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Beer: October 2008 Archives

By Edward Fitzpatrick

The fourth edition of the Grog & Dog Jog -- a relay race that involves running, drinking beer and eating hot dogs -- lived up to its billing as "wildly popular and thoroughly inadvisable."

On Oct. 12, a total of 22 teams, each consisting of four people, came to the Wild Colonial Tavern at 250 South Water St. in Providence to momentarily suspend good judgment for a good cause.

Here's the way it works: You run a mile-and-a-quarter, you down a mug of Narragansett Beer, you wolf down a hot dog, and then the next member of your team can take off.

Proceeds benefit the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, and this time the race raised nearly $900, according to Brien Lang, the evil genius behind the event. Lang also noted there were no "reversals of fortunes," meaning no hot dogs or beer came back up.

Lang said the Grog & Dog Jog will take place again next Columbus Day weekend, and there might be another installment in the spring. The Wild Colonial Running Club sponsored the race along with Narragansett Beer, Rhode Runner and Reebok. The 22 teams included "Fat But Happy" and "Pigs With Lipstick."

Here are the results:

Grog & Dog Results 10-08.xls

AP Photo
Wayne Meyer, co-owner of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company restaurant, holds up Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., beer, right, and Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., beer, left, at his restaurant in Half Moon Bay, Calif.

The Half Moon Bay Brewing Company is inviting drinkers of its beer to choose between an Obama and McCain ale in the "alection" of 2008.

The Obama beer is leading 4 to 1, according to an Associated Press story, which notes that real polls also show Obama with a commanding lead.