>Now, I don't drink beer but I'll be delighted to spring for a few for you should we ever get the chance to meet F2F.

Actually I feel like cheating on all of you here. I probably have the highest ratio of talking about beer versus actually drinking it. But I do enjoy the taste, probably not as often as I'd like.

>While I'm working on your spiritual life.. <g>

Therefore it exists, else you wouldn't have anything to work on... I mean, you didn't say you worked on creating it, right :).

>Or is beer a spiritual thng? <g> (think this will cause any thread drift? <g>)

Sure, about 4% of it is pure spirit (aka ethanol).