This is my review of what is arguably, the greatest beer in the world, ever. At least according to this guy.
https://youtu.be/MyJJZa5Q2Fw?t=25s
This movie plays on the stereotypes and misconceptions that Americans have about Oktoberfest, particularly the ones that have never attended. For the uninitiated, it’s pretty much viewed as a bunch of singing drunks served by this lady.
I have no way of legitimately commenting on the accuracy of the portrayal of Oktoberfest, drinking contests, the German people, the Bier Garden wait staff, or sexual activity among amphibians in this film. For that, I will direct you to a much better source previously posted by another guest contributor. Hat Tip: DEG.
While Hefeweizen is served at Oktoberfest, I will not get into these. To be sure, my aversion to German wheat beer has absolutely nothing to do with a drunk Native American that failed to recognize that I hailed from the big tribe in the south, and that I am not a homosexual. Apparently in Northern Arizona, Hefeweizen is a calling card for gay men; I also happen to be more of a fan of the Belgian varieties of wheat beer.
That leaves us with Marzen but since this is a somewhat saturated marked, where to begin?
Paulaner Oktoberfest Marzen
Unfortunately, this is a German entity therefore we must concede the standard must be set by them. Other well-known German brewers such as Spaaten, Warsteiner, and Becks all put their own version to market and none of them are bad. As you can tell from what is once again, not my photo, Paulaner’s offering is copper in color, a nice light lager with caramel notes and a nutty finish. It is lightly carbonated so it will not stop you from knocking back several liters at a time. The only problem, as mentioned in the comments section at other dark corners of this website, German beer does not travel well, particularly lagers. German Beer Purity laws may have something to do with that but even given the proviso that it may be a hair on the skunky side, it is still quite good. Too bad we can’t all go to Germany. 3.8/5
Since going to the source is not always feasible, that leaves us with the American Craft industry to pick up the slack.
Left Hand Brewing Co. Oktoberfest – Longmont, CO
As you can tell from what is once again, not my photo, Left Hand’s offering is copper in color, a nice light lager with caramel notes and a nutty finish. It is lightly carbonated so it will not stop you from knocking back several liters at a time. Yes, I just repeated what I wrote about Paulaner’s. Am I really that lazy? Perhaps, but repeating myself might be the best compliment I can make about it. This is as good a copy you can get in the mountain west, and for many of us that is as good as it gets. The reduced travel time and the Colorado snow met make this one slightly more enjoyable than waiting on the import to arrive. 4.0/5
Tenaya Creek Brewery Oktoberfest – Las Vegas, NV (Right)
Another one I’ve had recently is from Tenaya Creek Brewery in Las Vegas. Not as malty as I like but given its source it is also a fair bit lighter than the norm for this type of beer. If you feel the need to enter a drinking competition this might be a good choice. 3.5/5
Goose Island Oktoberfest – Chicago, IL (Left)
The next one is from Goose Island from Chicago. It could just be the batch I got; this might have been bottled sometime the previous year and left in a warehouse somewhere in Phoenix with questionable climate control. Whatever it is, this one should be better but it is not. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but after briefly researching on ratebeer.com others seem to agree. If you are in the area, please explain this if you like because I will not extend more mental energy to find out where they went wrong. After all the definition of pizza in that town is apparently up for their interpretation. My only regret is I bought a 12 pack. 2.5/5.
San Tan Brewing Co. – Chandler, AZ
The last one is a local (to me), from San Tan. This is probably going to be discounted as bias but I will say my local offering is pretty damn good! My pick for this genre is still from Left Hand out of CO but it stacks up well. The biggest difference is the nuttiness in this one gives is a slightly thicker texture than Left Hand’s. It could also be the local water, as it is notorious for its mineral content. 3.8/5
Whether it is glass or ceramic, serve in a mug of some kind like above. Bonus points if you have a boot.
Is this what its like to be first?
Apparently.
I will second the Goose Island frown – it just ain’t good. They brew it just down the highway 35 miles from me, and I got it chilled, right after it came it out. I haz Disappoint.
Left Hand is always OK in my book. A local one that is fairly good here is Two Brother’s Atom Smasher (they are just a little distance away from Fermi Lab)
That’s so disappointing–looking forward to a beer and then it just doesn’t live up. Waaah
The Goose Island IPA is tasty. Thanks for the warning away from Octoberfest.
A good day in Chicago: tour the Goose Island brewery/tasting room and then wander over here https://yelp.to/qTKq/POUuQP9QRG
It was really sad, because I am a big fan of Matilda and Sophie.
Most Left Hand is good, but the Oktoberfest I tried by them last year wasn’t so hot. I’ll give it another shot when I stock up next week.
left hand is a fine brewery. I think a lot of craft stuff here is just ok. it’s better than the cheap stuff, but most isn’t worth the price they want. I miss Long Trail and Switchback. long trails prices were great.
I was wearing my Long Trail Limbo shirt yeaterday.
I live in NC and am sad the southern distribution reach of Long Trail only reaches VA.
They make a black rye ipa that is stupid good. I had a hard time finding in when I lived on the other side of the mountain.
Man I would drink the shit out of that.
You put in the time and finally made it to the top. Congratulations.
