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Cocoa Mole

cocoamole Had New Belgium’s latest Lips of Faith release Cocoa Mole on tap at Khoury’s, and I really enjoyed it. Lots of chocolate and roast, with a nice spicy finish.



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Homer Simpson on Beer

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“I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.”
- Homer Simpson

“Beer, the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems.”
- Homer Simpson

“Beer. Now there’s a temporary solution.”
- Homer

“Homer no function beer well without.”
- Homer Simpson

“Alright brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me, so just get me through this exam so I can go back to killing you slowly with beer.”
- Homer Simpson

“A woman is a lot like beer. They smell good, they look good, and you’d step over your own mother to get one.”
- Homer

“Oh, Lisa, you and your stories: Bart’s a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now let’s go back to that … building … thingie … where our beds and TV … is.”
- Homer

“All right, Homey, you’re over stimulated. As soon as we get you home, we’ll get some beer into you, and then it’s straight to bed.”
- Marge

Sung to the tune of “It Was a Very Good Year”:

When I was seventeen
I drank some very good beer.
I drank some very good beer
I purchased with a fake ID.
My name was Brian McGee.
I stayed up listening to Queen.
When I was seventeen.
- Homer



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My Top 10 Beers – 2011

Everybody else seems to be doing a top 10 list, so here’s mine. These are not necessarily the beers I drink all the time, but if I had to pick 10 to drink for the rest of my life, these would be them (at least for this year…):

brewdogoldworldipa 10. Brew Dog Old World IPA Brewed exclusively for Total Wine & More, This is quickly becoming my go-to beer. BTW, there is no reference to Brew Dog anywhere on the bottle
tjvintageale 9. Trader Joe’s Vintage Ale has been made for Trader Joe’s by Unibroue for the past seven years, and each year is a treat. When the wife and I can’t agree on anything else to drink, we can always agree on a TJVA. We now have vintages from 2007 on, and they hold up very well. And only $4.99 for a 750ml bottle!
blackxantus 8. Nectar Ale’s Black Xantus – Only 400 cases of 22oz bombers produced. I went to Khoury’s Fine Wine & Spirits to sample this on tap. They tapped the 5gal keg at 6pm, and I got the very last goblet at 6:24pm. It’s that good…
twoheartedale 7. Bell’s Two Hearted Ale I’ve got my friends in Phoenix and my Brother in Georgia constantly on the lookout for this one for me.
seamonster 6. Ballast Point Sea Monster Imperial Stout – So hard to get, it’s not even listed on the site.
firestonexv 5. Firestone Walker XV – An amazing blended, barrel-aged masterpiece.
parabola 4. Firestone Walker Parabola – Just edges out my #5 Stout.
estate 3. Sierra Nevada Estate Ale – One of the few estate-made ales in the world, bursting with flavor.
sculpin 2. Ballast Point Sculpin IPA – This is a close second to my #1 beer, but now that Ballast Point is supposedly distributing in Nevada, I hope to be able to get it more regularly.
plinytheelder 1. Pliny The Elder – Hands down my favorite, when I can get it.


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Scientists Discover Why Flies Like Beer…

Apparently it smells good, and gets them drunk…

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside posed a question that sounds like something you’d hear at a fraternity kegger:

Ever wonder why flies are attracted to beer?

The answer turns out to be simple. UCR said in a statement today, “flies sense glycerol, a sweet-tasting compound that yeasts make during fermentation.” There’s yeast in beer, and beer undergoes fermentation.

The flies “sense the glycerol because (they) have a receptor known as Gr64e,” UCR says. “Once a fly has settled on beer, Gr64e detects glycerol and transmits this information to the fly’s neurons, which then influences the fly’s behavioral response.)

The results of the study — which was done on fruit flies — aren’t surprising. The University of California San Francisco released a study last year that says that fruit flies will drink until they can drink no more. UCSF researcher Ulrike Heberlein told Mental Floss (story) that, “The flies choose to consume alcohol to intoxicating levels, they will do so even if alcohol is made unpalatable, and they relapse to drinking high levels of alcohol after being deprived of it. Addiction is a purely human condition, but, surprisingly, flies show several key features of it.”

Full Story here…



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