Boozer of the Week.

This guy:

Man jailed after sending Iowa hostages for beer
via Chicago Tribune

Offended

OK, I realize that as a non-contributing contributor, I probably don't have a whole lot of room to bitch about things that are or are not on this site.

That said, it is downright offensive that the ultimate in college drinking is not listed in the poll. The beer that fueled many of the Man In Black's stories to unsuspecting freshmen girls ("I'm actually half Jewish," "I was a husky model for JC Penny when I was 5," "I promise I'll call you," etc.), fountain runs, naked pull-ups at the front doors of sororities, et. al.

This beer, my friends, is the beer of champions. The beer that did not need to be called by name. No, all that needed to be said and done for it to be understood what a young, aspiring academic needed to drink that Tuesday night was to hand the person making the beer run $12, and simply ask for "30 'Stones."

The beer: Keystone Light.

I'm saddened by its exclusion.

Poor College Kid Beer

Uh...Natural Light

Micro'd: Gordon Biersch Brewery

(Note: This is part one of a yet to be determined number of installations titled "Micro'd" in which I go to a microbrewery and drink every different beer I can before being: a. thrown out b. divorced c. a new father. Who am I kidding? I really just had a few beers before going out to eat with my parents. My life is not exactly ripe with adventure at this point. It is worth noting that all beers were sampled in pints, and not those pussy beer flight things that they enjoy on the coasts where binge drinking is done mostly in closed quarters.)

Gordon Biersch brewery is a chain of breweries that is headquartered inexplicably in Chattanooga, TN despite not having a restaurant in the state of Tennessee. They have locations all over the place, though, like San Fran, Colorado, and the one I frequented in the heart of the Power and Light District in downtown KCMO, (a truly pretentious, over the top, enjoyable in quarterly doses venue) where I sat on a Friday night and drank by myself for an hour or two. They offer a really decent, somewhat expensive lineup of apps and entrees that are allegedly made from scratch and the food looked good for standard upscale brewery-type fare (think Upstream or Lazlo's-ish).

The beer report:

Marzen: Their most popular beer and the first one I tried. It was Newcastle-y in color and sweet like that beer as well. A potentially great beer after a round of golf or other non-threatening situations, I felt like this is what they recommend to people who only drink Bud Light or are on a diet. No hops to be seen. The Jonas Brothers of beers really. I don't know what that means.

Czech Lager: Now we're on the trolley! A pilsner that was truly spicy. It had some kick and some gusto. Pizazz! Shazam! Wheee! No seriously, this one was really good.

Hefeweisen: Full disclosure time: I wouldn't describe myself as a big wheat beer fan and this one also fell flat for me. Something about the combination of fruit in beer and the loaf-of-bread-in-a-glass factor got me here. If a company could make a wheat beer that didn't require fruit and didn't make me feel like Prince Fielder after two glasses, I could potentially be in.

Golden Export: Their Budweiser, and the last one I had. This is really what they recommend to people that only like light beers. I thought it kind of had a paint thinner aftertaste. Not good times. If you go to microbreweries seeking beers like this, see also: Coors Original anywhere west of Exit 305 (Alda) in Nebraska.

They also had a seasonal bock I regretfully wasn't able to try, in retrospect this should have replaced the Hefeweisen for me. Out of the four beers I had, big raising of the glass to the Czech and (less so, but still) the Marzen. Bad times to the Hefeweisen and Golden Export.

Modern Drunkard Convention - Denver, CO

I won't be able to go to this, but if you're in the Denver area and don't go....consider this your slap to the face.

Drunkard National Convention
August 29-31
Denver, CO

Brew of the Month - August

Zima, the beer "Malternative." Because people are too big of vaginas to post stuff to this blog.

Get it together.

By the way, apparently Zima has "gone citrus." I guess they've always been for Fruits, now they're just not hiding it anymore. You can say Zima is "out of the closet."

When will the Belgians stop?

Leave it up to those damn Belgians to come up with a "scratch and strip" beer bottle. That's right, you scratch the swimsuit off the lady to reveal the belgian goodies. If such a thing exists.

And leave it up the the British to be too proper to sell it.

UK bans Rubbel Sexy Lager

Beer Nostalgia Reigns

With the success of Grain Belt and Pabst, is Schlitz the next beer to come back on a large scale?

Probably.

(Oh, and thanks to Jimstock and The Baldridge people for all of the delicious seasoning, and check exit177 or HeavySoul for the running diary of my North Platte class reunion trip/Fort Cody visit sometime tonight. Great times.)