...And This Is Why We Drink™
...And This Is Why We Drink™
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...And This Is Why We Drink™
...And This Is Why We Drink™
“Beer, the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems.” “Beer. Now there’s a temporary solution.” “Homer no function beer well without.” “Alright brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me, so just get me through this exam so I can go back to killing you slowly with beer.” “A woman is a lot like beer. They smell good, they look good, and you’d step over your own mother to get one.” “Oh, Lisa, you and your stories: Bart’s a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now let’s go back to that … building … thingie … where our beds and TV … is.” “All right, Homey, you’re over stimulated. As soon as we get you home, we’ll get some beer into you, and then it’s straight to bed.” Sung to the tune of “It Was a Very Good Year”: When I was seventeen ...And This Is Why We Drink™ Everybody else seems to be doing a top 10 list, so here’s mine. These are not necessarily the beers I drink all the time, but if I had to pick 10 to drink for the rest of my life, these would be them (at least for this year…):
...And This Is Why We Drink™ Apparently it smells good, and gets them drunk… Scientists at the University of California, Riverside posed a question that sounds like something you’d hear at a fraternity kegger: Ever wonder why flies are attracted to beer? The answer turns out to be simple. UCR said in a statement today, “flies sense glycerol, a sweet-tasting compound that yeasts make during fermentation.” There’s yeast in beer, and beer undergoes fermentation. The flies “sense the glycerol because (they) have a receptor known as Gr64e,” UCR says. “Once a fly has settled on beer, Gr64e detects glycerol and transmits this information to the fly’s neurons, which then influences the fly’s behavioral response.) The results of the study — which was done on fruit flies — aren’t surprising. The University of California San Francisco released a study last year that says that fruit flies will drink until they can drink no more. UCSF researcher Ulrike Heberlein told Mental Floss (story) that, “The flies choose to consume alcohol to intoxicating levels, they will do so even if alcohol is made unpalatable, and they relapse to drinking high levels of alcohol after being deprived of it. Addiction is a purely human condition, but, surprisingly, flies show several key features of it.” ...And This Is Why We Drink™ |
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