It might be because we received this beer for free that we thought it was delicious but Deschutes Brewery’s Twilight Ale left us salivating for more. In fact, as gross as it sounds, we salivated so much that it filled our empty bottle back up and we were fooled into thinking it was a brand new bottle.
Undoubtedly many of you are on facebook. We are. Our top five favorite beers were pretty obscure and pretentious. That’s just how we roll. It’s not that we only drink the fancy stuff (just look at our MMCD posts), it’s just that our favorites happen to be on a higher shelf than our everyday fare. The Facebook masses spoke and listed quite an unsavory beer at the top of the heap. According to PRNewswire Corona is the #1 beer as ranked by the Facebook users. Shame on you Facebook masses. Corona is palatable with the addition of a lime, but without the fruit there is a strong skunky taste and a generaly poor flavor. We’re not really big beer snobs (see two posts down) but Corona at #1? Really?
[via Beeraholix at http://twitter.com/Beeraholix ]
Classy beers get classy pictures... and vice versa.
Beer enthusiasm often has humble beginnings. Many of us start our lives in beer prior to the celebrations of our twenty-first birthdays. It is not uncommon to get a running start to the legal starting line beginning in our late teens, hitting twenty one with a full tolerance and an impressive backlog of hop laden adventures.
In the interest of self reflection and full disclosure we decided to step back into the dark days of our own beer drinking and analyze how we gained the fine palettes we now celebrate. We did not recognize the fact that this experiment would put us on such an unfortunate hiatus. Read on if you can stomach our rediscovery of Natural Ice.
Danny and Justin spent the weekend barhopping through Chicago enjoying time with friends both old and new. Danny got to sample the RD home brew over the weekend as well. Jeff is MIA. Word is he had an enjoyable Memorial Day by the pool and forgot he’s supposed to hydrate while lying in the sun drinking beer. Make sure to share your adventures below.
Our home brew bottles were opened and the first Rough Draft crafted beers were consumed. That’s what you call a milestone folks. Our weekend was full of parties and road trips and you can read on for our look back in the full post. Let us know which beers you sampled over the course of the week or just tell us how you debauched yourself in the comments.
Don't be fooled by the Ommegang glass we just don't have New Holland glassware (hint hint New Holland)
Rough Draft regular and good friend Stalemem recently threw a write up on Dragon’s Milk our way. With a subject line reading “Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society”, it was sure to grab our attention. Now, in an RD first, we give you our first guest post.
Dare I say I’m smitten? I’ve recently found a new crush of sorts, and her name is Dragon’s Milk, a milk stout crafted by New Holland Brewery. Before I delve into why I’m head over heals, here is a brief description taken from New Holland’s sitehttp://bit.ly/irqiG
“A barrel-aged stout with a soft and rich caramel-malt character intermingled with deep vanilla tones dancing in an oak bath. Unmistakably distinctive and hauntingly remarkable, Dragon’s Milk’s warming complexity pairs well with smoked meats and cheeses, red meat, or a nice cigar. Year Round Availability. Cheeses to try: Rich bleu cheeses & triple crèmes.
As Americans, we believe in certain unalienable rights. At Rough Draft, we’re not sure what those rights are, but we know we enjoy having them (We kid. We’re not that voluntarily ignorant). So it’s a wonder to us that no one thought to write a beer Bill of Rights until 2009. It took us that long to figure out that we shouldn’t have to put up with the likes of Miller Chill? Really?! Who let the ball drop on that one?
It was an eventful weekend for us and as a result the Monday Morning Coming Down post should be above par this week. But first, our top story: Jeff is hurt… Here’s his brave report.
Jeff- I have scratched my cornea trying to put in my contact. I am going to bow out of MMCD this week and I am heading to the eye doctor. Cheers! Update: I have an ulcer on my eye! Yay me.
Amazing, he’s keeping a positive attitude despite this awful tragedy. For the rest of our response to the ever burning question of how we spent a week’s worth of life with beer head over to the full post, and we love hearing what everyone else had in the comments. Please, be our enablers.
Twitter friends @OttsD and @beervikingrules recommend Strange Brew for your drinking and viewing experience.
Allow us to again skew sophomoric and steer away from the world of craft and Belgian beers and veer instead into the world of drinking for effect. Though we have discussed video games at length in the past, we have overlooked a far older medium which has undoubtedly fueled its share of beer soaked evenings. It’s long been understood that in theaters of old drinks were taken for each Charlie Chaplin prat fall. Surely, years from now people will be drinking to Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 5.
Please join us in today’s post where we’ll be sharing our favorite movie drinking games and movies that are just plain conducive to drinking in general.
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