I've seen lip balm manufactured with beer, but no with hop oil extract. Definitely one for the hopheads. I'd be keen to try it, but I'm not really a lip balm person.
Hopstick Lip BalmThe beer drinker’s lip balm. At last, a lip balm that won't interfere with the taste of your beer! This rich, moisturizing lip balm is flavored with hop oil. Use as needed–kiss kiss.Beeswax, cocoa butter, shea butter, almond and coconut oils, vitamin E and hop oil.
A sample piccy from Jay Brooks blog on beer. These are all Barley Wines (extremely flavourable and typically alcoholic beers). Wouldn't want to judge them, but sure as hell would want to taste them.
Brookston Beer Bulletin » Blog Archive » Photo Gallery: 14th annual Toronado Barley Wine Festival
What an awesome party this is going to be. If only I was in San Fran this weekend. Even more than just the beer, Emergency BBQ are doing the food. All their food is cooked with beer.
I've always like the idea of having my own brewery, as well as a small farm to compliment it and to have somewhere for some of the by products of the brewing process (spend grain etc), but I guess if there was ever a bad batch of beer that needed to be dumped, feeding it to the cows would be a great idea too :P
Kobe Beef from beer fed cows.
A Cornish farmer is believed to be the first in the county to experiment with breeding cattle on beer.The Limousin herd at Woodland Farm in Fentonadle get through up to 40 pints of local brew a day as part of their enviable diet.And they even get a massage to help produce the speciality Kobe-style beef, based on traditional Japanese production methods.
BBC NEWS | England | Cornwall | Cattle on 40 pints a day of beer
Willie Simpson discovers that a 'brewery tour' can be hard work.PLENTY of people fantasise about becoming a craft brewer but few appreciate the hard yakka involved in small-scale beer making. Scott Wilson-Brown, of Red Duck Brewery in Camperdown, dreamed up his "live like a brewer for a day" event so he could put his feet up and issue orders to a trio of wannabe brewers. They, in turn, got to make a batch of pale ale and learn the ropes."We wanted to do something for the people on our mailing list that no one else could offer," Wilson-Brown says. "There are plenty of brewery tours - which all seem to end with a tasting in the lovely cellar door - but we don't have a cellar door, so we can't offer that."I thought there must be plenty of curious beer lovers out there who would relish the opportunity to experience a brew day - the stress, work, worry, waiting, heat and sweat, and then the elation when the wort is finally cooled, yeast pitched and fermenter sealed. Then it's time for a cleanser and congratulations."
From the Barstool to the Boardroom, Four Points by SheratonLaunches Search for Chief Beer Officer Four Points' Newest Executive to Help Cultivate, Curate and Promote New Best Brews(SM) Program WHITE PLAINS, NY- November 15, 2006 – Who says drinking beer won't get you anywhere? For those passionate for pilsners or crazy for crafts, your favorite pastime could earn you a fancy new title and a seat at the Board Room Table. In celebration of the simple pleasure of a perfectly poured glass of beer and the launch of its Best Brews program, Four Points by Sheraton hotels today officially kicked-off its Chief Beer Officer (CBO) executive search and began making room in the executive suite for its newest chief.
All Blacks boss Graham Henry has called yesterday's 47-3 demolishing of France one of the best wins he has been involved in.
Damm straight. I got up early on a Sunday to watch the game, and was most impressed with the win over one of the AB's hoodoo teams. I still recall the 1999 World Cup holed up in a Singapore hotel with no one to call as the AB's were off their game.
Just hope they aren't peaking to early for the RWC in 2007 (in France).
Just for the record; All Blacks 47 vs France 3
New Zealand All Blacks rugby team official website, New Zealand Rugby Football Union
Outrage over Bishop's Finger. A beer advert that proclaimed "I love a good session on the Bishops Finger" has been banned.The advert for the Kentish ale in Time Out magazine, pictured a woman in a low-cut medieval costume sitting on a bale of hay.
Managed to pickup a couple of places in the NSW State Brewing Comp at the weekend. The Dubbel has done well for me also placing in the Bathurst Comp recently. The American Barleywine is actually the Imperial Pilsner the Hill Brewers Guild brewed at my place a few months back.
