It's Official: Guinness is Good For You.

[BeanoNYC]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3266819.stm

 

[Grassi21]

I loves me some Guinness. 24 oz after work seems like a great way to unwind.

 

[Paul]

The trouble is stopping at 24oz. That's just 1 1/2 pints.

 

[Grassi21]

The trouble is stopping at 24oz. That's just 1 1/2 pints.

And it would be such a shame to waste 1/2 a pt. I guess I'll have to drink 2 full pints. Now I'm really being health conscious.

 

[ctenidae]

That's not news. I've known that for a long, long time.
A Toucan told me so.

 

[Dr Skimeister]

That's not news. I've known that for a long, long time.
A Toucan told me so.

I feel healthier just thinking about the black-and-tan I'll have this evening.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3266819.stm

Guinness is low calorie beer..and it's called Mothers Milk in Ireland and I drank over a gallon of it New Years Eve and I was at Blue mountain at 7:30AM the next morning..yay Guinness..

high fives for STOKE..

 

[MarkC]

Brilliant!!!

 

[BeanoNYC]

Me at the Gates of the St. James' Gate Brewery.

 

[dmc]

Was there any doubt?

 

[Greg]

Stopped by my in-laws this afternoon who historically always have a well-stocked beer fridge in their basement. Let's just say that I'm now 5 times healthier after I left as compared to when I got there...

 

[Marc]

Pfft. I don't need for it to be healthy to drink it.

 

[severine]

Pregnant women and nursing mothers were at one stage advised to drink Guinness - the present advice is against this.

Actually, I've had many other nursing mothers recommend Guinness for maintaining (or promoting) sufficient milk supply. There's a lot of debate as to how much alcohol actually makes it into the milk, but most feel that as long as you wait an hour between drinking it and nursing, you should be fine (just like a typical beer wears off in your blood in about an hour).

 

[ctenidae]

It's high in vitamin B, too. Apparently a pipnt a day is prescribed for psoriasis, too, which makes sense- one trigger is stress, and a pint (or 6) does a good job of reducing stress. If nothing else, sitting down long enough to have one is calming all by itself. There's nothing better than the happy feeling from one pint after a long day. Except maybe the happy feeling after 9.

People complain that Guinness is so heavy, but in fact it's got fewer calories than skim milk and is light enough to float on champagne. I do not, however, recommned drinking many Black Velvets. Tasty as all hell, but man, the hangover will kill you. Worse than Dark and Stormies, which has nothing to do with Guinness, but generates a mean hangover.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I like Black Magics..Magic Hat #9 and Guinness

 

[Paul]

It's high in vitamin B, too. Apparently a pipnt a day is prescribed for psoriasis, too, which makes sense- one trigger is stress, and a pint (or 6) does a good job of reducing stress. If nothing else, sitting down long enough to have one is calming all by itself. There's nothing better than the happy feeling from one pint after a long day. Except maybe the happy feeling after 9.

People complain that Guinness is so heavy, but in fact it's got fewer calories than skim milk and is light enough to float on champagne. I do not, however, recommned drinking many Black Velvets. Tasty as all hell, but man, the hangover will kill you. Worse than Dark and Stormies, which has nothing to do with Guinness, but generates a mean hangover.

Staying off-topic for a moment, I was able to get my local liquor/wine store to start bringing-in Barritt's Ginger Beer, so that I could make true Dark N' Stormies this summer. Nothing worse than some schmuck using Ginger Ale and trying to pass it off...

 

[ctenidae]

Nothing worse than some schmuck using Ginger Ale and trying to pass it off...

So true, so true.