Every once in a while, I draw inspiration from the audience. None of you have steered me wrong.
This is my review of Earthquake High Gravity Lager…
Okay. One of you did. I’m not about to start pointing fingers, because its more fun for me to wait until the end.
A primer on Malt Liquor: Brooklyn, the 1970’s
This is a dream, man. A man’s dream. A man named Don Vultaggio At the time he had nothing but a VW, an underserved market, and a dream.
“Vultaggio began delivering malt liquor. This was a dangerous job — so dangerous, in fact, that the breweries’ own truck drivers refused to do it, which is the opening Vultaggio wanted to exploit. He braved stickups and shoot-outs. He hauled cheaper product from upstate wholesalers back into the city, because gas was 30 cents a gallon, and the hassle paid well.”
Relax, this gets better.
“One little fly-by-night distribution operation became a $2 billion beverage empire that now makes everything from malt liquor and flavored malt beverages, to beer, to — wait for it — AriZona Iced Tea.”
True story. Arizona Ice Tea is not a product of Arizona. Actual people from Arizona, that is, the 10-20% of the population that are actually from here, are fully aware it is made in New York. Like that terrible salsa from San Antonio, and their sales pitch– New York City!
You probably know where this is going.
“Ultimately, marketers failed to convince the white bourgeois that malt liquor was the new drink of the white bourgeois. But they did convince someone, albeit unintentionally. The word bubbled up the supply chain, from corner store, to distributor, to brewer, and finally to marketing departments: malt liquor is selling well in black neighborhoods. No one knew exactly why. It wasn’t cheaper than regular beer (that would come in the late ’80s, when Schlitz, then the market leader, undercut the competition and triggered the whole category’s slide from premium to bottom shelf). And the messaging was still white as all hell — in fact, a marketing study from the era suggests that malt liquor’s upper-class packaging may have been a contributing factor to its appeal to black customers, though this is no easy thing to corroborate.”
Alas, I could continue to give you excerpts of this article. I am not going to do that. Am I that lazy? Yes. This article though should be of interest to anyone that values capitslism. After all, it never matters who you sell it to. It matters that you sold it.
“malt liquor’s fortunes have been entangled with America’s sorest social bugbears, from race, to class, to poverty, to whether or not capitalism ought to give a shit about any of those things.”
In spite of the halfhearted attempt to SJW, this article is actually pretty good. Read the whole thing.
So how is Eathquake? It pretty bad. I’m not about to indulge myself in its flat body. Its bitter sweet taste and its nose that reminds me of the bathroom in the gas station. There is no redeeming quality about it. It’s made with enzymes that break down the malt to allow the industrial grade yeast to process the sugar as a monosaccharide. This is depression, and squalor in a can. If it were possible to take being a New York Jets fan, distill it, bottle it, distribute it, market it and ultimately sell it–I imagine it would taste like this. Ultimately, everyone will need a drink from time to time, and at least this one it honest enough that all we will know is that it will do its job–and nothing else. Earthquake Malt Liquor 1.5/5.
This is your fault. I blame you.
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158 responses to “It works every time.”
So how is Eathquake? It pretty bad. I’m not about to indulge myself in its flat body. Its bitter sweet taste and its nose that reminds me of the bathroom in the gas station. There is no redeeming quality about it. It’s made with enzymes that break down the malt to allow the industrial grade yeast to process the sugar as a monosaccharide. This is depression, and squalor in a can. If it were possible to take being a New York Jets fan, distill it, bottle it, distribute it, market it and ultimately sell it–I imagine it would taste like this. Ultimately, everyone will need a drink from time to time, and at least this one it honest enough that all we will know is that it will do its job–and nothing else
I have no idea what being a Jets fan is like because I don’t like football and don’t follow it (well, except for the female cheerleaders), but I have to say, it sounds like being a Jets fan is a pretty shitty place to be.
BOOM!
You totally rock.
That’s a Bad Mother/ Shut Yo Mouth!
