Sometimes I am reminded of the gulf between me and “normies.”
This is my review of 903 Brewers Barley King:
While I was at one of my son’s ballgames another parent brought up SNL. I know, I also stopped watching it after Chris Farley killed himself, likely as gag. That’s besides the point, for every few thousand misses they have something that hits. I’ll let you decide if this is funny (TW: modern SNL).
Once again…I find myself surrounded by shaved monkeys playing with their balls. The funny part is I get along with this guy pretty well, to the point where we both find it psychologically safe to disclose we are both gun owners. I generally don’t talk about that to strangers, there are FEDS everywhere.
What they’re saying: Drinking Dad Strength is akin to “micro-dosing alcohol,” says Kutscher. “We offer an interesting way for people to cut back that isn’t cold turkey.”
The bottom line: And, sure, “dad” might be in the name, but the duo hopes all kinds of sippers partake in their beer.
- “It’s not just for dads,” says Kutscher. “It’s for anyone that really wants to explore moderation.”
Holy shit, they’re emulating the joke. What is microdosing you ask? According to Harvard there isn’t a specific definition in terms of dosage, but its ultimately taking a small dose of a psychedelic that is well below dosage one might need to trip. This leads to the desirable aspects of psychedelics, like changes to mood and watching the Hat Man terrorize Arron Rodgers from within the delicate fringes of his soul…without being terrorized by the Hat Man directly. In order to microdose beer, you would have to drink substantially less alcohol to not get drunk. Which for normal people is less than 6 with lunch.
I wish them well in their new marketing ploy.
Microdosing is for wimps. So I picked this one to macrodose; I assume that’s a thing. What is a “strong ale”? Its just that, a particularly strong ale that doesn’t really have a category except that it’s not really in barleywine territory. A good example of one is Arrogant Bastard, which I might pickup later today depending on how my blood donation goes. Is this some kind of clone? It is not and it is a bit more balanced than AB. I will say they cheated just a bit with the rum barrels but I found it to be fairly smooth. 903 Brewers Barley King: 3.9/5 12.9% ABV
“I will say they cheated just a bit with the rum barrels”
Every beer aged in rum barrels has been disappointing.
That one actually sounds good.
The “Dad strength” sounds like 3.2 (I think) beer that we could legally buy in TX as 18 year olds back when I was in the blessed cohort that could legally drink under age 21.
I once drank a few Baltika #9s and my grandchildren were all born with hangovers.
I remember drinking Baltikas in a park in St. Petersburg with my wife. We had quite a crowd gathering around us hoping to get the empties so they could collect the deposit.
So I picked this one to macrodose; I assume that’s a thing.
Wouldn’t it be easier to drink wines or spirits instead?
But then you have to taste wine, which as we all know, sucks.
I want nothing to do with the spirit world, Ted.
“We’re in the spirit world asshole!” – Young Guns
“once I hit 30, I found that I’d have two and wake up the next day feeling like I’d lost my wallet at a Señor Frog’s”
Two beers? What a bunch of lightweights.
That happened to me at 50 +20 years of marriage. I stopped
bingepower drinking, and the wife gradually cut down also, and now I find myself falling asleep if I have three beers, and drunk at four.I only have one glass of wine with dinner.
Ah, the old giant glass trick.
Yup, this happened to me too around 30.
I used to drink like a man who was lost in the desert, now 2-4 drinks is enough.
“Hat Man terrorize Arron Rodgers”
Same link
About to go get some dinner and a local pub (PAB – Pub and Bistro) – not sure what the “beer of the month” will be this month – but will still be a German import.
Pub and bistro…is that like a Fox and Hound?
Literally a restaurant called PAB.
Going to level with you, it looks like a Fox and Hound. Any good? My son wanted to use gift cards to Chillis so I’m disappointed after donating blood today.
Been there 4 or 5 times now since Feb…double pork sammich was good, had a chicken sandwich (also good), then flank steak a week or two back (fine – salad wasn’t really a salad), then the local sausage and spinach greens (with provolone) sandwich tonight. All pretty solid, made in house – had cheesecake a couple times, fried local mozzarella a few times, and pulled pork ball appetizers tonight.
On the whole, excellent – especially for the price. Mostly German import stuff (or Belgians) – not a huge variety on tap, but good quality.
Sandwiches are like 10 euros or less…appetizers for 6. Beer is about 6 for a large pour depending on the ABV.
