Zodiac's, in Old Towne Orange, CA, titanium bottle opener (& 1911 bushing wrench) will pop caps quicker then you can drink them.

Handsamson

Firestone Walker - §ucaba

Firestone Walker Brewing Company out of San Luis Obispo County.

Buttered cherry seared in coconut vanilla.

Candied bourbon glue and almond cream soaked plums.

Silk scotch singed licorice with vinous toffee sweetened raisin. 12.5%.

Atominable

Bourbon Barrel Aged Abominable is my favorite brew of all time.

The best beer west of the Mississippi, the Mighty Mississip, the Old Miss, the Old Man.... Deep River...

Vanilla, bourbon, caramel, smoke, candy.  9.5%.

Atomic Bitchwax's 1999 self titled rules, unless your cranium is square shaped.

Torquing riffs forged from equal parts bong resin and 455 SD horsepower.

1. Stork
2. Birth to the Earth
3. Hey Alright Listen
4. Crazed Fandango
5. Hope You Die
6. Hang Me
7. Kiss the Sun
8. Getting Old
9. V8
10. Shitkicker
11. The Formula

You talk about a warped mind, I got one.

Alaskan Smoked Porter - Alaskan Brewing Co.

ABC has been brewing this beer for over 20 years.

Filterless charcoal cured cacao bacon beans from a dry roasted peppered plum pipe. Licorice campfire smoke with a haze of salted peat raisins. 6.5%.

Been smoking too long.

Sunbath

Snow Day II

Snow Day Winter Ale from New Belgium Brewing is appropriate for today's mid week Snow Day.

Wisps of silk caramel spiced wheat dustings melting off conifer needles.  Subtle flavors make a perfect snow cone.  6.2%.

Arik Roper artwork albums.

Dopesmoker: Proceed the Weedian.

Amerijuanican: Opiumatic Riffs.

Mammatus: Tuned In, Dropped.


Replenishing a free day off with one of the top films of all time.

Honor, glory, and fine chicks. 

Thanks to Em for the dvd and shirt.

Why don't you take a little inventory on what we got going for us?

Espresso Oak Aged Yeti - Great Divide Brewing

Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout from, one Denver's countless breweries, Great Divide.

Smokey sweet cocoa cream with charred coffee beans and a crema topping.  Sticky peppered vanilla and chicory finish.  9.5%.

Post gym recovery and pick me up (for snow days only). 

This ain't no St. Helen's Malted Ale.

Vinyl Feels Better

Pumpkin Festivus

An epic holiday season filled with family, friends, and finer things is replaying, like The Christmas Story on TBS, in some hazy parallel universe.

After stock piling pumpkin beers the first annual Eve of Christmas Eve pumpkin beer gathering was held.  Kick, Stingy Jack, Heavenly Pumpkin, Pumpkinator, Pumking, Oak Jacked, Dark 'o the Moon, Post Road Pumpkin, TREAT, and Pumpkin Cider were the conspirators.

Bourbon Abominable from Fremont Brewery was a well received accomplice.

My personal highlights were the homemade pumpkin beer bread and the homemade IPA contributed by two gentlemen.

A fine way to introduce the dreadful (hair, not attitude) little lady to the Lone Star State.  Next year is more pumpkin and multiple bourbon barrel aged beers.

TEXMAS Cat

                                              Part II

Krampus - Southern Tier Brewing

Southern Tier makes beer that should be tested for performance enhancing substances.

Aromas of breaded yeast and spent fireworks.

Apple zest with spiced peaches and prickling carbonation coated in a grapefruit finish.  9%.

What's a movie to watch while consuming this beer? Santa's Slay.

Acid King - Busse Woods (1999)

2nd album from the 2nd best band with "acid" in their name.

Drowned in spaced grooves & enough cubes of syrupy hypnosis to massage your fourth eye.


Thrown back into the 70's and out the other end of the 23rd century.

1. Electric Machine
2. Silent Circle
3. Drive Fast, Take Chances
4. 39 Lashes
5. Carve The 5
6. Busse Woods

There is no tomorrow for me.

Barrel Aged Wee Heavy - Hale's Ales Brewery

Hale's is a quality local brewing establishment.  Their winter seasonal was first brewed in 1985.

Aged for 6 months in Kentucky oak barrels.  Buttered sweet cream with breaded caramel scotch candy.

Roasted bourbon with vanilla toffee and a slight citrus finish. 7.2%.

Plugged In Sid

He'Brew Genesis 15:15 - Shmaltz Brewing Company

I distinctly remember the first time I saw a beer from this brewery at the Wholesome Choice in Irvine, CA.

Sugary whiskey grape butter with rich pomegranate brandy.

Figs melted in plum fried toffee pie, sweet pecan rye bread, and creamy raisin bourbon.  13.4%.

Barleywines are to beer as lions are to cats.