That was fun, I’ve never seen it around here,
did it melt the Glass?
I’ll have you know that is an Official Glibertarians Pint Glass. You can drink hydrazine* if you wanted to, and it’ll stand up.
*The Glibertarians legal department requested that I make this clear: DO NOT DRINK HYDRAZINE, but buy the glass
Why did you give it any stars?
It pretty bad. I’m not about to indulge myself in its flat body. Its bitter sweet taste and its nose that reminds me of the bathroom in the gas station. There is no redeeming quality about it.
So on the whole, better than today’s crop of IPAs and other excessively hopped “beers”?
I drink Malt liquor, IPA,Porter Stout, anything except Wheats, All Beer is Good!
/Whiny anti IPA people
^ Whiny anti-wheat people
Touche’
/All Beer is Good!
I see you’ve never had black label.
I’ve always liked you, Gustave.
So no interest in the 12%, 210 IBU triple IPA I brought home today?
No. You are trying to compare apples to monkeys.
Once again MS does the research to deliver an informative article. The fact that someone can sell what sounds like piss in a can with a 10% ABV is nothing but a pure win for capitalism which is a system that forces better products to the top but does prove that there are multiple markets one of them being people like Tres.
Its bitter sweet taste and its nose that reminds me of the bathroom in the gas station.
That is repulsive, yet I believe it can be taken up a notch and there might be a market for a beer with a nose of frat house basement carpet.
is nothing but a pure win for capitalism which is a system that forces better products to the top but does prove that there are multiple markets one of them being people like Tres.
Modus Operandi of SP, OMWC, Swiss, Sloopy et al
a beer with a nose of frat house basement carpet.
Rolling Stone Rape Ale?
Hamm’s Sodomy Lite
Cavalier Brewhouse “Grab It By It’s Leg IPA”
I want the ‘Grab em by the pussy’,
A brewery rep from Founders was on a bar crawl I was doing one year, and explained that the PC Pils was named after the informal nickname around the brewery: “Pussy Crusher”. Apparently it was very popular with young ladies who were not used to a beer over 5% being that easy drinking. I wasn’t sure about the veracity of that until the DKML came out, and the story is that it stood for Dick Kicker Malt Liquor.
I have no idea about the drink of american underclasses, but here in good old Romania there is this store chain (well it is german and extensive in europe) called Lidl which sells mostly cheap shit. Never liked it because it looks cheap, I feel cheapened by going there and i dislike the layout, although surprisingly it has a deluxe line which can occasional yield quality products that are harder to find for a reasonable price elsewhere, like wild salmon.
Get to the fucking point Pie!
Okay okay. So this lidl sells a beer I find fascinating. It is called Argus Strong, it has 7.2% alcohol and retails for about 30 to 35 of your american cents for a 500 ml can. SO basically I could get drunk for a dollar. No idea how it tastes although I sometimes feel I should at least try it, but that cheap for that much alcohol…
Somehow reminds me of this funny and sad Mitchell and Webb sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5gQ_rruDmc
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/argus-strong-beer/89156/
Try one Pie! I wanna know
Maybe I can mail one to MS here who is an expert but I am not sure how legal that is and probably costs 20 times the price of beer.
I’m game. Send it over. I’ll even pay shipping. ?
$.30 for a half litre of beer and you havn’t tried it?
*shakes head
Rich white people problem ….
That’s better than the $1/half liter for beer in Ecuador.
most beer in Romania is like 75 cents to 1 dollar for 500 ml but Argus is special. There is also beer sold in 2 liter plastic bottles that is cheap.
When I was in Germany, there was a beer on the shelves named “Hansa” – it was quite cheap, so I asked a store keeper is it any good? Who drinks it? He told me, “It is terrible, only students and alcoholics drink it”.
I shied away from it.
Educate yourself.
