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Apr 8 2013

What I Drank All Weekend: SpeakEasy’s Big Daddy IPA aka Sex w/ an Ex you never want to be with


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Disclaimer: How these Beer Reviews Work

Beer review are shamefully boring. Basically every beer review speaks about how a beer looks when poured into a glass. Then you are exposed to a discussion of mouth-feel, aroma, carbonation and finally taste.

Personally if I wanted to listen to soul-crushing palaver I would sit in a bar in a more affluent or hipster area of town where I can be continually bombarded, like the city of Dresden, with beer recommendations by someone who looks like an acid -induced nightmare from 1972.  I have no malice towards hipsters. Without hipsters there would be no need to gentrify neighbourhoods and subsequently transform the good, original indigenous culture or sentimentality into a machine for the propagation of some surreptitious capitalistic aim.

To that end I make sure that each of my beer reviews are, free from any reference to patchouli oil, and fully engaged with the reality of the human experience.

Big Daddy IPA

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I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

I was done with IPA’s.  My life was bitter enough thank you very much. I had tried Stone IPA, Smuttynose Ipa, Racer 5 IPA, Harpoon IPA, Lagunitas IPA  and the list goes on ad nauseum. I don’t remember what the last IPA I had was, I just knew it was over. I moved on, dabbled in the  Quadrupels, Tripels, Barley-wines, and Stouts.

As chance would have it, this weekend my fridge was not stocked with libations well there was a Corona (don’t judge me).  It had been a long week, a tiring week, and to cap it off with drinking Bud Or Coors light would have add insult to injury. I rushed to the super-market and came across an inordinate amount of swill. I almost was resigned to my fate of a sober weekend when out of the corner of my eye I spotted Big Daddy IPA.  The rest is history. Literally I killed the whole six pack over the course of the weekend.

Official Review

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This is amazingly drinkable. It is one of the most drinkable beers let alone IPA’s I have come across. But here is an official review for all of you who need overinflated jibber-jabber to validates your presumed self-importance

Aroma/ Look / Taste / Mouthfeel

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There is my favourite bottle opener given to me as a gift brought all the way from Scotland.

The aroma is predominantly that of hops finishing in particular. (By finishing hops I mean hops added in the final stages of a wort boil or dry-hopped in the fermenter for the purpose of lending hop flavour and/or aroma to the finished beer. -You will encounter the finishing hops again after your first sip.)

The taste is characteristic of what you would expect from an IPA. I was hit first with  a coppery, grapefruit pith, piney  taste common to IPA’s then I was accosted in the best way possible with a nice citrus note. The citrus note in this case was more of an orangey-floral note. You get hint of some malty sweetness.

The carbonation is very subtle, and that in combination with  the creamy texture/mouth-feel added a lot to the drinkability of this beer. The finish was a bit dry and bitter but not overpoweringly so. What stuck out to me the most was that I wasn’t over powered and prison man-handled by the hop profile and bitter after-taste.

Recommendations / Food Pairings

I would recommend this to someone who hasn’t tried an IPA yet. It has all the character of an IPA but it is not too bold. It is very palatable and drinkable.  I like drinking beer and I never felt the need to pair it with anything. It just so happened that  during the course of my drinking I do shovel food into my face. With that said I have to say that spicy foods – Indian style curries, Mexican food, grilled meat, hamburgers, pizza definitely something about the tomato and garlic  for me at least. Any kind of really sweet and spiced dessert should work as well, it will bring out the malt profile.

Overall Conclusions

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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Charles Bukowski

You’re at a party. You been avoiding going out for a bit but today you finally made it. While you scan the room making  a mental note of who you will avoid, your eyes lock with another familiar pair. These eyes are familiar and while seemingly inviting there is an element of danger because they belong to an ex-lover (girlfriend or boyfriend).

You are both adults so you sit to chat and both of you instinctively ask for stuff drink before you get there. There is awkward chatter and more drinking. You don’t hate each other, and still have the fleeting thought that things could get back together at some rosy time in the future where communist where bright colors and aviator glasses finally go out of style and die for good. But now isn’t then.