Kitty Without A Cause

Doggie Claws (OR) vs. Olde School (DE)

Hair of the Dog's Doggie Claws is honey pine glaze balanced against smooth toffee.

Softened raisin and mango vanilla dough. 11.5%.

Dogfish Head's Olde School is insulin lowering figs blasted in grape solvent.

Plum licorice and gin soaked cherries.  15%.

dual-yum.

Happy Thanksgiving

Pot roast with red: apples, onions, jalapenos, potatoes, and peppers in Jubelale and Jolly Roger.

Vanilla bourbon soaked coconut.

Creamed oak with a smoked bubblegum and sugary raisin sweetness.

Smooth butterscotch and a tint of cherry.  12.5%.


18% Helldorado (11.7% ABV) Blonde Barley Wine.
17% Sticky Monkey (12.5% ABV) English Barley Wine.
17% Bravo (13.5% ABV) Imperial Brown Ale.
13% 2x Barrel Ale (11.5% ABV) Double Strength English Pale Ale.
11% Good Foot (14.3 ABV) American Barley Wine.
10% Velvet Merkin (8.6% ABV) Traditional Oatmeal Stout.
9% Parabola (13% ABV) Russian Imperial Oatmeal Stout.
5% Double Jack (9.5% ABV) Double India Pale Ale.

REDRUM.

Queen - A Day at the Races (1976) - 99¢ Record #10

Queen's fifth album.

Freddie Mercury rules and so does this album.

1. Tie Your Mother Down
2. You Take My Breath Away
3. Long Away
4. The Millionaire Waltz
5. You and I
6. Somebody to Love
7. White Man
8. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
9. Drowse
10. Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)

RIP.

120 Minute IPA - Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Citrus resin with caramel sap and apricot oils.

Honey candied raisins and banana boozed liqueur. 18%.

A beer that everyone should try if only for the fact that it's so amazingly ridiculous.

They're Coming to Get You

Removing Halloween decorations requires style. 

McAuslan Brewing's  is from Montréal.  St-Ambroise Pumpkin (Citrouille) is caramelized ginger and cream soaked pumpkin shavings.  5%

Oakland's Ghoul are unscrupulous charlatans.

They'll lure you into their van with poisoned candied riffs, lye coated bass, and vocals gargled in razor blade laced taffy apples. 

1. The Lunatic Hour
2. Off With Their Heads
3. Destructor
4. Death In The Swamp
5. The Mark Of Voodoo
6. Brain Jerk
7. Blood Feast
8. Morning Of The Mezmetron
9. Transmission Zero
10. Tooth And Claw
11. Metallicus Ex Mortis

H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N

Fallen Angel - Midnight Sun Brewing

Belgian Strong Pale Ales are a great for the season plus the naming trend paying homage to Duvel is cool.

Peppered lemon juice spritzed on banana bubblegum.

Pear wine with apple dustings and a dry finish. 8%.

 Awesome pumpkins from Pumpkin Hollow.

Misfits - Misfits I

Impossible to pick a favorite album so I'm going with a compilation.

1. She
2. Hollywood Babylon
3. Bullet
4. Horror Business
5. Teenagers from Mars
6. Night of the Living Dead
7. Where Eagles Dare
8. Vampira
9. I Turned into a Martian
10. Skulls
11. London Dungeon
12. Ghouls Night Out
13. Astro Zombies
14. Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?
15. Die, Die My Darling
16. Earth A.D.
17. Devilock
18. Death Comes Ripping
19. Green Hell
20. Wolfsblood

Hissfits is my idea for a Misfits cover band made up of cats.

Dark O' The Moon - Elysian Brewing Company (2011)

Cocoa seared pumpkin seeds.

Baked, brewed, and blasphemized with sweetness and spice. 6.5%.

3rd year, 3rd round. There are at least 2 reasons to buy silver.

Oak Jacked Imperial Pumpkin Ale - Uinta Brewing

Creamed candy corn whiskeyed with cinnamon and mapled vanilla.

Buttery clove coated toffee flesh ripped from ginger spiced candy skulls.  10.31%.

 Cha-cha with the zombies.

The William Castle Film Collection

William Castle understood how to bridge the gap between gimmick and charm.

Perfect Halloween movies that are still enjoyable viewing experiences even for those of us watching decades later.


13 Frightened Girls(1963)
13 Ghosts (1960)
Homicidal (1961)
Strait-Jacket (1964)
The Old Dark House (1963)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
The Tingler (1959)
Zotz! (1962)
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007)

Fright Effects Induced by Injection of Lysergic Acid LSD25 - A Preliminary Report

Hard Pumpkin Cider - Ace

Ace Cider's Pumpkin cider is a brightly refreshing way to start off a cool, sunny Halloween weekend.

Congratulations to Mark Mcgwire for his second World Series ring.