The Most Important News of the Day: Barley Genome Breakthrough May Lead to Better Beer

[Gee Whillickers]

Stop the presses! Forget all this talk about Romney vs Obama, Westboro Baptist's bigotry, bullying in high school, and teen sex.

Let's talk about something important!

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre89g1a3-us-barley-genome/

I rest my case.

[Merkin]

"Aye, an' they'd better nay fook wit' me whisky recipe," stated distiller Angus McBroom.

[Cole Parker]

I'm with Angus!

C

[Camy]

If the lord intended us to get drunk and suffer them pernicious imp cantering hangovers he'd a said so in his ol' book.

[colinian]

So what's the BFD? Where's something about improving the grapes that go into wine, especially Champagne?

You guessed it, I'm sure, that I don't like beer. I drink wine, preferably Champagne. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

Colin

[Cole Parker]

I hated beer at your age, Colin. Just another of many ways I didn't fit in with my peers. They loved beer.

I didn't start liking it till I was in my 40s and had lost some of my sweet tooth and develop more of a liking for the nuances of bitter, like most everyone does as he ages.

C

[Merkin]

What with the booming popularity of craft beers, and the boutique microbreweries seemingly tucked down every alley in every artsy community, beer has become a snobby pursuit, with tastings and brewfests and people who look down their noses at mass market labels, even the imported ones.