Science...

Researchers have discovered that the famed "beer gut" is fiction, not fact; people who store fat in the belly-region are genetically predisposed to do so, as opposed to people who store fat in other areas of the body. Beer doesn't make it go anywhere in particular. Hmm, now I have to blame my Mom and Dad for my gut, not Stone Brewery; though I guess it's better than storing it all in my hands, or something like that...