How 'bout a beer and a good laugh? It's again time to grab your favorite beer mug, pour on some pilsner and enjoy this compilation of random beer comics.

Uh-oh, drinking problem!

Like Father, Like Son

Always Ask For Permission

Beer and Ice Cream

Beer and Work

Superhero and Beer

Eating and drinking usually go together and are synonymous with socializing. Though many consider beer as food, drinking is best paired with something edible. Pizza and beer is one of the all-time favorite pair, but pizza does not taste as good when eaten with Pilsner. Just like when a beer is drank with the correct beer glass, its taste is enhanced when paired with the correct snack or food. Here is a list of the most common beer-food pairings.

Pizza is best paired with an Amber Ale or Bock. Amber Ales are quite malty thus do not go well with sweet food.

Spicy foods such as Schezuan chicken, blackened redfish or super-hot Thai cuisines are best paired with Light or Golden/Blonde ales and light lagers since these beers lack “maltiness”. They work best as thirst-quenchers for torched palates.

For people with sweet tooth, Cream or Sweet Stout and Imperial Stout tastes best. These drinks are best paired with chocolates and are recommended for heavier desserts.

If you are a vegetarian, you’ll best enjoy your dish with Weiss, Witbier or Dunkelweiss. If you want to taste the yeast remnants in these beers, it is best to stick with lighter food with more subtle fare. If you prefer a lighter, crisper version, go with a filtered Kristal Weissbier.

Bitter, pale ale, and German/Bohemian pilsners can kill your taste buds when paired with many foods, but they make perfect pair for fried seafood, because the hoppiness and maltiness in these beers cut through grease, or anything with vinegar as a main ingredient.

Hamburgers and sausages go well with English or American Brown Ale whilst, a hoppy pilsner delectably enhances the flavor of a firm fish or shellfish.

Salad lovers cannot go wrong with fruit beers such as Belgian Lambics where as fanatics of cheese ought to choose Belgian Dubbel or Tripel.

Vienna lager/Oktoberfest/Märzen, Dark Lager, and Bock each stand up to the strong flavors of sauce-based meat dishes and thus are recommended to be paired instead with pretzels, mustard and sauerbraten. Hearty foods on the other hand like barbeque and stew go best with Porter, Dry or Oatmeal Stout.

Old Ale and Barley wine has the most tendencies to overpower food and is best served alone.

But don’t just match like with like. Although it’s good to stick with what is traditional and what most of us have been used to, at times it pays off to experiment. You’ll never know if you try to mix and match the best taste might just come out from the unexpected combination.

You have to hope that this study is flawed, but the evidence seems irrefutable. Several months ago, scientists at Europe's annual human reproduction conference suggested that 'the results of a recent analysis revealed the presence of female hormones in beer, and suggested that men should take a look at their beer consumption. The theory is that drinking beer makes men turn into women.

To test the theory, 100 men were each fed six pints of beer within a one-hour period. It was then observed that 100 percent of the men gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, had to sit down while urinating, couldn't perform sexually, and refused to apologize when wrong.

No further testing is planned.

Our secret driving force..

We decided to deck out our computers here at the office with these nice stickers...

Drinking in the office is back. We're not one to follow trends, in fact we try to defy conventional notions with our company. But it seems the masses are learning and catching onto to our secret. According to a recent Forbes article, Bay Area companies such as Yelp and Twitter are very much pro-alcohol in the workplace.

Having worked for several startups myself, I think it allows a certain amount of stress relief, office cheer, relaxed atmosphere and room for creativity. In US startups, they often keep a fridge full of beer (normally Sam Adams or some other upper class domestic beer, rarely imports - they have to watch the budget). I have worked in an Austrian company where we had daily shots of the CEO's home made schnapps and Fridays meant wine time. We'd enjoy a few bottles of Grüner Veltliner or Eiswein to round off our early departure. European companies have always been more progressive with this subject compared to their more conservative North American counterparts. I had a professor in Germany who told me that he worked his way up to senior management starting as a intern whose sole job was to fetch the daily cases of beer. Most German factory workers include a provision for two free beers per day in their contract. Drinking during lunch time used to be widely accepted, however after many long haired Germans in the 80s got their pony tails caught in the assembly lines, it's become prohibited in some places.

