It's official. People have gone batshit for Select 55. Or at least batshit for our post on the beer. It tops the list once again this week. I think I'll go drown my sorrows in a real beer. Budweiser Launches Select 55, Light Beer Arms Race Gets Absurd Looking for a Little Practice, Bibiana Jumps [...]

This blog has gone to Hell, and readers are taking Select 55 with it. For Christ's sake, people, can we get over this Budweiser post, which tops the list for the third straight week? The most-read items for the week: Budweiser Launches Select 55, Light Beer Arms Race Gets Absurd Not So Fast: There's No [...]

Beer and controversy, controversy and beer. They are the backbone of the Young & Hungry blog. Here's what you've been reading this  week: Budweiser Launches Select 55, Light Beer Arms Race Gets Absurd WTF: Makoto Is Once Again the Top-Rated Restaurant in the Annual Zagat Guide Not So Fast: There's No Deal for a Ray's [...]

Good beer drinkers (myself included) love to malign the yellow fizz companies for cutting their barley with cheap stand-ins like corn and rice, but apparently Bud has been waving their rice flag high all along. It's right there on the can: "using the choicest hops, rice and best barley malt." That "rice" doesn't appear to [...]

Yesterday's post about light-light beer Bud Select 55 got me thinking that in a way, Bud is making the drinker's convenience product: beer with added water as a hangover deterrent. Which reminded me of Mayostard, the similarly convenient sandwich spread from the hilarious and missed Mr. Show. More videos after the jump, including Mustardayonnaise and [...]

The Obama beer meeting was last night, and by all accounts nothing happened. (Although WaPo's Dana Milbank did totally hijack the Lagerheads' titular pun for his own use.) But my favorite post-summit coverage so far comes from Canada's CBC, which came up with not one but two entertaining animated graphics: "Beer Diplomacy" (in the intro) [...]

Answer: President Obama drinking Bud Light. (I told you I wouldn't let this die.) I don't know if I should have seen it coming, but this light-beer position is even less excusable than, I don't know, torture. Light beer — especially the mass-produced variety— is less flavorful and less potent than "regular" beer. From both an [...]

Every time President Obama eats a burger, Mr. Y&H (aka Tim Carman) has a goddamn field day. But now that Obama is set to crack beers with Officer James Crowley and Harvard prof Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to discuss Gates' false arrest at his Cambridge home, it's time for the liquid half of Young & [...]

Capitol Hill's Tune Inn bar opens at 8 a.m. every day of the week, serving breakfast and drinks to the neighborhood's early risers. At 10 a.m. this morning, nobody was there to eat. Three regulars sit at the bar—a Budweiser, a Whiskey, and a Screwdriver. Each patron comes in about two—okay, three—times a week for [...]

The week is over, folks. What are you doing reading this blog? Go eat some beans. Or watch some basketball or, God forbid, go outside and play basketball. Step away from the computer now. I mean it, leave. Well, as soon as you read the latest roundup. Happy weekend all. Endless Simmer draws comparisons between [...]