Beer review attempt number 1

"He who does not love beer, wine, women, and song remains a fool his whole life long." - Carl Worner

So, I had a new beer this weekend and I must say it was different. Since I don't have a template in place for beer ratings, I'll just shoot from the hip.

Name: Old Engine Oil

Brewery: Harviestoun Brewery Ltd, in Alva, Scotland

The label says, "An after dinner beer," but say it ain't so! I'll take for the session before dinner too! Very nicely balanced dark-brown ale with toffee-malt and hop flavors that are sweet and herbal but not dramatic. (just like New Glarus "Spotted Cow") The body is not "engine oil," but rather quite smooth and drinkable. A really nice British style fruitiness (Read: Newcastle)- which I enjoy. The flavor transports you to a nice foggy pub. No likeness of engine oil. I love this stuff. It said on the box's label that the original brew master spent his early life crafting wooden prototypes of the model T, and this beer's dark color and viscous nature reminded him of used engine oil.

Contractarianism

In spending time with my philosophy professor during his office hour, I have a certain passage that I find particularly important. It comes from Thomas Hobbes The Leviathan:
"Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in such a condition called war; and such a WAR, as is of every man against every man. For war, consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of time, is to be considered in the nature of war; as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather, lieth not in a shower or two of rain; but in an inclination thereto of many days together: so the nature of war, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.
"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Krausening

This is something I really want to do...It is pronounced kroysening. It is the same process that big breweries such as Anhueser-Busch and Samuel Adams use.

http://www.deadyeast.com/yeastmeister.php

I would like someone to send me to template for beer rating so I can seem like I know what I'm talking about.


P.S. good time-waster!!! http://fantasticcontraption.com/

Blackberry Wheat

Brewed a wheat beer (with blackberry extract) this week...I won't know how it tastes for a while. The lager I brewed a while ago is chilling and I can't wait for that to finish. This should be a good summer if I get the honey kolsch done that I want to brew...all should be done around Dad's birthday. So, BEER PARTY!!!

Olde Main Beer and hot wings

So I have found a new combination that gives me a delicigasm...Olde Main milk stout and chicken wings. It is chock full of carbs and fat, but together are smokey and delicious. My next combo, which I have heard of but never tried, is oysters and Left Hand milk stout.

Ethics test

I had an Ethics test today...not too bad, but long enough. I feel like I know less about mankind now than I did when I started the class. It is an unsettling feeling, but now I can argue pretty much anything from any perspective. Which people in positions of authority don't seem to like.

Oh yeah...the content warning

Fuck, shit, fuck, fuck, suck it and fuck it, babies are chewable....That should piss off those cocksuckers at the FCC.

So I walked into this talent agent's office...

just fueling the fire

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Hofbrauhaus

Well, I have been invited to visit the Hofbrauhaus in Vegas. Just hearing that busted my rut of homework. I was so excited because I have wanted to go there for over a year now, and never had a chance. I still have to decide what kind of bier I want while there...too many choices. You try to decide http://www.hofbrauhauslasvegas.com/

Woo Hoo!! number one!!!

Welcome to The Drunken Philosopher! This is the first post...hopefully of many. This blog will be about good beer and good thoughts...Social drinking if you will. I appreciate replies and input! What beers do you like, thoughts on politics, gripes at my poor grammar, and the like. So, in the words of Charlie Papizian, "Sit back, relax, and have a homebrew."