Luckily the trend has been transplanted across the Atlantic and others have been catching on. We love beer and we enjoy it in and outside of the office. We have beer at lunch sometimes, or around 4:30 we have a nice refresher to make the rest of the afternoon more enjoyable. Sometimes I'm so tired of staring at the computer screen, I call everyone out of the office and we go drinking at the local watering hole. We go on monthly boat trips island hopping and bring the inflatable porto-pong tables to play beer pong on the beach or in the pool. I couldn't imagine going back to a work environment that didn't appreciate "God's proof that he loves us and wants us to be happy".

We encourage product testing in the office and we're working on a space for the new kegerator to try out some of our home-brews. Many business gurus proclaim the benefits of increased productivity and team building. Productivity is always higher with alcohol, unless you're sweating off that hangover trying to sort through computer code. And there's nothing quite more bonding then holding you're coworker's hair back while she's hugging the toilet. Let's be honest; there is more to life than work itself. If you're not enjoying what you're doing, you shouldn't be doing it.

If this article is dragging on, it may be the Jack Daniel's and Drafts from lunch. Maybe you should talk to your boss about changing your company's alcohol policy.

Prosit!

Big Beer Barrels.

Meux's Brewery Co Ltd, established in 1764, was a London brewery owned by Sir Henry Meux. Meux, like many modern brewers, bought out smaller breweries - one such being the Horse Shoe Brewery (founded by a Mr Blackburn, and famous for its 'black beer'), located on the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, London. Atop the Horse Shoe stood several large vats of beer. The largest was the porter vat - a 22-foot-high monstrosity that held 511,920 litres of beer, in turn held together by a total of 29 large iron hoops. For some idea of its vastness, The Times report of 1 April, 1785 read:

There is a cask now building at Messrs. Meux & Co.'s brewery...the size of which exceeds all credibility, being designed to hold 20,000 barrels of porter; the whole expense attending the same will be upwards of £10,000.

The London Beer Flood of 1814

Come October of 1814, the beer had been fermenting atop the brewery for months (as was the need with porter), and the metal and wood of this huge vat was, unbeknownst to the majority of the brewery workers, beginning to show the strain of holding back the thousands of litres. Suddenly, at about 6.00pm, one of the heavy metal hoops snapped and the contents of the porter vat exploded out - quite literally - causing a chain reaction with the surrounding vats. The resulting noise was apparently heard as far away as five miles!

A total of 1,224,000 liters of beer under pressure smashed through the twenty-five foot high brick wall of the building, and gushed out into the surrounding area - the slum of St Giles. Many people lived in crowded conditions here, and some were caught by the waves of beer completely unaware. The torrent flooded through houses, demolishing two in its wake, and the nearby Tavistock Arms pub in Great Russell Street suffered too, its 14-year-old barmaid Eleanor Cooper buried under the rubble. The Times reported on 19 October of the flood:

The bursting of the brew-house walls, and the fall of heavy timber, materially contributed to aggravate the mischief, by forcing the roofs and walls of the adjoining houses.

Fearful that all the beer should go to waste, though, hundreds of people ran outside carrying pots, pans, and kettles to scoop it up - while some simply stooped low and lapped at the liquid washing through the streets. However, the tide was too strong for many, and as injured people began arriving at the nearby Middlesex Hospital there was almost a riot as other patients demanded to know why they weren't being supplied with beer too - they could smell it on the flood survivors, and were insistent that they were missing out on a party! Calm was quickly restored at the hospital, but out in the streets was a different matter.

