It's not a Shower Beer it's a _____________.

     If you Google the term Shower Beer, you'll get a pretty standard response. The first link that's displayed under my search goes to Urban Dictionary. I'm a big Urban Dictionary fan. It's a great resource to learn what something like a Cincinnati Bow Tie if you're not sure and too embarrassed to ask. (While I was adding that link Urban Dictionary also told me that I should check out what a Cincinnati Pad Thai is. Enjoy that one.) 

    Their definitions for the shower beer are all fairly clean cut and to the point. The one below is pulled right from the page and the others all follow suit.

Shower Beer - An alcoholic beverage one consumes while cleansing himself/herself.

  Pretty straight forward, right? Right. Click here to see the rest of the Urban Dictionary definitions if you like.

     The link below Urban Dictionary on my Google search leads to a Facebook page dedicated to the Shower Beer. Yup, a whole page with nearly 6000 members. All these folks seem really into the simple act of having a beer in the shower either at the end of the day or before a night out. So between Urban Dictionary, this fbook group, and nearly every other link that popped up from my search, it seems like almost everyone out there agrees that a shower beer is simply a beer you drink while taking a shower. 

     Okay, so why am I writing about this? I'm writing about this because I've had my own, slightly more involved, definition of the shower beer for years now. The thing is though, I'm not seeing that definition online anywhere. What I'm getting at reader friend is that we have a tremendous opportunity to work together to coin a term and give this ritual beer of mine a proper name.

     Now, I know that there may be and probably is a name for this out there already. I've just never heard it. So if you and your friends have a term for my definition, please share. If you don't then let's figure one out. Okay, here we go.

Merg's Shower Beer Definition - The beer have with you while you're getting ready to go out for the evening that nudges you from completely sober to feeling good; in turn causing you to think that you look better than you actually do.

  There it is. The beer you take along with you from the fridge to the shower to bedroom. Then once you're finished getting ready you look in the mirror, and the same way other people look better when you're a bit drunk, you look better when you're a bit drunk. 

   Now, this is seldom the first beer of the night. At least not for me. If I'm having a few at home before hitting the bar then this beer is usually around number 6. Once finished I do that final check in the mirror before stepping out and I say to myself, "Go get'em you Italian Ryan Gosling." So while enjoying a beer in the shower is part of this, it's more about giving yourself that little extra spray of confidence to go along with the extra spray of Acqua Di Gio. Now, I just need to give it a proper name. If you and your group of friends already have a name for this, lay it on me. I thought about calling it a Confidence Beer but abandoned it quickly. I'd like something with a little more pop. I'm looking forward to hearing your suggestions and I hope you get to enjoy a _________ beer sometime this weekend.

Happy Friday gang.