Why is Beer Cooler Than Wine?

Posted by Chris Jensen | Jun. 11, 2008 06:30AM PST | 287 views | 0 comments

FILED UNDER: Videos, Opinion.

The eternal argument continues: which is cooler, beer or wine? If you ask a brewer, the answer is beer. Ask a vintner, they'd no doubt answer wine.  Joining the fray is Garret Oliver, beer-lord at the Brooklyn Brewery, who chimes in with the following video. In my opinion, the best drink out there is Izze, but I'm too lazy to make a video championing its existence.

 

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Tags brewery, wine, beer

The Ultimate White Trash Coffin Looks Like a Can of Pabst Blue Ribbon

Posted by Chris Jensen | May. 06, 2008 06:43AM PST | 1159 views | 0 comments

FILED UNDER: News. Lifestyle.

Bill Bramanti of Illinois has made his future coffin look like a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon, ensuring his place in the White Trash Hall of Fame. Pabst Blue Ribbon? I wasn't even aware people still drank that crap. Sorts of tastes like an unsubmitted urine test.

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Tags pabst, beer, coffin

Archaeologists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Slacker

Posted by Chris Jensen | Mar. 18, 2008 07:36AM PST | 460 views | 2 comments

FILED UNDER: News. Science.

Archaeologists working at a site in east Kent have unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old skeleton who was buried with a beer mug. Looks to me like it's the remains of the town drunk, but scientists who supposedly know more than I on the topic instead believe the remains are those of someone with a high status.

Possibly ceremonial objects were found buried with the individual, who could have been a high-status male.

No clues are given as to what those ceremonial objects are, but they probably found a fake I.D., rolling papers and a bag of Bronze Age weed. This pushes back the evolution of the slacker by several thousand years.

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Tags kent, england, beer, skeleton, archaeology, history