I was going to reward you six awesome weirdos who read my stuff with a Sad Robot entry a week early, but I didn’t want to burn you all out. So instead, I figured I would tell you about the wonderful sport of Speed Beer.

A few years ago, the awesome Jeph Jacques of the doubly awesome Questionable Content, which is pretty much Tenchi Muyo for Hipsters when you really think about it, invented a game which just astounds me that it hasn’t caught on yet. The game is Speed Beer, and it is perhaps the greatest drinking game ever made. I think Monsieur Jacques can explain the rules better than I;

It is a simple game with simple rules. It should also be remembered that Speed Beer is not necessarily a competition between people, as it is more of a competition against the course. There are also some variants we have added, such as “Team Speed Beer” which would mean teams of two or more per sled, “Championship Speed Beer” which is a race to the bottom of the hill where the loser must drink an entire beer and is more of a direct competition, and my favorite “Time Trial Speed Beer” which needs a very large hill for. Essentially you sled down the hill, and the amount of time you finish behind the winner is the mount of time you must do what the Madden and lanyard crowd refer to as a ‘keg stand.’

Drink responsibly.