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| Pour Your Own Beer There is self-service for gasoline at the pump, soda at the fast-food joint, and groceries at the supermarket. Next time you're at a corner bar, how about you get your own beer? Tir na Nog, a pub in Philadelphia, recently rolled out a two-tap self-service beer bar that seats six to eight people, the first of its kind in the city, and among the first on the East Coast. Everybody wants to be a bartender," manager Ken Merriman said as patrons pulled their own brews. The portable setup sits in clear view of the big-screen television. Ellickson International - the Irish manufacturer is marketing the $10,000 Draft Master for the novelty factor and its economic benefits. Draft Master tells bar owners they will get paid for every drop of beer. Because the customer pours exactly how much beer he or she wants, there's also "no waste." A bar owner whose self-service unit sells the equivalent of two kegs a week could recoup the investment in six months. |
| You don't say..... SABMiller has long held a near-stranglehold on the South African market, and is increasing its output at seven operations around the country. Per-capita beer consumption averages a little more than 60 quarts a year, well ahead of Africa's about six-quart average, but shy of much of Western Europe, where annual consumption tops 100 quarts a head. ------------------ Light beer is in a slump. U.S. sales of the biggest brands are in an alarming slide, with Bud Light down 5.3% this year and Miller Lite off 7.5%. Is this but a recessionary blip or are we finally witnessing a great consumer revolt against shamefully bad beer, shamelessly promoted? ------------------------- Have a beer instead of going for plastic surgery. Producers of Bulgarian Bohza beer claim it has been brewed specifically to make boobs grow bigger. The beer was originally developed as a health drink to help new mums having trouble breast feeding. Now women are flocking to brewers Yavor-M in Ruse after drinkers started to record some eye-popping results. Spokesman Kristian Gyoshev explained: "We make no special claims but we get hundreds of testimonials from women who say their boobs have gone up one or two cup sizes. It's natural, healthy, and cheaper than any surgery. |
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| Jeff Levine "The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. ." "Bongo" Jay Jones "What beer and whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for." George Best "I spent a lot of my money on beer, booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." Winston Churchill "The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it." |
| W.C. Fields "I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.” Jeff Forworthy "The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house." Mark Twain "Sometimes too much to beer is barely enough.." Ed McMahon "The best place to drink beer is at home. Or on a river bank, if the fish don’t bother you. " |
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