Nice that it’s only a couple blocks away – downtown here has it’s benefits other than the shitty parking. The Queenwood pub I’ve posted about before is even closer. The pizza place I go to is also only a block or so away.
“It’s for anyone that really wants to explore moderation.”
Life on the bleeding edge.
Another mainstream punk rocker.
While any medical or lifestyle decision is an individual’s choice
*guffaws, slaps knee*
Alex Jones is on the Roseanne Barr Podcast. This shit going to be like Frost Nixon!!
Mother of God
Will that much concentrated crazy form a black hole?
More like Nixon with frosted tips!
Started typing this up for morning links…but took a little too long. May have more thoughts later…should have taken more notes on what I wanted to post after I finished reading a week of posts ;p
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Good afternoon…just another rundown weekly email…think I’ve finally got my parking situation resolved…will have to confirm in the next week or so – still walking from church parking lot 2km away, but if I’ve got 24/7 access, that saves me a lot of hassle.
One article I came across this week…legacy piece: https://www.nationalreview.com/1975/04/no-breast-beating/ (WFB jr reprint)
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Finally got around to watching the Rogue Hobbies mini-mini video UCS posted earlier. Tiny model. I’ve finally got my new airbrush and compressor set up. Put a few coats on some vehicles this weekend – and tested primer on some other models (a LOT harder to get spray can primer here in Europe due to shipping requirements – either domestically or amazon to my US address). Waiting on some orders from a local hobby supplier, but it’s been a while. Finally starting to put in some detail work on models I built/started painting over a year ago. Of course…the way I work it’s mostly finding one detail item I want to address (specific color) – getting that color out – and then hitting as many of those models/details as I can get at one time – and then moving on down the list. Still a lot of work to do even if the space marines are technically tournament legal (3 unique colors). At the same time, I’m still having fun building more models from my space dwarves and nuns with guns armies….although I have no idea if/when I’ll get around to playing a game with anyone locally. I’ve got more pics…need to upload sooner or later.
Once I clear more desk space…I need to start finally prepping the models from the Blackstone Fortress board game – since it’s apparently one I can play single player (with good guys and bad guys… – still need to do more research, but I spent a lot on ebay expansions). I’ve got a lot of “terrain” that I can start painting with my new airbrush – but yeah..need to figure out a better space/organization setup as I make progress on stuff.
Still haven’t watched “Heavy Metal” – I’ll get around to it eventually…”Rock and Rule” is still my favorite animated Canadian flick (great OST too).
One last vid…from one of my favorite games – always some nice story event updates.
Sorry…should have remembered that 3 links kicks to moderation – pls review
Someone pls moderate my comment if possible.
*grumbles*
/drags out the post
There you go.
Looks like a heavy lift.
What they’re saying: Drinking Dad Strength is akin to “micro-dosing alcohol,” says Kutscher.
Session beers are already a thing. There are even brewers that focus on them, e.g., https://www.notchbrewing.com/
(Granted, 2.9% is really low).
If I were still drinking beer, I could see a place for it, if it was tasty. E.g., playoff football Sunday and 9 hours of games.
“playoff football Sunday and 9 hours of games”
You can easily do that with regular beer as long as you eat enough.
Dude, my local made a session IPA, which was 3.8 ABV, and you could drink those all day, plus two on Sunday.
When I was drinking beer, Heineken Light was like that. Reasonably tasty and I could drink 3 an hour, indefinitely.
My issue now is the “friendly pour” from my local bartenders makes even vodka soda a potential problem if I’m not carefully paying attention.
Although this is mostly a theoretical problem at this point in my life. It’s been a long time since I did those full-day sessions with any regularity.
Some local Berliner Weisse’s in Cville like that – especially the fruity ones from Hardywood. Excellent summer drinking ice cold.
One of the locals here releases a mild in cans as one of their year round offerings. My one complaint is that it’s 4.5%, so I guess you could call it an Imperial Mild.
You just ate the most acid I’ve ever seen anybody eat in my life
A guy I went to high school was about to get popped with a sheet of acid, and to get out of it he ate the whole thing.
Talk about tripping balls.
I knew a guy who did that, but he used to eat 10-strips for breakfast so he was fine. On an unrelated note, he’s a she now.
uh…no, he’s not.
Well, he definitely took a walk on the wild side.
