Related Pleasures

Today’s infographic is a poster showing major milestones in the History of Beer, created by the Black Sheep Brewery in Great Britain.

This week was a fun one, in part because Tom Acitelli was in town on his book tour, promoting his new paperback The Audacity of Hops: The History of America’s Craft Beer Revolution. He started Tuesday evening at the Anchor Brewery, where he spoke briefly, signed some books and all of us enjoyed a few beers.

Today’s infographics is a clever chart of beer cocktails rendered in colorful circles representing the proportion of ingredients. It’s part of a series of drinks posters by Fabio Rex.

This is great news, Alabama may soon become the last state to legalize homebrewing since Prohibition, thanks in large part to the grassroots efforts of Right to Brew. According to the American Homebrewers Association:

Today’s infographic shows the various steps of How You Get Drunk, and how it affects your body, including the “booze choo-choo train through your brain.”

Today’s infographic is the Anatomy of a Hangover. It was originally produced in 1986 by Canada’s Health and Welfare Ministry as part of a student anti-alcohol abuse propaganda booklet.

Today’s infographic surveys hangover cures from around the world, listing a number of different cures by nation. It was created by Arjan De Raaf for Flavored Delights.

An interesting study recently conducted at the Indiana University School of Medicine shows a preliminary result that “[t]he taste of beer, without any effect from alcohol itself, can trigger dopamine release in the brain, which is associated with drinking and other drugs of abuse.”

In what has to be one of the most unusual marketing efforts by a large brewer, Olympia Beer has offered to pay $1 million dollars — in increments of $25,000 a year for the next four decades — to anyone who can find conclusive evidence of a live Bigfoot. The contest is the brainchild of Evan and Daren Metropoulos, who recently bought Pabst Brewing Co., which also owns the Olympia brand.