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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 | | 12:06 am |
| | Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | | 11:52 pm |
| | Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | | 11:14 am |
Quick BrewDog News
They're selling a dozen bottles of Punk Monk, basically Punk IPA but brewed with Belgian yeast, for eight quid on their website. Bargain. Admittedly it's seven pounds postage, so you may as well chuck in some of the excellent Bashah, brewed in collaboration with California brewers Stone, or some Nanny State (just so you can see what a 1.1% uber-hoppy beer tastes like. Hop juice, basically). Even without any extra beer £15 for twelve bottles isn't bad, and this is "white label" stuff so might not last long. Apparently next up is Trashy Blonde Monk. And they've bought a pub in Aberdeen. | | Monday, October 26th, 2009 | | 11:19 pm |
Well It Amused Me
I'm sure most of you are thoroughly bored of the whole debate about illegal (or "illegal") downloading but here's a contribution from London's Prince Charles Cinema, which manages to be possibly the least boring take on the subject I've seen. ( Concise and to the point... ) | | Friday, October 23rd, 2009 | | 11:43 pm |
I've Not Been Drinking That Much
So, about this time last week I signed up for Facebook. Is it now the turn for Twitter? Possibly not, but I have just been looking at some people's twats (or whatever, I'm not big on the terminology) and saw one from BrewDog's "Head of Stuff", James Watt: is buying a human size penguin costume online. Is he becoming a "feathery" or is this related to the Tactical Nuclear Penguin? Actually I asked him about that on Tuesday and he was being a bit cagey: Me: So what ever happened to Tactical Nuclear Penguin (but in a slurred tone as I'd been on the free beer all night) Him: Ah. So, where do penguins live? Me: Antarctica? (apart from the ones who live up trees in New Zealand or in pubs in Croydon) Him: And what's Antarctica known for? Me: Ice? Him: That's all I'm saying. So, I wondered, they're doing that freezing beer thing to get the strength up like an eisbock. Or just very cold lagering or something. When slightly more sober I wondered if he just meant the whole project was "on ice". But if he's buying a penguin suit.... The world needs a beer called Tactical Nuclear Penguin. Really it does. And I'll buy a share in the first company to make one. | | Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | | 12:50 am |
I may have been drinking
OK, I don't think I can blame the 1.1% beer (BrewDog Nanny State) but I've had other stuff. Anyway, I've come kicking and screaming into, er, about 2007. Yep, I've just signed up for Facebook. I've no idea if I'm going to do much with it, I mostly just wanted to read stuff from a couple of pubs. I clicked on a few random people as "friends", after being slightly freaked when it just suggested a list of people, but more in a "trying things out" than actually as a measure of what I think of you (so don't take it personally if you're not there yet). I'll probably only glance at it every week or so. No idea. Gabba gabba. | | Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | | 11:19 pm |
| | Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | | 4:31 pm |
FAQ Off!
Octocon have a list of "frequently asked questions". I think they're missing one. I'm fairly sure I'm a member of this year's con, as I have been for many others, but I've never heard anything from them. (Careful now!) It turns out I'm not going anyway, which I thought was a bit of a shame, but now I realise I'm boycotting it. It's just that I managed to pre-emptively boycott it. Actually I think I'll flintoff it instead, as I'm hoping to drink a lot at the weekend. I suspect life may be too short to read the full thread on Cheryl Morgan's blog (not to mention elsewhere) but it does beg the question: Doesn't Gary Farber have anything better to do with his time? | | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | | 4:19 pm |
Belgium: Day One
So, back in August I spent almost a week in Belgium drinking fine beer and, er, well not a lot else really. Which means I'm now very behind in writing up my 100 Belgian Beers project, which I'm sure you're not at all fussed about but it's something I've been meaning to do anyway. Then if I actually catch up I can start drinking some of the beer I brought back with me. ( Blah blah blah... ) | | Monday, September 21st, 2009 | | 12:44 pm |
All knowledge Is On The Internet
...it's just that some of it is "differently right". I was just reading something by Warren Ellis and that led me to google "Chunga". Top of the list, as so often, was an entry on Wikipedia. Looking at the entry for the fanzine I thought, "Ooh, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fringefaan's got a Wikipedia page". So I had a look at it. Apparently, "Randell Parker Byers (born October 2, 1964 in Bridgeton, New Jersey) is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who played for two seasons. He played for the San Diego Padres for ten games during the 1987 San Diego Padres season and 11 games during the 1988 San Diego Padres season". That's not right, I thought. Surely he was born in 1960. | | Sunday, September 13th, 2009 | | 11:56 pm |
A Distinct Lack Of Steampunk
