Today I have perhaps the most important news I have broken in the history of this blog.  This is a major, major scientific breakthrough that is of interest to drinkers one and all.  According to this Austin Decider article (and we all know plenty of drinking is done in Austin), an artificial liver is under development.  If it passes FDA testing, it will be available soon at a cost of about $30K.  Drinkers who have been abusing their livers for years now have renewed hope.

So keep on drinking!

A new beverage has called Embodi has hit the market, claiming to be the first non-alcoholic beverage to provide the health benefits of red wine. According to this Marketwatch article, Embodi’s fruit juice is merged with red wine grape extract. This gives the drinker the full health benefits of two glasses of red wine, with the full range of antioxidants found therein.

However, the article fails to note that Embodi does NOT provide the most important benefit of red wine - getting wasted. So, don’t buy Embodi. Instead, go pick up a few bottles of red and enjoy them in our wine glasses, and if you like red wine as much as I do, you’d better pick up some hangover cures too.

This article from the Calgary Herald talks about xanthohumol, an antioxidant derived from hops in beer-making. Xanthohumol is believed to be anti-viral, anti-allergic, anti-tumor, anti-clotting, and anti-inflammatory. Recent findings at Oregon State University indicate that xanthohumol is active against breast, colon, and ovarian cancer cells.

So, if it can be found in beer hops, does that mean you’ll stay healthy by drinking beer? The article says no, but I disagree. It points out that most US beer doesn’t contain much in the way of hops, but there are exceptions - ale, porter, and stout. You’d have to drink 17 of those to get an amount of xanthohumol found to be effective in research studies. Apparently the writer of the article thinks consuming 17 beers in one sitting is a bad idea. Why not? There’s a bar down the street from the Mid-South Alcoholic Supply World Headquarters (in fact, the bar is sometimes used as a branch office of the HQ, thanks to its free Wi-Fi) that sells beer for $2.75 on Monday Pint Nite. By my calculation, that means you could get your xanthohumol for only $46.75. That’s a small price to pay for good health, and who knows, if you get creative maybe you can get your insurance to cover it.

You may want to get one of our portable breathalyzers to take with you to the bar, to discourage yourself from driving home after getting your xanthohumol. Because drinking 17 beers = Good Thing; drinking 17 beers and then driving home = Bad Thing.

What is resveratrol? It’s an ingredient in red wine, a protein linked to long life in research done on many species. It may be capable of reversing many of the ills that come with old age. Experiments on mice showed that large doses of resveratrol did not necessarily cause mice to live longer, but it did cause them to have a higher quality of life for the number of days they already had. More details can be found in this article.

There ya go… now you have an excuse to power-drink that magnum of red wine. To make the most of your wine-drinking experience, check out our line of corkscrews, stoppers, cellars, racks, and cabinets.