Iowa newspaper editor and brewer J. Wilson ended a 46-day Lenten fast during which drank only beer and ate no solid food. Wilson, a devout Christian, ended his fast early Sunday morning with a bacon smoothie. Since Ash Wednesday, his sole nourishment has been Illuminator Doppelbock beer, brewed from his own recipe. Early in Lent he drank four glasses a day, but had to increae it to five glasses to keep up his strength.
Wilson calls it a fast where he consumed only “liquid bread and water. “He blogged about his experience at Diary of a Part-time Monk.
Image by Tim Pearce, Los Gatos, under Creative Commons license.
I’ll drink to that.
Lord, have mercy. Now might be an excellent time for someone to buy for him a copy of my book, Staying Sober: Tips for Working a Twelve Step Program of Recovery (Hazelden)!