Dan DiSorbo - The Book of Beer Awesomeness

Theres nothing wrong with enjoying some beers with friends. Beer skills, games, and other activities are intended to be fun and social experiences, performed responsibly and in moderation. Just remember, beer contains alcohol, and underage drinking and excessive alcohol consumption are extremely dangerous activities that no one should engage in.

The material contained in this book is presented only for informational purposes. The publisher and authors do not condone or advocate in any way underage drinking or the consumption of extreme quantities of alcohol, and we accept no liability for the consequences of illegal drinking or overindulgence.

So when you drink, drink responsibly, know your limits, never drink and drive, and never let your friends drink and drive. Use a designated driver, call a cab, take public transportation, or sleep it off, just dont get behind the wheel of a car.

PLEASE DRINK AND PLAY RESPONSIBLY!

BEER IS perhaps mankinds single greatest concoction and the most widely consumed beverage on the planet (besides water and tea). Yet the true art of beer drinking and its related activities have somehow remained largely ignored throughout beers hazy history.

How is it possible that everyones favorite pastime has received so little formal coverage? How can so few Americans identify what style of beer they are drinking? When will formal chugging techniques become required learning for all adults? Why do we so rarely learn the proper rules of beer-drinking games?

It is time to treat throwing back a few brew-ha-has with significance, gravitas, and other impressive words befitting such an important act. From pouring to storing, from crushing cans to keg stands, from beer bongs to beer pong, weve created this guide to help you develop the skills youll need to master the awesomeness of beer.

But is beer drinking really that important? you ask.

Hell yeah, it is, we answer.

Prove it, you retort.

Simply put: beer drinking is just good for you.

Beer does your body good. This magical bread soup has been a significant nutritional staple for generations. Only recently in human history has it been considered a luxury. A myriad of studies prove its health benefits. Dont trust us? Check out a little thing called the Internet, its full of facts.

BEER DOES YOUR MIND GOOD TOO. While we delve more into the physical benefits later in the book, we must also stress the psychological importance of proper beer drinking. Beer offers a mindfulness and awareness that breaks us out of our autopilot daily routines. How do you think Buddha got such a prodigious Buddha belly?

Beer does our society good. Beer drinking represents the perfect antidote to the harried pace and isolation of modern life. While technology is pushing us toward shallow social media friendships, beer drinking is pulling us back to reality. So even when the day comes that you can download your virtual date, you will need to meet up with a real, live human to hoist a hefeweizen.

Beer is also deliciously inefficient. Its the original slow food. Brewing beer was and will always be part science and part art. And drinking beer, the right way, is no different. It requires a combination of practice, knowledge, and cultural reinforcement. You arent born knowing how to open a beer bottle with your teeth. You need to learn it.

But most of this drinking knowledge has been shared informallypassed down through cultures by simple word of mouth. And in our expert opinion, thats not good enough. Dont get us wrong, we believe in the oral tradition. And we believe its perfect for sharing mythology, spirituality, and family values. What we call the little stuff. Beer drinking, however, is simply too important to risk its integrity on something so unofficial.

So we have endeavored to put into words what we all love to put into our bellies: beer and all of its awesomeness.

And in true beer-drinking tradition, lets begin this journey with a toast.

May the knowledge about to be bestowed upon you forever help make you a beer-drinking champion.

Cheers!

"He was a wise man who invented beer."

PLATO