Beer!

[Guest guest]

Recently I have been chatting with the beer guy at the Whole Foods

across the street from where I live. We have been exchanging notes so

to speak and he turned me on to a site called http://www.ratebeer.com.

It is excellent! For all you beer lovers out there it should give you

many hours of searching pleasure.

I have also of late occasionally been drinking aged beers. I recently

had a JW Lees Harvest Ale 1999 Limited Edition. Superb. Here is a

review at the Beer Advocate:

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/178/705/?ba=scruffwhor

I also had Harviestoun _Ola Dubh_, which is beer age in oak casks

previously used for Highland Park's 16 year old single malt scotch

whiskey: http://www.harviestoun.com/OlaDubh/ They also have other

years.

It took some getting used too but I like them, and they are very

filling,which means I can only drink one or two at the most, which is

good for me :-)

They are also spendy, so only good for an occasional indulgence, at

least for me.

Also drinking really well is DogFish Head's Immortal Ale. Also last

night I had _La Grande Blanche_, which is a belgian imperial white ale

and quite tasty. It comes in a 750ml bottle so it will serve more than

one or last for a couple of days.

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appreciation of what it's like to live under an authoritarian regime.

I was reminded of this when I arrived home and found that the TSA had

rifled through my baggage.

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