Homebrew soda was a lot more common in the days before there were 212 varieties available at every grocery store. Grab some yeast, sugar, water, and flavoring, however, and you can craft your own bubbly soft drink in your fridge.

How To Make Your Own Soda Video [Howcast.com via Serious Eats]

Germany’s 176th Oktoberfest is underway, with six-million visitors from around the world expected at the 16-day beer festival. Oktoberfest is our kind of festival. It combines some of our favorite things in life: beer, food, and cleavage. In honor of the later, we have put together a gallery of the hottest girls of Oktoberfest, sporting their “Dirndl” – traditional dress. For those of you who want to know about the festival and the beer, we provide the following link to Wikipedia. The rest of you can get to the reason you came here:

This silly bottle opener sure does have a lot to say! This tongue will enjoy telling you how thirsty he is, every time you open a bottle with it. Batteries included!

Frederick The Great
Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

Proverbs
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. – Irish
Praise not the day until evening has come; a woman until she is burnt; a sword until it is tried; a maiden until she is married; ice until it has been crossed; beer until it has been drunk. – Viking
But if at church they give some ale And a pleasant fire for our souls to regale We’d sing and we’d pray all the live long day Nor ever once from the church to stray. Beer drinkin’ don’t do half the harm of love makin’. — Old New England
Man’s way to God is with beer in hand – Koffyar Tribe, Nigeria
The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer. – Ancient Egyptian, 2200 B.C.
The best place to drink beer is at home. Or on a river bank, if the fish don’t bother you. – American Folk Saying

Thomas Jefferson
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills one-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

William Butler Yeats
The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.