Beer: Fountain of Longevity?

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Lady knows what gives! Just what I needed to hear! imp

[h=1]106-Year-Old Woman Says Beer Is The Secret To Her Longevity[/h]Centenarian Sadie Snyder celebrated her 106th birthday Thursday and shared the surprising secret to her long life. Snyder told NECN News that she's been drinking beer for as long as she can remember -- since she was 6 years old.
Snyder said her father worked in the beer industry. "Every week, he'd bring home a case of beer, and I'd wait up for him to come so I could have it. By the end of the week, they were all gone," Snyder told NECN.

And perhaps the beer has something to do with it. Other centenarians have also said they can toast their health with a pint or two. A Staten Island woman turning 101 said that she still drinks beer and wine daily. Another Pennsylvania centenarian said "a lot of booze" has kept her going for 100 years.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...125e4b08cda348866b6?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
 

imp said:
Lady knows what gives! Just what I needed to hear! imp

106-Year-Old Woman Says Beer Is The Secret To Her Longevity

Centenarian Sadie Snyder celebrated her 106th birthday Thursday and shared the surprising secret to her long life. Snyder told NECN News that she's been drinking beer for as long as she can remember -- since she was 6 years old.
Snyder said her father worked in the beer industry. "Every week, he'd bring home a case of beer, and I'd wait up for him to come so I could have it. By the end of the week, they were all gone," Snyder told NECN.

And perhaps the beer has something to do with it. Other centenarians have also said they can toast their health with a pint or two. A Staten Island woman turning 101 said that she still drinks beer and wine daily. Another Pennsylvania centenarian said "a lot of booze" has kept her going for 100 years.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...125e4b08cda348866b6?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
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Beer just makes me fat! Quit drinking it long ago.
 

Not a big beer fan, never was, and I question anyone's ability to state the secret of their longevity - sometimes it's good genes, sometimes it's just a roll of the dice.
 
I've never like the taste which seems bitter to me and like the other ladies here, I don't want the extra calories.
 
There are a huge variety of beers - lager, bitter, craft beers, flavoured beers, light beers. There's a lot more to beer than Bud, Miller, etc.
 
Ameriscot said:
There are a huge variety of beers - lager, bitter, craft beers, flavoured beers, light beers. There's a lot more to beer than Bud, Miller, etc.
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Unfortunately Bud, Miller, etc. is basically all the Americans know. With the advent of craft beers there's a growing number of alternatives.
 
SifuPhil said:
Unfortunately Bud, Miller, etc. is basically all the Americans know. With the advent of craft beers there's a growing number of alternatives.
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There's a huge number of alternatives everywhere, including in the US. One of my favourites is called Two Hearted Ale. Lots of great brewpubs in Ann Arbor & Grand Rapids in Michigan. We even get some US craft beers here at our favourite pub in Scotland. I do sometimes like a lager though, like Foster's, Stella, etc.

Sampler I had in Ann Arbor in Sept. I think the glasses were 4 or 5 ounces each.

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Pappy said:
99 bottles of beer on the wall....no,no,no. We sang that on the band bus until the bus driver started going nuts.
I love beer but had to give it up because of stomach problems. Too gassy.
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I find some beers very gassy, usually lagers, but ales are not.
 
chic said:
I've never like the taste which seems bitter to me and like the other ladies here, I don't want the extra calories.
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This is because one essential ingredient, hops, contains resins which are bitter to the taste buds, but actually serve to keep the brew from "spoiling" on the shelf. The mix of water, hops, and malt, is boiled vigorously to cause release of those nasty resins. After cooling, the yeast is added, which then goes to work on the sugars in the malt, ethanol being produced as a by-product.

First time I tasted beer, I gagged. "Acquired taste"? Some say so. I've always maintained it's more of an "acquired effect". imp
 
Variety

These great varieties available nowadays, as I see it, must have added flavoring ingredients, like, perhaps, lemon, ginger, citrus, etc. I once made a few batches up min which I added a bottle of Blackstrap Molasses during the boiling. Result was quite dark, the sweetness of the Molasses gone, of course, as the little yeasties ate it, but there was a definite sort of musky, at first gunky taste. I imagined this was something akin to the bitter Stouts I've heard about. imp
 
I like beer, but only the ones lighter in color like Fosters or Miller High Life, never cared for the strong dark ones like Samuel Adams, and never tasted a micro-brew that I liked either. :cheers:


Now, we learn that beer, particularly beer with high levels of malted barley and hops, is good for our bones!

