"protection" news and stories

Do you know how to best protect your beer? Lew Bryson over at Portfolio online offers us some great tips on how to keep your beer from going bad.

Among the best of the advice is that direct light is very bad for beer, just as it is for wine. Brown bottles are better than green or clear, but try to purchase and keep beer out of direct light. Did you know that even a few minutes of direct exposure to sunlight can ruin your brew? Keep that in mind this summer!

There's more great information where that came from. Some of the tips are geared toward longer term storage. I don't know about you, but beer doesn't last that long around my house. I'll stick to keeping it out of the light.

A Finnish study that was conducted several years ago linked a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes with increased coffee consumption. It showed that people who drank 3-4 cups of cups a day had a 30% lower risk, while those women who drank 10 cups had a 79% reduction in risk. This study was reported in 2004, and the results of the study were similar to the conclusions of a recently-published study from researchers at UC San Diego that has been going on for the past 8 years.

The UCSD study said that their testing showed that current or past drinkers of caffeinated coffee had a 60% diabetes risk reduction, while those who never drank coffee did not. Apparently, not enough of the participants were decaf-only drinkers, so no conclusions could be made about them. The scientists do not think it is the caffeine that plays the crucial role in the risk-lowering, but that it is due to other compounds in the coffee.

The important thing to note from this study, according to the researchers, is that "people with diabetes and those at risk for developing diabetes have enough to worry about" and that coffee isn't one of those things.

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