100 beers - too many to chose from

   I was in a pub the other night (you Americans  may call it a bar - fine by me) and I discovered they had over a hundred different beers to chose from - over thirty on tap. Now that is down right unfair, especially as I was the designated driver. How do you chose from a hundred different beers. Now you're saying why don't you do a Julia Child - a hundred days a hundred beers and a blog to cover it. I won't say that the thought didn't go into my head but it's hardly original and what do I tell the wife when I return home after 100 nights with a belly that reaches Australia?
   I know they brought out light beers a few years ago but they weren't the real thing now, were they? If you want to stay slim forget your beer and stick to diet Coke - that way you get what you deserve. I have a friend who spend the summer, a few years back, tasting wine in southern France. Maybe I can find a job tasting beers (I could swallow when the're not looking right?)
If you think there is no such job read this:

A judge in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has ruled that a local brewing company must pay damages to one of its former beer tasters, after the taster alleged that his job -- drinking alcohol -- caused him to develop alcoholism.
In the lawsuit, the employee alleged that as part of his beer-tasting job, he was required to taste beer.  Specifically, he said he typically drank between 16 and 25 small glasses of beer during each eight-hour shift, which works out to a little over three pints a day, at least five days a week, for more than a decade.  (He also said he received a bottle of beer after each shift, so let's just call it four pints a day.) Read more here.

Nearly anyone who is or was anyone has been quoted on the subject - usually  written under the influence ( or inder the unfluence):

What's the story Norm?
Norm: Boy meets beer. Boy drinks beer. Boy meets another beer. - Norm on Cheers


The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. --Humphrey Bogart

One more drink and I'd be under the host. - Dorothy Parker

You can never buy beer, just rent it - Archie Bunker