Drowning Their Sorrows

Back at the brewery, one man managed to save his brother from going under the vast wave, but as the tide receded the true damage could be discovered. The beer tsunami left nine people dead; many had drowned (like Mary Mulvey and her 3-year-old son Thomas), others were swept away in the flood and died of the injuries they sustained (two young children: Hannah Banfield, 4, and Sarah Bates, 3), and the final victim actually succumbed some days later of alcohol poisoning - such was his heroic attempt to stem the tide by drinking as much beer as he humanly could.

Because of the poverty of the area, relatives of the drowned took to exhibiting their families' corpses in their homes and charging a fee for viewing. In one house, though, too many people crowded in and the floor gave out, plunging them all into a cellar half full of beer. This morbid exhibition moved locations, attracting more custom - and eventually the police, who closed the doors on the horrible circus. Later, the funerals of the dead were paid for by the St Giles population, coins left on their coffins. The stench of the beer apparently lasted for months, and after the initial excitement, many found both their homes and livelihoods swept away with the flood. In amongst the misery of clearing away the dead and cleaning up the streets, though, there was compassion. The Times concluded:

The emotion and humanity with which the laborers proceeded in their distressing task excited a strong interest, and deserves warm approbation.

The Meux Brewery Company was taken to court over the accident, but the judge ruled that although devastating, the flood was an 'Act of God' and the deaths6 were simply by 'casualty'. In other words, no party was to blame, and the company continued working despite the incident. Up until 1961 that is, when it was sold to Friary, Holroyd and Healy's Brewery Ltd of Guildford. The firm became Friary Meux Ltd for only three years, before being bought outright by Ind Coope (& Allsop) of Burton-on-Trent.

Sticky Business

The London Beer Flood isn't the only strange flood to occur, mind you (apart from the biblical kinds). On 15 January, 1919, a huge tank of molasses collapsed in Boston, Massachusetts, causing a gigantic wave of the black, sticky liquid to rush through the city - leaving trains and houses in its wake. 21 people died in the disaster, and it took months to clean up the mess.

So, be careful when you dream of free beer (or molasses), you never know in what form it might appear!

Congratulations, residents of Russell Township, you can now buy beer in your humble little locale. Welcome to America. Prohibition washed away legal liquor sales in 1920, and until this week, Russell Township stayed that way — dry. Bone dry. Why? Who knows. Communities were allowed to decide for themselves whether to sell libations after Prohibition's repeal in 1933, and for some reason, Russell Township opted for the no-fun option and remained anachronistic into the 21st century because they believed alcohol would bring floozies and backroom gambling and undesirables to their quaint township. Or something like that. There's really no justification that doesn't make them seem like anything but a cranky 90-year-old grandmother. The Plain Dealer reports from the Circle K, which is the only store in town that will be selling booze. Those who opposed the change declined to identify themselves outside the store this week but said that since alcohol is available nearby, there is no need to have it in their back yard. They worried about underage drinking and noted that a Circle K probably won't carry wines they prefer. Martha Bryan said she voted to allow the sales. "You go five miles in any direction to get it anyways, so why not keep the money in Russell?" she said. Resident Nick Farina also said he voted for the change. "It's stupid to have to drive to Chesterland or Bainbridge or Newbury to buy a beer," he said. "It's legal, so it just kind of makes sense. Why not run to the corner store instead of making a trip out of it?" Thankfully that 90-year-old grandmother of a city is now wet.

HELSINKI -- Finnish scientists say they hope to re-brew an old ale after studying ancient beer found in a 19th century shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland says it aims to determine the recipe used in the brewing of what is "one of the world's oldest preserved beers." Divers in July found five bottles of dark, foamy beer while salvaging champagne from the wreck near Finland's Aland Islands. The shipwreck is believed to be from the early 19th century. VTT spokeswoman Annika Wilhelmson said Tuesday that researchers want to find out what kind of yeast was used because "the role of yeast in beer brewing was not yet fully understood in the early 1800s."