I drink this beer when I eat Indian food, but my buddy brought it to our weekly tasting. Bottom line, it’s ok, nothing to rave about. It’s pretty good when I’m eating great Indian food — not sure why that should be, but by itself it was just ok.

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I didn’t love this beer as much as the double that they make. I think I’ll try it again in the winter, it was a bit sweet and under-carbonated for a summer afternoon.

This is a wonderful Abbey style ale from those folks at Boont speaking Anderson Valley Brewery in California. This has the most delightful nose, but runs a tad under carbonated to my taste. Still, I could drink a lot of this beer. It has a pretty high alcohol content (something like 9 percent) and the huge bottle makes for a very "spirit"ual experience.

This lovely brown ale has a wonderful malty nose and a clean robust flavor. I’d like to try it with something creamy to eat as I think the crisp, clean flavor will help cut right through it. For some reason, it also seemed to hint that it would love to be paired with fish.

A fairly pricey beer, but wonderfully delicious. This week it’s on sale for half the regular 10 dollar a bottle price.

This book utterly transcends the nonsense of it being somehow offensive to a religion. It rises to attack racism, notions of good and evil, religious power among others. Like other Rushdie works, it’s pages are filled with poetry and power. I will read it again.

A beautiful story set about women, children, families, love and religious and cultural bondage. It’s emotional story mirrors the nightmare that has been Afghanistan for decades, culminating in the hard line religious oppressive climate of the Taliban. A good way to take in all the turmoil that is Afghanistan and useful as well for making one realize the things that are important.

I picked up this book somewhere years ago, read the first chapter and then put it on the shelf. For whatever reason, I thought of it today and have been reading it since I woke up. Needless to say, I’m in the mood for Thai food.

My father sent me this book a couple days ago. He had enjoyed it and had Howie Carr autograph it saying:

To Don: The Lone Liberal in the State of Utah!

This delicious beer is surprisingly on sale in my local liquor store. I live in Utah, where beer is strangely overpriced, but you can get pretty good deals on wine, and hard liquor is about the same as it is everywhere.

Just why is beer so verbotten in happy valley? Something about the notion that the common man drinks beer, and he has to be stopped. Anyway, this was supposed to be about Rip Curl. It’s a delicious beer — I don’t have the language to describe why I like it other than it’s clean and balanced feeling, it has a delicious flavor, very straightforward. I want another one!