The Removal of IPAs

Drinking & Thinking: Issue 15

Welcome! I hope you have an extra day to drink and think this weekend.

Life Is Sour Without IPAs

Early into the Pandemic, Untappd created an “At Home” venue to check into since we can’t visit places in a normal way. They are about to reach a milestone of 25 million check-ins. A full post about it can be found here. This is what I found interesting from the stats:

The Top 5 being all IPA/Pales is not that surprising since they are the raddest of the styles, IMO. The interesting look is the Top 5 with ales taken out.

Sours are #1? That’s kinda crazy. I would have thought Lager and/or Pilsner followed by Stouts THEN maybe Sours.

Sweet COVID Jesus, NO!

This was the scene at a bar outside of Columbus SC on Thursday:

News 4 @SGTVNews4

JUST IN: The scene tonight at TLC Sports Bar near Williams-Brice Stadium. Students say they’re going here because it’s just outside of Columbia city limits, and doesn’t have strict COVID safety guidelines.

I am kinda glad to see a Bud Light tent and not some Carolina craft brewery. Definitely a Bud Light Seltzer crowd. Looking at South Carolina to be outbreak country, shortly.

Found Out A Thing

If you’ve been meaning to donate to a solid place to support more diversity in Craft Beer, check this out. While reading this New York Times article I found out about the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling.

A great program, so I donated with my Patreon money from the Perfect Pour’s Golden Gods, thanks for that guys! It was a tiny donation, to be honest, surely nothing compared to the awesomeness of Tree House Brewing’s:

Garrett Oliver @GarrettOliver

Thread. Today’s over-the-top Massive Stepping Up Shout-Out goes to the justly famed @TreeHouseBrewCo, hailing from the great state of Massachusetts, who just donated $40,000 to the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling.

Beer Twitter Thread Of The Week

Em Sauter @PintsandPanels

Best brewery tour you ever went on? Mine was Rodenbach in early spring 2015. What a magical place.

Sad to say I have not been on any epic tours. The best is probably a Full Sail one I took around 10 years ago on a trip to Oregon. I have been to Russian River several times but never a tour. Sierra Nevada (Chico) is probably atop my realistic list. Number one for unrealistic would probably be Cantillon, just for the street cred alone:

berner dad shep @shepisthename

@PintsandPanels For me, Cantillon will always be a special visit. First day in Brussels, got there in time to watch them fill the coolship and see the barrel space fill with steam. Beautiful first impression.

A fairly epic thread if you want to take a tour. t

Well. Sorry. I Found It Funny.

This was not hittin’ like I thought it would on this week’s episode of The Perfect Pour, which should tell me to stop and not post it here. But dammit, I thought it was funny. And maybe this is a good way to send you into the Labor Day weekend, hopefully laughing.

Anyway, here it is, a slowed down and supercut Jonathan Frakes sounding like a philosophical and questioning drunk, about two minutes from passing out:

Jord/𝓙𝓪𝔁 @JaxBladeFitness

So I was watching those Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction videos and someone in the comments mentioned how if you put it at .5 speed he sounds like a depressed drunk on the sidewalk trying to get your attention, & so I did, and I've been wheezing badly at this for the last 7 minutes

Thanks for reading and keep it safe. Cheers!

-Mikey