Entries from June 2005 ↓

I was bored of my usuall beer the other night so I grabbed the beer list looking for something that would be naughty or nice.  I found something, called North Coast Brewing Company PranQster - Belgian Style Ale. 

It's a good beer.  It's not a belgian ale by far, but as a substitute I would recommend it.  When it came to the table, it had the largest head I have ever seen on a belgian.  Ok that sounds wrong, but belgian ales aren't usally as carbonated as this belgian style ale is.  The body is medium with a good fruity taste for the palate.  I would describe the beer further, but after several of these, the 6.9% alcohol content hits you.   

If you're looking for something a little different, grab a PranQster.  It's similiar to a Blue Moon, but with more carbonation. 

As for price, I paid $6 per glass. 

A one act play by Chris:

[Scene: The marketing department at A-B]

MBA-toting Marketing Manager: We need to increase sales of Bud Light. We are losing market share to craft brewers.

Marketdroid #1:
[raises hand, Horshack style] Oooh, oooh, I know… We should use
scantily-clad women to advertise it to men with bad taste in beer but
good taste in women that won’t talk to them.

MBA-toting Marketing Manager:
Hmmm, we’ve done that for the past 5—no, 10, wait, 15—years. We need
something *fresh* and *hip* that will connect with the [insert target
market moniker du jour for young people with disposable income and of
questionable drinking age].

Marketdroid #2: [who
obviously didn’t learn anything from New Coke] How about we change the
recipe and make it taste better. Or, better yet, make it taste *good*?

MBA-toting Marketing Manager: [maniacal laughing—on the verge of tears if he had a soul]

Marketdroid #1:
[uncomfortable laughter—not sure if he should be laughing but does it
because the boss does and he hates Marketdroid #2 ever since he
“pantsed” him at the employee picnic]

Marketdroid #1: I
know what Bud Light needs: a new container. Something that says “Look
at me, I drink a beer that while not very good, has a *metal*
bottle.” Metal rocks! F’shizzle!

Marketdroid #2: Yeah, and make it blue. I like blue. I like cookies, too.

[End Scene]

Hopefully this beats just posting that Bud Light will now sport an aluminum bottle.

Last month was the last shipment by Pabst of Falstaff beer. This brings a nostalgia-induced tear to my eye since Falstaff was one of the favorites of a friend’s dad in high school, which we took the opportunity to liberate from time-to-time (the beer, not his father). Guess I’ll have to stick to Hamm’s and Goebel’s.

Link via: Realbeer.com

Sadly, my fridge is sans beer so I can't test this out yet but BeerBuddy.ca
claims you can punch in the bottling code on your beer and it will tell
you if it is fresh or rancid (I took some literary license here since
their web site was images and I couldn't quote their text by
copy/paste).

Remember folks: if in doubt, buy beer that is fresh and drink it
shortly thereafter. Also, we don't suggest buying beer that has a code
to tell you when it expires, but that's just the way we are.

Link via: DoubleViking

No, not billiards played with or for beer but an actual pool of beer:

The
Starkenber Beer Myth hotel in Austria has seven of these pools filled
with yummy beer for your bathing enjoyment. This looks like it would be
more enjoyable with people of the opposite sex.

Link via: Ananova