What are you drinking now?

[Beermeister32]

I really think good German Pilsner is the centering point of the Universe – all good things emanate from this great brew! My boozy rendition of the Big Bang. A beer singularity!

Radeberger competes here in the US primarily with Bitburger. Honestly, at 4.8% ABV I can’t discern much of a difference between the two. Both are excellent, solid Pilsners from das Deutsche Vaterland. Perfection! Prost!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Ummm...not joking...refreshing. then again anything in this steambath

How dare they say don't age!

 

[camonick]

HB Pilsner

 

[JAReeves]

Starting to see a pattern.

 

[Bramling Cross]

A glass of that jasmine rice fizzy yellow swill that I kegged on Monday.

Three pounds of cheap ALDI jasmine instant rice got the job done. There's something clearly jasmine-ish that pops through in the finish and quickly fades, letting you know that it's a jasmine rice lager. It doesn't scream, "I'm a jasmine rice beer! I'm a dumb stunt beer!" It's a pleasant, subtle July/August beer and I'm very pleased with it. Next year, it'll go into one of my 6-gal kegs.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

This Triple/oak/Chardonnay is a bit of a surprise hit. Brewed it (2.5gal) to build yeast up for the Quad more than anything. After that 5gal batch we'll do a 5gal batch of this again. Can never have too much Belgian lying around.

 

[Bramling Cross]

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In these inclement times, sacrifices must be made if we, as a species, wish to survive.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

In these inclement times, sacrifices must be made if we, as a species, wish to survive.

That's funny. Wife and I literally just watched the finale of 2004 Battlestar Galactica...common theme.

Wind is picking up but looks like we'll be missed by a mile..

 

[Bramling Cross]

That's funny. Wife and I literally just watched the finale of 2004 Battlestar Galactica...common theme.

Wind is picking up but looks like we'll be missed by a mile..

Nuts, I've never seen that. It annoys me that there are only so many words and it's subsequently becoming harder each and every day to write something original and new.

As someone that writes songs, this is especially infuriating.

We need new, better words.

 

[Rish]

HM limoncello. Nice and lemony, not too sweet.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Nuts, I've never seen that. It annoys me that there are only so many words and it's subsequently becoming harder each and every day to write something original and new.

As someone that writes songs, this is especially infuriating.

We need new, better words.

Frak yeah we do!

 

[JAReeves]

Nuts, I've never seen that. It annoys me that there are only so many words and it's subsequently becoming harder each and every day to write something original and new.

As someone that writes songs, this is especially infuriating.

We need new, better words.

When Maya Angelou spoke a few years back here, she said something akin to, "There are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, and there are only so many ways to put them together." She was both lamenting at how difficult it can be to create new work and also remarking on her own Imposter Syndrome, "Someday they'll realize I'm a fraud." Brilliant woman.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

As the retirement location world turns, got the wife thinking away from the tinderbox we call California to at least a trip to Asheville, NC. Next spring... I'll buy that for a dollar!

If I ever do this again, x3 the peppers and x2 the cinnamon. 12% Oak/RiS

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

When Maya Angelou spoke a few years back here, she said something akin to, "There are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, and there are only so many ways to put them together." She was both lamenting at how difficult it can be to create new work and also remarking on her own Imposter Syndrome, "Someday they'll realize I'm a fraud." Brilliant woman.

Not to get too deep into the subject, but the issue with words is the human mind. We take a word and impart our own experience/intellect into it. For example, "The electromagnet field " could mean seeing the mind of God to one or completely nonsense or even repulsive to another. When In reality, it's just a thing

 

[Bramling Cross]

Not to get to deep into the subject, but the issue with words is the human mind. We take a word and impart our own experience/intellect into it. For example, "The electromagnet field " could mean seeing the mind of God to one or completely nonsense or even repulsive to another. When In reality, it's just a thing

Damned semioticians, there's one in every crowd, ruining everything for everybody.


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*Said the big enjoyer of semiotics.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Damned semioticians, there's one in every crowd, ruining everything for everybody.


