Sunday, August 1, 2010

Avery The beast Grand Cru Ale


This is an amazing beer. It surprisingly smooth considering it's 15% abv.  The first thing you really notice is the aroma. It definitely has a strong alcohol aroma to it but is followed by sweet notes of honey, malt, and brown sugar. It pours a dark ruby color with a medium head. It has a thick body that holds the flavors amazingly well. It tastes sweet up front from what seems to be honey and molasses, somewhat fruity and it sits on your tongue very well. It's very rich in body and flavor and ends with a tartness and slight burn. This is simply an amazing beer.

Lindemans Pomme Lambic

This beer pours out a slightly hazy golden color with a green tint to it but didn't really have a head to speak of. It had the aroma of a sour green apple, similar to the candies that most people are familiar with. The flavor is what you expect it to be, the same sour apple that the aroma suggests and this feels more like a sour apple soda than a beer. It's still very flavorful and I thought it was delicious, but again, it's more like a soda than a beer.

Wittekerke Rosé also known as Wittekerke Framboise

Pours out a pink color, almost red with a light pink head. The head has good volume and retention. It smells strongly of raspberries. Not just not one variety of it, but several. It was fairly carbonated and has medium body and tastes very sweet. It opens up a mouthful of fruity, berries mainly. The sweetness carries through most of the beer and ends with a slight tartness. Not really my type of beer, but I enjoyed it.

Lindemans Péche Lambic

This was a nice beer. It pours out a hazy light gold color with a pretty decent white head that has pretty good retention. I didn't notice any real lacing though. It has a sweet flavor, obviously primarily peach, but also has a slight funk to it as well as a slight sweet yeastiness. The mild carbonation brings it together nicely and reminds me of a fruit champagne. You don't taste the alcohol at all but that's to be expected cause it's only 2.5% abv. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this beer.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Sorcerer's Apprentice, this is a summer movie through and through. It's shallow, obvious, sub par acting, but it's pretty entertaining nonetheless. What it lacks in greatness, or better yet, what it lacks in quality it makes up for in cheese. It's a damn cheesy movie, but it works. Disney is here and even pays homage to Fantasia. I don't see why they made this movie, but they did. Meh overall but entertaining if you're in the mood. Rent it on dvd.

Inception

Inception. Stunning film. This is easily Nolan's best film yet and is a prime example of how a summer movie can be intelligent. The idea of the movie is simple, put an idea within someone mind through their dreams, but the execution is beautifully complex. One goal, one idea, several layers to go through. It's so cerebral that it picks at you the more you pick at it. Casting was, in my opinion, superb. DiCaprio did a fine job in the lead but as everyone already knows Gordon-Levitt stole the show. If 500 Days of Summer didn't already put him in the limelight, this movie did. (I do hate all the Gordon-Levitt bandwagoners though, most of them haven't even seen Brick, which I think is the role that broke him out of his Third Rock from the Sun typecast) But yea, the supporting cast also did a superb job in the flick. Nolan's hand is evident in the film as you see many shots that was strikingly similar to his past movies *cough* Dark Knight *cough*. The same can be said with much of the tone and mood. This is definitely a Nolan movie, you will know it when you see it. Everything else like the visuals is top notch and you all already know it so there's no point in talking about it. My only real complain about the movie is the lack of character development, but I can see why that was done so meh, fuck it. Great movie....you already know that...so watch it again.

Schmucks and Wings

Today was another simple day done right for me. I woke up to my parents yelling and screaming at each other which was fucking annoying so I stayed in my room for hours until I took a shower and so fourth. Had herb roasted chicken for lunch ish and after a while I ended up hanging out with Alicia. We almost went to Joanna's BBQ but we called her and she said is probably isn't worth the drive by the time we started to go so we just decided to make a beer run instead cause it was kind of on the way but not really. We also decided to basically watch Dinner with Schmucks so we start hitting everyone up but only Brandon Perez was free and down to watch with us. So yea, there were are the Liquorette and I get an Avery and a 6 pack of Blue Moons and those are a great combo. Then we watched the movie, me, Alicia, and Brandon, and damn...that was a downright funny, hilarious, simply great movie. I loved it! Score another great comedy for Paul Rudd. So yea, lol the three of us go to Wingstop for a quick meal and me and Alicia share the 15 piece combo where she got a Lemon Pepper and I got the Hickory Smoked BBQ. Those were delicious as usual. It totally brought a smile on my face eating at Wingstop cause come on...it's fuckin' Wingstop. We go back to AMC to watch Cats and Dogs but we ended up missing the movie cause we just started to talk in the lobby and talked a bit too much and lost track of time. It's all good though. We talked and talked and eventually we decided to jam out. Brandon's ride showed up, I brought Alicia back to her place, and life continued. Good day.