Somehow the more you talk the more familiar habits resurface, and then there is an awkward pause where you both realize that the other person for years has been trained to please you, to give you just what you like how you like it.  Fun sexy times occur and its the best ever. You can curse and call the other person names and not act like you don’t mean it and are just babbling incoherently like biblical time possession. You can grab some hair (from the roots) and you both make sure  to help the other arrive.  You know you never want to see this muthafucker again but even while your heart is empty looking for love your loins are assuaged and that’s all that counts

That was for me what drinking this beer was like. I swore off IPA’s like I would a bad relationship. I ducked and dodged them in the market, at the bar, until it just so happened that my back was against the wall. It had everything I liked , how I like, when I needed it the most. Now my fridge is stocked with the stuff I like -easy access makes it all the sweeter.

Upcoming Reviews

Past Reviews

  1. What I’m Drinking Tonight: Samuel Adams Octoberfest or Memories of German ex Gf
  2. What I’m Drinking Tonight: Brooklyn Lager Aka the Post Honeymoon working couple Handjob
  3. What I’m Drinking tonight: Narragansett Cream Ale aka Lazy Self-Loving
  4. What I’m Drinking Tonight: Boddintons Pub Ale
  5. What I Drank Saturday: La Fin Du Monde Tripel Style Beer aka My 1st Canadian Erection
  6. What I drank Wednesday Night (1): Guinness Draught The Not as Good Looking Younger Sister
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Dec 20 2012

Since you liked Overthinking It So Much Here is a Beer commercial that tackles Flirting


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A lot of you liked the Overthinking it Cartoon post or found it interesting. So I posted this as a follow up

Enjoy

MrMary

BONUS

Another beer commercial with nothing to do with anything.

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Nov 1 2012

Jocular Look @ Today’s News || Pub owner hides deceased regular and keeps selling beer


Not only did Mark Howells suffer the indignity of dying in the toilet of a bar, he had the misfortune to pass away in a U.K. pub with an unsympathetic owner. When Jason Chidgey, 29, found the deceased Howells, 48, in his premises, he had the cleaner help him hide the body in a bedroom above the Boot Hotel in South Wales. Chidgey was concerned police would close down the pub to investigate the death and he’d lose the weekend booze bucks, so he organized for the body to be found the following Tuesday. The cleaner, however, was later overcome with guilt and confessed all. For hiding the body of Howells, who had died of natural causes related to alcohol poisoning, Chidgey was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment. [Source]

Mrmary Weighs IN

To die on the toilet is tough. I dont really wanna go on a toilet seat. When i die I want to die nude and laughing on top of a stripper dressed in a nuns outfit with a sign that says “forgive me Father” Sorry, Ive gotten freakier in my old age I suppose.

It’s a scumbag thing to do to hide this guy so you can keep selling beer. For more pubs and beer places the weekend is when you pull in a significant volume of your income so logically what he did in a strange way makes sense: hey he is dead anyway. But that’s the problem with logic it can be used to justify atrocities. But what I want to know is:

Will the 15 months in prison having your anus forcibly worn like a glove on a dry wintery day make it worth it.

I figure his bar is gonna loose a lot more money thna if he jsut called the cops in the first place.

What would Mrmary Do?

MrMary would do the following:

  1. If the patron was not black or hispanic I’d call my lawyer make a statement put down on paper my alibi
  2. Call the cops and stand outside against the wall spread out with my lawyer there with a camcorder recording the whole thing.
  3. Call up the family and offer my condolences
  4. Have a weekend of remembrance for the dude that died in the shitter. I would give discounted drinks and invite the officer/officers who came to the scene for free drink . Half off to anyone who was there that day 3-4 drink minimum 2 day
  5. I would turn that weekend of remembrance into a year drunken orgiastic feast for the senses – laced with scatological jokes and innuendo where we dress up and get drunk to honor plumbing market it to local colleges.
  6. I would have another day to celebrate  not getting prison raped.

