Seriously. Look at it. How can I not pick this up?
The Holy Diver of beers
This is my review of Elysian DAYGLOW IPA.
Here’s where I rant a bit. Yes, this is an IPA, which means about half of you will avoid it to begin with. The other half? There are so many choices out there from so many breweries it’s hard to separate the men from the boys, so to speak. Let’s face it, this isn’t exactly a niche market anymore. According to the studies cited in this article the craft beer industry in 2016 contributed $67.8 Billion to the U.S economy. It is responsible for nearly ½ million full time jobs nationwide. It’s still a fraction of the beer industry overall though, which in 2016 was estimated at $350 Billion in total.
Rejoice! Too bad though, the downside is there has to be something, anything, to catch the customer’s eye. This one is eye catching. It’s got a frickin tiger with frickin laser beams coming out of its frickin eyes…
It’s the eye of the tiger! On acid!
As you can tell from my photo there isn’t much head and much to Charlie Sheen’s dismay, it is 0% tiger’s blood by volume. It’s a hazy yellow and has a bit of sweet fruitiness (pineapple, maybe) and yeast upfront, like an unfiltered wheat beer. From the standpoint of hop insanity, this one will disappoint the hopheads among us. You smell them; you certainly know they are there but they aren’t going prompt questions from the authorities as to your mental state–your driving erratically on the sidewalk will do that. Overall it’s a pretty balanced brew, but given it’s bitchin 1970s psychedelic label it seems like they are trying way too hard to sell me something. Elysian DAYGLOW IPA 2.8/5.
Another one I was disappointed by was from Stone. Typically, I like what they put out. While insulting their customers is the norm for them, lately it’s gone beyond their usual ribbing and ventured clearly into virtue signaling. This is part of an annual release of the winner of a contest between their employees, so I’ll hold my nose and give them a shot.
The flavor palate on this one is similar to Elysian’s but the hops on the back end are a bit more robust. Still a bit disappointing given what they are capable of. Stone Merc-Machine Double IPA: 2.9/5
P.S. About my OT last week.
I think it came out just fine. 3 ½ minutes per pound. The temperature was all over the place after I pulled the turkey out so it was at approximately 350F. When I dropped it in it was at 380, so I closed the valve and let it settle around 350, but had to fire the gas back up once it dropped to 325 ten minutes later. Total cook time was 18 mins.
For those that like it rare, here is your beloved center cut.
Here’s Mr. Gobbles while I’m at it.
Glad I i didn’t buy the Day glo Yesterday, tasty Beef!
Nice work! So you have the thing with the sword that goes through the middle?
No, I just cut a slot for the pintle hook that comes with the fryer. If I do this some more, I’ll upgrade my gear.
It looks like it doesn’t conduct much heat, which I was curious about. I assumed that there would be a seam of well done meat through the middle of the roast.
It did around the sides where the oil made direct cintsct with thr mest. It didn’t make much difference since the sides were cooked through anyways.
Direct contact with the meat* Damn.
Just spent 3 hours trying to reset the aftermarket car alarm on our mini van in -15F not including wind chill. I need several drinks to calm my anger and frustration at the ridiculousness of the whole thing. Why would anyone put an alarm on a damn mini van?
You deserve a drink
I’m baffled, but glad I didn’t need to spend money for the fix on top of it. I was ready to drive it to the dealership with horn blaring and trade it in…
I’m unfortunately thrust into the “WTF!????” boat this afternoon as well. I started tearing away the cosmetics around our downstairs bathtub.
What the hell is this??
Okay, iron tub suspended by a 2×4 frame with no ground supports. Check.
Sand floor with fucking weird reflective mylar shit everywhere replacing where some sheetrock was torn out haphazardly? Check.
Discharge tied into the septic main with some janky-ass looking cheap plumbing? Check.
Hey, bonus points for the mummified mouse corpse. Like a cherry on top.
Silly me, I thought I was gonna replace the fucked up drywall with cement board and put up some nice tile. LOL, sorry that’s not gonna happen. Shit needs to be completely torn out and a concrete floor needs to be poured.
Only question is, how good was the crack that a previous owner/the builder on when they did this shit?
Sand floor with fucking weird reflective mylar shit everywhere
Here’s where I lost it. Sorry man. LOL.
Well, bless you for dulling the ache with another premium beer review. ?
IPAs can be damn tasty.
I feel for ya. Re-did my bathroom this summer. Live electrical outlet in the shower wall behind some paneling? Check. And so forth and so on. Good luck.
