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What's the next best thing to drinking more than 100 beers from around the world? Putting a video up on YouTube of you drinking more than 100 beers from around the world, of course!

russa0 posted this video, a sort of travelogue of his beer adventures. Now, you don't actually see him drinking the beer. He's mostly holding them up and pointing to them, but I don't doubt he drank them all. I haven't heard of 99% of these beers, but then again, I've never traveled out of the U.S. He does have Budweiser though!

[via Gadling]

A Danish study of millions of supermarket transactions revealed that beer purchasers were more likely to by unhealthy foods than wine purchasers. This offers some insights into why wine consumption is consistently linked to health benefits while the consumption of beer and spirits is not.

Instead of relying on self reporting consumption of food and alcohol, the grocery receipts revealed what people are actually purchasing and presumably consuming. With 3.5 million transactions in the survey, it does seem likely that most people are eating what they buy, so the odds that people coincidentally happen to be purchasing beer and junk foods without consuming them is low. Beer buyers purchased foods like cold cuts, chips, pork, butter, margarine, sausages and soft drinks, while wine buyers put olives, fruits, vegetables, poultry and vegetable oils into their shopping bags.

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