See how that works out everyone happy :-)

 

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Oct 21 2012

What I’m Drinking: Upcoming Reviews


“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

-Bukowski

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Guys and Dolls

I thought I would share with you a list of  alcoholic products I will be reviewing in the near future. feel free to make some suggestion or chime in about what you  think about a product. This is not the entire list there is more lots more :-) – Drink responsibly

- MrMary

Featured Spirit

Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey

Beer/Ales/Stouts

New Beers

Unibroue Blanche De Chambly

Tripel Karmeliet – Brouwerij Bosteels

Unibroue Maudite

Smuttynose IPA

Founder Curmudgeon (Old Ale)

Radeberger Pilsner

Stone Ruination

Stone Arrogant Bastard

 

Oct 16 2012

Jocular Look @ Today’s News || Man tries to shut crying baby up by showering it with beer


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Crying babies can be so annoying, right? You just want to drown out the sound when there’s one howling nearby. But one man took this sentiment too far at an English pub when a baby at the table next to him started making a fuss — he poured half a pint of beer over its head. And today granddad Danny Polak (those grandkids must live in fear!) appeared in court for marinating the 15-month-old in brew and kicking the angry mom’s backside. The crux of his argument: “You shouldn’t bring kids in a pub.” Kids are welcome in most British pubs during the day, where, apart from their diapers, they normally remain dry. [Source]

Mr Mary Weighs In

The other day I was at a bar and there were two kids running around and screaming as if there was a priest lurking in the dark recesses of the bar just waiting for them to be hit with a craving for sweets or candy. The bar is the place where we all go to take a respite from life and its trail and tribulation, we don’t bring work to the bar, or our demonic or illegitimate children.

With that said I can understand this dudes frustration but to dump beer on a child is to waste beer and there is no excuse for wasting beer. Non whatsoever!What he should have done was to rub some rub on the baby’s gums or administer some NyQuil then sweet talked the mom to get some ass instead of kicking her in the ass

 

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Oct 8 2012

Jocular Look @ Todays News || Nun on the run after shoplifting from store’s beer cooler


It’s close to Halloween, so we’re really hoping this is just someone dressed up as a nun. That’s possible, right? Someone in a costume? And maybe it was a sorority prank, though it would have to be one out of a female remake of “Old School.” Even in this nothing’s-sacred age, we’re still not quite willing to accept the idea that a nun would stroll into a convenience store, head to the beer cooler, grab a brewski and stash it in her bag — and then do it again. Oh, the sacrilege. But then, everyone has to believe in something, and apparently Sister Lightfingers believes she needs another beer.

Mr Mary Weighs In

Sometimes you need a beer badly.

I went to a Catholic School run by nuns and they are definitely some weird people. So I thought I would reach deep into the darkest recesses of my mind for a quote in particular, an aberrant quote, one that when I write it down you’ll have no idea what it is I am talking about:

Lord make me pure but not yet – St Augustine

Human beings are by Nature flawed and rather than try to extirpate our flaws I think more is to be gained by recognizing them and putting them in a proper context. To me this idea of suppression of natural urges is a deviation from what it is to be human. I bet you if she was getting piped on the regular, or someone man or woman was tossing her salad the only thing she would be trying to steal would be some sleep. Our flaws are our greatest strengths. The need for safety and security had made us build some great things. I think I think we have to recognize them for what they are  instead of trying to suppress it all the time and see how we can use it constructively Aldous Huxley has said quote famously that: “Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions” and I believe that. I also believe we should all chip-in and buy this nun a vibrator  and every time she thinks about steal she should jack hammer herself to sleep.

Quick Note

The words “chaste” and “chastity” stem from the Latin adjective castus meaning “pure”. The words entered the English language around the middle of the 13th century; at that time they meant slightly different things. “Chaste” meant “virtuous or pure from unlawful sexual intercourse” (referring to extramarital sex), while “chastity” meant “virginity”. It was not until the late 16th century that the two words came to have the same basic meaning as a related adjective and noun.

Conclusion

I think everyone needs an outlet to let that evil out, in a constructive way of course that doesn’t harm one’s mental physical emotional health as well as other people. I like to write. blog, work out, even a few hours of week ion meditation. But not everyone rolls like me. We each have different ways of dealing and this one pasted up about is my answer for that scheming thieving nun. She will never leave the convent again, and this time when she is on her knees calling out to God she will at least be sounding of like she got a pair, a pair of Jackhammer Jesus’s  - the 2nd coming care package

-MrMary

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Oct 2 2012

Any Suggestions for the following Biergartens ?


 

I plan on celebrate some monumental achievement with friends ( an empty beer glass and aneantissement as is said in French) The only places fit for such wanton frivolity would have to be one of NYC famed  biergartens. I am going to list them below. Let me know which one you think  I’d have the best time at.

