Edward Piercy

The Mystery of the Amstel Bottle Cap

Saturday, 8. August 2009, 18:14:02

The other day I took the cap off a bottle of Amstel Light beer and I
happened to notice some printing on the inside of the cap. It was way
too hot to mess with any crap like that at the time, but I saved the
cap promising myself that I would try to find out more about the cap
when things got cooler.

Well, today it is cooler. And being able to spend some time on the
laptop I got on the internet and started researching the whole bottle
cap issue. My initial thought was that the printing was perhaps some
sort of code they use from the factory in case they have to recall any
of the lots of beer for some reason.

I also thought it might be for some sort of contest. On the Amstel
America site it does seem they have some sort of promotion going on
where you use the info on the cap to register for a trip for 3 to
Amsterdam. So I went through the motions and entered the contest.
The number they used as an example on the site didn't look anything
like the letters and numbers on my own cap. So I'm wondering if I am
even officially registered at all -- perhaps the printing on my own
cap does indeed have some other purpose than the contest.

So when it comes right down to it I might have discovered what the
printing on the cap means and I may not have. I'll have to wait and
see -- if my cap code didn't fit the codes for the contest there's
a possibility that they will notify me by e-mail.

Well, more on this mesmerizing beer cap issue as the situation
develops.

Drinking the beer is of course the
better part of research.

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Comments

Darko # 8. August 2009, 19:05

I do hope you will have the opportunity to visit Amsterdam and their beer factory

Edward Piercy # 8. August 2009, 19:12

Thanks Darko. I just opened another bottle and the beer cap has a different number. So I might be able to enter again with each new cap.

If I drink enough beer I just might win. Or, if I don't, I'll be too drunk to care.

Darko # 8. August 2009, 19:17

I drink to that

Edward Piercy # 8. August 2009, 19:25

Stardancer # 8. August 2009, 19:45

Hope you win, Edward. I can think of a couple of ladies who just might enjoy taking that trip with you.

Edward Piercy # 8. August 2009, 19:49

I was thinking Kirsten Dunst might like to go.

I do have the 3rd slot available. Sasha wouldn't want to go of course, so it's just me and (possibly) my mom right now.

Stardancer # 8. August 2009, 20:02

I don't have a passport, so I can't go, but I'd love to babysit Sasha for you.

(Thinks maybe I'm getting the best end of the deal anyway.)

Martin K # 8. August 2009, 20:04

I have heard about messages in bottles, but I have never heard about messages on bottle caps. I also read a book once about a poor sick girl who was seeing things and fell into a hole in the ground. She found a bottle with a label saying 'Drink Me!'. That is where I knew the story had to be true. I see that label on every bottle I come across. Back in the old times I used to do exactly what the label told me, almost every time. It didn't make me shrink, though. Not literally, anyways.

Here I go, babbeling again. Sorry.

Stardancer # 8. August 2009, 20:05

Originally posted by Aqualion:

Here I go, babbeling again. Sorry.

We all do that, Martin.

Without it, nothing important would ever get said.

Martin K # 8. August 2009, 20:15

Thanks for being patient with me, Star. Appreciate.

Edward Piercy # 8. August 2009, 20:19

@ Star.

I'm sure you could get a passport. I'd have to get one myself. Even on a "free" trip you always have to put a little money into it. As far as any other expense I'd probably just spend all my time there in the art museums anyway.

@ Martin.

That sounds like a good name brand for a beer -- Drink Me beer. My idea for a vodka name though over on Anne's blog was Furry Squirrel vodka.

Angeliki # 8. August 2009, 22:30

I hope we hear more bout it and the code is the right one!

Edward Piercy # 8. August 2009, 22:44

Well I have about 3 other codes to enter now that I didn't earlier!

A few beers, cigarettes, listening to Marais. A good afternoon.

L2D2 # 9. August 2009, 04:07

Was discussing the subject of babbling on Suntanas
blog this week. We decided that Lucy, Chuck and Peppermint are champion babblers. I can babble endlessly.

Darko # 9. August 2009, 05:56

Allan # 9. August 2009, 06:16

There's this strange connection with babbling and beer that the more you babble, the more you want to drink beer - and the more beer you drink, the more babbling is going on.

Look at all of this - it started with Ed drinking a beer, and now I am babbling and drinking beer, too!

L2D2 # 9. August 2009, 06:23

And I am babbling and do not drink beer at all! It is a phenomenon! Babbling is fast becoming the national pastime. Maybe even global, as per Opera example.

Allan # 9. August 2009, 06:24

I am not sure babbling is a new trend. Isn't the word derived from the Tower of Babel or something? Maybe they had beer there too??

L2D2 # 9. August 2009, 06:28

I think you are right, lot of babbling going on at that tower. Maybe some homemade brew?

Allan # 9. August 2009, 06:37

Tower, a nice name for a beer. "Let's share two Towers, should we?"

Martin K # 9. August 2009, 06:46

In Denmark babbling is often referred to as 'mouth-diarrhea'. My personal experience with beer consuming supports this connection. It is as if beer - or other adult beverages - will wash down the walls of our minds, cleaning out the build-up intellectual waste substance, leading the surplus out of the mouth.

Technically the process takes place during the first stages of drukenness while the blood alcohol levels still are fairly low - 0,01g/100ml - increasing as the wave reaches the legal limit of 0,05g/100ml. At a blood alcohol level of approximately 0,10 g/100ml alcohol will start affecting the parietal lobes, and you will slowly lose the ability to talk. This is also the state where you become extremely clever, invinsible and beautiful.

I think that is why most people experience a feeling of absolute emptiness the morning after a night of beer drinking. Antiquity used the phrase 'cartasis' for this process.

We now have other words.

Darko # 9. August 2009, 07:50

Originally posted by Aqualion:

It is as if beer - or other adult beverages - will wash down the walls of our minds, cleaning out the build-up intellectual waste substance, leading the surplus out of the mouth.

Martin, this is true. In Serbia we say: What sober person thinks, drunk person says

Edward Piercy # 9. August 2009, 15:55

Babylon, good people. Babylon.

L2D2 # 9. August 2009, 16:37

Or, Dare, in vino veritas All though whose truth is hard to say.

Stardancer # 9. August 2009, 20:08

I never thought of myself as clever, invincible or beautiful when I drank alcohol, but I sure did lose my inhibitions.

Scary being that out of control.

Martin K # 9. August 2009, 20:11

Someone once said 'There are many ways to seak for the truth. Some scientists point a telescope at the void of space, some scientist look at a drop of water through a microscope. I look at my empty whiskey glass.'

Anyways, the way I see it, truth and reality is not always one and the same. That everybody wants a life of peace and understanding without sudden death, disease and madness is true, but in reality this will never happen. Often what we know as truth is based on illusions (or delusions, what's the difference anyway?), ideals and visions absolutely out of touch with reality.

Babbling bubbles again. This time I'm not sorry. Please do not accept my lack of apologies.

Stardancer # 9. August 2009, 20:12

I love babbling.

L2D2 # 9. August 2009, 22:58

Aqualion, you are good at it too!