Do you have bulk wine for sale in the States? In Romania there are places which have like a barrel of wine and you come with your own container, usually 2 or 5 liter plastic jugs, and buy wine for like 1.5 USD per liter. Does not taste great and rarely passes the headache test, but it is popular. Not always wine, sometimes sugar and yeast fermented with some essence added but still.
There was this old joke : A wine merchant on his death bed (some versions make it an (((merchant))) but not all) tells his son: Before I die I will tell you a secret. Wine can also be made from grapes
Big tradition in some places to make ‘bucket wine’.
I know a couple of old Italian guys who make their own in sufficient quantities, and a few that buy raw wine from neighbors. It’s not really anything like the winemaking that guys here talk about normally.
*takes notes, files business plan*
I think it depends on state law. In NH, wine can only be sold in bottles authorized by the state commission and refilling of those bottles is prohibited. It doesn’t sound like that business model could work here.
So much for Live Free or Die.
I’m pretty sure that the “Die” part is still on the table. I think they need to swap the “or” for an “and”.
I love that site. I 1st saw it years ago, and laughed until I thought a retina might detach.
No Boones Farm? Fake news.
Boone’s is mentioned under “others”
http://www.bumwine.com/others.html
That reminds me, I need to try some Malört while I’m up here.
YES! Ready yourself for TEH BITTER.
The drink of the underclasses in Murika is like this, not necessarily in this order.
Coors lite
Bud lite
Other assorted watery swill with less than 4% ABV.
MS, would Please do one on Sierra Nevada Torpedo, it’s been around for 10 years and it’s my Favorite IPA. Maybe you could convince people that there are Some Good ones out there,
Thanks for Your Service,
/Not a Beer Snob
I’m more on the anti-IPA side, but I don’t mind a Torpedo now and then.
Pineapple,Deep dish, etc.
Noted.
Treat yourself right, MS. Try Firestone Walker’s Velvet Merkin.
I think Safeway carries that…
I’ve posted this before, but it’s fitting here:
40 Ounces of FURY
Now I feels I KNOWS mah fo-tees.
Respeck, blood!
“”None of you have steered me wrong.””
Despite best efforts.
“squalor in a can”
I think he has finally been had.
Disagree. I actually enjoyed the research for this article. Dare I say, this is my finest work.
Drinking one of these over lunch, getting revved up for an afternoon of home renovating.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3818/140393/
Also, acquired them on sale for $6/12 pack. 50 cents a beer works for me.
Decent beer, at a really good price. Nice score.
I bought a sixer of Spaten ‘Optimator’ a few weeks ago – sort of on a whim, not knowing really what is was – and didn’t notice the teeny-tiny “malt liquor” on the label until I brought it home and inspected it. So even today & to my mild surprise, they’re not all cheap, sold in forties, or targeting a certain ethnic group.
Nevertheless, the taste is… not quite my cup of
teabeer. I still have three bottles left.The Optimator is technically a dopplebock, it’s probably labeled as a malt liquor due to some strangeness in NY beer laws. But there are “classy” malt liquors out there:
Rogue’s Dad’s Little Helper
Founders DKML
Dogfish Head Liquor de’Malt (the first release came with a classy brown paper bag)
Optimator is a Doppelbock and it’s a very good one.
DKML was barrel aged if I remember correctly.
Lure me some Optimator when it’s cold out.
Yeah, some states require that beers above a certain ABV are labeled as malt liquors, typically to tax them at a higher rate. I know MD does the tax bit, not sure about the malt liquor bit.
The worst for that was Texas. They used to (assuming my memory is correct, and the law was repealed) label beers ales or lagers based on ABV. So you would every once in a while pick up a beer that was a lager, that had on the label: “Ale in Texas”.
*waves*
I’ll take ’em off your hands!
Just cracked a Stone IPA to accompany the omelette my beautiful wife is preparing in the kitchen.
“Stockholm dog owner Carola Kastman is advocating for a female-only dog run. She claims her puppy, Coco, and other female dogs can’t visit dog runs when they are in heat without being attacked. Her proposal has sparked a minor uproar in the Swedish capital.