FWIW, Spaten lager seems to travel well – never had a bad one. It is also my favorite beer. No idea about any Oktoberfest offering of theirs, though.
Spaten Oktoberfest is delicious. So is Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest, which I have in my refrigerator now.
Spaten Optimator is like a magic sleep draught. A couple of those, lay down on the couch and…zzzzz. Tasty!
Hacker-Pschorr also ships their original Oktoberfestbier to the states. I’ve had some. It is great.
The original Oktoberfestbier was darker and maltier than modern versions. American versions are similar in color to the original Oktoberfestbier.
Mmmmm, malt
Its been several years since I had that last. Maybe its time…
Octoberfest had started in Berlin right before wifey returned. Here’s a photo of a street banner she sent me.
Octoberfest Berlin
Oktoberfest outside of München ain’t right. Get your own festival, Berlin.
Yeah, but I can still buy better beer in Berlin that I can anywhere in the USA. So there’s that. Plus the banner has an excellent beer wench.
WRONG!
/McLaughlin voice
Germany has a few styles. They do not innovate,. They do not do stouts, ESB, porters, cru, ales or any of the beer family that has blossomed in the beer renaissance in the US. The Belgians have a good attitude too – they continue to produce their traditional stuff that is fantastic, but they are not afraid of change.
If “innovating” means “putting wise-assed labels on carbonated hop syrup” I’m OK with non-innovators.
^this^
Germany has more than a few styles, but everything is regional. For example, you won’t find a Munich Dark in Cologne or Kölsch in Düsseldorf. You won’t find Bönnsch outside of Bonn. Münster Alt outside of Münster. So on and so forth.
Köln’s Freigeist Bierkultur has been reviving old and dead German styles, and has done a little experimentation of their own. I’ve had some of their beer and liked it.
Beeradvocate magazine had an article a while back about some Münchener brewers trying to innovate and bringing foreign styles to Germany. Unfortunately I can’t find it.
On the other hand, innovation in beer is so rare in Germany that I wouldn’t spend much time looking for it.
Don’t forget that Stone also moved into Berlin.
I think we need a Bayerischen edit fairy here.
Swissy is probably the closest. They mangle the language in some similar ways.
*sigh*
I was doing so well:
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-california-beer-20170808-story.html
Nice! I wonder how Stone’s sales are there.
Germans, he said, pay less for beer than any other Western Europeans. “Most Germans will react as if that’s a point of pride, like, ‘It’s cheap, it’s a great thing,’” he said. “But I say: Hang on. Cheap is not an attribute. The only possible result of cheap beer is cheap beer.”
I remember seeing half liter bottles of beer in convenience stores in Cologne for one euro.
I stopped in a wine shop in Cologne near the Hauptbahnhof. The women working the store, as I attempted to exercise my piss-poor German, asked if I wanted cheap or expensive wine. I asked the difference. The cheap section was below eight euros, the expensive section above eight euros.
Oh, I should add, the wine I wanted to buy at that store was German wine. Cologne is at the north end of the German wine region. I didn’t ask about prices for other countries’ wines.
When my wife came back from Germany last year, she brought me at least 10 different styles of German beers. All of them very good. Their beer is so fresh tasting, all of it.
Im with Swissy here. The Huns burden their spirits industry with innovation killing regulations. Besides, in 30 years there won’t be enough Germans in Germany anymore to produce decent beer.
I coudn’t care less as long they keep making great proper beer. I don’t go out of my way to look for “innovative” beer. *shrug*
I don’t mind Oktoberfest celebrations outside of München when done right. However, I thought the Northerners hated Bavarians.
Probably more an excuse to get drunk than to “celebrate Bavarian culture”.
But I think American regions hate each other more, to be honest.
+1 voted for trump cause I thought he was gonna build a wall around NYC.
Exactly.
I think the whole concept of Oktoberfest is hostile to Germany’s muslim population. The wholesale promotion of a month of drinking alcohol others muslims who abstain from alcohol as part of their observant faith. Therefore, it is time to end this culturally insensitive, religiously intolerant, bourgeois display of Bavarian culture totalitarianism.
Yeah, and all that sausage has to go also. And there’s probably something bad about kraut and kinky sex too, so all that has to go. The Germans need to get their own country and leave those poor Muslims alone.
The Ayinger Brauweisse in the article image is excellent. About the best I can buy locally.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Ayinger – yum!
Seconded. I love their Celebrator.
Oktoberfest already? Man, this year has gone by fast. Now where did I put the lederhosen…
Just started turning cooler yesterday here and today is mostly sunny, a little breezy, and 64F. I’m starting to get in the mood for a good Octoberfest like beer and one of the local liquor stores just started sitting out a few crates. I’ll have to go down in a bit and see what they have.
As I mentioned in one of the links threads on Thursday, I was in the supermarket on Wednesday and saw eggnog on sale for the first time this season.
I’ve been enjoying nog spiked with scotch.
Scotch? I might have to try that. I have always stuck to the traditional brandy.
What’s a good scotch for that? Most of the stuff I buy I am loathe to mix.
I wouldn’t know. I’m not an expert on scotch/whisk(e)y. It’s just something cheap I picked up at the liquor store. I can taste the alcohol, but most of the taste of the scotch is covered up.
Last year I tried spiking it with vodka, but I’d rather drink the vodka on its own.
