David and Walker are drinking a different beer each day* for an entire year, 365 beers in all, starting August 5th, 2010. We're writing about our daily regime to share the experiences and delicious discoveries with our friends and mild acquaintances to inspire YOU to bring previously unknown beers to your lips. (*limit one new beer per day consumed before midnight, no catch up days allowed)
I'm taking a break from my studies in San Francisco to check out a bar that I'm sure will become one of my favorites. Only 2 blocks away, the Amsterdam Cafe has over 20 beers on rotating taps with another 350 bottles in the refrigerators behind the bar. It's a sight to behold. There's a few beers that are $3 on Mondays and I take the only one I haven't tried yet, a Czech Pilsner.
The Staropramen is a fine drinking beer, although you get a bit of that sour malt that accompanies many of the cheaper foreign beers who brave the atlantic cross, but it's a dry and relatively crisp drinking beer that's perfectly fine for rolling solo to a bar during a the Monday Night Football game. THE ISLAND rating.
With the final day of class behind us today and Thanksgiving this week, the school is throwing a potluck thanksgiving feast. I brought chips, 5 layer dip and a little RAMPAGE!!!
It'll actually be the Elephant from Black Diamond Rampaging, fueled by a maddening amount of hops, rather than me, unless you count my addiction to the bourbon pecan pie a rampage. If I have seconds, you might.
At 9%, it's a big beer that comes with a crazy label. The mouthfeel has flavors of vanilla and caramel with a tinge of citrus, all of which mix together as well as well as boys and girls at an 8th grade dance. Everyone looks good by itself but nobody is dancing. And coincidently, like any potluck this brew is a mixed bag and uneven. The demented rhino is a fun label, but it comes off as a novelty. Especially since it has red devil eyes. You know who else has devil eyes? Zombies. If there are Elephant Zombies around, then you know it's the ARMAGEDDON...rating.
