Just when you think a story has no more legs, it gets a second wind.
This is my review of Kasteel Donker Quadruppel Ale:
As a recap:
You may recall a time when everyone you knew drank Bud Light, but then they decided they were going to be gay. Okay fine, they were not technically gay, but they did have a gay dude dressed as a woman endorse their product. For principled reasons I will not post this guy’s picture in the article. The principle being I want to avoid you calling me an asshole and asking why I posted a picture of that guy again. This lead to a marketing executive say in an interview they were looking to expand to new demographic markets by changing their “frat boy” image. Since frat boys are apparently the face of cheap beer drinking bigots.
This lead to a boycott of Bud Light, resulting in a market shift away from Bud Light and AB products in general. Which lead to Modelo dethroning Bud Light as America’s cheap beer. Resulting in smug leftists shouting hur durr at MAGAtards that don’t realize it was owned by the same company. Fools, the lot of them. In the US Modelo is owned by Constellation Brands to avoid antitrust issues,
Anyways, it turns out Trump’s deportations are bad for their business:
In April, Constellation CEO Bill Newlands said that Hispanic consumers are spending less due to their concerns about Trump’s hard-line immigration policy and possible job losses in industries with high Latino employment bases. During Wednesday’s earnings conference call, Newlands acknowledged that raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were making it difficult to predict consumer behavior moving forward, although he demurred about tying the beer division’s slowdown to Hispanic shoppers specifically during the company’s fiscal first-quarter call.
“When you see a fair amount of change, both Hispanic and non-Hispanic consumers are concerned about inflation and about cost structure,” Newlands told analysts.
Hispanic consumers are a core part of Constellation’s customer base. The brewer, which owns Modelo, Corona and Pacifico, says that roughly half of its beer sales come from Latinos in the U.S.
Which is interesting, indeed. If the switch from Bud Light to Modelo signaled a cultural trend away from acceptance of pronouns and acronyms, if half the market base for Modelo is Hispanic and/or Latino, it stands to reason Hispanics and/or Latinos are not culturally supportive of pronouns and acronyms. Now if Trump is deporting Hispanics and/or Latinos, it therefore means America will eventually shift back to pronouns and acronyms. Nice own-goal, culture warriors.
All of this is in line with historical precedent, as the first immigration restrictions were placed on Chinese women of “poor moral character.” Apparently, Asian whores were taking jobs from American whores.
Deporting is gay.
All this social signaling in consumer choices is tiresome. Watch, this week’s beer signals support for inclusion of vegans against Kapparot. Which is great if you’re a chicken that doesn’t want to be sacrificed, but I’m for religious freedom. This one pretty good, but it would be really good…if it came in a bottle. I have come to the conclusion Belgian beers in a can are missing something. Let’s just speculate its perhaps missing an identity? I don’t know buy I got this one instead of Rochefort because I could buy quite a bit more quad for the same price of bottle conditioned Rochefort. Life is nothing without tradeoffs, so I stand by my decision. Kasteel Donker Quadruppel Ale: 3.1/5
Modelo isn’t cheap.
Yes it is,
It is more than a $1 per can down here. Coors and other such basic beers are cheaper at slightly under a dollar per can.
Yeah, I go Miller High Life or Lone Star when I want cheap.
I drank a lot of Buckhorn back in the day, buck a 6 pack in the ’70s.
My dad drank a lot of Buckhorn. At one point we were enrolled in a Baptist school and one of my sisters brought his returnables to a recycling drive the school was having. A teacher put a halt to the drive to figure out “who thought it was funny to bring beer bottles to a Baptist school recycling drive.”
Nothing is, any more.
*shakes cane*
Today’s beer is the Dark Sky Counting Stars from Flagstaff. About 60 IBU, which is about as hoppy as I want to go. Good stuff.
Which lead to Modelo dethroning Bud Light as America’s cheap beer.
I still find that somewhat counterintuitive, but hey…
You can tell bigots because they shift to a Mexican brand.
Its assholes all the way down.
This one pretty good, but it would be really good…if it came in a bottle. I have come to the conclusion Belgian beers in a can are missing something. Let’s just speculate its perhaps missing an identity? I don’t know buy I got this one instead of Rochefort because I could buy quite a bit more quad for the same price of bottle conditioned Rochefort. Life is nothing without tradeoffs, so I stand by my decision. Kasteel Donker Quadruppel Ale: 3.1/5
It looks good and I agree – it should be in a bottle.
All beer except light beers should be in a bottle.
One day the monks will figure it out.
” If the switch from Bud Light to Modelo signaled a cultural trend away from acceptance of pronouns and acronyms, if half the market base for Modelo is Hispanic and/or Latino, it stands to reason Hispanics and/or Latinos are not culturally supportive of pronouns and acronyms.”
What if it’s the other half — non-Latinos — who switched from Bud Light to Modelo?
