How to Survive Your Next Beer Festival
The unrelenting schedule of beer festivals across Los Angeles has begun, and dedicated craft beer lovers can fill every weekend from now until L.A. Beer Week with brew-fueled parties, tastings and pairing dinners. It’s enough to make your head spin.
There’s no shortage of brews infused with chiles, but many of the examples are more “experimental” than “drinkable” -- brews more suited to jocular one-upmanship than a serious consideration of flavor. Thankfully, some brewers are using chiles to create balanced and unusual beers, and often...
This Is Your Brain On Beer And Coffee
WE know for sure that we've had some of our best ideas over a few beers. We also know that beer rarely leads to us executing those ideas -- that's coffee's job. It turns out, these feelings we had in our hearts might turn out to be backed up by science!
A recent article asked whether coffee or beer makes our brains more creative. Ryoko Iwata from I Love Coffee decided that just reading it wasn't enough for the coffee and beer obsessed among us, so she created this handy infographic to help us decipher when to consume which beverage for optimal creativity.
Beer: Time For a Crafty One
Top 10 Beer Drinking Games
It is Saturday, so in celebration I thought we should have a list of drinking games. These will provide you with hours and fun and a massive headache. Enjoy! Warning: Binge drinking can lead to excess fun.
10. Flip, Sip, or Strip!
The game is best with 3 to 5 people, but more and the game will last longer. The rules are simple. Flip a coin and while it is in the air, call heads or tails. If you guess right, pass the coin to your right. If you guess wrong, pass the coin to your left and either take one article of clothing off (anything that is a pair counts as one item) or drink a shot. One catch, you cannot do the same thing (sip or strip) more than twice in a row.
