| Beer Pool for Health An Austrian holiday resort offers guests the chance to swim in a pool containing 42,000 pints of beer. The Starkenber Beer Myth Resort located at the medieval castle of Starkenberger in Austria's Tyrol region filled seven 13-foot long pools with the beer. Management contends that beer baths heal various skin diseases. Some guests reportedly have sampled the pool water during the swims. |

| You don't say..... The collecting of beer mats (coasters) is called tegestology. -------------------------------- Guinness has now formed the Guinness Party of Canada, and their main platform is to make St Patrick's Day a national holiday. "The stretch between January and Easter, almost three and half months without a holiday, is far too long," says party leader Karen Cutaia. Labatt tried last year to have a petition to get a national beer holiday, and although the marketing campaign was a huge success for the company, the petition failed. ----------------------- Many movie theaters across Canada sell beer, wine, and coolers along with popcorn and ice cream. This follows the lead of Europe where adult beverages are widely available at the movies. |

| Too Warm Beer Industry efforts to set aside the notion that British "real ale" should be served warm and flat apparently have fallen on deaf ears. A survey of pubs across England found that 44% of pints exceed the suggested serving temperature of 55 degrees Fahrenheit (13 C). Publicans in London, Essex, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire and the West Midlands all pulled pints measuring between 79 and 81 degrees F, and one in Kent served beer at 95 F !! Killer Beer The China Daily News recently reported that in the past six months alone bursting beer bottles have killed five people and injured an additional 52. The beer deaths topped the list of China’s consumer complaints. The Chinese government has released no further details. . |
| Ya gotta love these guys Brian Daniel- "If I saved all the money I've spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer." David Auerbach - “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.” Oscar Levant - "I don't drink beer; I don't like it -- it makes me feel good." |
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