Proof that Science kicks ass!!

Leave it to the Germans to combine the best of both worlds: Beer and Health. The Neuzelle Kloster Brewery 'brews up anti-aging beer'.

"The drink, labeled on the bottle in a bizarre mixture of English and German as "Anti-Ageing-Bier,'' has been developed by adding hot spring mineral water, algae and antioxidants to the traditional ingredients of beer -- water, hops, yeast and barley, resulting in an ale that is rich in vitamins and minerals."

Admittedly these things are not exactly what I would think of when searching for something to put in my brew but okay.

"The Anti-Ageing-Bier, however, is said to give the drinker 10 times the antioxidants of a normal pint of lager, bitter or ale."

I'm no scientist and I truly know little about the role of antioxidants, but 10 times more can't be bad thing, right? If drinking two beers a day is good for you, shouldn't drinking 20 be even better? Maybe not.

From the second page of the article:

"I would definitely drink it as long as it doesn't taste too bad. Women spend a lot of money on botox and all that so I expect it would go down quite well as an alternative," said Zeena Moolla, a journalist from north London."

She's sounds pretty optimistic about this stuff. Maybe I should look into buying some stock in this brewery.

"Charlie Wilcox, a 53-year-old businessman from east London, was unenthusiastic. "Drinking beer makes you think that you're younger anyway,'' he said.

"For me, the drink is about taste so the claim that it is anti-aging wouldn't make me switch from my normal lager."

Sounds like Charlie has seen one too many cases of 'beer goggles' in his time. So we heard casual drinkers of both sexes, but what about a 'real' professional?

Tom Sanders, a professor of nutrition at Kings College, London, also expressed skepticism. He said that a beer claiming to be a healthy drink was "highly misleading.''

"Antioxidants are already naturally present in beer and a bit of added pond slime is unlikely to have huge benefits,'' he said.

Beautiful.