T-Minus 7 Days to the Green

Ok, so I've watched Braveheart half a dozen times already and starting training for those irish car bombs. Also gotten back to running because those pints aren't calorie free. Last year I found a great place that had my family's tartan, you can find at your own here.

Our Tastes-- Rotten Pumpkin

This is one of my own concoctions. Half Jack's Spiced Pumpkin Ale and half Guinness. Seems to be very pleasant. The pumpkin gives a nice sweet maltiness to the Guinness as the finish. The 5.5% of the pumpkin ale doesn't hurt either.

Brew Batch #20!!

I went All-American for my 10th batch so for this one I salute the other great country that makes okay beer, Belgium, with witbier. A personal milestone! This marks my 1000th personal bottle (assuming it makes). This type of beer originated in Louvaine (that's not France!) by mixing hopped beer with unhopped to give it a cloudy appearance. Of course some of the taste came from it being bacterially infected too. OG 1.044+0.00 @63F. I'm really hoping it drops to 1.005 at least because I added an extra 1lb of sugar since the yeast strain is EtOH tolerant.

Our Tastes-- BlackTop

I personally think it should be renamed Black Asphalt but this is half Guinness and half Fat Tire Amber Pale. Very nice indeed. The difference in colors of the beers gives great layering effect. The overall matching of brews is extremely nice as well. The crispness of the Fat Tire is a great finish the Guinness heaviness.

T-Minus 10 Days to the Green!!

Start brushing up on your history to impress the lasses and "walk the dog"

Our Tastes-- Black Fud and Black & Blue

Since I started getting ready for the Shamrock Run (placed 2nd in my age division, good time overall to be posted at http://www.auburnrunning.org in a few days) I haven't had any beer or stogies. Well I took care of that Saturday night until the wee hours of the morning. Guinness and anything never tasted so good. Black Fud (Guinness and FudPucker Pale Ale) not so great, but the Black and Blue (Guinness and Wicked Merry's Berry brew batch #18) was wicked sweet!! It had a soft light purplish head and Wicked Merry's just seemed to gently slide under the velvety Guinness. Kick ass sea-bass. Unfortunately this beer is not available at mass market as of yet. So let the weeks of Black and ANYTHING roll on!

Quittin' Pharmacy School (not)

But after today's big haul, I'm certainly thinking about it. Ok so these fisherman caught this squid by accident hauling in some Patagonian toothfish off the coast of Antarctica, big deal. Well to put this example of the Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni species into proper perspective it weighs approx. 990 lbs, is 39 feet long and could swallow a man's head whole no problem through its beak. All I'm saying is that on the weekends I was a "doctor" to the little girl that lived at the corner, but throughout the week I was the consummate motorcyle-riding policeman/fighter pilot/marine biologist. I'd go back to school (again) if I knew I'd catch one of these things, but here's the real question.... considering calamari rings come from the trunk and this one would have appetizers the size of tractor tires....(wait for it).... how much beer would it take to batter this bad boy?