Bitches, please!
A Stockholm resident wants to build a new dog park with one rule: no (dog) boys allowed.
In the Swedish capital, it’s socially verboten for female dogs in heat to frolic in dog parks, according to local news outlet StockholmDirekt.
The pooches aren’t partitioned without cause: It’s a widely held opinion that female dogs in heat shouldn’t be in close quarters with unneutered male dogs, who may get riled up from the interaction.
But artist Carola Kastman, owner of 5-month-old border collie-Doberman-Rottweiler mix, Coco, thinks it’s downright discriminatory that pups like hers are barred from Stockholm’s dog runs for the roughly three months per year they are menstruating.
“I could never have believed that patriarchy had entered the dog parks,” she tells StockholmDirekt.“This is a major political issue. I will not be happy until there’s at least one sex-separated dog run for female dogs in every neighborhood.”
Her “citizen’s proposal” to open a female-only dog park near her neighborhood of Sodermalm will be considered by the local government — although the chairman of Sodermalm’s district council declined to comment to StockholmDirekt “because he is not a dog owner himself.””
https://nypost.com/2017/09/15/outraged-woman-crusades-against-dog-park-patriarchy/
structural inequality that long term leads to fewer treats for female dogs. But the solution is not a new park but explaining to the dogs that in heat is social construct.
I refuse to believe that this is nothing more than master-level trolling.
*looks at the photo of the owner*
There is strong evidence you are correct.
The basic idea is sound. Too bad it’s wrapped in SJW gobbledyspew.
(that would come in the late ’80s, when Schlitz, then the market leader, undercut the competition and triggered the whole category’s slide from premium to bottom shelf)
My friends and I, in high school, drank a lot of Schlitz Malt Liquor. Why? High school, I guess.
A few years later, at some party in college, I had like one of those (I don’t remember why- maybe it was a themed party, before they became verboten), and promptly rushed out the back door and puked; Pavlovian response, I guess.
After all, it never matters who you sell it to. It matters that you sold it.
Pay no attention to the ruined lives and smouldering wreckage in your wake, you capitalist pig!
Did you have that glibertarians glass made custom or is there a merch’ store around here I just haven’t noticed?
“Shop” link at top of page.
When you guys find out what we just spend your donations on, you’ll shit bricks.
I always considered my donations to be a total loss anyway.
Pot, ass sex, and mexicans? I’d be disappointed otherwise.
Even better.
Eye drops for Switzy, candy for OMWC, benzos for SF, & a Youtube Red subscription for HM.
Youtube Red or Redtube?
Big Man Tyrone promo video?
Aha! It only appears on the mobile site if you deliberately open the menu at the top.
Cafe press store https://www.cafepress.com/glibertariansstore
I got a he Glibs beer stein. Pretty cool.
Do they make steins for non-binary otherkins?
Yes, but it’s as imaginary as they are.
I got a clear and a frosted one for xmas.
You might need something stronger than malt liquor to read this thread:
https://twitter.com/SofieHagen/status/961967842403987458
What was that?
None of that makes any sense.
Self-love == masturbation.
There is always a tell in those screeds – capitalism bad. Women are so much better off in commieland; selling their pussies to bums for food scraps is so non-patriarchal.
Malt liquor is for closers.
Then there’s this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WeddingsGoneWild/
(NSFW)
Anaconda Malt Liquor for the win. From ‘Black Dynamite’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuY6vwcEUCI
So am I the only one drinking wine while reading this?
Nope.
Do they have Thunderbird in Romania?
You don’t need Thunderbird when you have şliboviţă.
Pretty sure I know what that is. Ex-girlfriend (OG-2X-OG) aka “The Big, Huge, Giant, Polack” was not only fond of chain-smoking, filling my freezer with piergoies, and squealing with delight when she saw pączki this time of year, she would bring over bottles of śliwowica. Man, that shit gets ya crunk af.
Brain damage in a bottle.
