Long Overdue Thanks

Karla went to Southeast Asia a couple of months back and sent me a couple of cool T-shirts of exotic beers from the area. Haven't tried the beers, but I proudly wear the shirts. Whenever I find time to learn how to load pics, I'll take shots of myself in the shirts. In the meantime, I'll just offer links to the two brews: Beerlao (which I assume is Laotian) and Singha (Thai). Thanks Karla!

Damn I wish I had the money to travel

Margaret's friend John in Chicago sent this to me today:

This article from Fodor's came in my news feeds today. It's a travel piece of all the Belgian brewery tours to visit. Thought you might be interested.
http://www.fodors.com/wire/archives/001934.cfm

Yet another edition of Wednesday Night Drinking at Work

Coming to you live from beautiful Chronicle Towers. A brew that is completely new to me: Nethergate Augustinian Ale. Made by the same folks that produce Old Growler, which I remember liking. Thanks to the miracle of blogging technology, I'll be updating this live as each sip washes over my tastebuds. (Because I know y'all are just hovering over your computer hitting the refresh button on i-love-beer.blogspot.com every 30 seconds.)

Wow ... weird, but tasty. The bottle says it's flavored with "a touch of coriander," and I assume that's what's giving this really powerfuly flowery taste. It's like somebody shoved a bouquet of roses in my mouth, minus the thorns. Or berries of some sort, but not like a lambic. I doubt it's something I could drink on a regular basis, but it's nice. I sort of hoped with the picture of the monk on the front that this might be an English brewery's attempt at a Belgian-style, but this is definitely a malty English ale.

Aaahhh ... Budweiser

Bob Noxious is way cool ... because he bought me a Budweiser. No, not the crappy American beer. He bought me a real Budweiser, brewed in the Czech Republic, back from his trip to the World Cup. If you're not familiar, read the link — Anheuser Busch and the Czech Republic's Budvar brewery have fought over the name worldwide for years. The bottle says "Original Budweiser" on it. It even still tasted good after boiling in his car all day during our trip to Schlitterbahn. I want to keep the cool bottle, which has Czech writing all over it since it was brought over straight from Europe instead of being imported by an American distributor, but my mean wife doesn't want it cluttering up the house. (Okay, she's not mean, but she doesn't understand the male compulsion to collect stuff, unless it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs.)

More Ghana-watching

Since Ghana kicked U.S. butt the other day in the World Cup and advanced to the Round of 16, the folks at the Black Star Brewpub Co-op (see a few posts below) decided to have another Ghana-watching and beer-drinking party tonight. Most of you probably already know the score, but if not, head over there and watch tonight. Here is the invite:

After Ghana defeated the USA last Thursday we decided that as long as the Black Stars are advancing, we will continue to screen the matches. The venue and format will be basically the same as before.

1506 Kirkwood Rd

http://tinyurl.com/h94ns

Beer tapped at 8:00 PM.

Sunset is at 8:36, and we'll start the match as soon as light conditions permit.

Oh, and DON'T PEEK AT THE SCORE! ;)

Finally, we had a new member join on Thursday, and I'd like to welcome Richard to the co-op. If anyone else would like to join, our membership coordinator will be at the event tonight.

Sincerely,

Steven L. Yarak

President, Board of Directors

The Black Star Co-op

http://www.blackstarpub.com

steven@blackstarpub.com

Inappropriate beer humor

As several of you know, my two-year-old daughter recently acquired a really ugly black eye. I swear to god this is NOT how it happened.

And here are some other funny beer T-shirts.

Beer drinking at the World Cup

I don't know exactly what is the meaning of this guy's helmet, but since it bears a resemblance to a German military helmet circa WW2, I'm guessing it's an insult. Sadly, this poor Englishman is probably being forced to drink Budweiser.