Fair enough! I’ve only ever had egg nog spiked with rum or brandy, but when we get back to Montana, I’ll pick up some cheapish scotch and give it a try!
(Apparently we’ll be coming back to snow.)
Or maybe I’m just a lush. 😐
You are a lush. But scotch, bourbon, rum, rye, whiskey, whisky, canadaian whiskey, can be used to spike egg nog. It all tastes delicious.
I myself am about to pour me a Smirnoff and cranberry juice.
Cheers!
You’re in good company, if so. ?
Pour just the Smirnoff. Cranberry juice is an abomination.
I like Cutty Sark for mixing.
I will try that one. Many thanks!
How much alcohol is required to make Egg Nog drinkable?
Every time you take a sip, splash a little more booze in there. Repeat until it’s gone 😉
That sounds like a good plan.
I do two parts nog to one part liquor.
Oktoberfest ends Tuesday. Sad.
Wife is gone this weekend, so I was going to pick up a really tasty home-made turkey supper to-go from a local church (does the supper thing once a month), and then head over to the local brewery to eat it with a nice flight of beer in their new garden seating area. Alas, the weather says not-so-fast, cool, cloudy and way to windy.
These guys may be my fallback (though their Oktoberfest event was last weekend).
Marzen and Dunkel…. good enough to recreate Oktoberfest at home.
The Kosher Beers blog
Unfortunately, this is the worst beer time of the year for me. I’m not a big fan of marzens or pumpkin beers, which is what everyone puts out for a seasonal as autumn moves in. Oh well, that’s why I’m making a nut brown ale tomorrow.
Hang in there, friend. It is almost stout season!
Shoon. Very shoon. *short gleeful dance*
KBS and Bourbon County…
*drool*
Ooooh! I’ve been seeing that founder’s brand around here more and more. Their porter was mighty fine, as I recall
I just moved some of this from the 2015 batch into the fridge. I’ve got a cellar that has beers going back to 2002 in it, so I have some depth. Cleveland Beer Week is also coming up, which means nine days (so we can’t count so well… piss off) of beer events.
The Founder’s porter is fantastic. It’s just what I want from a porter, nice roasted notes, a touch of dark chocolate, full body, and a dry finish.
Yes, exactly. It drank like the essential porter to me. 10/10 would definitely bang again.
Also, dang, that sounds like my kind of cellar. We never bothered to consider such a thing, not being much for wine. But I’d never considered storing beers!
Aging beers really depends on the beer. If you’re looking to start it out, I’d recommend going with nothing hop forward, nothing under 7% ABV, and nothing you haven’t also had fresh. Big imperial stouts, strong Belgian beers, and barleywines would be the recommended starting point. Keep them out of the light, and at a steady temperature (nothing below 40 and nothing about 70) and you should be good.
I’ve got two nephews who have beers set aside for their 21st birthdays already.
I will keep this advice in mind. Thank you! Right now my alcoholic interests are mostly in the area of trying to make my own gin by infusing vodka with various …. things.
But one day! Beer cellar!
Founders makes great stuff. I still have some of this year’s KBS in the cabinet.
I see their Backwoods Bastard is now available on tap in some markets. I’ll have to track some down. That’s a great beer. The picture on the label always reminds me of Popcorn Sutton.
I just had a Founder’s Porter last night. Agreed, very tasty.
Founders is solid on the whole, but Breakfast Stout is a little too strong for me – high rating or otherwise from BA.
Rubaeus by them is awesome.
Nice article! I also didn’t like Goose Island’s Oktoberfestbier.
WTF? That wasn’t supposed to be a response to Swiss. That was supposed to be off on its own.
Still. Danke.
Bitte.
It is almost stout season!
Those words are English but make no sense when arranged in that order. It is always stout season.
Nope, just picked up a Bomber of Wreck alley Imperial stout for Brisket dinner,
meanwhile I’m chilling a sixer of Voodoo Ranger Imperial Ale, we’ll see
Hey all. Here is an inexpensive porter with great flavor if you can find it.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/150/1495/
I’ll be reviewing an Imperial Stout, a Farmhouse ale, and a Murican Amber ale in the near future..
…assuming its approved by the Gliberatti
OF COURSE!
Gosh, that sounds just awful 😉
I do like a good stout in the winter. I’ll look forward to your recommendations.
I trust the Saison Dupont is in the Farmhouse review? It’s one of the modern benchmarks of the style, and fairly widely imported. Although I do enjoy the Saison Dupont Avec Les Bons Voex when it’s available, the standard is my favorite.
Saison Dupont is great.
Its one from OK actually that I’ve never seen before and Boulevard Tank #7.
IFL Oktoberfest beer. Hearty, but not drinking a potato like stout; with a touch of that molasses sweetness. Goes so perfect with a crisp autumn day. Throw in a blow job and you’ve pretty much got heaven (if G-d thinks at all the same way I do).
I’m trying my hand at homebrewing today. I’m doing an amber ale that is supposedly halfway between Fat Tire and Shock Top. We’ll see how it turns out, but so far it has been relatively easy.
Starting with extract, or did you jump into the all grain route?
Remember the mantra: RDWHAHB. (Relax, Don’t Worry. Have A Home Brew.)
