"Beer drinkers can toast the news their favourite beverage possesses the same benefits as red wine, according to Western biochemistry and kinesiology professor John Trevithick, one of the lead researchers at Western on the benefits of antioxidants. Trevithick has found one drink of beer or wine provides equivalent increases in plasma antioxidant activity, which helps prevent the oxidization of blood plasma that trigger many aging diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and cataracts. " -- I'm currently researching the positive benefits of beer by using myself as a subject . http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/story.html?listing_id=14656
Hallelujah! "In the modern Baltic languages of Lithuanian and Latvian, the last European countries to become Christian, alus means beer. In Estonian, ölu means beer. In Finnish, it's olut; in Swedish öl; in Norwegian and Danish, øl. In English, the word ale predates beer. In the 1500s, the English used the word "ale" to indicate an older, unhopped, form. "Beer" meant a brew with hops. The suggestion of old and new is mirrored in today's usage, where ale distinguishes a top-fermented brew from the more modern bottom-fermenting lager." http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-001511.html