Yesterday's Beer Fest

Yesterday's beer fest was a lot of fun. Although I've been lucky enough to have had a few hundred different beers over the years, I will admit that I'm about as far from a professional beer reviewer as they come! HAHA! I just know that I love beer, and I know what I like and don't like. Right now I'm really into wheat beer and India Pale Ales, and in general hoptastic beer in whatever variety. I used to like dark beer a lot, like stouts, brown ales and the like, but over the past couple years I've moved over to what I would consider more flavorful stuff, like Hoptimus Prime from Legend Breweries, and just about anything from Sierra Nevada (trying their "Harvest" series this next week!). In the end people have to find beer they like and can afford, that's for sure. Anyway, see everyone soon. Salutes!

Beer Review 3

Ahhhhhhh....Moylan's Hopsickle is THE remedy for that slop I just tried, Sam A's Imperial White. God but this is good. Nice and hoppy, with a melon sort of aftertaste that's weirdly nice. Has a bite to it, which is what I'd expect for an Imperial Ale and totally without any bitterness. Copper in color like the Wychcraft, but with more of a head to it. Looks like this will make the "List", those few beers that get hammered into the belly on a somewhat regular basis. Salutes!

Beer Review 2

Let me just say now that Sam Adams has lost its ever-loving MIND! I tried, I honestly tried to like this here Imperial White because I love the overwhelming majority of Sam beers. However, this shit here is by far the nastiest, most undrinkable bottle of nonsense I have ever had the displeasure of attempting to drink! The wife had to pour it out!! It's slick like oil on the top of water and fucking tastes worse than cough syrup with a giant turd up in it! You may as well lick your dog's ass than drink this garbage. Ugh! Next up, my Hopsickle! Wish me fucking luck!

Beer Reviews

Man o' man! It's about to begin! What I hope will  become a relatively regular attraction on this here blog: BEER TASTE TESTS!! Woooo hoooo! Up to bat is Wychwood Brewery's Wychcraft and so far so good. When I popped the top I filled the ole snorthole up with what was a solid bit of happy scent, something that reminded me of a good, crisp German pilsner we used to drink back in my Army days. Again, crisp and clean came to mind. So I grabbed my handy tasting mug, which is a mug in the shape of a bad-ass Mason jar, poured some up in there, and saw right up front a solidly copper colored brew with just a minimal head. Having a lot of dome on a beer sort of sucks as I'm trying to drink the beer, not the freakin' foam, you know? The taste of it is good and strong, like you'd expect from an English ale, but stronger than what I thought would be in a blonde variety. But good, nonetheless. As with all Wychwood beers, it's thick and syrupy and would be nice as a dessert beer, like with a slice of apple cobbler or something! HAHA!!

Random Thoughts

Yesterday while I was at work I had this random thought about how up until recently Germany had the 2nd or 3rd most powerful economy in the world, and while that was true they lived in a mostly socialistic system whereby they had high income taxes to pay for the various social services and healthcare they all enjoy. Like a bolt of freakin' lightening (!) I just saw something that completely tripped me up: I wouldn't give a damn WHERE you live, high taxes means that you just don't have a lot of spare money to put into anything else. Right? Of course that's right! And because of higher taxation one would imagine that it's relatively harder to buy a home, at least until you're a bit older and have had a longer amount of time to save for a home.

So, you're most likely going to be in your 30's, and your late 30's at that, when you finally get to buying a home, and then you're straight LOCKED into your job because without that you will shortly be on your behind and on the streets, so like a good worker you shush it the hell up and do as you're bloody well told. (grin) I mean, you can't just up and tell your employer you've had enough of they bs because you really need that job until retirement because, lo and behold, just about the time you pay your house off it's retirement time, and you will now get to collect on your various social services and whatnots.

Under a system like this, where you get taxed out the back end and have to focus primarily on job and home, you have to ask yourself something: Where are the small business folks at? I'll tell you what happens. People inherit a business, or they inherit a house from kin folk and then, instead of saving for a house, they work until they save enough money to start a business, and if that fails they just go back to work. Who benefits in a system like that? Government and corporations, that's who! You create, through high taxation, a more or less 'captive' worker population, one that cannot revolt that much because they simply can't afford to, and that, over time, HAS to create a more docile type of citizen, one who is more prone to just go along and accept things rather than speak their mind too strongly.

Sure, the Germans, and all Europeans for that matter, are highly politically active, but when was their system really changed in such a way that their people actually had more freedoms and not just a change in leadership?

Just a Thought

Remember when you were a kid? Remember watching shows like Captain Marvel, or Wonder Woman? Like Land of the freakin' Lost! Remember that stuff?? I know when I was a kid I used to watch those shows and I would've sworn to God it was real! HAHA! Yeah, fairly dumb in retrospect, but I honestly used to wonder just how in the hell they got to film the superheroes while they had their adventures, and it was a neat experience. I mean, most kids would've just watched the damn show and went to play with their Stretch Armstrong, but not me. I had to figure this out! Eventually I did, and subsequently stopped watching those sorts of shows due to the fact that they were nothing more than men in tights, and that's about as bad as it gets. (smile)

But it's funny, because even though you look back at those shows, those experiences, and you can totally see how cheesy they were, especially when you contrast shows like that with the CGI stuff we have nowadays, they still have that FEELING, that certainty of interest about them from way back when. What was so neat when Star Wars came out is now just ancient to us, whereas the aliens and space wars on the big screen, with all of their computer generated amazingness, are just so common place. Makes you wonder where we lost our ability to be dazzled, you know?