Modelo is the most common beer at the course, but hey San Diego,
Cheers
Yeah, I doubt if the Latinos leave, the rednecks will switch back to the tranny beer.
I don’t buy beer in cans, but at least it doesn’t have any weird ingredients.
Indeed, beer in cans is only good for convenience, like when camping or doing some activity in which bottles are cumbersome, i actually think we lost something when beer switched over to non returnable bottles from returnable. I wasn’t old enough in the States to be drinking at that time, but member it well in Mexico. I posit that the heavier glass in the returnable bottles gave it a superior taste.
As a 1/2 score finding a returnable bottle meant 2 pieces of penny candy at the local corner store. Some of us kids were always searching.
As such, in the 70s I save my aluminum cans and would put a bagful out on the road for the pickers, as a return the favor sort of thing.
A lot of people did that back then, but most of them did it one can at a time.
We live in SF, so not a single can makes it out of the recycling bin before they collect it. There are teams of Asian grandmas and grandpas going through it with a fine tooth comb for every last aluminum can.
Aluminum cans in other countries are heavier weight too.
The bottle deposit in this state has become an inconvenience to normal drinkers, grift to the coop running the recycling, and a subsidy to the criddlers. Best example of the insanity is using SNAP to purchase bottled water and then just dumping the water out to return the bottles for deposit.
The criddlers go through the trash and recycling for cans too, but they also leave a mess.
“kids were always searching.”
We would take our wagon and visit residential construction sites when the workers left and pick up all their soda/pop bottles.
Five bottles equaled a “Tasty Pie” ($.10) Now the damn pies (lemon is really good) are $2 each, 350 calories I don’t need, and bottles are nothing more than roadside litter that gets picked up semi-annually by whatever virtue signaling organization or family volunteers to cover that stretch of highway.
Reminds me of my favorite Lynrd Skynrd song:
“Used to wake the mornings, before the rooster crowed
Searchin’ for soda bottles to get myself some dough.”
It was the same in NYC but here upstate it’s junkies.
In Germany all our beer at the local grocery was in bottles, and they had their own return machine. It was rather nifty, back in ’08, and I s’pose now. You come in with your bottles, no human interaction, and just feed them into a machine. It sucks ’em up and verifies their weight/etc. IIRC, a 500ml bottle’d get you .32 euros (~$.50) back per return. The conveyor took the bottles through a wash station before the rest of the process flowed to the backroom.
It worked rather well, though this was also in semi-small, ultra Lefty Freiburg. I doubt it would here. The cultural differences are far too great, and the US has far too many people. If only states, counties and communities could set something up. Hrm.
Dark bottles help block UV from skunking the beer, so thicker glass probably aided that and did give you a better taste. Cans, of course also block UV, but you can taste the aluminum in the beer.
Green bottles in France in the PX. Beer did not age well, ‘course at my house it didn’t age too long anyway
Evan, it would be stripped for copper in some places.
Beer in cans is a better method these days because the cans are lined, the closure is better and no light damage. The product stays fresher longer.
Worse for beer can chicken.
at least it doesn’t have any weird ingredients
The ingredients in this beer; Water, malted barley, hops, yeast. You make it sound like I’m drinking beer laced with seed oils.
Sorry, you misread that. I meant it was good that it doesn’t have weird ingredients.
Pacifico (in a bottle of course) is the best drinking hot weather beer in the world outside of Brazilian beach beer which has its own specific culture and is awesome.
Pacifico, eh? You’re a person of good taste, no doubt. One of the best, easy drinkingest beers out there.
Tecate for me, but same principal.
Constellation and their fake beer can DIAF. If they go belly up, maybe ABInBev can buy it out and start importing the real thing again.
I could care less if Constellation or InBev owns Pacifico, as the product will be the same. It’s exactly the same when I buy it in Mexico. As long as they keep bringing it to my grocery store. It’s only maybe 5% of my beer consumption, but an important 5%.
I can taste a difference in the Modelo. It’s from separate factories.
Huh, I don’t know about Modelo as I have had way more of them here than down south of the border. In the local grocery down there they tend to only have Negras in the bottle and regular Modelo in cans. Of course none of them really compete with a true Pilsner, but then again they are not in the same beer class or the same purpose.
It is slightly different. Likely the water chemistry.
Pacifico is what I always get at our local Mexican restaurant.
So good with tacos AL Pastor.
Modelo Negra if you can get it, bottled of course
With Mexican food, I prefer the lightness of the Pacifico.
If you like Negra Modelo try Bohemia Vienna if you see it, a good, lighter bodied Mexican dark ale. I agree with Ron that for super hot weather or with tacos, Pacifico just works. We just got back from Mexico and I drank a fair few Carta Blancas there as the local grocery in the town nearby had those in bottles but Pacifico in cans. Also a good hot weather beer.
