Archive for May 18th, 2007

Compiled with the assistance of the neighbor’s home brew, while watching Beer Nutz, which I think was canceled. No great loss.

Canadian beer is endangered, eh.

Two great tastes that I’m pretty sure weren’t meant to go together, at least not in the same bottle; Pizza Beer. More reaction here.

Budweiser wins a blind taste test. I would go with option 3, sir.

Homebrewers: Grove’s Beer Log, Ed Krug, Kartar.net brews a Summer Wheat, Lloyd Chatham

Trivia, and timeline

Quality control at Anheuser-Busch.
Hansen and a select group of Anheuser-Busch employees taste each ingredient that goes into making the beer, plus whatever else might sway quality. They do it daily.
New guy has to lick the horse

Brew Reviews: PC Blanche, A Trinity of Pilsners, Leinenkugel Summer Shandy, New Holland Pilgrim’s Dole Wheatwine

Beer Belly + Stadium Buddy = Total Freedom

Support your local beer blogger

Beer Paradox: In Argentina, you cannot buy beer unless you first drink beer.

The 2007 Australian International Beer Awards.

The Polish are coming! The Polish are coming!
Beer experts are not surprised by how quickly Polish beers, which tend to be very alcoholic, are catching up.

Roger Protz, author of the Good Beer Guide, said: “I think the beers are very good, particularly Zywiec, which is incredibly strong. They put many British lagers in the shade. Polish beers have a very good hop character, compared with continental beers.

The Sensualist Beer Drinker.

What beer are you? I’m a Killian’s Red.

Overall, Killian’s is a very good beer. The only thing that kinda sucks is that even though it says “Irish Red” on the bottle, this stuff’s made by Coors, not peaty old Dubliners. I guess that’s my way of telling you that you scored on the lower side of the “genuine” part of my test. Here’s my guess: you’re a sensible, likeable person, and you’re popular among different groups of people. The test probably read that as a slight superficiality.

Personality-wise, you have refined tastes (after all, this stuff is kind of expensive), but you know how to savor what you get. Your personality isn’t exactly bubbly, but you’re well-liked nonetheless. Your sense of humor is rather dark, but that’s just another way to say sophisticated, right?

Spot on.

Finally identified the mystery plant in the backyard herb garden today: Conium maculatum, Poison Hemlock. The plant that killed Socrates.

Conium contains the alkaloids Coniine, N-methylconiine, conhydrine, pseudoconhydrine, g-coniceïne and Atropine. The most important and toxic of these is Coniine. Coniine is a neurotoxin, which disrupts the workings of the central nervous system and is toxic to people and all classes of livestock.

It’s not long for this world.

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Also, lolluscs!

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Yes, I am easily amused.

Republicans are angry, yet bored. Fred Thompson benefits.