I don’t doubt that some of it, somewhere, is quite good, if only as a basis for a real knockout fruit punch, but every time I’ve had it the result is that I’m AFU.
I’m drinking yuengling and eating carrot sticks while watching DS9 and baby trshmnstr… i think i need another beer or 3
I’m at Season 2 episode 5 so far, The Dominion!
I just finished season 2. I’m on S3E4
The girlfriend is parked on the other side of the Palatial 2X-Wide known as Chez Tres. She hears me giggling like the slack-jawed moron than I am, and yells,
“What did you do? WHAT DID YOU DO?”
“We need to go to Kroger.”
“For what?”
“EARFquake.”
“Really? What did you do this time?”
“Nuthin’”
You are a sick, twisted man.
Don’t you ever fucking change.
I want some “squalor in a can!”
I will not be happy until there’s at least one sex-separated dog run for female dogs in every neighborhood.
And, if this person were kicked out of the He Man Woman Haters dog park, how would she respond?
re the link in MS’s bio. I am not down with new moves because I am old. While searching for a vid of my go to move, “open the gate”, I came across something with a beer theme. Schlitz, schlitz, schlitz, klep
Speaking of cheap beer, I picked up an 18-pack of Rolling Rock for ten bucks, the other day. For that price, sure I’ll drink it.
Toy beer. It’s fine if you run out of seltzer.
That was the go-to dollar bottle on nights out during college in Buffalo. I’ll still drink it.
I was surprised it wasnt so bad, the last time I had it. That was a go-to back in college.
It’s great when you need a cold drink and don’t want the alcohol hit. Whack in a shot of lime juice and it makes it pretty refreshing.
We had a FloridaMan night a few months ago where we shot up some skunky rolling rock cans with some subsonic .22 rounds in the back alley. (The aguila brand cycles fine in a 10/22 for those who are interested).
I have some fond memories of quaffing Rolling Rock.
I have a bunch of $2 half pints of vodka. Also, the Silver Seas. Also, having trouble walking now.
I’m still shakily sweating out the remnants of last night’s 40-fest. I’ll resume punishing my system when THE Ohio State University tips-off at 18.00h.
It weird how I always seem to meet TOSU people, IRL and online. Michigan must graduate a similar number of people annually, yet I never seem to meet them. Maybe they’re just ashamed. FSU grad here.
Believe me, if Jimmy had turned their decent program into a contender, or if the boosters could convince 5 of the top high school recruits in the country to attend a non-basketball school and get their dicks sucked by Mitch Albom, the Wolverines would be out in force.
And they’d probably be just as obnoxious as the Tosu people.
I know what you mean. I figure the tOSU grads won’t shut up about it because they just don’t know any better. Poor things.
Hey, they have to talk about the sports… I went to school for academics, m’self.
*ducks*
Years ago I was going to go carp fishing down on the Mississippi near downtown Minneapolis after work. I changed into some grubby carp fishing clothes and grabbed a buddy. We stopped off at the old Liquor Depot near the river to grab some beer.
I was staring into the beer case thinking about buying some 40’s when I saw a new malt liquor. It was Camo High Gravity. As I was looking at it, one of the local homeless guys sidled up and said “Hey brother, it is cheaper if you buy a six pack of it.”
I was sort of stunned at being called brother by one of the bums, but then I realized that my raggedy jean cutoffs, filthy Club Carp shirt and beat up shoes combined with an interest in Camo was all I needed to belong to the club. My buddy overheard the conversation and still hasn’t let me forget the day I was inducted into the Homeless Union.
p.s. I did buy a sixer of Camo that day (how could I not?) and can report that it is absolutely horrible.
I hope you gave the bum one of the cans as a “thank you” for his wise counsel.
Fuck that. It would have been like feeding a stray cat, my new “brother” would have followed me around all day while I was trying to catch the wily Queen of the River.
And besides, I was a heartless bastard back then (I didn’t realize I was a libertarian, I just figured I had sociopathic tendencies).