People have started making beer by accident, it’s not that hard to do on purpose.
“People have started making beer by accident”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome
Well, that’s a money-saver.
Extract to start. I didn’t want to bite off more than I could chew. I’m getting ready to add the malt extract once it comes up to a boil.
Then you’ve got this. Just remember to kill the flame before adding the extract, you don’t want it to burn to the bottom of your pot. Never trust the boiling wort until after the hot break (when the foaming starts to subside and you start seeing things come together), otherwise you risk the boil over.
I’ve had wort overboil on me a few times. It’s a mess. Listen to Nephilium.
I’ve got a question for y’all experts. How am I supposed to take the hydrometer reading in the glass carboy? The instructions mention using a “sample taker” to get a sample of the wort to test, but I have no sample taker in my kit and it seems like the sample taker would have to be a foot deep to accommodate the hydrometer.
I use a wine thief.
The standard piece of kit is called a wine thief, it looks like a long tube with holes on both end. Sanitize it, dip it in, wait for it to fill, then cover the hole on the other end with your thumb and pull it out. If you don’t have that, you can use a turkey baster to do the same thing. Just make sure whatever you use is sanitized.
Honestly, if you measured your water correctly, and know what the final volume in your carboy is, you don’t even need to measure the OG (Original Gravity). Since you know how much sugar you mixed in, you can calculate the gravity based on the PPG (points per gallon) and the amount of water you used. If you went with a partial boil and top off water, if the carboy isn’t well mixed, you’ll most likely pull an incorrect sample anyways due to the denser liquid sinking to the bottom.
And reading more… are you asking about the sample tube? Those are about a foot tall, and take about 4-8 ounces of liquid to get a good measure (depending on the diameter of the tube. Some people, who are braver (or dumber), then myself will ferment in a bucket, and just drop the sanitized hydrometer into the bucket. I would rather not risk dumping 5 gallons of beer because a fragile hydrometer broke in it.
Well, we’ll see what happens. I didn’t have a sample tube or anything sufficiently narrow to act as one, so I skipped the measurement. I ended up with 2 gallons of wort, and I made up an additional gallon or so of sterile water, so I ended up filling to 5 gallons with some cold water from the faucet. Hopefully that doesn’t screw it up.
If you don’t get sick regularly drinking your tap water, you’re probably fine. Congratulations, as long as it starts bubbling soon, you’ve made beer!
I’m assuming it’s from a kit, and tells you to wait 2 weeks before bottling. Ignore that step. Get a sample tube (you can order one online, or go to a local homebrew store to get one) and check the gravity in ~10 days. Then check it again 3 days later, if it hasn’t changed, you’re good to bottle. If it’s gone down, then wait another 3 days, and pull another sample. You don’t want to bottle beer that’s still fermenting. Bottle bombs are no joke.
After that, you’re going to want to rush forward and taste that beer as soon as possible, and here’s where it gets hard. Wait. Wait at least 3 weeks with the beer in an area at ~65 degrees. Then enjoy, and welcome to the hobby.
“halfway between Fat Tire and Shock Top”
Should be pretty good then. I like Amber Ales.
I hear ya. Fat Tire is my go-to brew.
I make it a point to pickup a sixer of the stuff every couple weeks or so.
Also, not technically an Oktoberfest beer, it shares a lot of the qualities of Oktoberfest brews.
https://alaskanbeer.com/our-beers/winter-ale/
Best beer ever made and I DEFY you to prove me wrong. Yes I said it.
An English Olde Ale? You’re comparing apples to monkeys, Q.
I know, I’m just making controversial statements to stir the pot.
So was I…
Nothing beats Keystone Ice. Sold by the 30 pack for 12 bucks in Tucson gas stations. Perfect panty peeler. Now that’s an Oktoberfest.
Though in all seriousness, if you haven’t had that beer, you should grab it. It’s deelish.
I will have to look out for it. In general, I like Alaskans offering.
As the name implies it’s strictly a seasonal; it should be starting to appear on shelves any day now.
at Bev mo maybe?
At BevMo Bakersfield they have this:
http://www.bevmo.com/catalog/product/view/id/15607
It includes Winter as part of the sampler.
At the one in Burbank (prolly way closer to you) they have this:
http://www.bevmo.com/catalog/product/view/id/46798
I made a beer with spruce once. It came out tasting like Coca-Cola.
While in Amsterdam, I stopped by this fine establishment. They carried Alaskan Brewing products. I can’t find Alaskan Brewing products in New England.
Closest would be Ohio.
https://alaskanbeer.com/find-our-beer/
Maybe you can order it online? I’ve had liquor delivered to my house, but never beer.
I might be able to find a place to get it shipped to me. NH’s booze laws are strange.
You absolutely can. Downtown Discount Beverage in Dover, the Indian proprietor offered to special order anything when I visited at their grand opening years ago, but that’s not the only place that’ll do it, not by a longshot. Give that guy a visit if you get desperate.
A lot of those overpriced beer cellar places may too.
Sorry I misread that…had a delightful afternoon nap and yadda yadda yadda….
Ahh, thanks!
I have no way of legitimately commenting on the accuracy of the portrayal of Oktoberfest, drinking contests, the German people, the Bier Garden wait staff, or sexual activity among amphibians in this film. For that, I will direct you to a much better source previously posted by another guest contributor. Hat Tip: DEG.
