Thread: Official: Drinking helps you live longer

Adnam's?! Theakston's!
Mind you, it's the genuine microbreweries that do the best stuff, not the pretend microbrewers. Saying that, of the supermarket ones, Badger Ale isn't bad: there was a flower flavoured one once that was quite interesting.

I can't imagine why anyone would add water to alcohol - even ice in lager or wine is a bit weird, i wonder if people like that add it to their petrol as well!?

Originally Posted by ENT

The Guiness in Asia has to be the worst.

In Thailand it's the Irish one apparently. For those who know, the Nigerian Guinness is the best. Even better is the locally brewed stout than you can get in Vietnam. Buggered if I can remember the name of it, but it featured heavily the last time I visited Saigon.

Originally Posted by CaptainNemo

Adnam's?! Theakston's!

Admans Oyster Ale.

I've no idea if they still brew it though, as it was a special autumn ale that my mum's pub used to get in.

Variety is the spice... a nice Riggwelter... an icy Grolsch... a crisp Normandie cidre... a rich Tawny port... a nice oaky Rioja... a cheap tart and a bottle of Kahlua... a philosophical dram of Caol Ila... some white rum ...some of that weird French fruit brandy, and a refreshing G&T... that's me sorted for tonight.

Tai beer has an aroma of petrol about it; need a lining of Asahi before attempting any of the other watery piss on offer.

The aroma in Thai beer is formaldehyde.

Originally Posted by ENT

no stinking hangovers, or weird drunkenness

Come on, elaborate on the " weird drunkenness " bud

Nearly killed me wife by misunderstood stuff t'night...

I was unloading the car, had some wood beams made outside and i handed her over some docs and a PET bottle..

she then says

IS this a Cobra ?

I move my beams further and without having a chance to look at her say : yeaah ?

then she starts yelling !

Damn i thought the Cobra bite her !

She ran in the kitchen and rinsed and splashed her mouth

She drank the varnish to retouch the wood beams, it was in a damn PET Cobra bottle, i did not noticed and never drank a cobra Pet bottle stuff in my whole life !

She still cannot understand why i told her Yeahh ?

That stuff would for sure not prolong her life...

Please put me in touch with your dealer, forreachingme, he obviously sells some really good shit.

Not only am I drinking myself healthy, I'm also proving how smart I am...

Don't worry, all that excessive drinking is just a sign of your intelligence. According to two long-term studies — one American, one British — there's a correlation between smarts and a thirst for alcohol. The "more intelligent children in both studies grew up to drink alcohol more frequently and in greater quantities than less intelligent children," says Liz Day at Discover. Why might this be the case?

It's all about evolution: Drinking alcohol was "unintentional, accidental, and haphazard until about 10,000 years ago," says Satoshi Kanazawaat at Psychology Today. Smart people are generally early adopters and, in the context of human history, "the substance [alcohol] and the method of consumption are both evolutionarily novel."
"Why intelligent people drink more alcohol"
Alcohol makes up for boring early years: "I'm surprised" by the findings, says Joanne Hinkel at The Frisky, so "here’s my pop-psychology theory" to explain it: "All that studying in childhood repressed kids so much that they’re still trying to compensate well into adulthood for all that fun they missed." Granted, that's just a theory.
"Brain types booze more — are you surprised?"
Drinking is the only way to deal with morons: Smart people "booze so we can tolerate everyone else," says Greg at Food & Wine Blog. When sober, we tend to "take people’s responses at literal face value." But after a few drinks, "we can relax a bit, stop being so anal with semantics and let comments slide a bit."
"Speculative reasons why smart people drink more"

Alcohol from fermenting fruits was kept in skin or wooden containers, originally.
Once early agriculturalists were able to get fires hot enough to make pottery, suitable containers were formed to store liquids.

Liquids such as milk and fruit juices kept in pots could be preserved for a longer time.

Yoghurt and cheese making evolved in conjunction with wine making and baking of yeasted bread in the Caucasus and Caspian area. about 10,000 ya.

Horse breeding evolved there too, so did selective breeding of goats and cattle.

These early horse riding nomadic brewers travelled across Eurasia, as far as the mouth of the Wei river of China, introducing their culture there, in the form of pottery, the black pot and red pot cultures found there originating in the Yugoslav area.
Fermented mare's milk and hard dried goats milk cheese were evolved as travel foods,

When the Great Ancestor, or the Golden Ancestor of China, arrived with his queen, he introduced horticultue, among many cultural artefacts, to China, c.4,500 ya.

Wine making was introduced then also and the resulting binge became something of legend and history in China, especially during the Shang dynasty, when bronze casting was introduced from North Caspian sea area.

Interesting to note that China's technological leap forward coincided with the introduction of alcohol.

Gives some support to the post above.