Awesome Biergartens in NYC

 

Zum Schneider

Octoberfest 2011 Zum Schneider

Zum Schneider was opened on August 19, 2000 by Sylvester Schneider, a native of Weßling am Weßlinger See, Bavaria, and long-time resident of Alphabet City. ”I missed summers in the beergarden with friends, family and people of all kinds, coming together to relax and celebrate life. Embracing those yearnings, I created Zum Schneider”. Zum Schneider features 12 German beers on tap, a traditional Bavarian-German menu, and seasonal specialties. The restaurant and indoor biergarten continously enjoys top ratings on Yelp, at Zagat,The New York Times, Village Voice (“Best of New York“), New York Magazine (Top 5 Beer Gardens), Best Bars (Time Out NY) and many more.

Check out the BeerMenu:
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Oktoberfest going strong September 29 – October 14, 2012

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Studio Square

 

 

 

 

 

 

As part of the massive Studio Square NYC event and entertainment complex, The Garden @ Studio Square brings the spirit and traditions of an open-air German beer garden into the modern era.  Encompassing over 30,000 square feet, The Garden is made up of two large indoor areas and an expansive cobblestone courtyard. In The Garden, we take beer very seriously. Our custom tap delivery system is one of the most advanced tap system in the world. Employing the perfect blend of science and technology to deliver each of our brews at the precise temperature for maximum enjoyment. 

Check out their Beer menu here
Check out their selection from the grill (German and American Fare) here

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Max Bratwurst und Bier

The concept of ”Max Bratwurst und Bier “ is to bring people together, not only for a family-style ambiance, but for a place where everyone no matter of age, can come and have a German meal, paired with imported beers and lots of fun,  for a great price. We like to brag about our outstanding Bratwurst, homemade “Frikadellen” and “Schnitzel”, made-from-scratch salads and original pretzels. Everything we do goes into making our hearty meals stand out. At Max our team has an incredible sense of pride in everything we do. Our passion ensures that you have a great experience every time you stop by… may it be for the refreshing beers or just a bite to go. Our food is not the only thing that is great at Max – our Fun is too! From our live aired soccer games to our original German music, to our friendly servers, you’ll enjoy every second you spend in our cozy restaurant.

Check out there beer menu here
Check out food menu here

Radegast Hall and Biergarten

Some reviews 

Here’s an authentic beer garden that’s actually worth the shlep to Williamsburg, an out-of-the-way joint where hundreds of 20-somethings congregate nightly to guzzle hops, pig out on wienerschnitzel, and gyrate to a rotating roster of New Orleans-style and swing bands likewise comprising very young players. – WSJ

Williamsburg’s Austro-Hungarian beer hall serves a deep selection of imported brews and Hofbräuhaus-style brats one block and half a hemisphere off the Bedford Avenue drag. Slovakian-born partners Ivan Kohut and Andy Ivanov gutted adjacent warehouses to create two distinct drinking spaces. The garden side boasts a retractable roof under which a grill man serves up sizzling meats and savory fries gobbled up at the long rows of wooden benches. Inside the “hall,” patrons line the hand-hewn tables made from 150-year-old barn logs. Thirteen drafts on tap and 58 beers by the bottle can be ordered at the polygonal red-oak bar or from one of the waitresses, who are occasionally cinched into full beer-wench regalia. Here, rib-clinging grub, whipped up by Ivan’s wife and executive chef Joanna, includes veal schnitzel, stuffed blintzes, and a scrape-the-plate-delicious apple strudel. – NYMAG

OKTOBERFEST

September 22nd — October 6th

Thursday Special
$5 Half-liter daily special beers
Tuesday Beer Tastings in the Bier Haus »
Live Music, Beer Flights, Snacks!

Check Out their extensive beer Menu here
Check out Grill Menu here

( they have a wine menu, a cognac and brandy menu, appetizers, dessert etc)

Finally

Let me know what place you think would be best in the comments below

As if the ice cream wasn’t enough advertisement for dairy farmers in Germany.

