Forget Beethoven, forget Goethe, this is the most German thing you will ever see: highly precise industrial machinery...being used to open a bottle of beer.

November's Formula One race at Austin's brand new Circuit of the Americas was a success from nearly every perspective. While some of the facilities weren't totally complete and the track was slick, the circuit ended up with praise from drivers, teams, and the 117,000-plus fans that attended.

I suspect I'm not alone when I confess I occasionally have car-related dreams. This past week, I woke from a very vivid dream, though I could only remember one part of it clearly. It was a dream about a car, a BMW 2002.

Kara Fitzgerald Overman of Burlington, NC, was arrested last Wednesday after she allegedly crashed her pickup truck into the front of the Deep Creek Convenience Store, grabbed a case of beer, and drove off.

Workers at a Lockheed Martin plant in Texas are attempting to one-up their Michigander counterparts by drinking and smoking during lunch while building F-35 fighter jets. Cue the local news gotcha video.

A convoy of extreme truckers conquered snow, 250 traffic lights, and 1,614 service wires to move six gigantic one-million-bottle capacity fermenting vats from a German ship to the Molson Coors Brewery in Toronto. That's a lot of Keystone Light.

Hyphenated names are popular with women who want to maintain their identity after marrying some doorknob. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Toyota carries a twin moniker, but does its dowry make it not the marrying kind?

This weekend I risked heart failure and trans fat-poisoning at the Texas State Fair — the lard-fried mecca that invented corn dogs — to uncover the secret behind fried beer, fried butter and yes, even fried Pop Tarts.

Chinese army driver Li Guiwen and his buddies had a beerstorm involving driving on top of empty bottles. Li managed to trundle over 1,798, noting: "I have been training constantly." (Thanks Franzouse!) [via OrangeNews]

Back around 1990, when I was a broke-ass slacker and figured out how to make beer for cheap, I got into making custom photocopier-and-glue-stick custom beer labels. You've seen Powerglide Road Soda, and now I've unearthed another old label.