Is that our promo once the Family Friendly Certification is revoked?
Glibertarians.com: We’re not sociopaths, we’re libertarian.
Why not both?
we shot up some skunky rolling rock cans with some subsonic .22 rounds in the back alley. (The aguila brand cycles fine in a 10/22 for those who are interested).
I have a S&W model 22-something semi-auto target pistol. Subsonic cycles fine in it. Doesn’t work for shit in the GSG .22 top end on the 1911. The hotter the better, in that.
Glibertarians.com: We’re not sociopaths, we’re libertarian.
“Call me a sociopath again, and I’ll fucking kill you.”
Malt liquor was my DOC prior to my being able to legally purchase alcohol, and then for my broke years shortly thereafter. I mean, it tastes like…it doesn’t taste particularly good, but that’s not the point. The point is to get the first one near-freezing and then drink it as fast as you possibly can. After that, the rest just taste like drunk, which is the point of the exercise to begin with. One doesn’t purchase Olde English to drink it in moderation.
My DOC prior to the age of 21 was some rough homemade wine. Yes, I learned how to make wine specifically to get drunk underage. I started out by putting baker’s yeast into a bottle of Welch’s grape juice, then I scaled up the operation by fermenting in those five gallon water cooler jugs.
I kept adding sugar until the alcohol percentage got too high for the yeast to live. I never measured the ABV%, but one 12-oz glass of this stuff would get you good and buzzed. It was definitely stronger than any storebought wine I’ve had. My first few batches tasted pretty grody, but I got better with time. Then I turned 21 and gave it up entirely.
Vodka for me: I didn’t start drinking until I studied in Russia, a few months before turning 20.
Nowadays it’s wine at dinner, and vodka on Friday and Saturday nights.
1 Growler of Tele-porter and 1 growler of Oskar Blues 10-fidy
Ack thbbfpt!
Yummy!
Nice avatar!
Chris cilliza is outraged and appalled
Trump okayed the release of the Nunes memo last week. Late Friday, he vetoed the release of the Democratic memo, sending it back to the Intelligence Committee for revisions.
The hypocrisy and cynicism in those twin decisions is roughly the size of Mount Everest. (Nota bene: That the memo is “long” seems entirely immaterial to whether it should be released or not.)
Trump’s own FBI and Justice Department urged the President not to release the Nunes memo.
————-
To then hide behind the same FBI and Justice Department you ignored a week ago in order to slow — or stop — the release of a memo that tells a story Trump doesn’t believe or like is the height of hypocrisy.
It is also a step further down the road of politicizing and weaponizing intelligence information. The very fact that Nunes’ memo was written — much less released — is hugely unprecedented. To then keep a competing memo from being released by citing the very people whose recommendation you ignored a week before is, even for this administration, stunning. And appalling.
Partisan politics, in Washington? That’s never happened before!
Is anyone stupid enough, aside from true believers, to think that this demo memo was not a calculated setup? I dont know how they could be more transparent about it. They were called on it before they finished drafting it. Also, aren’t the same people now complaining that Trump wont release it the same ones that were squawking about the rep memo before it was released saying it couldn’t be released because soooper seekret stuff?
The democrats have just become a bad clown troupe.
My understanding is both memos went to DOJ, which asked for a minor change to the Nunez memo and apparent,y shit a brick when they saw the Dem memo.
Repub memo – drafted to present no issues to DOJ. Dem memo- drafted to be unreleasable. Somehow this makes the Repubs look bad.
This move is aimed at the clapping seals RC and they are eating it up.
Founders Availability Calendar
I haven’t been paying attention. Sumatra Mountain Brown is out. KBS and Backwoods Bastard come out next month.
And Sumatra Mountain Brown is excellent.
I haven’t had it yet. I have a vague memory of seeing it in a beer store. I don’t remember why I didn’t buy it. Maybe I didn’t actually see it.
