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Friday, March 5, 2010

Chow / Drunk Local Man Exists on Beer-Only Diet

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:11 PM

...for one month. Could Beer February be the new Sober January? Read all about it.

Thanks, Doug Nufer!

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God bless America.

Posted by lopes on March 5, 2010 at 3:44 PM

Sounds like half the guys I knew in college.

Posted by Fnarf

on March 5, 2010 at 3:56 PM

It's Sober October. Not January.

Posted by Tovirus on March 5, 2010 at 4:11 PM

No he didn't.

Posted by Bohica on March 5, 2010 at 4:11 PM

I'm curious what his calorie intake was.

Posted by w7ngman

on March 5, 2010 at 4:14 PM

Oh, and IF he really did do this, I wonder if he was suffering from some pretty gnarly vitamin/mineral deficiencies by the end of it.

Posted by w7ngman

on March 5, 2010 at 4:16 PM

I'm not sure why you guys don't believe this. If we're not talking about lager (i.e. Budweiser, PBR), beer is surprisingly nutritious.

Posted by girlstyle on March 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM

Beer has been referred to as "liquid bread".

And stouts (like Guinness) have been called "milk beers" due to the high amount of nutrients they contain. The story goes that they provided nursing mothers with the needed nutrients so that they could produce milk for their babes (during times when food was scarce and only beer was to be had - think Irish Famine).

Posted by Hyzenthlayk9

on March 5, 2010 at 4:32 PM

I had a microbiologist friend in college who had to analyze a day's food intake for a class project. The night before the analysis, his girlfriend dumped him, so his intake the next day consisted of 7 pints of Guinness and some potato chips. Nonetheless, his nutritional needs had been surprisingly well met (and better than those of quite a few classmates.) Science!

Posted by Kalakalot on March 5, 2010 at 4:49 PM

I've been on a whiskey only diet for the last, oh, twelve years.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on March 5, 2010 at 4:52 PM

If I did that my Beerbruary would quickly become Shartch.

Posted by McGee on March 5, 2010 at 4:55 PM

He lost 15 pounds. Someone pen the beer diet book, please.

Posted by Mattini on March 5, 2010 at 5:51 PM

They are called milk stouts because lactose (or whey back in the day) is added to the boil. The whole nutritious thing is called marketing.
Can you live on carbs and sugar for a moth? Probably. I just don't buy it.

Posted by Bohica on March 5, 2010 at 5:53 PM

Back when I was a starving punk rocker, I lived on potatoes for months at a time. I lived on popcorn for a month, pancakes (plain, no butter or syrup) for another. Carbs and sugar? No problem.

Posted by Fnarf

on March 5, 2010 at 7:10 PM

In college I survived mostly on beer, weed, cigarettes, and pussy.

Posted by seandr on March 5, 2010 at 7:55 PM

This 'local man' was Dick Cantwell, owner and brewer at Elysian. Not the bike-obsessed jerkoff who wrote the blog post and didn't give any explanation other than "by Dick Cantwell" for posting a piece Dick wrote years ago.

Posted by Credit Where Credit's Due on March 6, 2010 at 11:31 AM