Conversion update

Someone told me Muslims don't drink alcohol. Does that include beer? Maybe I need to rethink this whole Yunis Khan deal.

Tags

More like this

Dear Reader, usually the deal here on Aard is that I tell you what to think and you reply, zombielike, "Yes... Master... Kill... Kill...". But today, let's turn the tables. I'm going to ask a question about a simple scientific-culinary matter that has baffled me for decades. And I hope someone out…
What is the difference between Free Access Beer and Open Access Beer? You go to a bar to get your Free Access Beer. You sit down. You show your ID. The barista gives you a bottle. You don't need to pay anything for it - it's free, after all. You take your own bottle-opener from your pocket and…
Daniel Davies stakes out a controversial position at Crooked Timber: I tend to regard myself as Crooked Timber's online myrmidon of a number of rather unpopular views; among other things, as regular readers will have seen, I believe that the incitement to religious hatred legislation was a good…
It's a new beer with some unusual characteristics. Only 12 bottles were brewed, and they sold for $765 each. It had an alcohol content of 55%. Can you even get that without distillation? Does it even count as a beer? Does it taste like beer? It comes in a unique bottle wrapped in preserved…