Quick Tips

If someone had told us that we could buy a pear shaped like baby Buddha we would not believe it. No way, no how. It’s just not possible. Pears grow in, well, pear shapes. They’re all slightly unique — or misshapen — in a shape that can best be descri…

There is a certain criteria that baked goods have to meet to be considered awesome. They must be sweet — that’s an easy one. They can’t be burned — this one’s a little trickier. And now, thanks to Japanese chef and blogger Maa Tamagosan, they have to…

“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.