Danke for the hat tip.
I have never seen “Beerfest”, and don’t intend to, so I can’t comment on its accuracy of Oktoberfest.
DEG doesn’t even OWN a TV.
I hear after Super Troopers 2, Broken Lizard is working on a script about a goofy deep dish pizza place.
No TV necessary. Just a computer for the porn.
DEG doesn’t even OWN a TV.
This is actually true. If I want to watch something, youtube, porn site, or I play a DVD on my computer.
Its Broken Lizard getring drunk and jacking off frogs with an octegenarian whore.
I haven’t seen “Broken Lizard” either, but “Beerfest” sounds awful and not at all like the Münchener Oktoberfest.
Broken Lizard is the comedy troupe that made the film. Also made Sooper Troopers.
Ahh, OK. Got it.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24880/69320/
I have this waiting for me in the fridge when I get home. It’s just okay.
https://www.leafly.com/sativa/durban-poison
However! I also have this waiting for me at my buddy’s house as well. Due to the extra six weeks of grow time needed before harvest it’s very rare. Some of the best in the nation.
Iza happy hippie.
https://www.leafly.com/sativa/durban-poison
However! I also have this waiting for me at a buddy’s house. Due to the extra six weeks of growth needed before harvest it’s some of the rarest, most potent bud in the country.
Iza happy Hippie.
Not beer, not scotch, but an underappreciated bourbon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Charter
I might be biased because this was my grandfather’s drink. Go out and give it a shot.
I’ve been upping my beer consumption with the start of fall. Having vacation last week in TN didn’t hurt. The only one Oktoberfest I’ve had from the list above is the Paulaner which I can 100% recommended. Great Lakes is pretty good. Had a draft last night and have a bottle in the fridge. Also, have a Shiner Oktoberfest in the fridge. Don’t recall ever having one before so I’ll add my thoughts if I break it open today. Sam Adams makes a goid Oktoberfest. Big River Brewing in Chattanooga has just tapped theirs when I was there last week and I can recommend it as well. A fine representation.
I recall being very disappointed with Shiner Oktoberfest last year.
I’ll drink that one last then:) after a couple of Pumpkings, I probably won’t care.
ENB is doing a lot to help validate my “Twitter actively drops your IQ by twenty points and makes you an utterly garbage human being personality-wise” theory.
She just feels more comfortable dropping the mask in “THE AGE OF TRUMP™”.
I see this in other media too, and it just puzzles me: Why on earth do you think it’s a good idea to insult your audience? All you’re doing is actively limiting your field and disassociating people who already follow you. Is it really worth that result for a couple seconds of pathetic self-gratification?
Stargate figured this shit out years ago.
I just watched that episode yesterday. Good stuff.
I think it dovetails with making politics a religion. They’d rather show their righteousness and how true of a believer they are than worry about minor details like having an audience, generating revenue, intellectual honesty or any such flotsam.
Say what you will of Trump, but he goaded a lot of people into hurling their masks to the ground and stomping on them.
How long has she been that dudes fag hag?
That’s some strong grade butt-hurt too. Stronger than your average imperial stout.
It’s also great because her other Tweet whines about ‘snowflakes’ while she actively snowflakes because people dare to criticize her.
Who are her commenters these days? I knew they hated us but we are gone now. They still hate the commenters even after they replaced all of us deplorables? I haven’t looked over there in a couple of months.
Rufus and Gilmore tore into her on the article she’s referring to, basically pointing out that people like her and Robby validate left-wing silencing while employing cheap rhetoric tricks to infer they’re not.
That’s pathetic.
I think what’s more pathetic is that she deliberately avoids actually going into the comments and addressing anything they said and instead just goes to her Twitter hugbox to complain.
She used to hit up the comments all the time, but that was when the readers were raining praise down. She’s no Ron Bailey.
i think that was what people took away from my comments, or at least took-issue with… but it really wasn’t what i said
what i said was that they naively expected to be treated differently than the “bad ones” that they were always dinging
(while, yes, weakly defending their theoretical right to speak)
my comment wasn’t = “you silenced others, ergo you get silenced yourself” (that is the strawman Calidissident took issue with)
it was = “what makes you think you’re any ‘better’ than the people you called deplorable and islamaphobic or ‘controversial’? the left doesn’t care about your bullshit, hairsplitting rationalizations, or give a shit about your “To be sure”-pandering to their noble-intentioned-illiberality”
they seemed to think their treatment was unfair and undeserved – unlike “those others” who they repeatedly argued provoked reactions, and were personally responsible for the reactions they caused
(like the MAGA hat wearing kid who robby claimed had “planted a trap” for the SJWs)
You’d think that for a journalist who lives in DC, is graduate of the institution in question, and has a long portfolio of being a advocate for lefty-women’s-issues…. that ENB might have had the foresight to simply call up the American U Women’s Group in advance, and say, “hey! i’m speaking at this thing, do you want to come” or at least in some way head off the risk of protest in advance… but no. They just assumed “we’re not alt-righties! we hate those people”, that somehow that would protect them from the lefty-censors.
I think I detect a bit of butthurt there Liz.
You certainly aren’t a virulently anti-left wing hack, that’s for certain.
