Ringwood Double Thumper is twice the rainy day medicine

It's been POURING all and night, and there is nothing better after a long and glorious but rainy Sunday Funday than coming home to an 11.2% beer. It warms the body and nourishes the soul. Even better, we had this guy's little brother last week and it was delicious (Ringwood Old Thumper ESA). Double the trouble?! 

The best rainy day solution is a really strong boar...I mean beer

Stone essentially made their Double Bastard the bigger, meaner, bolder brother of the Arrogant Bastard. Shipyard follows suit with the Double Thumper and the result is a brew that becomes closer in style to an English Barleywine than an ESB. The caramel notes are more noticeable, with hints of toffee and for such strong alcohol, this beer is too easy to drink. The Double Thumper isn't as delicious as the original Thumper, but I loved it nonetheless for its boldness and ...medicinal properties...so I'm bestowing THE ROCK rating.

Also, saw BATTLE LA today and it was a trip to watch aliens invade the coastline I live on. The police station Aaron Eckhart's team has to rescue and the street of Lincoln that is the first major defense line, are all part of my daily life. And I hate to say it, but if aliens invade, I AM TOAST. David and I will probably have to make a great escape in his kayak; make a run through their blockade. Right...Well, at least we'll probably be drunk on good home brew. Party.

A Little Sumpin' Sumpin' before the Lincoln Lawyer movie premiere

Picking up my lovely date Tamara before the Lincoln Lawyer premiere and this Lagunitas is...guilty of being awesome!...

....Dammit that was cheesy but how could I not say that? It is right there!

This is the last of the international playboys (Morrissey anyone?) as well as the American Wheat beers I picked out to sample before the weekend. Lagunitas brews several different beers under the Little Sumpin' Sumpin' brand including the delicious Little Sumpin' Wild.

This Sumpin' Sumpin is a hoppy 64 IBU American Wheat ale, perfect for those summer days. But if I hadn't known this is a wheat beer I would've missed that ingredient entirely. The Wheat flavor takes a backseat to the hops and their fruity flavor. The label notes that it has "every hop that has the letter 'c' in it." Lagunitas has successfully taken a very broad style and put a West Coast Hop Heavy spin on it. Better believe I'm saving two in my fridge for an upcoming hammock day. THE ROCK rating.

Landbrauerei Schonram Festbier doesn't make my day easier

I picked this up at Beverage Warehouse because it was cheap and seemed obscure, which are both probably bad signs, but something else is on my mind...

Every so often people ask me if I ever get tired of drinking a beer every day. During the first six months, I scoffed at them, but as of recent, there are some days when I really just don't want to have a beer. Don't get me wrong, drinking beer every day is like telling me that if I don't play the Call of Duty video game for the next several hours, then a child will die from cancer, or, that unless I copulate with a intoxicatingly beautiful lady then communism will prevail (God Bless America I say, as the madam wipes a tear from my eye)...

Still, some days I simply want to go to sleep, or like today, I return from the gym having purged myself from the Chipotle and Texas Pecan Pie I gorged on for lunch. My body is begging me not to inhale any other crap except water, but I still have a beer yet to drink...not that beer is crap. It's times like this that I have to remember the end goal and think of the beer as medicine and just throw it down the hatch. Good thing this beer was made for fast consumption.


This beer is a Marzen/Festival Bier. As expected, it was cheap and super malty and has an unexpected bite to it which isn't pleasant. THE ISLAND rating.

Also, Jenga survived the bbq last night. How long will it last?

Anywho, I'm trying to catch up on some old movies and I'm about to watch Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve. Supposed to be great. 

On another note, before I started The Lady Eve, I caught the end of Michael Bay's PEARL HARBOR and even though I rank it last out of his catalog, I feel like the disastrous film wasn't entirely Michael's fault. He may have not been the right choice for an epic historical war film in the first place, but that script was TERRIBLE, just atrocious. Having Alec Baldwin cast as Jimmy Doolittle was an inspired choice and even he had trouble rising above some of the lines. Alec was still awesome though, duh.