Top Beers

by Erik Olsen on

In the immortal words of Homer Simpson: Hmmm, beer.

Yes, I love to sudsy stuff as much as the next guy, but like my relationship with coffee, a foodstuff about which I declare with pride that I am a bona-fide snob, I am also very particular about the kind of beer I drink. None of that watery belly wash Budweiser for me. nah, I’ll take a Bass or a Sam Adams or a Guinness that I have to cut with a knife before I’ll touch the domestic blue-collar stuff. Sorry. As I said, I am a snob.

And so for other snobs out there I offer a must have list of what are said to be the finest 100 beers in the world. The list is put together by Beer Advocate magazine, a fine source if ever there was one…better anyway than, say, Teetotaler Magazine or Mormons Weekly. As you might have guessed the majority of the brewski here are made overseas, Europe in particular, but there are some American bottles on the list, including the Dreadnaught IPA, which gets a 93 rating.

I know you’re going to find this list useful, so print it out.

Try the All-New Hot Flash Lager

by Erik Olsen on

Leave it to the Czechs to mix two things that might
seem to most of us unmixable: beer and menopause. Yes, you heard that right. The miserable woes of no longer producing
eggs, the hot flashes, the sleeping troubles, the moodiness, that funny smell (jk!)…all might possibly be relived if
some Czech food scientists have their way. They are developing a new
low-kilojoule, low-alcohol beer that contains heightened levels of phytoestrogen, a form of the hormone estrogen
that is found in plants. Estrogen, remember, is what declines in menopausal women, leading to the afore-mentioned hot
flashes et al.

The beer is being developed by the wonderfully named Research Institute of Brewing and
Malting, and while there is no word on when the first bottle of this fine new brew will be on the store shelves, I am
very eager to know what they plan on calling it. Estro-Ale? Hot-flash Lager? Moodibrew? Inquiring minds want to know.