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Sep 10 2012

Another MrMary Sighting on 320 East 86th Street @ City Swiggers


It is the fifth time in as many days that the beer-swilling blogging phenom has been sighted at City Swiggers. What is City Swiggers you say? Well according to what MrMary himself told me:

“it is the only place large enough other than your mother’s box that can satisfy my craving and insatiable thirst…. for beer“

City Swiggers

For those of you who don’t know about City Swiggers

We’re a beer store and a beer bar in one. We have 30 seats with tables for those who want to enjoy a pint or a flight on premises. And we have about 600 beers in bottles (to go) on the shelves. Check out our tap list, above–at this Web page–or on the white board on the wall near the bar in the store. As for the bottles, we have domestic beers in the front (west wall, sorted by region/brewery) and imports and ciders in the back. The cooler has a little of everything, sorted by style.

MrMary’s Guide to enjoying City Swiggers

We were able to cajole MrMary into giving us his definitive guide to understanding City Swiggers:

  1. Don’t come in and try to show off your infinite knowledge of beer and make recommendation to strangers you dont even know. Also leave the guys behind the counter alone. They do not want to discuss hops with you or how double IPA‘s  are flooding  the markets, your stupid bathroom|kitchen home brew. Just Shut the Fuck up and let everyone drink in peace
  2. If you say things like:” Sometimes you just got to have a stout”, or anything stupid like that you should go drink sewage wwater with the other hipsters.

with that said

The staff is very knowledgeable and they have been great about helping me deciding what new beer to take home. They have a board on the wall with what is on tap. You can also find out what is on tap by checking out their website. Everything is pretty self explanatory. They have beer on the shelves in the front and back. it is a very impressive variety I might add. The ambiance is nice too. I would expect it being the upper east side that snob well to people, or people who aren’t as well to do but snobby would dominant this scene but every time I have been there it was quite enjoyable .

This specific Neighborhood Yorkville used to be home to many German and Eastern European immigrants. At one point in the past there were many beer halls here so there is a historic precedent I feel for City Swiggers. It’s been amazing every time Ive been there. All the beers I have reviewed I’ve bought here and its a win win.

Check City Swiggers out: http://www.cityswiggers.com/

City Swiggers
320 East 86th Street
New York, NY 10028
info@cityswiggers.com
212-570-2000

Hours

Mon – Thurs: 1pm – 10pm
Fri: 1pm – 11pm
Sat: Noon – 11pm
Sun: 11am – 8pm

you just may run into me,  and if you do, we will drink a beer to each other’s health then I will sign your autographs or babies or whatever body part (females only) you’d like me to.

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Aug 21 2012

What I’m Drinking Tonight: Samuel Adams Octoberfest or Memories of German ex Gf


Overly reflective Beginning

As always when love comes into one’s life it always seems in the moment that everything so was incredibly lacking and tasteless, so bereft of meaning until this one person shows up. Life is suddenly enriched and everything now instead of being something to complain about becomes a door to some seemingly transcendental experience. But yet after everyone has parted ways and we are left alone with that longing that makes us go out searching for companionship, for a future worth working for the world is so much more drab than it ever was before and that’s not even the worst thing. The worst thing is the listlessness, the floating around like driftwood on the ocean, going wherever whenever. But in time we return back to ourselves, and back to life and continued onwards where-ever  lucky or destiny , fate or our hard working takes us. Then after the weeks have turned into months and the months years and the years into grey hairs, there is this one random moment, where the strange juxtaposition of a song and a drink awakens from the past this  vast structure of recollection, and one can almost swear to be able to hear the laughs of past loves.

What does this have to do with beer

Normally  when i do a beer review I make it purposefully ridiculous. I obfuscate and obscure a real life story or experience into a satirical expose on many facets of the human condition. Brooklyn Lager Aka the Post Honeymoon working couple Handjob, was really a reflection on time and how its passage changes relationship of course, but ultimately one’s sense of self. Lindemans Framboise aka the Dutch International Student, was a humorous meditation on a time i was hit on by a Dutch international student and realized too late that she in her bad English  wanted to get to know me biblically without the commitment. It was an interesting experience that reminded me of Nikos Kazantzakis‘ Zorba the Greek in particularly:

“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.”

While I drank this beer and heard some lines  from Aznavour, I listen to him a lot when I write late at night into the wee  morning hours. I remember a plan me and my German ex-gf had made long time ago to go to Oktoberfest and drink ourselves silly. We had a bet 20 Euros between us that I could out drink any hardcore Bavarian beer drinker under the table. While that trip was never actualized it stayed buried in my mind until today when I saw the Oktoberfest label while drinking and trying to relax.

