A question was posed, that got a lot of response:
At which point it became apparent that nobody liked my suggestion.
Later that week, it became apparent that nobody likes my music. Sad.
Surely, there must be somebody else around here with some level of discerning taste.
*raises glass to Certified Public Asshat*
Today is my review of beer that I picked because it got a song stuck in my head at the time of purchase. I will post links, but given my audience, you have my word as a Spaniard that none of them will be Metallica.**
First up, is this Belgian Style Ale from Victory Brewery. I should be H/T somebody here, but to be honest I forgot who it was. Here is the song.
This is not half bad, and while I generally do like the Saison and/or Farmhouse style this one is a tad on the bitter side. I think Boulevard does it better with their Tank #7. Victory Golden Monkey Ale: 3.5/5
Up next is Wells’s Banana Bread Ale (H/T: Riven) I regret this one. It is expertly brewed, but I believe I made my feelings for bananas clear in a previous review. For this one, there can really only be one thing running in my head. In the event you actually clicked that, and wish to murder me, consider that I only played you a clip. Wells Banana Bread Ale: 2.0/5
Left Coast Brewery VooDoo American Stout. This is a bit heavier than the run of the mill milk stout. It has more coffee notes so think of this as more of the type like Guinness Extra Stout. The song of course is something that also manages to be both heavy and mellow. I played it as loud as the terrible speakers in my car could play. Left Coast Brewery VooDoo American Stout: 3.8/5.
Finally, this one was pretty blatant about the music choice. I happened to like Deftones when I was in high school but they kind of fell off the face of the earth until that day I found this. They were always just a little bit…different. Anyhow, they picked an IPA and one that is particularly gruesome. Lot of heavy citrus notes in this one, and as you can tell is very hazy. A few of you will like the song, somebody here will like the beer, but nobody will like the price tag ($14 for 4-pack). Belching Beaver Digital Bath IPA: 2.5/5.
**Right, I’m no Spaniard, but none of the links were Metallica. At least give me that.
Comments
153 responses to “Ain’t My Bitch”
I regret nothing.
And now I want that banana bread beer.
Now the only thing I can think of is making banana beer bread with banana bread beer.
I have a beer bread recipe, should I add bananas?
I don’t know. I’m going to have to run some tests… or get distracted by the next thought to come down the pike.
Okay, your basic beer bread is
flour
butter
salt
baking powder
beer
Banana bread is
flour
butter
salt
baking soda
bananas
sugar
egg
Baking powder contains baking soda as one of its ingredients, so the core four are more or less the same. It’s how well the beer, sugar, bananas and egg work with each other and which can be dropped that need be addressed/tested
I will certainly be interested in hearing about the results!
Thinking it over, it really boils down to how much impact the egg has on the end product. It acts as a binder, but I’m liable to use bread flour (higher gluten content) since that’s what I have most of in the cabinet.
Mind you, I don’t have any bananas nor beer at the moment.
*hands Riven a Glock, a bag of cocaine, and $100 bill*
You never regret anything.
You are not wrong. Lol.
Note to self: avoid Mexican’s version of RockPaperScissors.
Victory’s Sour monkey rocks well, review that one,
Sorry if Megadeth kicks the Shit out of Metallica, Dave is the superior Song writer,
and Marty Friedman
*pours High Life over Yusef’s head*
It’s been a long time since Marty was in the band.
I’d have guessed that for a Belgian-style ale, this song would have been stuck in your head.
I like this one better.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xnCaFTaDGkc
Yours is a parody 0f this.
I found something for TedS,
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2018/09/Commas.jpeg?resize=600%2C558&ssl=1
OT, but this looks amazing
Yeah, saw that trailer and really want to see it, hopefully I won’t forget about by the time it’s available to watch.
For the banana bread ale, you could have tried this.
Barely tushed it. Bummer. Butt still highly impressive.
I’ll be in my вы, сахар, освободили ссылку
The hell does that even happen?
Nice use of Google Translate.
Oh, I can barely speak my native language, let alone try to do that shit on my own.
Relevant.
It took me a minute to realize what he entered into Google Translate. Nice.
It’s nice to know he’s liberating references.
That made me think something about having my bar that close too – I tried to phrase it better but the scotch got in the way.
I agree that the Metallica cover is better than the original.
But original Black Sabbath > original Metallica
Fun article. I may try the Gwen Stefani beer
That is the one I would like to try most out of this lineup.
I don’t know if it was I who recommended the Golden Monkey, it was certainly possible. It’s certainly one of my favorites from Victory.
I returned from Belgium recently and had many a good beer. One of the more modern Belgium beers I liked was Lost In Spice. It had a smooth taste with a cardomon like aftertaste.
https://imgur.com/gallery/RdmoweD
Yeah, Golden Monkey is one of my favorite beers from one of my favorite breweries. Their Sour Monkey is one of the fews,Sours I can drink (not more than one though) probably because of its familiarity to the Golden Monkey and it’s not overly tart. I also like there Storm King. I’m a huge fan of the Belgians. Will have to look for that Loat in Spice.
