Nestle Patents Coffee Beer

Dotnaught writes "New Scientist reports that Nestec, a Nestle subsidiary, has applied for a patent on a fermented coffee beverage. In other words, coffee beer -- it foams like beer and packs the caffeine of coffee, with "fruity and/or floral notes due to the fermentation of the coffee aroma."

Comments

What every college town needs

[iamjambon]

More wide-awake drunks.

Woohoo!

[sexybomber]

I, for one, welcome our new drunk AND hyper overlords!

ObSimpsons

[Anonymous Coward]

Marge: "Caw-fee!"
Bartender: "Bee-er?"

This will be perfect for late night problem sets

[Physics Nobody]

The coffee keeps you going and the beer makes sure you don't have to care too much.

Skittles!

[Bifurcati]

Aside from being a disturbing combination of knock-me-out and perk-me-up, I think that Skittlebrau has a much better chance of being successful.

NB. I said beer was "knock-me-out" not "knock-me-up", so don't go getting any ideas. Not that the two are mutually incompatible, I guess...

Re:Why do people drink this crap?

[servognome]

Why do people willingly put crap like this into their bodies? Caffeine isn't good for you. Neither is alcohol. Combine the two and you're not helping yourself.

It's fun to play chemistry with your body. Showdowns between Starbucks and NyQuil, NoDoz and Sudafed, Red Bull and Sleeping pills. It's legal so it can't possibly hurt me, right? ;)

Re:Why do people drink this crap?

[shmlco]

"Caffeine causes undue anxiety. Those are not good things to suffer from when you're trying to write solid software..."

I don't know. A little extra anxiety and paranoia might be a good thing for people writing antivirus software and firewalls....

Re:Why do people drink this crap?

[ankarbass]

I have some bad news for you. Your mission critical software has errors. Maybe not quite as many as some "less mission critical software", but it has errors.

BTW: It isn't just guesswork that reduces errors. If you have formally proven your systems, (which I'm quite sure you have right?) then they are correct. It isn't necessary for the implementer really to be sober as long as you have a formal proof and others, including yourself with your pristine substance free (no sugar right) body, can check the proof. Going from a provably correct system to real code is pretty easy work what with all those nice tight pre/post conditions an all.

Oh, and of course you only use compilers that are subjected to similar standards, right?

And please don't tell me any of this runs on windows, none of it runs on windows, right? I bet you're only solid mission critical operating systems that have had every line of code checked and double checked against a formal system? Right?

After all, we wouldn't want the software with bugs. It has to be as good as the rest of the airplane, bug free, nothing will fail, nothing has been overlooked, the design is PERFECT!!!

Reminds of that accident that happened sometime in the late eighties/early nineties where an airplane toilet had its contents jetisoned while still in flight and the frozen contents came crashing into someone's living room. The victim was quoted as saying "Of course it surprised me, the last thing I expect to come crashing into my house in this day and age is an icy BM."

Re:Why do people drink this crap?

[zoloto]

whoa, someone needs to lay off the caffeine

Re:Buzz Beer

[DrWhizBang]

I'm pretty sure that the sense of humour has not been patented, so you are perfectly free to develop one without repercussions.

I guess to be fair to you, the moderators marked the parent as "Insightful" so I guess they didn't get it either.