Today's entry is one of my occasional meanderings off the beer-blog trail.  I was searching the other day for posts about extinct brands of American beer and stumbled upon a fun, time-wasting game called Beer Barrel USA.  Remember Billy Beer?  Falls City?  Oertel's?  Remember where they were brewed? If so, you'll enjoy this game.

The game consists of a map with 36 points plotted throughout the US, Canada and Mexico (I guess they should consider changing that USA thing in the title).  There's a window above the map into which the names of beers - some extinct, some still with us - appear. You have to click on the point marking the beer's hometown.  The score is determined by a combination of correct answers and the amount of time it takes you to solve the puzzle.  That means that even once you've memorized all the correct answers, you can keep playing over and over trying to go faster and faster.

Have fun!