If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, You would have had $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

It's called the 401-Keg

02:19 PM Comments (0)

Name: Mendocino: Talon Barley wine
Brewed In: Saratoga Springs, NY
Type / ABV: Barley wine / 10.5%
Bought at/Price: Binny's / $4.49
Dennis: There are so many good things about this beer, but I'm just not convinced they all fall under the category of Barley wine. The malts are just so sweet on this brew, it comes across as more of a strong doppelbock. Of course with the high alcohol you have to hide it somewhere, but a stronger hop presence would have really have helped I think. There's bitterness in the swallow, but I think it's more of the alcohol than anything. Of course, if you like malty sweet beer than this is going to be your kind of barley wine, either way really it's a good beer.
Jen: First off, let me say that this an easy to drink barley wine. However, I find this to be too sweet to be completely representative of this style. It is quite malty with lots of dark, dried fruit flavors like raisins, prunes and a little bit of dates. The high alcohol content is hidden well by the sugars, but I find this completely lacking in the hops department, almost non-exsistent. For the price though, I find it hard to not like it a little bit!
Rating: 3.75 out of 5

05:02 PM Comments (0)

Name: New Holland: Blue Goat
Brewed In: Holland, MI
Type / ABV: Doppelbock / 7.5%
Bought at/Price: Binny's / $6.99
Dennis: Very smooth malts on this one, but with a very light body...which I wasn't expecting after the first whiff. Sure the alcohol is low, and there are no hops, but his is one easy to drink beer. I don't know if it's really worthy of the "high gravity" title per say, but it's a safe bet for lovers of English brown ales (ie newcastle) if they want something a little more...well manly. They should put this in a six pack.
Jen: High gravity, not IMO. Though I find this to actually be good. At first glance, I thought this was going to be overly sweet, but it isn't. It starts with a nice malt flavor that is somewhat nutty and a little sweet. I don't really taste the hops, although I think they mute the malts slightly without giving you that hop bite. As the beer goes on, it gets slightly mundane. I agree (believe or not) with Dennis that this should be sold in 6-packs instead of bombers.
Rating: x out of 5

05:24 PM Comments (0)

Name: Boulder Beer: Mojo Risin'
Brewed In: Boulder, CO
Type / ABV: Double IPA / 10%
Bought at/Price: Binny's / $5.99
Dennis: If I hadn't read the label on the side of the beer you would have never convinced me that this brew was 10%. Despite the Double IPA label, this beer comes across so balanced and tasty I just can't imagine where they hid it. Certainly not the hoppiest brew I've ever had, the malts usually come across as overly sweet, but not in this glass they don't. Thin, good malt balance, surprisingly not too many hops. A very very good way to pop some one's cherry to the Double IPA style.
Jen: I love me some DIPA, and I had high hopes for this one, only to be slightly let down. Yeah, it is a good brew, but it isn't wowing me. For a double IPA, the hops are extremely masked by the malts, which leave a slightly sour after taste in my mouth. The one thing about this brew that does wow me, is the absence of any alcohol bite, and that is a lot to say about a 10% brew. Easy to drink, and pretty decent, but not that spectacular that I was hoping for!
Rating: 3.75 out of 5

05:59 PM Comments (0)