. beer market, and Anheuser-Busch would have 49 percent.

Will the beer merger be approved?

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Miller + Coors


Molson Coors Brewing Co. and SABMiller PLC plan to combine their U.S. operations in a joint venture. The new company will be named MillerCoors.

I'm not too happy about this, because Coors sucks. But I suppose BudweiserMiller would have been worse.

A spokesman says Miller Brewing will still have a strong presence in Milwaukee even though the company is combining its operations with Denver-based competitor Molson Coors. He says it's not clear where headquarters will be located.

Pete Coors, vice chairman of Molson Coors, will serve as chairman of the new company and Molson Coors Chief Executive Leo Kiely will be the new CEO of the joint venture. Tom Long, CEO of Miller, will be appointed president and chief commercial officer.

Here are the current beers made by Coors:

US:
Coors
Coors Light
Killian's Irish Red
Blue Moon
Keystone
Keystone Light
Keystone Ice
Zima XXX
Coors Winterfest
Wildwood Westlake lager
Allbright

UK:
Arc
Breaker
Caffrey’s
Carling
Grolsch
Hancock’s
Lamot
M & B
Stones Bitter
Toby
Worthington

Monday, October 8, 2007

Madison 'Hops and History' brewery tour


There's a walking tour in Madison this Saturday called "Hops and History," which will be held from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, beginning at the Great Dane Brew Pub and ending at the Angelic Brewing Co., site of the former Hausmann Brewery.

Hosted by Robin Shepard, author of Wisconsin's Best Breweries and Brewpubs, the tour is being organized by the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation and costs $20.

Seven locations will be featured on the tour, including the former Breckheimer Brewery and Fauerbach Brewery in downtown Madison.

The Capital Times from Madison has more information.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Nuts and Beer

An article from ABC News today says that the health benefits of certain foods are magnified when they're combined with other foods.

Here's their short list. Read the article for details:

  • Salsa and Avocado
  • Nuts and Beer
  • Garlic and Fennel
  • Exercise and Caffeine

Since I don't like fennel or exercise (plus exercise isn't a food), I think I'll stick with nuts and beer.

Sitting at the bar while eating nuts and drinking beer is not a path to heart disease, but may in fact be a healthy pastime. In fact, nuts boost good cholesterol, HDL, and lower bad cholesterol, LDL. And alcohol acts as a blood thinner and helps prevent blood clots. In both cases, though, moderation is key.

Swedish researchers have also found that the fat and fiber in nuts slow down the absorption of alcohol, smoothing out the effects of moderate alcohol consumption.

For best results, try to eat about 15 minutes before taking that first drink.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Pilsner turns 165


In 1842 a 29-year-old lager brewer from Bavaria, Josef Groll, was named master brewer of Mestansky Pivovar (Citizens' Brewery) in the city of Plzen, located in the western half of the Czech Republic in what was formerly Czechoslovakia and, before that, part of the kingdom of Bohemia. It's about an hour's drive from Prague.

Using lager yeast from Germany and a pale malt, Groll created a new clear golden beer, with a unique clean taste.

The brewery first sold the clear lager in October of 1842. The beer acquired the name Pilsner Urquell (urquell is German for "original source"), in honor of the language of the ruling Austrian Empire.

Though certainly distinctive, Pilsner Urquell was not first beer to be lagered. Germans had been brewing lagers since the 1400s, when their method of storing beer in the cool caves of the Bavarian mountains inadvertently introduced lager yeast, which thrived at the low temperatures. These Bavarian lagers were mostly dark beers, however, and any light-colored ales that were available were probably cloudy.

Word of the clear Pilsner Urquell quickly spread through Europe, and in 1859 the brewery made "Pilsener Beer" a registered trademark. The beer was first exported to America in 1871.

In 1898, following numerous breaches of the Pilsener trademark by imitators, the brewery took further precautions by also trademarking the name "Pilsner Urquell".

To celebrate Pilsner's birthday, drink a Pilsner Urquell on October 5. Or drink one of the hundred American imitators.

Interestingly, Anheuser-Busch applied for trademark of the Budweiser name in 1907, even though Czechs had long known of "Budweiser" as the beer from the Czech city of Czeske Budejovice, or "Budweiss" in German.

Anheuser-Busch's Michelob brand is also named for a Czech town, Michelovice.

Anheuser-Busch's right to sell beers in Europe and Asia under the Budweiser trademark is being disputed in the courts.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

New Digital Camera


I bought a new digital camera - the Canon PowerShot SD800 IS.

I really wanted a camera with IS - image stabilization - because I've missed a lot of shots due to my hands slightly shaking, especially at events where alcohol is served.

The image stabilization works great for low-light pictures and when you don't want to use a flash. I read a great article from an informed photographer on why IS matters.

The camera also takes wider-angle pictures than most digital cameras, so a lot of people like it for that.

I really didn't need a new camera, but how can you resist a Slick Deal® from Dell? I also bought an Epson photo printer for $4, after rebate, of course. I was going to sell it but I found out that you can print directly onto a CD or DVD, so I'm going to keep it until it runs out of ink.

So anyway, stayed tuned for new wider, less blurry pictures from me.

Monday, October 1, 2007

Mick Jagger's Beer Diet


It sounds like Sir Mick's on the same diet that I'm on.

British rock musician Mick Jagger credits his love of food and beer with keeping him slim. The musician was quoted on online sources stating that “I have to eat and eat and have a few beers to keep my 140 pounds going.”

The lanky 5 foot 10 inch Jagger’s lean frame has remained constant throughout his almost 45 year career with the Rolling Stones.