Onto Beer Appreciation 102:
It's interesting, but I've taken definite steps forward in beer appreciation in very recent times; certainly since the "Corona is my favorite beer" days. I think in the old days, when I never truly gave myself over to enjoying the flavor of beer, I really confused "drinkability" with taste. What that often meant was that I never truly enjoyed the taste of alcohol and a lot of the other ingredients that make beer what it is, and the extent to which I "liked" a beer was quite closely correlated to how easily the beer went down. How tasteless and watery. I will cast no aspersions on Corona until I try it again from a new palette, but my opinion might be very different this time around.
Now, some of my favorite tasting beers would actually cause me to make a face if I tried to drink them too fast. In the world of fermentation & yeast and so on, there's a fine line between bitter/skunky/and delicious, and if I sip a beer slowly and really let the flavors unravel slowly, it's a totally different universe than if I quaff it. In that same vein, reading up a little on the style of beer and specific brew prior to consuming your first and having some understanding of the goal of the brewmeister can help you go distintguish some of those subtledies. Makes one realize there really is a time & place for different beers (e.g. no reason to buy high-quality beer if you're planning on having a smash-down).
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I am glad that you like beer a lot. Your knowledge is really growing and you energy is tantelizing to me.
Thanks. I rarely undertake any endeavor with restraint.
2006 is looking to be the year of beer, chess, and Escalante. Nothin' wrong with that.
We need to have a smash down.
We have before and we will again. Potentially on the Saturday night before we head off to Utah.
Nothing quite like starting a long road trip with a hangover.
I aim to make this vacation one that, if later turned into a screenplay, would feature Adam Sandler & Chris Farrell.
With Adam Sandler as Mighty Tom and Chris Farrell as TClog, who would play us?
I think you're left with the choice of David Spade or Rob Schneider. So, Joe Dirt or Deuce Bigalow. We got the crappy end of this.
I think you're thinking of Chris Farley.
Cory as Farley, probably. You're probably Farrell. We have to go back in time to grant Chevy Case to Gibbs. Like it or not, I'm probably David Spade.
So you meant Wil Farrell?
I was assuming you were only including the SNL players that were in really bad SNL produced movies. Wil Farrell and Chevy Chase both managed to avoid that trap. Adam Sandler has too, to a certain degree.
Well, I wasn't thinking all that much into it and then, later, lacking any good character for Gibbs, I grabbed CC.
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