This is part one in an occasional series that we might call "Things I Learn From Reading Rolling Stone In the Office When I Should Be Working." While I was perusing through the latest issue (the one that features a portrait of Barack Obama on the cover that looks like it was commissioned for a Franklin Mint commemorative dinner plate), I came across an article on Wilco's five-night stand at Chicago's Riviera Theater.

The reporter went backstage to see what the band was eating before the show, and it turns out they were washing their salmon and jasmine rice with a special-order keg of beer from the New Glarus Brewing Co.! "We came across it at a Milwaukee venue," bassist John Stirratt told the reporter.

Unfortunately, the account doesn't detail exactly which kind of New Glarus beer Wilco was imbibing. Spotted Cow or Fat Squirrel? Enquiring minds want to know.