Just drank my last bottle of homebrew from the biere de garde that tasted like an amber ale. Now that I have some bottles free, it’s time to look for a new beer to brew! Any suggestions? Probably will be done Nov 1.
I’m also curious about trying out root beer, but that will have to wait until this new beer is bottled.
A helles.
Idk if I’m ready to go the lager direction yet. I have a hard enough time getting consistency out of the easier ales. However, now you have me craving a helles!
a zoigl would be better. Although technically it would be a kellerbier or zweickelbier
Buffalo Nutz
It’s ok the due to extreme levels of THC in the air he probably didn’t feel much.
All right. Give me a great locally brewed beer in Mobile, AL.
Go!
$14 for a 4 pack? THIS IS WHAT I THINK OF THAT
That’s why you need a place that sells singles. I don’t want to drop that much for a new beer in case it sucks and you get stuck choking down the rest because of how much you spent.
The supermarket by us sells Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA for $12.99 per 4 pack. They also have singles of the very same beer in the Build-Your-Own Six-Pack section which is $10.99 for any 6 singles. Sigh…
Six doghead’s into the build my own…
Which probably explains the markup on the dogfish 6ers.
I bought it as a single.
We have a great local shop that sells singles (even the hard to find stuff) and if you fill a six they will give you 10% off the total.
The WHO, fuckers that they are, want to ban that.
(The wine shop I frequent does the same thing. You can mix and match to get the 15% case discount.
Why does the World Health Organization or Peter Townsend want that banned?
There was s Tory in today’s mourning lynx about it.
A story, fucking autocorrect!
A Tory!?
*grabs rifle*
The singles sold around these parts are 24’s of the usual big name brands plus a large section of Clamoto brew. They do sell some big bottles of small brewers but they want $10-$12 for less than a quart or whatever those bottles are.
Saturday Slaughter….very NSFW (Carpenter Brut).
People don’t believe me when I tell them the eighties was the best decade ever.
How about a Karen Carpenter Brut mashup?
Deftones, man, wow. Haven’t heard them in a billion years. I think nu-metal is sort of like disco in that it’s not very good in and of itself but it had to happen in order for a whole lot of other good music to happen afterwards. I think the Deftones branched away from that style early on and did much more interesting stuff than bands like Korn or Linkin Park or their ilk.
it’s not very good in and of itself
Como se what?
I mean, de gustibus and all. I should specify that *I* think it’s not very good metal, which is not the same as it being bad quality music.
I dont think it is either. Its something else entirely.
The Nu Metal genre is confusing to me. When people talk about it now all they seem to think of is rap rock. But as someone who was in the scene (as a fan, not a band) at the time the genre was a lot more varied than that.
I think of it as basically Korn, which I first heard when I was a sophomore in high school and thought was great, and then bands like Linkin Park, who I can’t stand, Coal Chamber, who I thought of as the band that kind of sounds like Korn, and like Limp Bizkit, about whom the less said the better. For me it was kind of a musical placeholder between alternative rock and hardcore at that point in my life. Then in 1998 a friend of mine was like, “Hey, listen to this tape,” and it was a bunch of local hardcore bands, including the criminally underappreciated Avail, and that was a wrap on nu metal for me. Now when I look back on it I focus on the “metal” bit, compare it to other metal, and find it generally wanting. But I think that’s because I think of it as like bad metal, not as a subgenre of hard rock, which is probably more appropriate.
To me and the people I knew, Nu Metal was more defined by the bass sound than any other aspect, in that it had a deeper sound, was detuned and highly prevalent. I mean Slaves on Dope was called Nu Metal and the base is sound is pretty much the only thing close to something like Korn or Coal Chamber.
I saw Delltones and thought, finally some music I can listen to. Wowsa, what a mistake I made!
Go back to your Perry Como, gramps. :-p
Lawrence Welk
An acquaintance of mine tours with Jimmy Sturr.
Polka lady
Sigh. Weird day.
But is did remind me why I like Fletch Lives…
If God is involved, you need some music in your movie clip
I see the light!
*thunderous ovation*
There are people in this world that are utterly confused by references to that movie. Sad.
Read you this post, and then scant wonder why I agitated for ms to join TPTB.
I might be dyslexic because I read that as TBTP. Regardless, which one is MS?
What the hell was that?
Fuck knows. I didn’t know what TPTB was so I entered it dyslexicly into youtube search and got that.
2300 words so far this afternoon.
Not bad, and there’s still daylight left for more.
I’ve even heard of this thing called electricity which one can convert to light and continue working after the sun goes down.
What sorcery is this that you can make light with neither flame nor heat?
actually, it is made with either flame or heat, but it is outsourced.
…all the way back to the sun.
Hydroelectric power for the win? (the dam is literally just up the river from me)
What manner of man are you that makes fire with no flint or tinder? – MST3K
I’m only up to 4,000 words today? But it’s been another four hours.
Words 4443-4497 for today.
Re the topic…
Metallica rocks and thier cover of Turn the page is better than the original.
There I said it.
*bangs head*
I’m just gonna leave this here…
Jimmy Fallon sucks balls.