Song lyrics with rough translation:

Dans d’autres bras, quand j’oublierai jusqu’à ton nom/ In other arms, when I will have forgotten even your Name
Quand je pourrai repenser l’avenir / When I will be able to re-think  the future
Tu deviendras pour moi, qu’un lointain souvenir / You will become for me that faded memory
Quand mon mal, et ma peur et mes pleurs vont finir / That my hurt, my fears and m tears will have finished

(Btw I have had a couple please excuse any mistakes in the French, and my tense conugation with the futur simple)

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A Note on this Type from BeerAdvocate.com

Before refrigeration, it was nearly impossible to brew beer in the summer due to the hot weather and bacterial infections. Brewing ended with the coming of spring, and began again in the fall. Most were brewed in March (Märzen). These brews were kept in cold storage over the spring and summer months, or brewed at a higher gravity, so they’d keep. Märzenbier is full-bodied, rich, toasty, typically dark copper in color with a medium to high alcohol content.

The Pour, The Aroma, The Taste

I really liked this beer, it was great to drink tasty great mouth-feel, complex taste, malty sweetness. Great when paired with of course sausage [chuckles]

Appearance

Dark copper colored, a finger worth of biege head that dissipates quickly leaving a minimal ring not much if any lacing

Smell

Some malt sweetness (precursor to the syrupy caramel notes in the taste) and flower scents. Not so much distinct floral scents but general floral sense, light sorta spice

Taste/Mouth Feel

Complex taste, there is some spice notes of course,  flowery notes as well that refer back to the aroma, there is a syrupy sweetness that is balances with a hoppy finish. This beer isn’t overly hopped but just the right amount. Great mouth feel to it.

Overall

This is very easy to drink. I drank a good 4 at a sitting before I stopped. This bitterness is very very moderate, more emphasis on the sweet malt and caramel notes. There is a dry finish to it as well.This is perfect for Autumn and will go great with many sausage based dishes. I would also thinks spicy foods and roasted meats like roast pork and roast chicken especially those with a sweet/spicy rubs.

Conclusions

This was a great beer and a great walk down memory lane.  It is very drinkable and very good.


“The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

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Jul 21 2012

What I’m Drinking tonight: Brooklyn Brewery Summer Ale aka quickie on a tiled bathroom floor


I am totally backed up with these what I am drinking posts, might as well be someone (of any gender) who ate a foot long from Subway and didn’t go an hour before anal and then ate another footlong but in a  different way…. yeah I totally feel like Jared. Eat Fresh fuckers.

The Long Week

Ah man its been a long week for a few days I as in a bit a pain due to the SC-Disease thingie and it was so mutha-fucking hot. it was a hellacious week for me, a server broke down and I had to do all sort of things to make things right. Im building a large scale data analysis pipeline, jsut lots of headache and I have to update my new lectures I did last semester. I work long hours Friday and forgot to eat during the day. So I think I earned a nice drink.

What I am having 

Brooklyn Summer Ale to the rescue!  I have reviewed a pale ale before (Boddington’s) and didn’t think too highly of it. It was an epic let down I believe I described it as a flaccid penis surprise

I call this beer the big let down, or a flaccid erection. Yeah ladies you checked your man out you got all excited and you like what he working it, but its never got to how it has to be to get the job done. That’s how I feel every time I drink this beer. Why  well the beer is really really smooth, and when you pour it it looks like something out of a commercial. It is epic like a beautiful girl that actually wants you and shows interesting with you having to fork over money…… (read the post here)

There is something about the summer time that just predisposes the drinking of ales for me I’m not sure what it is. Summer always  for me is a time to enjoy to take in the scenery and women who consent. Its a period of  quiet reflection, because my parents birthday and my bday are exactly 2 weeks apart. For me I count a year from one bday to another and over the years i have found that  overlapping common periods of great intensity and great relaxation and great creativity and also great tiredness where my focus is on taking it easy.