My mom texted me an unpacking SOS late last night. She was REALLY upset and not feeling well anyway. I talked her down out of the trees, told her to go to bed, watch Scarecrow and Mrs. King and ignore the pile of boxes (LOL).
I arrived over here this morning with McD’s to unpack and give her things homes. People never stress the first part of “A place for everything and everything in its place.” If it doesn’t have a place, it can’t be put away. This is why junk drawers exist.
She likes to unpack and put each thing away as she comes to it. Her accountant’s precision is not only maddening (to me*), but it causes her to be easily overwhelmed when faced with a big task.
So I had to introduce to her the concept of the rough sort. She looked at me like I was nuts.
“But it doesn’t get put in its place!”
“You JUST moved in. You have to ASSIGN places.”
She really doesn’t get it.
*She believes that technically correct is the best kind of correct and I never noticed that her favorite phrase is “well, ackshually.” I was explaining something in distilled format, and she said “well, ackshually,” with a minute correction. I got impatient and said, “Mom! I speak in metaphors! Similes! Symbols, themes, motifs!” My husband said, “Wingdings. You speak in wingdings.”
Your husband is a funny guy.
I used to be that way.
I eventually broke and realized that my perfectionism ended a decade or more of projects that got so far and never finished.
Now I’m a bit of a mess as I let the pendulum swing a tad too far.
Oh well. I get some things done these days.
So your husband gave you a “Well ackshually”.
Moving sucks, my wife mentioned the other day that her favorite thing about my retiring from the Marine Corps is the fact we haven’t moved in 8 years.
Previous record holder in our 31 year marriage was 6 1/2 years, but during that time, I was deployed off and on for almost 3 of those years.
Shortest was 8 months.
1986 was our year of three moves. Ft Lewis to Ft Benning to Ft Bragg to Germany.
Since I retired from the military I have been in this house for over 12 years. I am dreading moving in 20 months or so.
DBL, I told
My wife that if we ever move it’s going to be the high dollar stuff and we burn down the rest.
1966, France, Ft Benning, Fort Gordon, Fort Monmouth and I left for VN
1970, Spain, Fort Bragg, Fort Bliss, and back to VN
I realized a few months back that I have lived longer in the house than any house in my life. I still have lived longer in AZ but HI is catching up.
I would have killed to move away from Ft Campbell.
Stuck there my entire 5 years 10 months and one week (outside of basic and AIT).
Unfortunately for us, our long 6 1/2 year stint was in 29 Palms.
That does sound bad Ron.
One long stint at ft Campbell right off of enlistment cured me of ever reenlisting. Or being a good soldier.
Is your counter slanted? That drives me nuts every week. 👅
You know what! Tune in next week.
lol No
Maybe don’t base your market analyses on the availability of illegally present consumers.
Good afternoon everyone! Yesterday the NWS said today would be sunny. Now I’m waiting for the line of rain currently over Montreal to pass through so I can start all the sunny-day chores I planned for today.
Yesterday’s big excitement was watching four F-35s fly over my small Vermont town:
https://vt.public.ng.mil/News/Article/4227310/vermont-air-national-guard-f-35-independence-day-flyover/
The “Green Mountain Boys” Vermont Air National Guard hanger is in plain view of the Burlington airport and if you’re traveling on a good day you can watch F-35s practice touch-and-go’s on the runway.
During the Dylan Mulvaney incident I didn’t get the impression that people around here were boycotting Bud Light in the sense of trying to make a statement. Sales and stockage certainly dropped but I bet a lot of guys were surprised and confused when all of sudden some light fun was being poked at them for keeping and offering their usual refreshment. Bud Light stockage is still down from the time of The Incident but some time ago one restaurant resumed advertising Thursday evening Bud Light specials.
But if Modelo is stocked here I haven’t’ seen it. The idea that Modelo is the number one cheap beer in America is at odds with my experience.
I recently sent Fourscore a shipment of last season’s Real Genuine Vermont maple syrup to dispose of as he pleases. In an unnecessary gesture of thanks he sent me a jar of last season’s Real Genuine Honey Harvest honey. I think I got the better deal. In my hopefully effusive thank-you e-mail I described to him one of the ways I used a bit of the previous year’s HH honey. To complement a friend’s and my watching of the 2003 movie “Master and Commander” I mixed up a batch of what I called “Officer’s Grog” as follows:
– four parts rum
– two parts lime juice
– one part honey
– one part water
The honey and water are first mixed together to make a syrup that’s lighter and easier to mix and dissolve than straight honey. A bartender would recognize this concoction as a daiquiri.
Not a bartender, but my first thought was that is a daquri with honey.
Adds good flavor I’d imagine.
Also, you can never go wrong watching Master and Commander no matter what my wife says.
Why weren’t there any sequels to that, anyway?
