You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. –Frank Zappa
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. –Ernest Hemmingway
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. –Winston Churchill
He was a wise man who invented beer. –Plato
Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time. –Catherine Zandonella
A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her. –W.C. Fields
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. –Lady Astor to Winston Churchill; –His reply, Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. –Lady Astor to Winston Churchill; Sir, you’re drunk! –Winston Churchill to Lady Astor; Yes, Madam, and you’re ugly. But in the morning, I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
If God had not intended us to drink beer, He would not have given us stomachs. –David Daye
Work is the curse of the drinking class. –Oscar Wilde
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. –Henny Youngman
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. –Benjamin Franklin
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. –Deep Thought, Jack Handy
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. –Dave Barry
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. –Humphrey Bogart
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. –David Moulton (No more warm beer for Teddy)
People who drink light “beer” don’t like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot. –Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. –Kaiser Wilhelm
I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer. –Homer Simpson
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. –Dave Barry
I drink to make other people interesting. –George Jean Nathan
They who drink beer will think beer. –Washington Irving
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools. –For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway
You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. –Dean Martin
All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me – so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer. –Homer Simpson
I swear, I will never drink again…. –Half the population of the planet earth as they cling to the spinning bed or the porcelain god…
Bartender.. I’ll take another…. –Same people next friday
Costco Wholesale Corp. has applied to sell its own brand of beer, according to Bloomberg News.
The Kirkland Signature label applications for pale ale, amber ale, hefeweizen and a lager were approved last week by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Bloomberg reported Costco already offers Kirkland Signature wines and is one of the top sellers of wine in the U.S.
The big brewers have fretted that decades of copycat, chucklehead advertising has reduced their biggest-selling brands to indistinguishable commodities in the eyes of many consumers. Now they may be reaping what they’ve sown: Costco, one of the nation’s largest warehouse retailers, is readying its first line of private-label beers.
One analyst said said the rollout of Kirkland Signature Hefeweizen is most likely to hurt sub-premium brands.
The retailer has filed label applications with the federal Tax and Trade Bureau for a Kirkland Signature Hefeweizen, amber ale and pale ale. The beers will be brewed by San Francisco-area craft brewer Gordon Biersch, which also brews private-label beers for the Trader Joe’s supermarket chain.
Big-box stores such as Costco have been a lucrative source of case sales for brewers and any additional competition in the channel will not be appreciated at a time when those brewers are struggling to increase sales.
Who will suffer more? Stifel Nicolaus analyst Mark Swartzberg said the rollout’s impact is most likely to hurt sub-premium brands such as Anheuser-Busch’s Busch and Natural Light, Miller Brewing’s Milwaukee’s Best Light and Coors’ Keystone. That category of beers is underperforming overall as of late, he said. “It’s a very cluttered space, and price and promotions tend to matter more there.”
Still, while private-label brands generally tend to compete with the low end of their categories, sub-premium brands don’t have much of a presence at Costco, which tends to sell higher-end items at bulk prices. Craft-beer styles such as Hefeweizen might appeal more to drinkers who would otherwise be buying Michelob or Sam Adams than they would to the typical purchaser of a Busch Light 30 pack.
That suggests that it’s premium brands that might hurt more from the Costco entry. “If you ask the brand guys if they’d rather the private labels didn’t exist, they’d say yes,” said Mr. Swartzberg.
Could grow the market Then there’s the possibility that the new entry could simply grow the market. The presence of a private label might actually cause shoppers to buy more beer than they would have otherwise, he said.
A call to Costco’s corporate office was not returned, but the retailer has been offering private-label wines — including a Champagne and a New Zealand sauvignon blanc from the heralded Marlborough region — and spirits for some time.
The Kirkland label application — first reported by Miller Brewing Co’s corporate blog, BrewBlog — coincides with a court ruling against Costco yesterday in a long-running dispute between the retailer and Washington state beer wholesalers. A federal appeals court rejected a lower court’s ruling that Washington statutes banning certain volume discounts and preventing retailers from taking beer directly from a warehouse. The decision strengthened the position of beer distributors, who have been in the somewhat awkward role of warring in court with their biggest customers.
Joe Morette, a New Hampshire farmer has found a unique way to fatten up his turkeys before Thanksgiving. He feeds them a steady diet of protein and beer. This gives new meaning to “Wild Turkey”.
A NEW Zealand student has invented a device that can turn a warm can of beer into a chilled drink within seconds, just in time for summer. Kent Hodgson, 22, of Albany, invented the gadget after being confronted with the problem of warm beer while at a barbecue this year. He has called the invention Huski, which he intends to patent.
“You have plastic cooling cells, which are pressed down into the dock which houses the liquid carbon dioxide.
“The liquid CO2 expands and is pressurised into dry ice in the base of the cooling cells . . . in a moment. You then pop it into your drink and then proceed from there as you normally would.
“The cooling power is almost instant and is utilised for several minutes and it doesn’t dilute the drink like ice would.”
Dry ice has a cooling capacity almost four times that of the same amount of regular ice, with a surface temperature of minus 78.5C. One canister can fill thirty 330ml bottles at a cost of 6c each – an ideal alternative for those who do not want to lug around an Esky during the summer.
