According to this article from the United Kingdom, You can’t sweat off effects of alcohol,

people need to be aware that regularly drinking double the recommended limits comes with health risks that can’t simply be burned off down the gym, in the pool or on the football pitch.

But how much are you taking in with each drink? Well, it depends on the drink and the size that you consider to be a drink. A shot of liquor has more alcohol content than a shot size of beer, for example.

According to the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans, published by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture,

a drink of alcohol as “12 oz. of regular beer, 5 oz. of wine, and 1.5 oz. of 80-proof distilled spirits.”

Yet, a survey by Yankelovich Partners showed that only 39 percent of Americans know that these servings all contain the same amount of alcohol. Fifty-three percent believe a typical mixed drink, like a Bloody Mary or a rum and Coke, is more “potent” than a 5-oz. glass of wine, even though the alcohol content is the same.

So, what is what then? These all equal the same amount of alcohol:

• 1 and a half ounces of hard liquor (80 proof)
• 12 ounces of beer
• 5 ounces of wine
• 12 ounces of wine, malt or spirit based cooler
• 3 ounces of sherry or port
• 9 ounces of malt liquor

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Heavy Drinking? Exercise After Won’t Help

A tractor trailer carrying what looked like TONS of beer flipped over, spilling the delicious goodness inside all over the highway.  Whoever is taking the video, does seem pretty psyched, but not nearly as thrilled as I would be!

The clip is only 22 seconds long, so I’m really hoping for the sake of my sanity that there is a part two where whomever captured this is running gleefully down the street grabbing up as many cans as possible.

Oh wait, it’s Bud Light.  Never mind.  Click here to check out more of EveryJoe’s favorite video picks.

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Truck Dumps Beer All Over Highway

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Some thoughts I have:

• Having alcohol at the games at Penn State isn’t dangerous, so I can’t see how it would be at Minnesota. The people who get so drunk they can’t see are typically students who walk home, and the drivers are responsible most of the time. There will always be incidents, but not enough to ban alcohol.
• The possible ban stems from state alcohol disputes with the school. The liquor licensing control board says that they have to offer alcohol to everyone at the stadium or to no one at all. So instead of making beer available to people in the stands, they’re going to take it away from people in club areas. Yes, that makes tons of sense.
• All this is going to do is make people hide their alcohol or binge drink before getting to the game. Those things are a lot more dangerous.

All in all, its a bad decision to ban alcohol at any college sporting event. Control, yes…but ban? No.

Your thoughts? Leave a comment!

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No More Booze at Minnesota?

Image|Luxco

Now, all that being said, I did occasionally imbibe at the random after-football game party or the parents-are-out-of-town-so-let’s-party party. Purple Passion was the go-to drink back then since it tastes just like grape soda. Grape soda doesn’t offend the young [and stupid] palate like other drinks might and I didn’t have a taste for beer [the other go-to drink of that age set].

Mint Lip Gloss got me started thinking about the grape goodness with, “Is Purple Passion considered hard liquor? Do they even still make that stuff? That stuff was a staple in college! :)” after I conducted an unscientific survey on Twitter about everyone’s favorite hard liquor.

Red Jade summed it up rather well: “We drank that crap like pros. And barfed it up like amateurs”.

Spoken like a true lover of Purple Passion.

What I didn’t know back then is that Purple Passion is made by Luxco and contains Everclear. No wonder our young butts were knocked on the ground by that stuff.

Another thing that I wasn’t aware of when I was drinking Purple Passion is that “Purple Passion” is the name of a mixed drink. I’m not sure which came first [I figure it's a chicken and egg kind of deal] but after reading a couple of recipes, I say leave the pre-made Purple Passion to the kids [the 21 and over kids] and go get the stuff to make the cocktail.

Purple Passion Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Vodka
• 2 oz Grape Juice
• 2 oz Grapefruit Juice
• 1/4 oz simple syrup

Directions:

Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Recipe courtesy of: Cocktail Times

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A Grownup Purple Passion

I don’t see why this is such a huge deal. A true beer fan would know which shady grocery stores sell them early anyway. Though I don’t think it was really Bears fans that did the persuading. I think it was the wives and girlfriends of Bears fans. Two reasons I think they are the ones behind it:

1) If they have to stay home while their husbands watch sports all day, they want to be hammered.

2) If they can get their husbands sauced enough, they can take the credit card and hit the mall or maybe a salon.

Who needs beer so badly at 9am on a Sunday? Aren’t you still in bed because of the partying from the night before? Anyway, good job guys. Football fans, wives of fans and alcoholics can all get what they want now.

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Bears Fans Get Beer Early On Sundays

Answer after the jump….

Believe it or not, groaning ale is beer that was made specially for pregnant women.  In Colonial America, a special brew was made while a woman was pregnant.  When the woman went into labor, everyone, pregnant woman included, had a sip…  and the baby was washed in the beer afterwards.  I kid you not.

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Beer Trivia: Groaning Ale

Paul Newman always seemed like a standup guy, and so the man who played everything from Cool Hand Luke to Doc Hudson’s voice in the movie Cars will be sorely missed. He was one of a rare breed, Hollywood men who marry and stay faithful, and who live far from the strange micro-system which is Los Angeles.

Apparently he was also a beer drinker, at least according to the BBC, which claims Newman “credited a regular beer intake for his good fortune.” According to an interview with David Letterman, Newman preferred suds over grapes because “It’s the drink of the common man,” although it would also seem he had a tendency to have a few more than might be advisable in one sitting.

So, while you’re hoisting that Oktoberfest beer today say a quick zum Wohl to one of Hollywoods most uncommon men.

image courtesy of Wikipedia, public domain

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Paul Newman, actor and beer drinker

It’s day 7 of the official Oktoberfest in Munich, the world’s largest beer party!

At Oktoberfest, the beer is supplied by breweries known as the Big Six: Spaten, Löwenbräu, Augustiner, Hofbräu, Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr. Each brewery has its own tent, holding thousands of festival-goers. The price of beer varies from tent to tent, but ranges between 7.80 and 8.30 Euros per liter – or about $12 US.

Estimates are that 6.2 million visitors will consume a mind-boggling 6,940,600 litres of beer. Do the math. That’s about $84 million US on beer alone – no wonder the German government seems to love Oktoberfest!

More amazing images after the jump.

The Augustiner beer tent:

The Paulaner Braeu Winzerer Faehnd’l beer tent:

The traditional rifleman’s parade:

And some folks who might just have had a bit too much fun:

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Oktoberfest Continues to Welcome Visitors

As the costs of hops rise – and the supplies drop – small brewers are the ones that suffer. They don’t have the leveraging power of the larger brewers and are often forced to take “leftovers” – which doesn’t necessarily result in quality brew.

Some brewers are looking into producing their own hops instead of relying on hope suppliers. And why not? As we previously reported, hops are not terribly difficult to grow – and growing them is becoming more popular.

Stay tuned to see how it changes the industry!

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When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Growing

The beer has been brewed by the Orkney Brewer for two decades and is named after Thorfinn ‘Skullsplitter’ Einarsson, the seventh Viking Earl of Orkney (947-977).

There is no word yet on an appeal.

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Skull Splitter Too Aggressive?