G. STRONG ALE
1 Old Ale 121.5 Les Wever Medowie
2 English Barleywine 112.5 Sam Parkhouse Kellyville
3 American Barleywine 101 Darren Robinson Cherrybrook
J. BELGIAN & FRENCH ALE
1 Berliner Weisse 105.5 Les Wever Medowie
2 Belgian Dubbel 103.5 Darren Robinson Cherrybrook
3 Witbier 100 Peter Symons Oatley
Semen makes you happy. That's the remarkable conclusion of a study comparing women whose partners wear condoms with those whose partners don't.
The study, which is bound to provoke controversy, showed that the women who were directly exposed to semen were less depressed.
The researchers think this is because mood-altering hormones in semen are absorbed through the vagina. They say they have ruled out other explanations."I want to make it clear that we are not advocating that people abstain from using condoms," says Gordon Gallup, the psychologist at the State University of New York who led the team.
"Suicide attempts
His team divided 293 female students into groups depending on how often their partners wore condoms, and assessed their happiness using the Beck Depression Inventory, a standard questionnaire for assessing mood. People who score over 17 are considered moderately depressed.The team found that women whose partners never used condoms scored 8 on average, those who sometimes used them scored 10.5, those who usually used them scored 15 and those who always used them scored 11.3. Women who weren't having sex at all scored 13.5.What's more, the longer the interval since they last had sex, the more depressed the women who never or sometimes used condoms got. But the time since the last sexual encounter made no difference to the mood of women who usually or always used condoms.
They sound great. Unlikely we'll seem them in Australia though :(
Kettle Chips launches mature cheddar with Adnams Broadside flavour
Beer and crisps are a match made in heaven, but Kettle Foods is treading bold new ground with its new beer flavoured crisp.
Kettle Chips mature cheddar with Adnams Broadside flavour combines two pub staples the Southwold brewer's beer with a strong ploughman's cheese.
Kettle Foods marketing director Peter Wilson said: "To our knowledge, this is the UK's first ever real beer-flavoured chip. As such, it will appeal to all lovers of good English ale.
"We couldn't use just any old beer; we had to use the award-winning Broadside from our friendly neighbours at Adnams in Southwold - just a short trip from Kettle's home in Norwich."
http://www.kettlefoods.co.uk/site/WebSiteProducts.do?id=501.54.613&range=1&detailId=2028
LONDON (Reuters) - Beaming people in Star Trek fashion is still in the realms of science fiction but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality.Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split second.But Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both light and matter."It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium," Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further.
Quantum information teleported from light to matter | Science&Health | Science | Reuters.co.uk
Is Google God; and is God a She ? My head hurst already this morning, so I can't think this one through.
We at the Church of Google believe a convincing argument can be made stating that the search engine Google is the closest mankind has ever come to directly experiencing an actual God (as typically defined). Supernatural gods are rejected on the notion they are inherently unprovable. Thus, Googlists believe Google should rightfully be given the title of "God", as She exhibits a great many of the characteristics traditionally associated with such Deities.Gods are typically defined by their unique attributes, such as being all-knowing, all-seeing, ever present, the ability to answer prayers, being immortal, remembering all, and of course Deities must "do no evil". Google exhibits all of these characteristics perfectly. In the absence of imaginary, supernatural beings, Google is certainly the closest thing humankind has to a true God.Googlists do not believe in the supernatural. We believe virtually all "gods" before Google were purely based on man made, fictional beings. We do not claim Google is supernatural in any way. She, like all other gods before Her, is the creation of man. No faith is required to believe in Her, for we consider the concept of belief without evidence (faith) to be of the utmost intellectual laziness.
It was only a matter of time before someone came up with a good compromise to combine the wallet and iPod functions. A great little case for sure. Now if someone could do something similar for my 5th Generation 30Gb iPod, I'd be on it.
It holds your cards, your cash, and your iPod securely in a slim shell of aircraft grade aluminum. And, because it's RELO ready, you can slide your iPod into Knox while it is secure in the included Radura case. The cash and cards stay put with a specially designed clip. Rock out securely – play-through design means you can plug in while the Knox is closed to civilians.