Thanks for the tip on the Left Hand MS. I haven’t noticed it during my beer store perusing. I will search it out.
My only regret is I bought a 12 pack.
Bummer.
Watching DU vs. South Dakota State women’s soccer on TV. Hoo-boy, do I ever love soccer chicks.
Aren’t they disproportionately lesbians?
Not in my experience…
You know who else hung out at beer halls…
Me, way too often for the health of my liver.
Me
Did you try the von Trapp Oktoberfest Pictured? I got a case of vT in the past and it was tasty.
No, I have not. I’ve had other beer from them and liked what I had.
Michael Jackson?
Ah, putsch it, putsch real good!
Some of the comments here about Germany are out of date. You can get innovative and craft beer in Germany. I just had a microbrewed red ale from Leipzig at the Potsdam street food fest last week. In my fridge is a “Potsdamer Stange” which is made just down the way. That shit is good. Even in this small town there are a lot of houses that produce their own brands of beer and they are often adventurous.
And you surely can get Munich beers up here, you just have to go to a Munich style beer house. Same goes for every German region I can think of — just go to a place that uses that region as a theme.
Well I’ll be damned, Potsdamer Stange has its own Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Potsdamer-Stange-320236098073043/ . Worthy!
Noted, thanks!
I haven’t returned there since 1986 so I have an excuse. Everything I remember is probably out-of-date.
As a happy consumer of beer that enjoys extreme and mild flavours alike, I’m happy to enjoy the “pure real” beer as well as the sometimes excessive abuse of hops murkin brews.
Also remember that you are near Berlin, Germany’s capital. It will attract people from all over Germany so there is a market for out-of-region stuff.
I stopped at a beer garden in Königswinter. They had Paulaner beer. That’s the only time I remember seeing out-of-area beer while in Germany.
“Some of the comments here about Germany really
grind my gearssour my kraut…”heh espn.
Spot the Not: More real professors
1. He is a Professor of Political Science at Central Connecticut State University. After a Bernie Sanders supporter shot Republican Congressman Steve Scalise, he tried to place some of the blame on Donald Trump. He said, “Donald Trump is corrupt, dishonest, and stupid. Intellectually feeble and mentally unstable people drawn to political extremism have and will be inspired or driven by Trump and trumpism to say and do horrible things. Yesterday, a left wing extremist was driven by Trump and trumpism to try to kill people.”
2. He is a Professor of Sociology at Trinity College. After Republican Congressman Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter, Williams said the first responders should have let the Congressmen die for being white. He said white people should “fucking die” and called them “inhuman assholes.”
3. This Professor of Political Science said that Trump is worse than Hitler because Hitler didn’t have nuclear weapons. He calls for Trump supporters to be rounded up and sent to re-education camps.
4. She is a Professor of Sociology at University of Oregon. She has compared resistance to climate change mitigation efforts to people who resisted ending slavery.
5. He is a lecturer in the History department at Fresno State University. He recently tweeted that he wanted Republicans executed for supporting deportation of illegal immigrants. He also said he wanted Donald Trump hanged and asked if anyone was raising money to fund an assassination of Trump.
6. She is a sociology instructor at Ryerson University in Toronto. When a student wanted to write a paper discussing the problems with the wage gap, she said she could not challenge the wage gap. Even worse, this is not an isolated incident; her essay instructions prohibited using government data, newspaper articles, or business sources (they are part of the patriarchy according to her). Instead, “feminist sources” are to be utilized.
2? I think that would’ve become a controversy and he’d have gotten canned.
Nope, I remember that one, pretty sure it was a Facebook post.
That’s what I would say about 5. I choose 5.
2 is legit, I remember when it happened.
I’m saying 3.
Give me 5, daddy needs a new pair of flip flops!
6
3 is the Not. The clue was it’s the only one with no mention of a college.
QCon wins this round.
There are clues?! I need to play more often.
I ASSUMED THAT WAS A TRAP
And I assumed that you would assume that.
Yessir, you have to get up *mighty* early to outsmart this ol’ derpetologist.
fun fact: on Thursday, I had to get up at 0330 for a ruck march. My legs are still sore. That’s the Army for you.
Curses!! You have won the day this time, caped crusader, but this is not the last you have seen of me! MWUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
(leaps onto rope ladder dangling from henchmen-piloted helicopter, flies away)
What a showman!!
^^
Turns out she’s only an activist, not a prof
Oh snap, what an upset
die Rasiermesser-Faust, on the future of youtube
Antifa infiltrated by not gay Jarod
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/29/steven-crowder-infiltrates-antifa-ben-shapiro-event/
How much longer must we wait for some CCW toting Trumpista to gun these fools down. Especially in Utah. It *will* happen.
I think one has already been shot at Berkeley? If I remember right no charges filed.
I watched that this morning. Those people are nuts. Not exactly hardened militants but jesus h christ they were setting up a pre meditated ambush to gun people down in a parking lot from the sounds of it. Seems they achieved getting arrested.
Spot the Not: Nutty Professors
1. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He requires all his students to sign a statement where they pledge to fight against racism and capitalism. Many students report that any positive mention of Republicans or the US in his classroom leads to lower grades.
