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Posted by sgt_doom]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:09:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by floater]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:09:09 -0800 The Stranger
I mourn the multi-stage corruption of Bass Ale. It was my standard IPA, and a fair representation of what you might find on one of the "bitter" taps in an English pub. But, several years back Coors bought the brewery so they could sell their product in the EU and stopped bottling Bass in Burton-on-Trent. With the move of the bottling to Luton, something horribly fucked happened to the flavor, and I stopped drinking it. These days, they're making it somewhere upstate in New York, probably in an old lager factory in the Genesee Valley. (It's not any less horrible, but it's fizzier.)

Lately, InBev/Anheuser decided that a very decent German lager could be made just as well in St. Louis. To which I respond, no, it doesn't seem like it could. Beck's is now unrecognizable.

I'm not a big fan of Mexican lagers. I find them a little too light, but I pity their fans if this merger goes through.

As for me, I'm still looking for a decent IPA that's not too sweet and not too overly hopped. The American microbrew approach to the style is that if a little is good, more much be better. It isn't.

My main objection to American beers, though, is the permissive regulation coupled with a complete lack of labeling requirements. There are 300 "standard ingredients" that are permitted by the U.S. FDA. Almost all of those would get you jailed in Bavaria. I'm allergic to some of them, too, especially certain preservatives and colorants.

Luckily, I'm versatile in my drinking habits. As long as I can get the French stuff cheap, I like a good glass of wine. Again, it's the labelling and ingredients issue. There's a bunch of shit that Americans and others put in their wine that will get you jailed if you did that in France, including one ingredient that leaves me gasping for air and turning blue.
Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:05:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Just wondering]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:54:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Toe Tag]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:41:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:51:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:08:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:05:20 -0800 The Stranger Curtis Smith, 22, said he came to Washington to sell information on how to make methamphetamine and the $2,487 he was carrying was payment for the drug deal.
Posted by aiff]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:03:46 -0800 The Stranger
Yes, because communists are such reasonable people.
Posted by Pinkos]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:53:48 -0800 The Stranger they totally just claimed responsibility…

Posted by prompt]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:24:40 -0800 The Stranger The Turkish communist parties may be weird but suicide bombings are plain unheard of.
A suicide bombing is a specific method that is beyond the very religious something completely shunned since there are no ideals that support them. A bomb? Sure. But suicide as a part of a mission - not at all.
Being arrested is fine, even risking a certain death penalty but this is just absurd as a method.

Sounds like bullshit to me. Specially since the group hasn't taken responsibility for it - which unlike suicide-as-a-method would be the very first thing they did.
Posted by JensR]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:48:57 -0800 The Stranger Posted by CbytheSea]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:33:45 -0800 The Stranger

Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:21:38 -0800 The Stranger This is just soooo Harvard:

http://www.news.com.au/world/dozens-susp…

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/02/02/…

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/2…

Posted by sgt_doom]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:20:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Gern Blanston]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:08:48 -0800 The Stranger The rest of Goodell's points include:

-- The league will keep pursuing escalating suspensions to discipline players who violate player-safety rules meant to prevent such actions as hits to the head. "Suspensions get through to the players," Goodell said.

-- The No. 1 issue in the game, according to Goodell, is taking the head out of tackles. He said progress has been made in the past couple of years toward eliminating helmet-to-helmet hits, but that players need to get back to using shoulders and arms properly and aiming for a tackle strike zone on a player.

-- The NFL will have neurosurgeons on the sidelines at games.
Posted by Ben]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:04:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:24:58 -0800 The Stranger
http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2013/02/01/…
Posted by seatackled]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:18:59 -0800 The Stranger