Men Behaving Badly star, actor Neil Morrissey, is launching his own brand of beer. According to MarketingWeek, the entire stunt is part of a three-part series called Neil Morrissey’s Perfect Pint, which has been commissioned by the production company Fresh One and talkbackThames. The series will follow the Morrissey and friend Richard Fox as they search for the “perfect pint of beer” across the U.K. before getting their hands on a home brew kit. When that is successful, Morrissey and Fox supposedly decide to buy a microbrewery and make the beer on a commercial scale. The show is currently in production and will air later this summer. The Men Behaving Badly star will then launch three beers later this year. Of the whole experience Morrissey says:

“Beer should not be just for men with sparrows in their beard or lager louts. I want to create the everyman’s ale.”

Sparrows in their beards?…

[tags]Men Behaving Badly, Neil Morrissey, beer, The Perfect Pint, Neil Morrissey’s Perfect Pint[/tags]

Cinque Terre will usher in the first signs of spring on Sunday, March 16^th when it holds its First Annual “Eco Appetito – Good Eating for a Good Earth” event at its Portland restaurant, located at 36 Wharf Street. Scheduled for 1:00 – 4:00 pm, the festive Eco Appetito event will showcase abundant samples of local Maine food and beverages from dozens of producers. Most notably, guests will enjoy hand-crafted beer selections from Portland’s Allagash Brewing Company, the debut of Maine Oat & Maple Beer brewed by Peak Organic Brewing Company.

The open house event, expected to draw a capacity crowd, will benefit the “Food for Thought” program, offered at Ferry Beach Ecology School (FBES) in Saco, Maine. The innovative program at the school’s coastal campus teaches the value of eating naturally grown and organic food, and how to live and eat sustainably.

DETAILS:

What: Eco Appetito – Good Eating for a Good Earth

Where: Cinque Terre, 36 Wharf Street, Portland

When: Sunday, March 16th 1:00 – 4:00 pm

How (much): $50 per person. All proceeds will benefit the Ferry Beach Ecology School and its “Food for Thought” program. To purchase tickets or locate additional event information, visit www.fbes.org or call Maggie Daigle at (207) 671-0643.

To learn more about the Ferry Beach Ecology School and its acclaimed programs and offerings, visit www.fbes.org.

I follow the frugal living blog Wise Bread pretty closely for inspiration for my other blog RealWorldReally.com, so I was quite surprised this evening when something popped up in my Google Reader from Wise Bread which was more appropriate for this blog: Wise Bread’s 21 Great Uses for Beer. The list includes everything from:

4: Take a beer bath
…Drain a few kegs into the tub and let the invigorating bubbles cleanse the skin and exfoliate. The yeasts and other ingredients are great skin-softeners. Then take a long shower.

To my personal favorite (and something I’ll have to try one of these days):

20: Wash your pillowcases in it
This may be an old wives tale, but apparently the nutty smell of hops helps you fall asleep. If you’re an insomniac, try washing a pillowcase in beer and you may just get to the land of nod sooner than you think.

And really just about everything in between. The only thing that seemed to be missing from Paul’s post… DRINK IT!

“21 Great Uses for Beer” [wisebread.com]
[tags]beer, frugal living, life hacks[/tags]

What do you do when you have an extra $5 million (£2.5 million) laying around? Why, buy a British pub, of course. And that’s just what Madonna — and husband Guy Ritchie — did. The pair have bought The Punchbowl, an 18th century pub in the Mayfair section of London. Apparently, a source close to Madonna tells People Magazine,

“She (Madonna) absolutely adores the pub. They pop in regularly to get away from it all. “Madonna loves the beer and Guy meets all his pals down there. They have been desperate to own this place for a long time and have been making offers on it for ages. Now it has finally happened. It’s only around the corner from their West End home. She will be the most glamorous landlady alive.”

It must be pretty fun to be Madonna…

“Madonna buys London pub The Punch Bowl” [gossipboulevard.com]

[tags]Madonna, Guy Ritchie, The Punch Bowl, London, pub, beer[/tags]

I spent some time in Borders this afternoon checking out 2008 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guides and happened across the beer section of the magazine department. To my amazement, there were six different beer-related magazines in stock (and that didn’t include either Beer Advocate Magazine or Celebrator). The magazines I saw before me included All About Beer, Draft Magazine, Beer (a publication of beer.com, I believe), Brew Your Own, Zymurgy — the official magazine of the American Homebrewers’ Association — and Beers of the World.

Although I don’t subscribe to any of them, I’ve at least glanced through all six at one point or another. But seeing all of them in one place at the same time today got me thinking – which is the best beer-related print mag out there? Well, I figured I’d put it to a vote; what do YOU think (click on the poll below or leave a comment)?