2. She is the Emerita Professor of Political Science at Ithaca College, New York. She gave a lecture at Cornell University entitled, “Thinking about Hetero-Racist Misogyny in Agriculture.” In this lecture, she contended that agriculture was a, “capitalist, radicalized patriarchy” and called the United States a “fascist democracy.”
3. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rhodes College. She maintains a racially charged Twitter profile that is promoted by the university. Her tweets primarily focus on the terror of “whiteness.” She has even said that whites are conditioned to commit mass murder. One of her most trivial tweets is one linking the Confederate flag to the perpetuation of patriarchy, heterosexuality, and capitalism.
4. She is a Professor of Biochemistry University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. She, along with her co-instructors, wrote an e-mail to students in her class saying that debating man’s role in climate change would not be allowed and that if student’s did not fully accept that climate change was occurring and man-made they should not take the course.
5. He is a vice-provost and Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He wrote an editorial in the New York Times supporting the suppression of free speech on college campuses. He claimed “The idea of freedom of speech does not mean a blanket permission to say anything anybody thinks. It means balancing the inherent value of a given view with the obligation to ensure that other members of a given community can participate in discourse as fully recognized members of that community.”
6. She is a Professor of Women & Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She argues that successful black people who believe in the “American dream” perpetuate white supremacy, and that it’s unfortunate that many black people buy into the notion that “the American dream is available to any and everyone as long as you work hard.” She stated that it doesn’t help when prominent black people in the media perpetuate an idea that America is post-racial. She is also the author the book “Abolishing White Masculinity.”
I’m going to tentatively go with 6.
I will also go with 6. I find “Ethnic Studies” to be about as likely as an “Asian Restaurant”
Uh…
I was going off of the calling Black People stupid. I know the left doesn’t give two shits about them, but I figured a Professor of Ethnic Studies wouldn’t be that brazen.
Im sticking with my call.
i guess the ethnic studies is just an umbrella term for all the other various X-studies departments.
additionally: a while back i pointed out a common feature of the po-mo academic-bullshit lingo is “Sentence stuffing”, where you’re constantly claiming things in ‘groups of threes’…?
– basically, by ‘saying everything’ (or at least 3 things), you avoid saying anything too specific, and thus can avoid ever having to make specific proofs or defend any single claim,etc.
that in mind, take a gander at this self-description
i really think its something they learn to do in all their work, and it echoes in everything they say. they’re constantly stuffing the entire planet into every sentence, such that no one can actually tell what part of “race, society, culture, power, politics, economics, gender” etc. actually matter
If you can’t baffle them with brilliance, befuddle them with bullshit.
The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
-Judith Butler, winner of the 1999 ‘Bad Writing in Academia’ contest (that was unfortunately ended because it was seen as ‘mean spirited).
I’m ashamed to admit i read her shit in one of my english seminars.
Please tell me they are all the Not.
I got some bad news for ya, Rhywun. There is more derp in heaven and on earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy.
You poor, poor man.
For those wondering where I’m digging up all these Nutty Professors, here’s a link with a sample:
http://www.professorwatchlist.org/index.php/watch-list-directory/search-by-name/209-stephanie-baran
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Stephanie Baran, a teaching assistant at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, attended a “White Privilege Conference” and said that she would be “down” with the idea of “kicking out capitalism” as she believes it causes racism. Baran describes herself as a “vulgar Marxist” because she desires “to see the entire dismantling of the system versus the other, softer, kinder, brutal Marxists.”
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Spot the Not: More Nutty Professors
1. He is an adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University. He requires students to read his sexual fantasies for his Core 105 class; a class that students have to take in order to graduate. The textbook assigned for his class is a novel he wrote titled “Afraid of the Dark: A Venetian Story.” The novel includes what students describe to be crude drawings of naked women and explicit description of sexual encounters. He also acknowledges that his arguments “reek of socialists leanings” and has described “the American capitalism, free-enterprise system” as “the root of all problems in this country.”
2. This professor was previously an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Brevard Community College (now called Eastern Florida State College). She was terminated for violating the school’s code of conduct, which forbids employees from soliciting support for political candidates. In 2012, she required students to sign a pledge in favor of Barack Obama.
3. This professor at Cornell University has said that student evaluations of female professors are “pervasively slanted by gender bias” and thus prevents them from being more successful. She then goes on to say that because of blatant gender bias, female professors should be given bonus points in order to level the playing field.
4. She is a Professor of English and also teaches in the Women Studies program at University of New Hampshire. She called for an investigation and expulsion of two people (possibly students) who jokingly wore a Harambe and Richard Nixon costume outside an anti-Trump event.
5. He is a health professor at the University of New Hampshire. The professor, according to an online schedule, usually teaches Health Economics on Tuesdays and Thursdays. However, he spent that time driving students to the polls in a car decorated with Democratic campaign posters – paid for by the Ready for Hillary Super PAC.
6. He is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Maryland, According to numerous reports from his students, he says that anyone who is not bisexual is a homophobe and a failure as a human being. He is fiercely proud of his inability to use a computer. He gives extra credit to students who bring him pornography.
Because of Campus Sex Moral Panics, I’m going with 1.
Easy. #2. No way was she “terminated for violating the school’s code of conduct”.
Dammit, I missed the termination bit. I assume it’s too late to change my answer?
