Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for August 20, 2021

Beer is beer, I’ll have tap beer.

Irish Death is one of my favorite beers yet I’m put off by the skull and crossed bones label. Connotes poison. Hence I stop on the fifth bottle….each night.

These are just a few from memory…

Bishops Finger, Dogs Bollocks, Seriously Bad Elf, Tactical Nuclear Penguin (32%), Santa’s Butt, Ginger Beard, Roaring Meg, Tangle Foot, Old Hooky, Old Peculier, Old Speckled Hen, Old Engine Oil, Pigswill…

Does it taste like beer and have at least 5% alcohol in it. That is all the craft that interests me.

I guess they use those names because all the good names are already taken…

They’re probably just IPAs. Most are these days.

Once had one in Alaska called Spruce Goose. Made from spruce needles…

Sunday brunch with Saturday night dregs.

I’m probably going to get a LOT of pushback, but I think ALL beer tastes like Elk Snot or Fish Feet…

“Old Frothenslosh, The Pale Stale Ale With The Head On The Bottom”.

Actual beer from my youth (brewed in PA, IIRC). Somehow they actually got the foam to sink. It came in cans with pictures of 300-400 lb women in bikinis – and those two facts were the best things about it; vile stuff!

One of my favorites is Moose Drool.

Old Rasputin. Best one yet……

“With a name like Fluckers, it has to be good.”

— Old Saturday Night Live commercial parody, making fun of the famous Smucker’s tagline. A parade of Not Ready for Primetime Players comes up with increasingly nauseating names for jams, the point being that the jam must be absolutely amazing for the manufacturer to be able to get away with using such names.

One of the best IPAs I’ve ever had was at a little microbrewery in Bucharest. Romania is really into craft beer.