21 books to choose from, they could use most of the cast as well.
they did have a gay dude dressed as a woman endorse their product.
I still think the CEO should have come out and said, “See? We’ll sell our beer to ANYBODY. Even you. Go out and buy some. Share it with a friend.”
They were pushing an agenda that had nothing to do with selling beer. They deserved worse than they got.
If you’re up front about it being about sales, I’d respect that.
Listening to Angels @ Blue Jays on the deck at 28 Euro degrees having one of these.
My everyday used to come in resealable ceramic bottles. It’s brewed in a small town in Eastern Ontario. It’s since been bought by a bigger outfit based in downtown Toronto. Now, it’s only available in cans.
Big fat flopperooski
The vehicle’s intractable affiliation with the world’s wealthiest wannabe-oligarch.
The 7,000-pound car has become a symbol of the MAGA right wing and a target of vandalism.
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Tesla’s stock (TSLA) is down about 17% this year, but it’s up nearly 300% over the last five years. For the ride-or-die bulls, it may not matter that Musk’s MAGA turn has clobbered the company’s core business of selling cars because he has convinced them that Tesla’s future lies in an AI-powered, driverless utopia.
And it’s Musk’s history of promises that have driven that meteoric share price increase, and, accordingly, Musk’s personal wealth.
But Musk’s promises and predictions routinely come up short. His Cybertruck is only the latest example.
This person seems to have quite a hard-on for Musk. Makes one wonder.
If you’re buying stock based on the promises of the CEO, no matter who that is, you’re an idiot.
Delusional.
When your no.1 tactic is demoralization you end up with an army of incompetents. Collapse is just a matter of time.
Speaking of prices- I like Pacifico, but it’s damn near two bucks a bottle at the grocery store. I don’t buy it very often.
Today was a good day to renew our drivers licenses. Two of us, in and out in under 30 minutes. My ass barely hit the chair before they called my number. Took her a couple minutes longer, because she didn’t pay/register ahead of time (camera card in PA).
I renewed in 2024, and I think I didn’t have to go in to the office.
I’m good ’til ’28. I’m not sure if I’ll be driving past that.
Every other renewal (1) here in NH is done on-line. You print out from your computer a totally legitimate paper (2) when you are finished with the on-line renewal process that shows you’ve renewed your license. The paper is a temporary license good for something like 60 days after your current license expires. You get the new license in the mail.
When you have to renew in person, you go to a NH DMV center where you always have to wait. The system is a little better than it used to be. An employee at the entrance gives you a number instead of having everyone queue up in a line that goes out the door and around the corner. Last time I went through this, I waited for four hours until some flunky called my number. You have to go through an eye test using a crappy machine, you get your picture taken, and you get a piece of paper saying your license is renewed. That piece of paper is a temporary license good for 60 days after your current license expires. It looks slightly more legitimate than the paper you print out after the on-line renewal. Your new license comes in the mail.
Oh! You also get the choice as to whether or not your driver’s license picture is kept in a state database. In theory, if you don’t want it kept in the database, the state will purge the picture once the state prints your new license. Heh. If you don’t keep your license in the state DB, you can’t renew on-line and if you lose your license, you need to go through the whole license application process again.
(1) Non-REAL ID. I don’t know how REAL ID renewal is handled as I will not get a REAL ID as long as it is possible to not get one.
(2) Totally legitimate even though it looks like an obvious fake. I’ve heard more than a few stories of people having problems using this version of the temporary license.
🤯😳😵💫
The local license bureau has almost always been as efficient and as pleasant as can be expected, but last time it had taken me trips to two county courthouses to gather the documentation for the stupid Real ID. 😒 I was able to renew for eight years instead of the usual four and took the last-chance opportunity, as by the time it’s time it expires, I’ll be of A Certain Age and unable to go for another eight. Too bad I really hate the photo. 😞
In my defense, I just woke up from a nap.
The sole purpose of the DMV is to shake money out of the citizenry. They only give a shit if you go through the motions because it gives them further pretense for….shaking money out of the citizenry.
Raising all of the fees associated with driving was a major plank in the previous governor’s platform. He claimed it would avoid raising other taxes. I bet you can guess which party he belonged to and what happened with the DMV fees and the other taxes.
Porky Pig Party
“Apparently, Asian whores were taking jobs from American whores.”
Can’t compete with horizontal pussy.
Don’t discount the brown-eye for the round-eye.
I cleverly avoided boycotting Bud Light by never drinking it in the first place; because it sucks.
Belgian beer is actually more disgusting than Bud Light though.
100% correct on both accounts.
So, so sad. If I could only drink one type/nationality of beer, it would be Belgian. The country has no other redeeming qualities that I am aware of, but the beer .. . 😘
Not even the guns? You clearly never shot an M240-B.
240 > all Belgian beers combined.