This is almost 40 years old, recorded on a pile of junk and probably in mono. Still better than Metallica.
I like Bob Seger, but damned if I can stand a saxophone. I’ll give you this one. Although, I believe this violates my policy of pretending that Metallica stopped making albums after ” …And Justice For All” and the current band is actually different people with the same names who happen to resemble the original band.
This seems like a friendly place to state my assertion: St. Anger was a terrible, unlistenable pile of shit.
I have a dear friend who will buy anything Metallica releases and love it, and I’ve heard everything after the black album. It’s butt. I mean, it’s fine, and perfectly wonderful people with good taste might like it, but…it’s poo. It’s their own fault. You can’t make back-to-back Ride the Lightning and …And Justice for All and expect to keep that up.
I like Metallica. St. Anger was a terrible, unlistenable pile of shit.
Yes. Yes it was.
And yet, then they collaborated with Lou Reed and St Anger was no longer the worst thing they did.
I don’t own a single Bob Seger or Metallica album, not a fan of either. Seger has a better voice for the song and it’s hard to do the slow burn buildup when you start out heavy like Lars and the boys do. Both songs are okay but Bob slightly edges out Metallica mostly due to the vocals. Neither holds a candle to the best ‘rock and roll band on the road song’
I don’t have a Seger or Metallica either. Good on us. Also, no Michael Stanley
this is exactly right.
Covers.
Cheers to FOS and Mexican Sharpshooter.
*It’s a Yuengling Golden Pilsner because I am basic*
A cover that most of you will probably hate, but I love it. Spineshank – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Not my normal cup of tea, but that may have earned a spot on the Halloween playlist.
Another cover that people will hate.
I’m going to leave this one here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tzGLtJX1xVg
That cover deserves whatever hate it gets.
RE covers.
Whoever posted the links to Leo’s metal covers recently…ugh. I got lost in YouTube for days watching his stuff and his friends stuff too.
It’s been the most time I’ve spent on YouTube in years.
Sorry about that.
Leo by himself gets old after a bit…but his collaboration with others really turns into something special.
To be fair, I only linked the cover of “Africa”. The rest is on you.
Oh, totally.
And congrats on the 4k+ words today.
Leo cover
Great call on Godsmack. I don’t know anything about the related beer. I do love that song and had never seen the video before.
Voodoo is odd because every other Godsmack song is the same with minor changes, but Voodoo was actually different.
Drinking this for dinner tonight
https://www.weihenstephaner.com/beers/hefeweissbier-dunkel/
Pretty good.
Oh, I may as well .
Lemmy sings Bowie.
I love Motorhead but never thought much of that cover. Now, if Bowie did a cover of I Don’t Believe A Word that could have been interesting.
Collective Soul covers Ozzie: Crazy Train
Weak, generic voice = -10 points.
Not enough personal twist = -10 points
Live show = -10 points
Trying to have the audience sing it = -10,000 points.
Ugh, thank God I didn’t make it that far.
Yup.
Best interpetation of Crazy Train
This showed up on suggested videos, much better dancing.
You’re a bad person for posting that.
???
Better dancing
I’ve seen my fair share of musicals, I can take em or leave. But that just triggered a memory of a director who spoke in one of my college classes whose name I can’t recall. He directed everything from Our Gang shorts to musicals and even an episode Star Trek:The Next Generation. That was an interesting listen.
Trying to figure out who that could be. Looked at the list of TNG episodes on Wikipedia, and don’t see any directors who would have been around during the Our Gang shorts.
FFS
What.Was.That?
We be Jammin!
/sent from secret location, my garage….
“Yusef and the Kias”?
Sorry….white trash washer for the win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKZTdkvr4qo
I think this is the washers best work.
I do like the way he always counts it off
No late night links?
*shrug* I don’t understand the weekend schedule.
Looks like SP will come to the rescue at 8 central.
*sets HM signal ablaze*
Explanation ?
and FloridaMan® by extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR7dG_m3MsI
How ’bout a fan parody/cover? Holy Driver
My smoker is closed this weekend…instead a harvest casserole with rice, chicken, sweet potatoes, and onions is what’s for dinner.
I think the GOP should withdrawal Kav…pit up Garland and sink his nomination with an up-down vote.
They do not have that kind of vote discipline.
Alas I know…but would be epic political trolling
Speaking of covers, I really dig this one of “Love Like This.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NA3BxCctsXA
Do other football fanbases do these parody/covers as often as Packers fans? I’m a Cheese Head baby, the pride of Wisconsin.
I’m told this one was a parody of something to do with a G6, but not my scene.
That’s not as awful, but still very bad.
Clearly, you weren’t around for this gem from the 1985 Chicago Bears .
That was a song by the team, not fans.
Walter Payton is arguably the greatest running back of all time.
And Jim McMahon was arguably the world’s biggest douchebag.
That is just awful.
I’m not endorsing, just presenting. But I think it’s better than the song Robert Brooks put out after the Packers won that Superbowl in the 90s.
I’m not a Constitutional scholar, but can we declare war on Wisconsin? Doesn’t everything come under the Commerce Clause?