Its been a tough year for me I think the toughtst to date for a comgination of reason and perhaps its my french heritage speaking but what better ambiance to be reflective then with the right alcohol of spirit.  For the moment I’m look for something not to complex not to over powering a taste, well balanced but not crap. Brooklyn Summer Ale was my choice easily beating out Geffen Kölsch

Brooklyn Summer Ale

Aka the Quickie on a Bathroom Tiled Floor

Getting Down to Business: La petite Mort

La petite mort is a euphemism/metaphor for an organism just like french fries is a euphemism for artery clogging. But of course, we cant leave it just at that. There is more to it than that:

 it can refer to the spiritual release that comes with orgasm or to a short period of melancholy or transcendence as a result of the expenditure of the “life force“

There is a mystical adage, popular in the Islamic mystical tradition that commands all aspirants to Die before you die, dying here is to the transient ego that we have come to identity ourselves with. What better way to die than to crank a couple out with someone who cant stand you for a good 7-10 minutes more than you can usually stand yourself and life Monday morning before you go to work.

I know your saying MrMary  mystical traditions and getting off, what a random assorted cocktail.  Rest assured there is a method to my madness, which is a product of my madness so…. it just makes sense to me.

There is sweetness to a quickie , to la petite mort, and then there is the contrasting almost existential moment following immediately afterwards which is maybe an experience on the deepest level of one’s mortality which is a slightly bitter libation. Sex is fun no doubt but it a a generative act for the species and can  be a generative act  for the individual if the right setting and ambiance is present. This beer had a sweetness and a bitterness to it. It wasn’t over powering and life-changing. It’s startling like the when the cold tiles hit warm skin and a means to an end. Having to get back to work, or back to class or doing whatever you had to great for the moment like a quickie on a bathroom tile floor.  It’s like pleasure without its opposite introspection

The Pour, The Aroma, The Taste

The Pour

I used this time my trusty beer mug. It was a light yellow orange-ish a darker amber I would say. There was initially a one finger head that quickly dissipated quickly and didn’t leave  any lacing at all in the  glass. It was how the head quickly disappeared into the vacuous reaches of space that queued me into the whole quickie analogy

The Aroma

The aroma was very very mild. It wasn’t too overbearing. There was the malt sweetish, mild traces of hops, some fruity smells common to most ales

The Taste and Mouthfeel

It was not overpowering at all. There was no overpowering  assertive taste it was mellow but not in a watery way like how Boddington’s is. There is that malty-sweetness one gets at first and then comes the slightly hoppy-bitterness. But it is ever so slight. It’s the crispness that furthered this analogy “”. Crispness in beer but the not so much of an over powering taste screams of summer to me. There was not much carbonation. There is that moment right into the pouring into that we get  the 1-2 finger head and then its over kind of like a quickie. Moving on,  carbonation is all at the beginning.

Food Pairing

Spicy foods (Indian food) definitely will go well with this. In my research I read that this would pair nicely with Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Food. I could see that. I would think fish, particular white meat fish and shellfish as well will go nicely with this. Things with a smokey flavor because of the slight sweetness and the tamed sort of calmed down bitterness. Cheese I would think sharp cheddar Monterrey pepper Jack Cheese.

Conclusions

A gourmet antipasto platter with smoked salmon, smoked chicken (underneath), roast beef, pâté, cabana sausage, brie-style cheese, cheddar-style goats milk cheese, Jensen’s red washed rind cheese, olives, tapenade, rocket pesto (behind the dish), and tomato chutney.

This is a cool beer for the beach, for relaxing for chilling in the backyard or in a cooler. its not too overpowering. It would go good with  spicy foods, sharp cheddar. I can imagine a cheese palette with some, blue cheese, cheddar pepper jack perhap, pepperoni, salami and olives, pickled mushrooms, great with antipasto really. This beer is very accessible and during the summer time accessibility and time is very important. Summertime is a unique time, it is made for enjoyment for going to the beach for activity for frolicking and so is this Summer Ale. Its suited to many spots like a quickie, good for a few quick one before you have to get back to whatever it is you were going to do.

 

 

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Jul 8 2012

What I drank: Left Hand Milk Stout or My Friend Steve’s First Black Girlfriend


I’ve been meaning to try more stouts , you know diversify the kind of things I drink. Last time in Vegas I drank enough tequila to be Mexican. by the way maybe I should be sampling more hard liquor. Lately I’ve been more about beer, before that I was all the Long Island Iced Tea, before that Rum and coke, before that vodka anything, before that Wine with the exception of Merlot I detest Merlot. For me Merlot is the overrate hot chick who is probably carrying STD’s knowingly or not. Got to Double bag just for bragging right. Yeah it’s a heavy price to pay to let everyone.