No Asylum for me unfortunately as I "had to" do a half marathon in Nottingham this morning. Managed that in 1 hour 50:57, about two minutes slower than last year but still faster than I was expecting due to spending most of last month drinking Belgian beer rather that boring training stuff. Now drinking 18.2% stout; BrewDog Tokyo*. "Beer port", apparently. Well I think we deserve it. | | Friday, September 4th, 2009 | | 9:44 pm |
| | Monday, August 24th, 2009 | | 9:50 pm |
Corsetry and Camembert
Back to work for me after spending must of last week in Belgium sampling many fine beers of which I shall bore you more later. We were based in Ghent (nearly as pretty as Bruges but more of a "real" town), with a couple of trips out including Antwerp which has a few bars I'd really like to return to, and finishing with most of Saturday in Brussels before getting an evening Eurostar home. All very pleasant. I was disappointed to discover this place in Ghent had closed though. ( Nothing to do with beer for a change... ) | | 12:02 pm |
Birthday Belgian Beer Blowout (Bonus Brewdog)
It's my birthday on Saturday. I'm going to be very old. Co-incidentally, The White Horse, Parson's Green, is having a Belgian beer festival over the weekend. So I thought I'd be old there and drink beer. Cunning plan, eh? So. White Horse on Saturday from, say, 5pm until I fail to be able to move (which might be quite hard to tell if I don't try standing up for a while) Parson's Green has a tube station; it's on the bit of District line that goes down to Wimbledon. If you come out of the station and turn right then the pub's about a hundred yards/metres down the road on the left. Probably with a lot of people hanging around outside if it's a nice day. Coming from the Croydon area (and others) then going to West Brompton on a "normal" train can be a good idea. There are some direct trains there (Milton Keynes ones) or change at Clapham; then it's just two stops on the tube. Provisional beer list, if anyone's interested. And, no, Fulham aren't playing that day. So, anyone up for it? | | Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | | 1:48 pm |
100 Belgian Beers - The Drinking Continues
Time for another update for my 100 Belgian Beers To Drink Before You Die "project". I'm still way behind on posting so I'll spare you too much wibbling about them. Anyway, I'd better catch up a bit as I'm off to Belgium on Tuesday so I'm sure there'll be a few more beers then. Something will have gone very wrong if there isn't. ( Read more... ) | | Saturday, August 1st, 2009 | | 6:49 pm |
| | Friday, July 31st, 2009 | | 10:52 pm |
A Difference Of Opinion
It's Friday night and I'm at home, so I thought I'd open a bottle of something potentially interesting. BrewDog Rake Raspberry Stout then; fitting as I had a couple of pints in the pub it's named after earlier this evening. As I've mentioned, it's basically Paradox Smokehead with added raspberries. The taste starts off a bit raspberry, then there's some chocolate that stops it being really tart like some Belgian fruit beers and then the smoke from the Islay whisky kicks in. Then the raspberries come back and it ends up being a rather fine mix of all the flavours. Hm, I'm glad I managed to get several bottles of this one. Alternatively, according to pingopark ; "Jesus, no, that's bad. It's like chewing on burnt wood. And not in a good way" And no, I've no idea what a "good way" is either. Oh, it's V-Movie today. Could have gone to that. Oh well. They're being silly now(I have "written" a post that's nothing to do with beer, honest. I'll put it up at some point) | | Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 | | 12:27 pm |
| | Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 | | 3:16 pm |
Blah Blah Blah
No I've not really got anything to say. I just thought I'd do a "not dead" post. Been stupidly busy at work (which I'm sure is all wrong as we've still no idea what's happening with jobs) and then pretty busy otherwise too. Had a long weekend in Manchester featuring role-playing ( Metropolis meets Terminator. Er, meets Dad's Army) and drinking lots of beer (Slaapmutske!). The weekend just gone was the Sproutclub pirate party boat trip along the Thames to Brentford for more Fullers beer than is good for you (i.e. any, but the new Flying Swan had some top booze on Friday). I'm off work this week and haven't really got anything planned. So I might actually get to read a bit of LJ, which I've not done for weeks, and probably do more posts about Belgian beer and BrewDog. I had a delivery from them yesterday, and unlike the rest of you it wasn't Zeitgeist. Anyway, just thought I'd say "Hi". | | Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | | 8:34 pm |
Another Belgian Beer Update
Right, time for another quick round-up before I get too far behind on these. Except I think I already am. (Not to mention that I wrote this last week and never got around to posting it.) ( blah blah blah... )For a change of "scenery" from all this Belgian stuff it's The White Horse, Parson's Green's American beer festival this weekend. Lot's of stuff from Stone, Sierra Nevada, Goose Island, Great Divide and more. There's links, including a provisional beer list, on their website. Hopefully I'll get to try some Dogfish Head. Oh, and I spent the weekend with darth_tigger . I now ache all over and she has laryngitis. I'm sure that can sound much dodgier than it was. |
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