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Yup…it turns out that I may possibly be a genius due to the copious amounts of beer that I consume on a daily basis.

According to a research conducted at the University of Illinois in Chicago, it turns out, that in some quantities beer is apparently brain food. The magic number for your beer brain improvement appears to be a blood-alcohol level of 0.07%.

This is exactly what you want to hear after coming off a weekend binge.

Researchers found that men with a couple beers under their belts were actually better at solving brain-teasers than their sober counterparts.

To reach that surprising conclusion, the researchers devised a bar game in which 40 men were given three words and told to come up with a fourth that fits the pattern.

For example, the word “cheese” could fit with words like “blue” or “cottage” or “Swiss.”

Half the players were given two pints. The other half got nothing. The result? Those who imbibed solved 40% more of the problems that their sober counterparts.

Also, the drinkers finished their problems in 12 seconds while it took the non-drinkers 15.5 seconds.

“We found at 0.07 blood alcohol, people were worse at working memory tasks, but they were better at creative problem-solving tasks,” psychologist Jennifer Wiley reported on the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) site.

Sometimes the really creative stuff comes out when you’re having a glass of wine over dinner, or when you’re taking a shower.

[Cheers nydailynews]