Different Uses For Beer

That defines a tough crowd when they give up beer to vote their displeasure. I can't condone that stuff but do you recall if the bands were that bad to deserve that?

 

Are you talking pickled meat as in preserving it, or you're saying use as a marinade? Sounds flavorful either way.

 

Good one!! Been there, done that, questionable viability compared to aspirin.

 

Oh, hey, some competition! The slimy critters that I'm after and the fruit flies can slug it out over the beer.

 

Nothing drank either beer (Miller & Coors) again last night, and I didn't change the beers out, so this morning I had 4 slugs in the stale Miller Lite trap and none in the Coors Light. Over the few days when Miller and Coors were in the two traps, Miller got 9 slugs (3 nights because some critter drank it one night) and Coors got 12 (4 nights), so there is no clear winner in that comparison. I only bought a couple singles of each brand, so I'm out of both right now and don't know whether I'll get to the store today. I still need to compare one or the other to Bud, so I need to get more. I don't know what will be in the traps tonight, but both are so scummy that they badly need to be changed out. More news to come later.

 

After I posted above on Wednesday I did run out to the store and got more Coors Light and Miller Lite so I could compare them to Bud and finish off this 'competition' and declare a winner.

Results for the last 4 nights: Bud beat Coors Light, 4 to 3, and Bud also beat Miller Lite, 6 to 4. So Bud would seem to be the winner. However, in a post early in this thread I reported the results of the head-to-head between Bud and Stroh's, which was Stroh's 5 and Bud 4. So Stroh's is the grand champion!

But, because some beers had more nights in the traps than others, I also took the total kills for each brand and calculated a 'per night' score. These calculations also confirm Stroh's to be the champion slug bait. Slugs per night: Stroh's (3.33); Miller Lite (2.60); Coors Light (2.50); and Bud (2.33). So in the end, Bud turns out to be the least favored beer by the slugs.

I think I spent around $23 on beer during this 'scientific' study, so my tomatoes are a pricey commodity. However, all of the low-hanging fruits have been harvested and some that were harvested from the low branches of the plants were the biggest tomatoes that I've ever grown, and they were not ruined by these slimy critters. And I have plenty of tomatoes higher up on the plants that I don't think are at risk, so I'll be getting more fruits from each plant and ending my expensive trapping effort.

Moral: It's a trade-off of the cost of the beer vs. pride and satisfaction of growing nice fruits and winning out over the slugs. It's been entertaining!

P.S. No critter drank the beer again after those two nights-in-a-row incidents, so it's anyone's guess what animal to accuse of that. I hope they enjoyed my hospitality, but who doesn't like free beer?