from realbeer.com:

MOO FOR BEER
Cows in eastern Iowa prefer their feed spiked with beer. In fact, a dozen or so cattlemen say their cattle now hesitate to eat food prepared any other way. This all began about a year ago when an official at Fleck Sales, a Cedar Rapids beer distributor, contacted Fisher's Feed and Fertilizer in Norway, a small town southeast of Cedar Rapids. The company asked if the feed business would like to get free beer which had outlived its shelf life, not for its workers but to mix in with its feed, said Jack Fisher, the feed company's owner. Beer is commonly used in cattle feed in Japan and Canada. The animals' complex digestive system breaks down the alcohol in beer, turning it into food energy, animal nutritionists said.
http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002421.php

PARISHIONERS FLOCK TO BEER FRIENDLY CHURCH
The addition of a house beer has created excitement at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. "I can't say it's a compelling reason," Rector Paul Abernathy said when asked whether the addition of Winged Lion Lager to Sunday's pub lunch menu had anything to do with an influx of new parishioners at St. Mark's. Others point out that attendance by twenty- and thirty-somethings seems to be on the rise. St. Mark's has a tradition of serving pub lunches. Sharing a brew in a family atmosphere is one way they take part. Every Sunday after the 11 o'clock service, more than 100 people gather in the parish hall for pub-style fare that includes soup, sandwiches, salad, bread, beer, soda and wine. Until last summer, the beers were commercial. That changed when parishioner Rick Weber rented a kettle at Shenandoah Brewing Co. in Alexandria and brewed the first batch of Winged Lion, the symbol of Saint Mark the Evangelist. The first five cases, 120 bottles, of the beer lasted only a few weeks, and Weber soon produced a second batch.
http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002422.php

HAPPY HOUR FOR 6 WEEKS
A disgruntled ex-employee stole a truck full of Miller Lite beer and left it for residents of a west side Indianapolis neighborhood to enjoy for free. Indiana police are looking for the man who left behind the ingredients for a
six-week-long block party. Investigators say a just-fired deliveryman employee parked the 53-foot trailer and invited the neighborhood to help
themselves. The semi-trailer held 14,000 cases of beer, but residents drank "only" 1,500 cases valued at $30,000. "I'm really surprised there's any beer left," Marion County sheriff's Detective Christa Moncrief said. "I figured it would have been gone within the first week, but maybe not a lot of people knew it was here."
http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002405.php

Them's just the right length for beer bedtime stories.

This shouldn't be too shocking......aren't the cows that they make Kobe beef from fed Sake?? Kobe beed = good stuff

Yea that is true about Kobe beef (hence the mention of Japan in the article).

lol - apparently I'm slow tonight......must be the beer