My second acid trip was the big one. MLK Day in January of ’06. Freshman year at IU Bloomington. I tripped for 50 hours. That shit was going around campus. I was in a huge sociology class (had to take it), like 200+ kids. One kid lost it in class, though was able to escape, able to control his explosive, childish giggly glee as he realized he simply couldn’t handle the class and had to bounce.
I internally gave him my solid nod of approval. He decided to take it during the *week,* rather than take advantage of the three-day holiday like me and my friends did. Good times. That trip was special. I’ve never gotten hold of any LSD again, but no mushroom experience has come close. They really do affect you in quite different ways.
‘On an unrelated note, he’s a she now.’
Maybe not unrelated?
1/2 a sheet can kill you…your buddy had some weak stuff.
“Here, take this. Wait! Don’t take that!”
“What?! I already took em, man!”
Sounds a bit like Ballast Point’s Victory at Sea.
Blood And Thunder! Victory At Sea!
(That phrase always reminds me of that.}
I had a bourbon county banana foster stout, 2023
13.9% abv and delicious, session beer is like soda, ya wimps!
Yesterday not today, yet
…yet.
How about now?
/cracks open a freshie
I made it to 55 seconds. What the hell was that? Someone thinks that is funny?
Its possible
Compared to typical SNL?
I thought it was funny.
I remember the college commie newspaper that got tired of commies being accused of not having a sense of humor so they published some jokes. Their readership was so outraged by the jokes that they boycotted and successfully got the paper shut down.
Yep.
SNL…I remember the first ones where the entire cast was obviously stoned half out of their minds. That was a different universe.
From the dedthred:
“ Naked and cactus sounds like a bad idea.”
It is.
Zebra Cactus doesn’t have needles. But it is still a bad idea.
That needed to be said?
You’re gonna meet the occasional prick. Ignore ‘im.
Austin Powers made today, would be frozen from 1995. Fuuuuuuuck.
I doubt it would be funny.
Wife is cussing. Apparently Disney bought Hulu? They are fucking with it somehow and she is losing patience.
They’ve owned Hulu for a while. I figured they’ve been making bad changes for the whole time.
They’ve been joint owned for over a year now. Only changes that I’m aware of is having some Disney shows available on Hulu and vice versa.
They keep stopping in the middle of shows and wanting her to verify something which is a super pain in the ass. She just cancelled them which also was like pulling teeth.
I think she said she has been subscribed for more than a few years? Anyway, her patience ran out.
Suthenboy:
That sounds like an account/network problem. I have not run into anything like that.
When they first merged we had that issue, but that was like others said, a year ago.
Okay, it’s about an hour out now:
Lots of horses in this evening’s Kentucky Derby have connections to the little town down the road, and after looking, I decided that I liked Journalist.
Of course, then I checked the odds, and saw that he was the favorite. And betting on that is like rooting for Microsoft or the New York Yankees — it just isn’t done.
So I’m putting my imaginary money on the exquisitely-named (for a libertarian) Sovereignty.
What say y’all?
I am quite late here, but I say do it! And tell us how it went.
Speaking of Disney…
Is their master plan to remake all of their animated movies as cgi/live-action mashups?
Because that’s fucking awesome.
Okay. I was outside chopping down weeds and I got a nosebleed. Related to a) bending down to pick up sticks and b) dust and pollen. Usually if I get one a few sniffs are enough to stop it. However, since I kept mowing, it finally got to the point I couldn’t ignore it and I had to come inside and plug it with a wad of paper towel.
So what? you say. What do boxers and MMA guys use to shut down the bleeding when they get whacked on the beezer?
Silver nitrate usually
Its that time to rewatch South Park.
Those two really were on par with the great satirist.
Trump just moves from one crass moment to another. Now he’s yucking it up over the next Pope election, and pretty much ensuring no U.S. cardinal will be chosen. Last week, it was leading the Canadian Conservatives to defeat.
Did we not learn from 2016-2020?
🙄🙄🙄
Whatever. Trump 2028!
Canada fucked themselves.
Canadian Boomers fucked everyone else.
I saw a debate between Jordan Peterson and some wokety Wokester college professor. Hooooooly shit. They are sooooo fucked, which of course is the point of wokeism.
There wont be an American Pope…ever. It aint Trump’s fault
I hope he yucks all over every elitist plan. Shake them dice up and let ’em roll.