Love that Dark Meat

My friend Steve (name changed) one day, I guess after watching a lot of Hip Hop and Reggae videos wanted to go out with a black girl. I guess his arriving late to thanksgiving a few months earlier really impacted him,  turns out everyone got to the White meat and left him the dark stuff, and he loved it, it was tastier and juicier. He also is a fan of Sean Paul. Long story short, Steve loved how, to quote him  ”Dem Bitches be Earthquaking dat ass“. He wanted to my advise on how to approach black women.

This beer reminded me of that because, Steve Eventually found himself some  brown sugar to sweeten his coffee. Stouts by nature are dark, full-bodied, they are sometimes sweet on the tongue, Sometimes stouts are really bitter, like a lot of black women I know.  As always I gave Steve some great advice.

Milk Stouts

Some History and words on Milk Stout

Milk stout (also called sweet stout or cream stout) is a stout containing lactose, a sugar derived from milk. Because lactose is unfermentable by beer yeast, it adds sweetness, body, and calories to the finished beer. Milk stout was claimed to be nutritious, and was given to nursing mothers, along with other stouts, such as Guinness.

 

Getting down to Business

I told Steve that you don’t change up your game to get girls of a different race. Just be yourself I told him so other positive stuff to boost up his confidence. I told him to look for a girl that is always sweet and not bitter. I gave him a list of neighborhoods in Brooklyn where he should not date… Long story short I gave my homey the hook-up and I am about to do the same for you. As always, armed with the proper information, confidence my friend was able to scratch that number 3 off his bucket list.

The Pour, The Aroma, The Taste

Ideally this should be poured in a  pint glass, but I used my trusty beer mug.  I used a regularly carbonated bottled. I imagine if it was in a Nitrous can it would be even more of a visual feast for the eyes but it was pretty sexy nevertheless.

The Pour

Like I told Steve, getting good head is never something to be turned down, and this beer was no exception. Easily 2 fingers worth of a foamy beige-ish color head.  You can tell a lot about a beer from the type of head you get, I suppose that applies to dating as well. The head of the beer is like a cage that traps and catches the volatile chemicals that that will play a major rol in the taste. Head on a date (for either sex) is also a cage that  while it may not trap you it may way-lay your plans for the Golden Girls or Law and Order reruns. The longer it lasts of course the better, the beer I am talking about. This can apply especially if the protagonist can hold their breathe like an expert snorkle-er, but it has to be good.

The Smell

I get a bit of that roasted smell common to stouts, but am quickly over powered by the smells of coffee and a Callibaut or Scharfenberger semi sweet chocolate that I used to make a classic chocolate souffle.  From the smell I can already see this would be great to go with dessert coffee or semi-sweet/dark chocolate ish.

The Taste

First this had a great taste there is slight sweetness and creaminess due to the style of beer  namely the bits of lactose added adding a layer of sweetness to what is present always with stouts. I like the interplay between sweetness and bitterness, actually reminded me of a black girl I dated. Really over powered by the semi sweet chocolate and coffee taste but in a good way like when its my turn to sit back and the girl to work for it. The carbonation was moderate helped add to the smooth creamy mouth feel, a slight tong tingling (wont make the joke), milky after-taste. What I like the most about this is that the bitterness wasn’t too strong wasn’t too assertive. I am not well versed in creamy/milk stouts in the dispensing part for sure. This was really a good venture taste wise into this type of beer.

Conclusions

This is a good start, I am sure there are some which are more balanced and the coffee and chocolate isn’t as overpowering. I didn’t find it watery or overly bitter. Definitely some sorta of chocolate/coffee-ish dessert, next time i have this I may get this really rich tiramisu. Like Steve’s first Gf this was good for him of course, my kinda good is on a whole different level. It was a nice first foray into  a whole new world, which if I remember correctly there was a magic carpet ride too but a bit different than the  one depicted in Aladdin, matter of fact it was also over sideways and under too that magical carpet ride. You know now that I come to think of it that sound is very dirty. I dont think i can look at it the same way.

Cheers to Steve and his first black gf  and to trying new things

Shout out to the Promethean Times Blog for being funny cool and liking cream stouts

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