I've got a fever...
Wine had a prominent place at this new Mediterranean table—it was now part of a "lifestyle," while beer remained just a drink. The power of these linguistic associations can be measured: A Google search of beer and passion yields 1.48 million entries, while wine and passion yields four times that; a search of beer and lifestyle yields 1.6 million entries; wine and lifestyle turns up 13 million. ...marketers know what it means: intangible values attached to material goods. Or: serious bank. Beer executives are in the process of trying to limit their product's associations with certain lifestyles—"frat-boy animal house," for example, or "devotees of the brown bag Bud lunch"—without alienating those core audiences; beer marketers seem torn between broadening their appeal and energizing their base. But brand repositioning has to be at least somewhat convincing: In 2005, Anheuser-Busch released a malt liquor called Bistro 8, a "new fermented beverage created in collaboration with Master Chefs to complement Bistro Fare. Bistro 8 features the aromas of exotic fruits, spices and citrus.…" Bud executives pulled it. Wine marketers have it comparatively easy. They merely summon a picture of a bucolic vineyard or people raising their glasses around a table full of food—they don't have to sell their selling points. This is why brewers have been frantically pushing beer-and-food pairings lately. Beer—which can be great with food, by the way—is in danger of being left out of the American mealtime, banished to the den (only when pro sports are on) or to the back porch (only for the early rounds of grilling).
The Alabama House said "no" Tuesday to a bill that would have increased the alcohol content allowed in beer sold in Alabama.Rep. Thomas Jackson, D-Thomasville, sponsored the bill, which he said would have allowed the sale of some imported and gourmet beers that have a higher alcohol content than the 6 percent now allowed. Jackson's bill would have increased the allowable alcohol content to 14.9 percent.The bill failed on a 49-39 vote, short of the two-thirds vote required to bring the measure up for a vote. "I can't see us doing something that's going to encourage people to drink more and get drunk faster," said Rep. DuWayne *asshat*Bridges, D-Valley.
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
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Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
As for wine being more accepted than beer.....I think again it's a cultural issue. Wine carries a certain distinction in this country that beer does not. Beer is considered common, and not a very nuanced beverage, unlike wine. All of that is untrue, of course, but I think that it really is an ingrained sort of perception.
Yeah, I think that there's a big cultural issue in America going many years back. Considering we're a country founded on immigrants, a number of whom brewed beer (my great grandfather brewed his own beer in his basement through most of Prohibition, apparently).
I would say that my drinking of wine and beer is about equal. I probably drink 40% wine, 40% beer and 20% "other."
That sounds like the makings of a rough night. Oh, you didn't mean at the same time. Silly me!
I've probably done that on occasion, but not to excess...maybe 2 beers, 2 glasses of vino, 1 mixed drink....
1 bourbon, 1 shotscotch, 1 beer.... k
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
1 bourbon, 1 shot, 1 beer....
I always thought it was shot...maybe it's a shot o' scotch...? k