Author: Professor Good Ales

Mythical poster at The LTS Good for What Ales You Beer Journal. Loves good beer. Hates same old, same old. Muses that Bud and Miller might as well be brewed in urinals. Drinks lagers too, if they are complex and interesting.
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Broo Shampoo: From Beer, Beauty (Asheville, NC)

Written by Dale Neal for Citizen-Times.com

Sarah Pearsall pours beer on her husband, Brad, to illustrate how the two former attorneys came up with their idea for Broo hair products.

ASHEVILLE — After living and working in sweltering Miami, Brad and Sarah Pearsall were eager to move with their children to the Western North Carolina mountains back in 2008. The former lawyers just weren’t sure what they would do to pay the bills.

Beer turned out to be their best bet.

The Pearsalls didn’t join the growing number of craft breweries that have earned the city the reputation of Beer City USA. If the beer is better here, they thought: Why not use that better ingredient for an organic shampoo?

Lather, rinse, repeat. But success didn’t come that easily.

“We thought we would brew our own special brew just for shampoo. It turned out to be a disaster,” Brad laughed.

Meanwhile, Sarah was pouring plenty of beer on her dark hair, trying out different brands. “Beer doesn’t really clean your hair. It softens it, but it’s expensive, and it’s cold.”
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Lil’ Nugget Ale with Brett

Written by Brandon Jones for embracethefunk.com

Brewing a beer for a special occasion or life event is always fun. When my daughter was born last year I wanted to brew something different and something that would not only keep until she turns 21 but hopefully get better. I decided to brew an Old Ale but of course because I am me I needed to go “old school” and make sure it had a brettanomyces character in it.  I lucked out too! Wyeast was going to release their Old Ale blend the following month. I didn’t get a chance to use that blend when it was released in 2009 but I had heard some very good things about it.

I wanted to have a traditional base to this beer, but I also wanted something a bit bigger than the 1.090 style limit OG and something drier the 1.015 FG style limit (I detest sweetness in beers). So the recipe I came up with ended up as a Specialty beer…more of a hybrid Old Ale.
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Psychic ‘Beer Loving’ Pig and Elephant to Predict Euro 2012 Results

Now for a little extra helping of beer news of the weird… PGA

Not actual beer drinking pig in story, according to then ghost of Rod Serling. Still courtesy mlkshk.com
 

Written by Ryab Bailey for yahoo

Paul the Octopus wowed us with his soothsaying skills during World Cup 2010, but he has since moved on to the exploitative aquarium in the sky. Since his passing, man has longed for a new animal-based method of predicting football results. The Champions League Llama may have a 100% record by calling Chelsea’s unlikely victory over Bayern Munich, but Poland and Ukraine are each boasting their own zoo creatures to help gamblers who don’t want to rely on statistics and facts when making game predictions.

Ukraine will be acquiring the services of a two-year-old pig, who — much like Wayne Rooney — loves drinking beer and eating fries in his down time. Instead of ending up as a key component of the Ukrainian national dish of sliced hog fat, the imaginatively-named ‘Psychic Pig’ will be at the heart of the action throughout the tournament, says Mercury News:

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