Yeah, its been a while since I’ve had to recall NEC from memory, but I’m pretty sure that violates fire code.
Codes? Where we’re going we don’t need codes. *flies off to libertopia in a Delorian with no emissions controls*
No codes!?
*opens libertopian panel, and discovers every wire is red, stranded and in various sizes*
Anarchy!
FFS, I bet you were genuinely pissed after discovering the electric issue. I know I would be.
At least I haven’t discovered a safety hazard…yet.
OT: That Iphone commercial with the “animojis” and that bottle blonde chick drives me up a fucking wall. That is all.
Oops, meant this to be standalone
Yeah… That puts mine to shame. I’ve had similar crap in houses, but not that bad. That’s pretty backwoods.
Was the mylar supposed to be insulating the hot water pipe?
LOL no, it’s the jackass creator’s thoughtful idea of using an infrared reflector to keep the bath water from cooling quicker. And of course the implementation is horrid and stupid.
Yeah… That’s not how it works.
Truth. It’s also stupid that about half of the surface area of the mylar is covered in a layer of sand.
“and yeast upfront, like an unfiltered wheat beer”
Ears pop up
#metoo
uh, no.
that’s off by about 100bn.
I thought it would br higher, but speaking only for myself, I drank a lot more whiskey in 2016 than beer. Having no numbers on hand nor am I willing to do any further research on the matter, I can only imagine 2016 was a bit of an outlier for many people’s drinking habits.
I DID NOT drink $100B in beer in 2016!
…
I tried to, but failed.
I tried also, but also failed. Part of the problem was not having $100B to spend on beer.
even if correct, this was a stupid, pedantic comment and i regret it.
‘economic impact’ is a dumb measure, and not really ‘market sizes’. its statistical self-aggrandizement
Also, sounds like you deep fried both? I’ve done the turkey, but never done a rib(?) roast. Looks good man!
Yes, deep fried both of them. My wife’s family ate it up, which surprised the hell out of me given their habit of burning everything.
One of my growing issues with living in the north is not being able to cook outdoors nearly half the year. Sure it’s possible, but the process loses luster when dealing with temps below 20F most of the time. I’ve started to enjoy cooking more and more as I age and I miss out on a lot of experimental time. Plus, meat cooked outside is just better.
Worth its weight in gold
“For outdoor use only”
I’ve tried to smoke /bbq in the winter, but the heat disappears faster than I could add it. I resorted to thermal blankets on the smoker. Insulated smokers are the best bet.
For gas grills you have to be careful with Al bodies, as they can warp
Yep. I drilled out the orfices on my burners when I converted from propane to natural gas. A little too much.
I definitely exceeded the temperature that it was designed for.
I have the opposite problem in the summer. With the heat bouncing off my cobblestone patio around 140F, I’m cooking too.
The food photography is breath-taking.
+1 ugly baby
On Saturdays, I’ll step away from the IPAs and go full Porter/Stout, to enjoy and Review. I’m always looking for something different.
/someday……
Stopped at the Stone brewery/beer garden yesterday on our way to San Diego. We had the Tangerine Express IPA. Very good, not too fruity at all. My wife had the Hipster Tripster, a Belgian style triple. I also had something else that I can’t remember now. Very good.
Tiger prawn ceviche, house made bratwurst and kraut, cheddar garlic Ruination soup. All very delicioso. The beer garden was delightful. A riparian forest with multiple nooks and grottoes. The staff was awesome.
Now I am sipping Jim Beam, watching Ohio State v Miami bball. Hanging out with good, old friends (I’ve known these people for 30+ years!!). High atop a hill in La Mesa, with views from Tijuana to Del Mar.
???
That sounds nice, Enjoy the Sunshine!
? ceviche and IPA
Well, now that Trump has given all the beer to the rich and killed brewing, what can we peasants drink?
MD 20/20?
I was actually going to try to pick up a 6 of that tiger beer, until the disappointment when I read there’s no tiger blood in it. I guess I’ll go down to the taphouse and drink their crappy IPAs today, with no tiger blood either, since the wife wants to get oysters.
Elysian’s Immortal IPA is excellent if you can find it in your neck of the woods and can get over the Twillight…thing.
Forget it MS, it’s Hyperiontown.
Yeah? And what exactly is Hyperiontown?
I assume it’s like Hymietown without all the damn Jews?
I can assure you that there’s no lack of Jews around here.
