It seems there was a curious reporter in Atlanta that bought and tested several beers from different sporting venues around his city, only to find that the beer was far below its advertised ABV. Federal regulations allow for a .3% variation in ABV, but the results were finding far greater discrepancies. Some times as much as 2 full percent of difference. Makes you wonder if the same is true of other states’ venues.

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I was reading Engadget the other day and I found this great little article.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/02/medea-vodka-and-its-radical-programmable-led-bottle-now-ready/

The spokesman says it can be pronounced Like idea, but that it can also be pronounced like media. However you say it, its an awesome idea. It can be programmed with up to 6 different phrases, each with around 300 different characters. And they can be reprogrammed on the fly by anyone.  I can think of so many fun ways to use a bottle with a scrolling LED in it! The obvious “Happy Birthday” shown in the little video, congrats to couples getting married, even at a company party with the name of the company scrolling through the bottle. Now to find out if they’re being sold in Ks.

A snack that you must be 21 to enjoy, and somehow I’m not surprised that it was invented in Texas, but someone has learned to fry beer. Yes, that’s right, they have made fried beer. This Labor Day at the Texas State Fair, Mark Zabel will be presenting his patented new technique for making fried beer. The beer itself, currently Guinness but Zabel is looking at other alternatives, is fried in a pretzel like pocket, that when bitten into the beer pours out.

Scottish researchers have been able to make biofuel out of the pot ale and draff, byproducts of the whiskey distillation process. They were able to make a form of biobutonal that is 30% more efficient than ethanol, and doesn’t require engine modifications to run in cars. So it looks like all the millions of tons of refuse can be recycled into the gas they use to deliver the final whiskey product.