LOB Final 4 game 2

Now it's time to see who will matchup against Ohio State for the beer national championship.

UCLA vs University of Florida

First lets start with UCLA. LA isn't much for a beer town in my opinion. Of course that doesn't mean that the team doesn't have some ties. They have a canadian on their team. Canadians are typically great beer drinkers, and some of my favorite beers are canadian brews. Then there's Arron Afflalo who is from Compton, CA. If there's anything i've learned from NWA it's that guys from Compton know how to drink them some forties. Unfortunately, they also have a guy that's from Rancho Santa Margarita on the team. I'll be damned if some margarita drinking fools are going to win this thing. Finally, they have two guys on the team from Cameroon. Now I have no idea if they drink beer in Cameroon, and one of the guys is a prince of something. So he has the coming to america comedy factor, but all I can ever think of when somebody talks about Cameroon, is cookies.

Now we come to Florida. Gainesville is a college town and according to TP there are a couple of small microbreweries. So that's always gonna win some points. Al Horford is from the Dominican Republic...which is kind of like jamaica and red stripe so "Hooray Beer"©. They also have a guy named Green on the team, and I drink "green" beer on St. Patrick's day. Of course the big thing they have in their favor is that they have a "brewer" on their team. That is huuuuuuge. They also have Joakim Noah, but he obviously drinks wine coolers, and this isn't the women's final 4 of LOB.

All in all UCLA has tremendous upside potential in this matchup, but you just can't beat having a "brewer" on your team. Florida wins this game inspite of Noah and his man-dress.

Final 4 LOB style

So I figured since the Final 4 is upon us, maybe it's time to make some predictions on the games based on the teams beerography. I'll break down the matchups based on their "ties" to beer and from that a prediction will come. Today:

THE Ohio State University vs Georgetown University

Ohio State has a few things going for it in the beerness. First, they have a player from Dublin, Ohio. Why do I mention this? Because Dublin, Ireland is the home of Guinness, so obviously that gives Dublin,OH some serious beer credibility. Another thing in OSU's favor is that Temwr says there is a good beer brewed there. I don't know the name, but if he'll vouch for it then good enough for me. Also Greg Oden could buy beer in the 3rd grade. OSU also has a guy on the team named Lighty, which kind of reminds me of Coors Lighty. But it also reminds me of lighty-weights and that's never a good thing, unless it's a chick, and this isn't the women's final four. The other bad knock is that Oden and Conley are from Indianapolis, and as we all know, Indy doesn't have any good beer.

Georgetown doesn't have a whole lot going for it in the beer category. First, Washington D.C. just doesn't strike me as a "Beer Town". It's hard to imagine
Nancy Pelosi wandering into a bar and ordering some PBR. It seems more like a martini town, and this isn't the lordz of martinis. G'town does have a player on the team from Harvest, Alabama. This is a great beer town in my mind. Why, you may ask? Well, when I was looking it up, the abbreviation is Harvest, AL, which is eerily similar to Harvest ALe. Lots of breweries make a Harvest Ale but my favorite is the Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale. Another thing that Georgetown used to have in it's favor is that John Thompson always sounded drunk, but his son doesn't, and the younger Thompson is coaching now.

So when you add it all up, it's pretty obvious, THE Ohio State University will triumph in this matchup. Tomorrow, i'll break down the Florida/UCLA game because this is getting too long for one day.

Hooray Beer!!

This commercial always makes me laugh.

Brilliant!

Here's to St. Patrick's Day!

Zonker!!!

That's the actual name of the beer I chose this week. It's brewed by Snake River Brewing and is a pretty decent Stout beer. SRB is in Jackson, Wyoming...why does this matter? I guess it doesn't but just wanted to give a shout out to my boys who live in Jackson. Zonker has won multiple awards at different festivals, which I think is stupid but they list them on the box. Denver holds the "Great American Beer Festival" every year at the end of September, and supposedly this beer won some awards at that a few times. Overall, it wasn't my favorite stout i've ever had but it wasn't horrible. It runs at 5.8 so it's not the strongest stout in the world either, but it still gets you drunk.

Anyway, the one cool thing about their company is you can actually order beer from the website and have it shipped to you, regardless of where you live. They only offer a couple of beers to purchase, and they're a little expensive. Here is that link. If you want me to sample one of the other two that they sell online before you buy, I will. At $31 for a 12 pack, I'd want to know what I was getting first.

64 beers

We need to set up a round of 64 Beer Bracket. Somthing like this.

EAST bracket

#1 Henieken
#16 Schlitz

#2 Budweiser

#15 Coors

#3 Becks

#14 Yuengling

and so on and so on
i just threw these seeds up real quick as an example

maybe i'll work on something this week

til then here's to Todd Packer!

CHEERS!

New Mexico's Finest

Last weekend I went down to Taos, New Mexico for a ski weekend and decided to try some of the "local" brews. So if you're ever in New Mexico here's what to expect.

Sierra Blanca Brews

I had the nut brown ale from this brewery first. It was very good. Heavy and strong but not much of an aftertaste. My only complaint, if it's really a complaint, it tasted exactly like Newcastle brown ale. I'm a fan of Newcastle so it didn't bother me but it gets D- for originality. Good beer for drinking with dinner or something, but if you're just going to get trashed you get filled up too quickly.

I also sampled the Pale Ale from this brewery, which is described as "A perfect balance of England’s most prized Fuggles and East Kent Golding hops, produces a smooth, full-bodied, aromatic stylistic Pale Ale." I would describe it as pure crap. I'm not a pale ale fan typically anyway, but this one was horrible.

On a side note, we may have met the craziest sumbitch ever in the little bar we were at. This dude asked us 3 seperate times where we were from, in about a 10 minute span. Everytime I told him "Denver", he'd go on and on about all the crime here. He then asked us if he could "train our kids to be bad-asses". Granted we don't have any kids. He said he could teach them the "white-man way" and the "indian way" to be a bad-ass. So if you're kids need training, go to Taos, I guess.

And since there's been much confusion over what the fuck a Tripel is, here is the wiki link

I had 13 Corona's last night

Read this story and then dance

You know what beer goes good with. College Basketball.

This is the view from my recliner, watching the games last night.

Hasselhoff's beer

Giving this a whirl later on, maybe even at work. Bossman brought it in for me to try. Ususally German pilsners are delicious so I'm pumped.

It's a German beer. Soft Pilsner that is very popular in the industrial area of Germany. They had the most breweries until the slaes decline of the mid 90's they then merged with a few other German brewers to form Brinfhoff's Brewery. A giant in the German industry.






































I cannot confirm nor deny that this beer is the actual beer the "Hoff" prefers.

Samuel Jackson Beer - IT'LL GET YA DRUNK.

TESTING