Tag: alcohol

German waiter breaks beer-carrying record

The Guardian reports:

A German waiter has set a new world record, carrying 27 one-litre beer glasses. Oliver Struempfl, who works at the traditional Gillamoos beer festival in the Bavarian town of Abensberg, carried the beer 40 metres. Struempfl says he trained at the gym for the record-breaking attempt

BevShots – art distilled

Irish stout

Bevshots are photographs of alcohol under a microscope. These high-quality photographs of your favorite beers, wines, cocktails, liquors, and mixers were taken after they were crytallized on a slide and shot under a polarized light microscope. As the light refracts through the beverage crystals, the resulting photos feature naturally magnificent colors and composition.

Choose a pint over a coffee. For medical reasons. Live longer.

Choose a pint over a coffee. For medical reasons. Live longer.

telomeres

  • The substances influence the length of telomeres – the end parts of DNA
  • Telomeres get shorter as a person ages, when they’re too short, the cell dies
  • Shorter telomeres are associated with poor health and an increased chance of premature death
  • Caffeine was found to shorten telomeres, but alcohol lengthened them