Oh no- go for it. You’ll still be playing Russian roulette with five bullets.
[Muttley laugh]
Alright, changing to 2.
2 is the not, but as far as 1 goes, I did not know SF had a commi brother.
6 is the Not. Choose the form of the Destructor:
http://www.professorwatchlist.org/index.php/watch-list-directory/search-by-name
http://www.professorwatchlist.org/index.php/watch-list-directory/search-by-name/280-robert-thurston
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Dr. Robert Thurston formerly was a Professor of History at Miami University. He is a Stalin apologist, and wrote a book arguing that Stalin was a bad guy but not responsible for many of the mass killings in the Soviet Union. According to the New York Times, he denies Stalin’s role in the purges and also disputes widely-accepted statistics on the amount of people killed under his regime. Thurston also argues that Stalin’s subordinates went rogue and killed far more people than Stalin wanted.
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[head desk]
Love your beer reviews, mexican sniper, but I’m not a Oktoberfest guy.
I’ll raise one of these to you, instead:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/287/48134/
Have a great rest of the weekend!
Nice solid beer, just came back to the shelves around me as well. However, I’m still working through 2 cases of BrewDog IPA’s, so I can’t exactly make a good case for going out and buying more right now.
Red IPA. Those are always interesting but I don’t think I can get that here. =\
I’m reading About Face by Col Hackworth, combat vet of Korea and Vietnam. It’s full of gems. A jeep gets a flat tire and they don’t have a spare. The officer in it is from cavalry, and he whips out his pistol and shoots at the flat tire like the jeep is a lame horse. Tradition I guess. Well, one of the bullets ricochets off the rim and hits said officer between the eyes.
Another time, Hackworth falls into a rice paddy that had just been fertilized with human shit. He takes off his shitty pants and throws them on some bushes. Later while on guard duty, he sees a Chinese soldier lying still in a bush, so he runs up and bayonets it. Turns out he just bayoneted his shitty pants.
Fun fact: turns out that Westmoreland was an artillery guy. Probably why his strategy in Vietnam revolved around fire bases. Abrams, his replacement, was a tank guy. I wonder if the outcome would have been different if an infantry or military intelligence guy had been in charge.
Probably not. If they had declared war on North Vietnam for repeated violations of South Vietnamese sovereignty, and invaded the North, the outcome would have been quite different. But LBJ and McNamara were stupid worthless morons.
I used to think the quip that colleges are just Marxist seminaries was only a joke.
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Revital Zilonka, a graduate student and teaching assistant at University of North Carolina – Greensboro, requires that every student who takes her class read a list of books filled with Marxist and feminist ideals. In order to earn a teaching credential, students must write an 8-page paper on the importance of and their allegiance to social justice. Students are told in her syllabus to like a slew of liberal and progressive Facebook pages.
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http://www.professorwatchlist.org/index.php/watch-list-directory/search-by-name/148-revital-zilonka
I just made mussels by sauteing onions and garlic, adding butter, and then deglazing the pan with Sam Adams maple red. Really delicious mussels! A little meatier taste than usual. I was afraid it was gonna be gross, but it isn’t.
Oh that sounds good.
Seconded.
Sounds delicious. Cheers, bro!
Got a pork shoulder roasting in the oven. Beans on the stove top. And cornbread coming up soon.
Sweet.
I’m making barbecue ribs per this 1700s recipe. It should be interesting. The sauce already smells really good; I don’t see how it could be bad when it’s mopped over some smoky pork.
Nice. Thanks for posting. I am gonna be all over this series.
I feel like Templeton the Rat at the fair.
[singing]
“The fair is a veritable smorgasbord, smorgasbord, after the crowds have ceased!”
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Dr. Carol Lasser is a Professor of History at Oberlin College in Ohio. Lasser shredded a copy of the U.S. Constitution because it was an “oppressive document” and causes students “pain.”
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Dr. Bruce Cumings is a Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Dr. Cumings placed most of the blame of North Korea’s problems on the United States, while also whitewashing problems in Korea. For example, Cumings denies the existence of a massive famine in North Korea in the 1990s. Cumings blames the United States for North Korea’s problems, not Communism.
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Dr. Charles Strozier is a Professor for the City University of New York. Dr. Strozier argues law-abiding citizens become Taliban terrorist extremists due to climate-change. Strozier is a proponent of the idea that the number-one national security threat is climate change, a view espoused by Bernie Sanders among others. He asks, along with his research partner Kelly Berkel, “If more Americans knew how glacial melt contributes to catastrophic weather in Afghanistan—potentially strengthening the Taliban and imperiling Afghan girls who want to attend school—would we drive more hybrids and use millions fewer plastic bags?”
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om nom nom nom
We gonna get an answer to the second Spot the Not?
This one is the not.
Please stop, my brain can’t take any more.
Seriously…WTF is up with Puerto Rico? Do they realize that the rest of the world is still functioning normally and being the last man standing on a pile of rubble is only going to last for a week. Wonder if they’ve started shooting rioters at all yet? I have no visibility on domestic operations.
Not seeing any of this in the media. Is it true?
If you follow the tweet link and scroll down there are more links. Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlftidK_dY
I’m already watching something else. Something written would be better, but all I can find is accusations of how heartless Trump is.