Month: August 2014

“99 bottles of beer on the wall in the case, 99 bottles of beer…”

Well — cans, technically, but there are 99 of them to a case. Austin Beerworks, a brewery in Texas, is selling 99-packs of its “Peacemaker Anytime Ale.”

Really.

The brewery sought to reassure incredulous buyers on Twitter earlier this week that the 99-packs are actual, real things that can be bought in Austin-area liquor stores. “Is it a joke? Yes,” they wrote. “Is it real? Also yes.“

“I think we have become known, in Austin anyways, as a silly brewery that likes to have a good time,” co-founder Michael Graham told BrewBound. “We don’t take anything seriously other than the beer itself and this project reinforces that.”

At just over seven feet long, the $99 cases weigh 82 pounds and are so ungainly that would-be buyers are encouraged to bring a friend to help carry the monstrosity — and to drink it.

WATCH a video on the case, above.

VERNAL, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman accused of using a pound of bacon to start a fire in her ex-boyfriend’s house will stand trial on arson charges.

Police say Cameo Adawn Crispi, 32, repeatedly called and texted her former flame from his home in March, where she left the bacon over a lit burner.

The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/VR1bDA ) the man wasn’t home and called police saying he wanted Crispi out of his house. Officers arrived and saw smoke flowing out the front door. Inside, they found hot coals on the floor around an open wood stove and the burned bacon.

Charging documents say Crispi’s blood-alcohol level was 0.346, four times the legal limit.

Crispi is due back in court in October to face arson, burglary and other charges.

It’s late summer, which mean’s it’s time for pumpkin beer. Yes, really.

Co-Author: Lee Glenn

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BUNOL, Spain (AP) — The streets of an eastern Spanish town are awash with red pulp as thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes in the annual “Tomatina” battle that has become a major tourist attraction.

At the annual fiesta in Bunol on Wednesday, trucks dumped 125 tons of ripe tomatoes for some 22,000 participants —many from abroad — to throw during the hour-long morning festivities. This was the second year non-resident participants were charged — 10 euros ($13) — to take part. The town of about 20,000 people began charging to help pay off debts of some 5.5 million euros. The event was sold out weeks ahead.

The event was inspired by a food fight between local children in 1945 in the tomato-producing region.

Revelers throw tomatoes while participating in the annual “Tomatina” festival on Aug. 27, 2014 in the town of Bunol in Valencia province, Spain. (Evrim Aydin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

A man lays in a puddle of squashed tomatoes during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight on Aug. 27, 2014 in Bunol, Spain. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

People lay in a puddle of squashed tomatoes during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight on Aug. 27, 2014 in Bunol,Spain. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Men throw tomatoes at each other during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight on Aug. 27, 2014 in Bunol, Spain. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Revelers throw tomatoes while participating in the annual “Tomatina” festival on Aug. 27, 2014 in Bunol, Spain. (Evrim Aydin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Crowds of people throw tomatoes at each other during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight on Aug. 27, 2014 in Bunol, Spain. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Revelers throw tomatoes while participating in the annual “Tomatina” festival on Aug. 27, 2014 in Bunol, Spain. (Evrim Aydin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Revelers throw tomatoes while participating in the annual “Tomatina” festival on Aug. 27, 2014 in Bunol, Spain. (Evrim Aydin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Crowds of people throw tomatoes at each other during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight on Aug. 27, 2014 in Bunol, Spain. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Revelers throw tomatoes while participating in the annual “Tomatina” festival on Aug. 27, 2014 in Bunol, Spain. (Evrim Aydin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)