Oh, Cecil, the winter Bocks are in!
Jan. 18th, 2004 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyFriday night, Snra. Bitter & I went to a beer tasting at a friend's. Quite an interesting experiernce. I should have eaten more, as it did involve drinking a fair bit of beer.
We were given ten beers, and asked to judge each on its appearance, scent, flavour aftertaste and overall impression. I truly should have brought some takeout curry to eat along, as that makes the beer experience perfect. Hmmm. Or perhaps a plate o' nachos. Or a greasy burger.
Of the X amount of people originally planning to attend, Y (x/2) made it in. Which was kind of unfortunate, as I'd hoped for more people to disguise my beer ignorance among.
I had one that I hated (but the host's wife gave fours to), and two I liked quite a bit. The theme was winter Bock beer, which I know nothing about (although there WAS a handout. It has something to do with goats). I did get to let a couple good belches rip. And by teh time we were done, my lips were numb. Enjoyable, even if we did end up drinking a bottle of a liquid best described as a black hole of beverages (No Light can Escape).
On the plus side, I got to talk about The Drawing of The Dark for about ten minutes, which no one had read, but which I suspect they WILL read. That was a cool book. "Blah, blah, beer as grail, blah blah, beer, arthur, Jannisaries, blah, finis."
I was mildly terrified yesterday, as the Xbox Live connection was not working. I dug out the book and checked the troubleshooting section (there's a restore pinhole on the back, which I dread ever since the first of Snra's Palm Pilots died a sad death). What does it say? "Unplug and plug back in, fool."
So I did. And it works. I played Mechassault with some guys. Apparently there's a huge piece of downloadable content that requies a premium membership (which I have no idea what that means; does it cost extra?), which a lot of the games required to play.
I DID run a Giant Killer game, which consists of six players, one of which plays a heavy mech, the other five playing elementals. If you kill the mech, you get into your choice of mech. Lots of fun.
Now, to play CS with people I know. What a wonderful world we live in.
Oh, yeah: there's someone who's friended me I do not know. Are any of you abcesyas?
We were given ten beers, and asked to judge each on its appearance, scent, flavour aftertaste and overall impression. I truly should have brought some takeout curry to eat along, as that makes the beer experience perfect. Hmmm. Or perhaps a plate o' nachos. Or a greasy burger.
Of the X amount of people originally planning to attend, Y (x/2) made it in. Which was kind of unfortunate, as I'd hoped for more people to disguise my beer ignorance among.
I had one that I hated (but the host's wife gave fours to), and two I liked quite a bit. The theme was winter Bock beer, which I know nothing about (although there WAS a handout. It has something to do with goats). I did get to let a couple good belches rip. And by teh time we were done, my lips were numb. Enjoyable, even if we did end up drinking a bottle of a liquid best described as a black hole of beverages (No Light can Escape).
On the plus side, I got to talk about The Drawing of The Dark for about ten minutes, which no one had read, but which I suspect they WILL read. That was a cool book. "Blah, blah, beer as grail, blah blah, beer, arthur, Jannisaries, blah, finis."
I was mildly terrified yesterday, as the Xbox Live connection was not working. I dug out the book and checked the troubleshooting section (there's a restore pinhole on the back, which I dread ever since the first of Snra's Palm Pilots died a sad death). What does it say? "Unplug and plug back in, fool."
So I did. And it works. I played Mechassault with some guys. Apparently there's a huge piece of downloadable content that requies a premium membership (which I have no idea what that means; does it cost extra?), which a lot of the games required to play.
I DID run a Giant Killer game, which consists of six players, one of which plays a heavy mech, the other five playing elementals. If you kill the mech, you get into your choice of mech. Lots of fun.
Now, to play CS with people I know. What a wonderful world we live in.
Oh, yeah: there's someone who's friended me I do not know. Are any of you abcesyas?
