So we all know it doesn’t get much better than beer and football. Evidently, the people at Anheuser Busch understand this as well. Yesterday, (February 7th, 2010) Busch showcased over $10 million worth of advertisements during Super Bowl XLIV.

Every year, this company releases new commercials solely for this fabled event. With the viewer count being in the hundreds of millions, TV networks gracefully put a $3 million price tag on each thirty second spot. Never the less, Busch has continued to impress us with their upbeat and hilarious ads.

Although the Super Bowl had many ads worth mentioning, here are my three personal favorite displayed from Bud Light (which, by coincidence, happens to be my favor recreational beer. That debate, however, we’ll save for a later time)

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Ahh…. beer, the drink of the century. To some it’s known as “poison”. To others, its one hell of a good time! So which is it? Is beer a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Or is it wolf daring the sheep to keg stand? In this review, we’ll point out the ups, downs, and room spinning aspects of this ever criticized drink, Beer.

Inebriation at it’s best

So whats wrong with beer? Many would say it causes car accidents, abuse and other forms of poor decision making. Although beer may be associated with these things from time to time, you have to know that the drink itself is not entirely up for blame. Does every college drinker drive drunk? Or does every dad with a beer have anger issues? No. It’s hard for people to accept that people have issues, so they blame their source of abuse! The point being that these problems are cause by the user abusing the drink, and not vice versa.

With that out of the way, there are problems with beer. I know, I know, for some this seems impossible. Beer does impair your normal decision making abilities.  Hell, if you were drunk, you couldn’t comprehend what I’m saying! So how do we avoid the issues caused by this? KNOW WHAT YOUR GETTING INTO BEFORE YOU DRINK.

Don’t get down just yet, Beer isn’t the devil

Listen closely friends, you may never get an explanation like this again. Beer is like football. Yeah, thats right, I just compared beer to football. You see, if you step out on the field with no idea of what to do, your just going to get trampled on, and its going to suck. But if you step out with a game plan, your going to have one hell of a damn good time! Play it right, and you’ll have fun without the cuts and bruises (except when your buddies think stair skiing sounds like fun. No guarantees there.)

Wait, Beer isn’t evil?
Thats right. Beer is just a drink. How you drink it is up to you. If you drink to much soda, you’ll get kidney stones. If you eat too much ice cream, you’ll become over weight. You see, the only reason beer can be judged as evil is because the results are more visual than other harmful foods and drinks. You don’t see that fast food clogging your arteries, but it is.

Beer has the natural ability to make you relax. It’s like a spa in a bottle. This combined with friends and family can cause happiness. It’s effect to relieve stress isn’t anything to worry about. But like everything else, too much can cause dangerous side effects. It’s not only beer that does this!

Image via Wikipedia

So in the end, beer is a drink! You are in control of what you do with it. Whether it’s a sport drink for beer pong, or just something to help you relax, it’s yours to enjoy. Have fun, live life, and feel free to pop one open from time to time!

So I just recently moved into this great house we got with a beautiful pool. I swear it looks just like Key West in our back yard. Well anyway my brother decided we should build a kegerator, and since we had already bought a nice new fridge the old one was going to be left at the old house anyway, I quickly agreed.

So with very little effort on our parts we purchased a keg conversion kit for around $100.00 bucks. The installation into the old fridge was super easy. We took out all the shelves, drilled a whole in the front for the tap, went to our local keg supplier, and within an hour had Miller Light pouring (didnt want to go expensive the first time). Adjusting the pressure was not that difficult, but it did take some tweaking to get the perfect pour. For anyone who wants to try this I recommend pouring into a picture to begin with, this will save you a ton of wasted beer.

The cost for buying beer by the Keg has saved us a lot of money, made for less bottles hanging around, and we actually think we drink less since we are no longer racing to see who can get the last bottle out of the pack.

Anyone else have any experiences with their own kegerators?

All I know is I want some…

So basically last year we decided to revamp BeerGoggleHell.com to include a lot more features, such as user profiles, user groups, etc. Essentially we were trying to create a MySpace style website for beer enthusiasts, and what we found was that most of our users just were not that into it. So we decided to take a step back! The website as you see it now is what we came up with.

While it looks similar to our original design we have separated the drinking games and the Drunken Stories into their very own sections to make it even easier to find what you are looking for while maintaining the blog on our front page so those coming for beer news can easily find it.

During this “Step Back” we did lose a few posts. We are very sorry for this however we believe you will discover that in the long run this will be for the best. We sincerely hope you like the new design. We think you will as it seems very easy to navigate (at least to us)

As always this is your site and we love when you make suggestions, so please feel free to do so anytime!

So what do you think of the new design?

It is hard to imagine, but once in a while people actually want to drink something other than beer. I know… I know! So if by some off chance you are in the mood for a mixed drink, and you are like me (completely clueless where to begin), then you should head on over to Cocktail.com. They just recently revamped their entire website and have added a number (over 15,000) of really great recipes for drinks. They are adding more every day so you won’t have a problem finding something good to drink.

Oh and for those naysayers who are thinking of emailing me about how it isn’t possible to want to drink anything other than that frothy drink from the gods known as beer, there are a couple of reasonable reasons as to why you might need a good drink recipe. For example maybe you finally scored a date with that really attractive girl who just started working with you, and she doesn’t like the taste of beer. Obviously you want to make a good impression and Cocktail.com can help with that. To be honest though I think I would go out with the other new girl maybe she isn’t quite as good looking, but she can throw some mean darts while polishing off a couple of stouts with you.

Ok so as you all know we have been working really hard on the new site design and the added functionality. We only have the member section to go and a few tweaks on the overall layout. Having said that we would be really interested to get some feedback and ideas on what would enhance the site and make it more enjoyable for you.

Please make a few comments with your thoughts. With your input we can really take this site to a new level.

BGH is having another contest giving away more free beer. In honor of the new website features, and as a way to contribute towards your beer fund, we are going to give a $50.00 gift card for TGIF to the person who has the most “friends” by March 17th, 2009. That’s right whoever has the most friends (on your profile page) by 12PM EST time on St. Patrick’s day will get the free beer.

St. Patrick’s day is my favorite holiday, and we all know it should be spent with friends. Be sure you check back here on St. Patrick’s day because we are going to give away a second card for $25.00 randomly to one lucky person. To be eligible for that one all you have to do is log in on St. Patrick’s day and post a comment. We will then throw all those names in a hat for a random drawing.

A reader asked: What are some good practical jokes that can be played on your friends while drinking?

Practical jokes? Don’t you think we should be a little more mature than that?

Me either.

Drunks are an easy target for tomfoolery. When you have a lot of people drinking together, pranks and practial jokes are bound to happen. Particularly toward the end of the night when the marathon drinkers start getting bored and the lightweights are passing out.

There’s always the magic-marker prank. Dude drinks too much, dude passes out, dude wakes up with a penis drawn on his face. The key is to get creative with that marker. Think classy, not childish. Genitalia’s funny, but it’s been done.

At college keg parties, we used to wait until the end of the night when the keg was kicked. Whichever roommate fell asleep first had the empty keg delivered to their bed, which was often sticky and smelly with cheap beer residue.

Yes, it seems the majority of drunk pranking is perpetrated on sleeping people. Aside from magic marker and empty kegs, a popular stunt is balancing as many items on the mark’s head as possible without tipping it over. Sort of a makeshift version of Jenga using a human as the base. If they wake up while you’re placing your object, you lose! The objective is to balance the largest object as high as possible.

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