Wish me luck fellow homebrewers, I’ve got two slots for the national AHA homebrew competition. My present thought is to enter my American Stout and my Nut Brown. Just bottled the American Stout off the keg today, and I’m brewing the Nut Brown now.
Good luck! I hope you win it.
I haven’t brewed anything in a while. I threw out a bunch of my homebrewing equipment and haven’t replaced it yet.
I store the equipment in my basement. Last summer yellowjackets got into my basement and set up a nest. I called an exterminator because my attempts to find and kill all the yellow jackets failed. I shouldn’t feel too bad, it took two trips for the exterminator to find the nest and kill all those fuckers. Both of us had slung lots of chemicals and foggers around my basement, so I decided to err on the side of caution and throw out the home brewing supplies.
The yellowjackets got in through a gap between one of the basement windows and the foundation. I sealed it up. I suspect the gap was always there, it just widened over the years thanks to water getting into the gap and freezing.
Are you going to save some of this booze for a future Beer it Forward?
I’ve got to make it through the preliminary round first. I’ve got the most hope for the stout, it’s already gotten a gold, a bronze, and an honorable mention ribbon at several other competitions. The nut brown is one I’m really happy with, but have never entered in a competition before (it did have one person who tried it freaking out about nut allergies, no matter how many times I told them there were no adjuncts).
Honestly, if my beers make it to the mini Best of Show round, I consider it a win. At that point, it’s a crapshoot based on what the judges palates are like after the judging. As for saving some for a BIF, it’s a possibility, if the members of the BIF want to include home brews instead of just commercial beers.
Good luck!!
Malt liquor is not bad in itself. I’ve had a few good ones. The best was here:
Ellicott Mills Brewery
In fact, they make some pretty good seasonal beers, and that malt liquor is the best one I’ve had. I bought a growler of it. They never have the same beers when I go in, so probably won’t see it again. And I haven’t been back in years. But it’s worth checking out if you’re in the area. Also, be sure to go downstairs and sit at the bar. I can’t really explain it, just do it and you’ll see.
Carlsberg Elephant is pretty good For what it is, We drank it many years ago
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/721/1996/
I like it. I haven’t seen it in a while here, but they have the regular Carlsberg in a 40oz can. I get one occasionally and put it in the freezer until it’s ice cold. Good stuff.
Cobra is the same thing, Ice Cold it’s pretty good, but as soon as it warms blech. If This happens you just rotate it out with the next one.
The only Carlsberg I’ve ever had was in Australia. I toured the Cooper’s brewery. Cooper’s brews Carlsberg in Australia under contract. Carlsberg was included in the tasting at the end of the tour. I don’t remember which one I had but I’m certain it wasn’t Elephant.
The last time I had Carlsberg was one of my “Three at the ‘Deid” on my way home from my secind deployment.
A little off topic, but it’s alcohol. Has anyone here tried the Whistlepig 12 year old rye? I stopped in one of our local stores yesterday and saw that they had just got some. I wanted to ask about it, but I was in a hurry.
If any of you lot is interested in the taste-explosion that is EARTHQUAKE! and cant get it (or refuse to go to the places its most likely found) let me know and Ill Swill-it-Forward. In my experience, the stuff will make you want to fight a phone pole, so I may need a release form of some sort drafted by the Glib’s Legal Dept.
Just got back from Total Wine. Picked up six packs of Fremont Lush ipa, Melvin ipa, and Oskar Blues ipa.
Still working on these Mother’s Milk and High West Barrel Aged Victory At Sea that I got the other day and really enjoy. Also, making l0b0t’s Folly out of this wholly awful Redemption High Rye Bourbon .
Anybody ever had a dog get laryngitis? Our dog tried to howl at a fire truck and it sounds like he lost his voice. I wouldn’t be too concerned except he’s been hacking and coughing a lot recently, almost like a cat with a hairball.
Yup. My shepherd had laryngeal paralysis. Made her sound like she had emphysema, although it was totally benign.
Can you send a culture to us? Our dog could use a good case of laryngitis.