The last blind taste test was not only fun, informative, and tasty, it revealed much about how brand expectations can affect how a beer impacts various senses. I have yearned to match up different beers of the same style, and from different companies, for quite some time. In fact, I have several arranged that will likely see […]
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Great Marketing! Marginal Delivery!@
It appears that most companies take a serious approach towards brewing and naming their beers. This makes perfect sense, as a mature process towards selecting nomenclature would naturally appeal to an adult audience. Occasionally a brewery will make an interesting hop pun in the name, or a creative malt play-on-words will present itself, but rarely […]
The Nesting Persona
You’ve seen them, played with them, been intrigued by them, and put them away. How did you put them away? Did you do so as multiple pieces? Did you do so as a whole? Did you question whether it should be considered many, or parts? Might you, like myself, often try to recall what this […]
This Dying Tree Once Believed
When we are small, and have so very little control of ourselves, we have great need of so many things to sustain our existence. Our fragile constitution, simplistic mental faculties, and frail musculature require nurture and development. In due time, we find our step, our water and sunshine, our advancement, and our means to stand and […]
Real time Blind Gose Challenge!
I’ve wanted to have a gose taste-off for some time. For those who aren’t aware, the gose (go-suh) style of beer has roots in Germany and most often considered a sour wheat ale. For those wanting to brush up quickly on the style, here is the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gose, but for the purposes of blind […]
And then Donkey said to Frog “What is going on with these humans!”
Sometimes behaviors strike me as odd, inappropriate, or socially rude. People who don’t follow a reasonable “human” traffic flow at a mall bother me. People who smoke while pumping gas, really irritate me. Those that deliberately misspell words, for example, using wit instead of with, gets under my skin. (Admittedly the brutally excruciating effort required […]
Say Goodnight….
Of all the dreams I have when I’m awake, The best are about finding sleep. I’ll yearn not for currency and wealth, Sustenance and supplement, acceptance and embrace, death and dying, Futures and frivolities, power and politics, gods and deities, Passion and pain, Fear and failure, happiness, catharsis, coitus, or when I will rest. I […]
Incubus, the super sweet demon
It seems I have a mild obsession with mythology. I know the stories to be fantastic and supernatural, and I also know the tales to be stimulating and imaginative. While most of my constitution relies on logical and concrete assumptions, I can’t help that sometimes I am drawn to the mystical and phantasmagoric elements of […]
Be Merciless and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5rczU73Tc4&feature=youtu.be Empathize with me, J