Osteoporosis affects more than 28 million persons a year, mostly post-menopausal women. But men are not immune to the thinning of bone tissue by any means.Osteoporosis makes bones especially fragile, which is why older persons are very susceptible to bone breakage when they fall.

The news of beer's potential to provide strength to our bones comes from the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of California (UC) at Davis.

In its study reported in the February 8, 2010 online issue of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, the researchers report that the content of dietary silicon (Si), important for bone and connective tissue health, in barley retains its high Si content even after the malting process.

Subsequently, the researchers examines 100 commercial beers for silicon content and found those with both high silicon levels and a high level of hops are the richest in silicon. Those beers just happen to be among the most popular small brewery specialties emerging in the U.S. - the India Pale Ales. Pale ales made with barley have more silicon because they are not exposed to the high levels of heat that the darker, more malty, chocolaty beers. Wheat does not contain as much silicon as barley and, for this reason, wheat beers are not a high source of silicon.

The average silicon content of the beers sampled was 6.4 to 56.5 mg/L. I have found that RateBeers.com is a great resource for all kinds of information about beer. Here is a link to the India Pale Ale page, so you can find the most tasty beer for your bone health!
via Science Daily
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During my service time I spent in Germany we were working 4 swing_4 grave_4 days-3 off shifts. The transition between grave2days was a 24 hour interval. You didn't want to sleep so you had to find an activity that occupied your time until normal night time sleeping. I haven't a clue who came up with the idea or when it started, but they had a post bus & sober driver take us to a different brewery.

They were as numerous as 7-11's and each wanted to convince us their product was the best. So every 2 weeks off we'd go down the autobahn at break neck speeds to a new location. We'd do the tour, I think I must have been to 10-15 or more during my 2 years. At the end of the tour they'd escort us into the sampling room and feed us a plate of sausage and bread along with an ample supply of their beer. No cost to us but they were hoping for a few new customer's or at least endorsements. The ride back was mostly a blur but I remember one driver stopped on the autobahn to let the whole load of servicemen relieve themselves off in the bushes.

This was in the mid 60's when things were more relaxed, I'm sure it's not done now with all the safety devices and rules. Added note: The transition of swing2grave was also 24 hours so we had midnight bowling & beer until 4 A.M. then early chow and off to bed.
 
imp said:
These great varieties available nowadays, as I see it, must have added flavoring ingredients, like, perhaps, lemon, ginger, citrus, etc. I once made a few batches up min which I added a bottle of Blackstrap Molasses during the boiling. Result was quite dark, the sweetness of the Molasses gone, of course, as the little yeasties ate it, but there was a definite sort of musky, at first gunky taste. I imagined this was something akin to the bitter Stouts I've heard about. imp
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Some of the ales sound really strange but are surprisingly good. I had one the other night that was banana bread ale. I've had chocolate flavoured, pumpkin, many kinds. I used to only like the boring lagers but my taste has 'matured'. I thought I didn't like dark beers because I don't like Guinness. But I discovered when I got the sampler that I like porter which is dark.
 
imp said:
Agree 100%! I completely ignored the draft when I was thinking about "store-bought". Some have difficulty "multi-tasking", me, I can't do that OR multi-thinking! imp
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At home we have beer on tap since hubby brews his own ale. But if we do buy some for guests we buy bottles instead of cans.
 
Ameriscot said:
At home we have beer on tap since hubby brews his own ale. But if we do buy some for guests we buy bottles instead of cans.
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Now you have my interest! Does he actually brew the beer up in barrels? I picture maybe like those "tappers" they sold in the '70s, about 2 gallons or so. He does not bottle his brew? I'll get a few pics of my set up for you. imp
 
imp said:
Now you have my interest! Does he actually brew the beer up in barrels? I picture maybe like those "tappers" they sold in the '70s, about 2 gallons or so. He does not bottle his brew? I'll get a few pics of my set up for you. imp
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Not sure how big his kegs are but they aren't huge. They are in litres and I'd guess about 3 gallons. I'll have to ask him later as he's gone to sleep. He usually has about 3 kegs going at a time. He does bottle some of it, but normally we just get it out of the tap. He buys the kits of a variety of types. As good as what we get in pubs, just not as a big a variety.
 

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