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*Said the big enjoyer of semiotics.

My youngest son is the semitone or whatever. I'm a math guy. Tried to get him to be a lawyer, you know, so I wouldn't have to work.. bummer.

10% goodness and pregaming starts now!

 

[Bramling Cross]

My youngest son is the semitone or whatever. I'm a math guy. Tried to get him to be a lawyer, you know, so I wouldn't have to work.. bummer.

10% goodness and pregaming starts now!

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As a guy with useless degrees in useless fields doing rather well for himself, semiotics is one of the least useless of the useless fields because it teaches you how to think, really, really think in a structured way. It's very much akin to math, actually. In a way, it's kinda like theoretical math insofar as it probes the fuzzy limits of what we can say we know in a highly structured manner. Sure, it's fuzzy out there, but you need a solid structure to reach it. It's nothing more than logic, really.

Frankly, I'd gladly hire a semiotician. He knows how to think in a structured way, rather than feel...a vanishingly rare skill in this day and age of idiocy run rampant.

[Edit: A final thing worth mentioning is this: The traditional "hard sciences" are ever increasingly face planting into the realm of the fuzzy: first it was the infuriating uncertainty of the various quantum theories, now we're rushing headlong into the fuzzy Gong Show that is AI and, if it ever comes to fruition, quantum computing is a complete fuzzy fiasco. Kiddo might be in exactly the right place at the right time, for no other reason than he know how to think in a world gone barking mad.]

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

As a guy with useless degrees in useless fields doing rather well for himself, semiotics is one of the least useless of the useless fields because it teaches you how to think, really, really think in a structured way. It's very much akin to math, actually. In a way, it's kinda like theoretical math insofar as it probes the fuzzy limits of what we can say we know in a highly structured manner. Sure, it's fuzzy out there, but you need a solid structure to reach it.

Frankly, I'd gladly hire a semiotician. He knows how to think in a structured way, rather than feel...a vanishingly rare skill in this day and age of idiocy run rampant.

I truly hope that someday we can go out and have a couple beers together, face to face. These are the conversations I cherish brother.

 

[BongoYodeler]

As the retirement location world turns, got the wife thinking away from the tinderbox we call California to at least a trip to Asheville, NC. Next spring... I'll buy that for a dollar!

If I ever do this again, x3 the peppers and x2 the cinnamon. 12% Oak/RiS

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Sigh….I can’t keep up.

 

[Bramling Cross]

I truly hope that someday we can go out and a couple beers together, face to face. These are the conversations I cherish brother.

I would happily take you up on that!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Sigh….I can’t keep up.

Are you seeing any of that Santa Barbara fire? Smoke?

There's that fire. Then there's one by Strawberry area close where I graduated HS from then one south of Clear Lake where my wife was looking. Good grief!

 

[BongoYodeler]

Are you seeing any of that Santa Barbara fire? Smoke?

Yeah. Not so much at our house, but we drove down to Santa Barbara today, and saw huge plumes of smoke to the east on our way down and back. Last I heard it was up to 16,000+ acres.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

HB Margarita

 

[MaxStout]

Nuts, I've never seen that. It annoys me that there are only so many words and it's subsequently becoming harder each and every day to write something original and new.

As someone that writes songs, this is especially infuriating.

We need new, better words.

Vogon poetry.

 

[camonick]

Are you seeing any of that Santa Barbara fire? Smoke?

They seem to have so many fires in that area. My great grandparents owned a lemon orchard near there years ago and I remember my grandma saying a big fire burned right to the edge of their property at one time. I still have an uncle who lives in Carpinteria. His son is an engine boss for CalFire. I’m sure he’s busy now.

 

[Rish]

HB wheat

 

[MaxStout]

Stopped by a brewery after lunch for a quick beer, a hazy.

Back home on the deck with a Pseudo Sue.

 

[Rish]

Damned semioticians, there's one in every crowd, ruining everything for everybody.


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*Said the big enjoyer of semiotics.