Tantrums and a few new brews (Harpoon 100bbl Oyster Stout & Choklat)...

Here's a pic of the few beers me and a few others shared on that Irish day.. what's it called? Anyway..

Actually, looking at it, that Hop Stoopid ain't new to me. Good beer, just not new. There's a review here somewhere on it.. the Harpoon Island Creek Oyster Stout was fairly unremarkable except that it includes oyster juice or something. Me and Jody split this one while brewing up the new Belgian Stout that's in primary right now.. next to it's little brother, the same base wort fermented with Jolly Pumpkin's Bam Bier yeast scavenged from the bottom of a bottle of that beer. Stand by for a sec on that.. Geting back to the Harpoon beer, me and Jody both couldn't get much exemplary out of it except that we both remarked that it tasted "mineral-ly" if that's even a word. Well, it does. And that's about all I can muster on this one.. it was pretty plain. Not that it was bad, cause it wasn't.. it was a solid beer as far as stouts go, but I'm not sure this really stands out for a 100bbl series beer. Hey, just one mans opinion!

That Choklat, however.. hmmmm. Now that's a beer! This is an 11% monster that is disguised as chocolate milk. I'm serious, this thing tastes dead nuts like chocolate milk! It hides the alcohol like a ninja and hides behind a wicked tasty milk chocolate flavor.. and a darned good one at that! This one has huge ratings on Beer Advocate, I see now.. and for good reason. It's a nice treat. I'm not sure I could drink more than one of these in a sitting.. maybe, but not sure. It's so peculiar a flavor for a *beer* (this is a beer, right??), that's it really puzzling to wrap your head around. There's really nothing "stout" about it.. except that it's a legit stout. Say Wha? More interesting is how they packaged a thing like this together and got those flavors out of these base ingredients.. really a testament to what you can do with beer and have have it come out tasting so unlike a beer. Man, I gotta get out of this review, because it's so bizarre, but then.. so is this beer. Go get one, drink it and see if you're not as confused as I am!

And, just to save this for future blackmail use, this awesome clip is a tantrum Lynda threw the other day when her momma told her she couldn't wear rubber rain boots without socks, or just needed to put on some sandals to go outside. Totally awesome stuff. I only grabbed 45 seconds of this tirade, but it went on for some time.. really excellent stuff!



That's all for now.. carry on.