The strange world of beer

Yet more goggles
Those of you who read these pages closely will know in the beer lovers’ world there is a certain fascination with beer goggles.

Normally these refer to men being lonely at the end of an evening and mistaking a lady who is less than lovely for a supermodel.

Now before BoTW loses all its female readership (and our new female editor issues the Beer Matters team with their marching orders) we found a great little website film that caters for both genders.

The beer goggles for her come in pink and could help you transform that mountain of a man, usually the last left in the bar at the end of the evening, into something approximating Brad Pitt, unless your surname is Jolie.

www.beerleaguethemovie.com/beergogglesqt.htm

Big Bother
Burton’s famous Marston’s brewery was the sole beer supplier for this year’s reality television show Big Brother.

Marston’s provided the popular Channel 4 show with more than 800 bottles of Resolution but due to a signed contractual agreement could not make a public announcement until the programme had finished.

The beer was often centre stage – with regular arguments about who had drank the most – so much so that one of the high points of the show was the ‘beer gate’ scandal.

Justin Way from the brewery explained: “Nicky enjoyed Marston’s Resolution so much that she hid a bottle under her pillow, fellow contestant Mikey later stole it and drank it and all mayhem broke out, it was one of the highlights of Big Brother 7.” At 4.7% .....

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By Dominic Roskrow

Section : Beer Matters

Page number : 39