Huh. Then I guess I don’t know.
A town with VR headsets, few IPAs, and fewer Canadians
Well, it sounds like a great place to me.
That does sound nice.
Now I have to take a stab at Pomptown.
A town with lots of cheeseburgers and weird reflective mylar stuff under the tub… weird reflective mylar stuff…
I’m not saying it’s aliens.
But it’s aliens!
There are definitely fish balls in Pomptown.
Mmmm, A&W Uncle Burger.
I just picked up a WOOT Stout, 13% Abv, Hello Buzz!
13%!? Holy crap! That’s pretty boozy for a stout. How is it?
M.D. 20/20 makes the best wine coolers in the world.
Cheap too.
/ 80’s pickup artist
Ripple, man, the bright new drink with the ring-a-ding flavor.
I drink wine, not beer.
I actually splurged to buy a bottle of retsina, since I’d never had the stuff before. It’s interesting, to say the least.
Maybe you should drink liebfraumilch.
I hope I wasn’t the proximal cause of that purchase.
So, the folks over a DU have a very long thread about a housing crisis in CA. Yet, not even one person there seems to have any clue what has caused this or how they might fix it. I’m surprised no one has blamed tax cuts yet. But they sure as hell are not going to blame restrictive building regulations or the super majority that Democrats have in Sacramento.
The democrats can’t be to blame, they control Detroit where housing is super affordable.
Looks like about 75% of Baltimore. Houses are super cheap. I saw one for $4, but there was some sort of issue with unpaid back taxes. I guess you could live there, how long you would live is another topic.
A friend of mine bought a house some twelve years ago in SoWeBo, on Hollins St. about a mile from the market. He was right on the border between gentrifying yuppies and Beirut. He got a four-story house for a song, but wound up selling it after his divorce. Two weeks after closing, his neighbor across the street was working on his vintage Jag when two locals hit him over the head, robbed him, and stuffed him in his trunk.
I am told that there are nice parts of Baltimore, and I know it to be true in an academic sense, but you couldn’t pay me enough money to live there. Even the nice parts are crime-ridden and filthy compared to nearly anywhere else in Maryland. I honestly would rather live in Dundalk than Baltimore. I did it for six months and that was plenty.
Nap, this isn’t true at all. There are parts of Baltimore where there is very little crime and it’s very safe. They are expensive and few. I live in one of them. But about 75% of the city is a post apocalypse like hell hole.
Should be sold “as is”.
LO fucking L.
/ya think ?
Winterpocalypse is preventing me from brewing this weekend. I was planning on hitting up the store to pick up supplies today, but with several inches of snow, and the roads shitty, that isn’t happening today. Looks like no brewing until the new year. I did brave the weather for a beer run though, some Murphy’s Irish Stout to make stew with, and a mix pack from Southern Tier.
Now to step away from the computer to shovel the snow.
Dude, you could be the first to brew ice beer. I think.
The Bud Ice Penguin has a sad.
Doobee doobee do…..
Yeah, I mean they call it ice beer, but is it really ice beer? I mean like there’s ice wine, it’s some sort of Canuck invention. One thing thay have plenty of is ice, might was well do something with it I guess besides skate around on it and beat each other senseless.
I think they stopped selling Bud Ice around 2002, which was around the same time they realized moving a hockey team to AZ was a frivolous decision.
I definitely remember seeing it. But have never drank it.
According to this article, it’s still around. Just very limited distribution.
Not even close, ze Germans have been doing it for a long time. The issue is more the shitty roads I would need to brave to get to the homebrew store then the outside temperature. Brewing is nice this time of year (assuming you brew indoors), because it’s really nice to be able to use ~40 degree ground water to cool the beer with.
If Germans make it and it’s beer, there’s a good chance I’d drink it.
While Germans make solid beers, I think they were hamstrung by the Reinheitsgebot for too long. The Belgians on the other hand went crazy, and came up with some really exceptional beers from it.
Agreed. Some people tout the Reinheitsgebot as this penultimate evidence of the supremacy of German brewing, but that’s like saying any bread that includes anything but yeast, wheat flour, and salt is impure and inferior to a baguette.
I was ready to drive it to the dealership with horn blaring and trade it in…
I went through that bullshit a few times with the ex girlfriend’s shitbox. First thing you do? Find the goddam horn relay and yank it right the fuck out.
The sun has actually appeared. Unfortunately, even if I could get to the end of my driveway, the road down the hill is fucked.
The water in the dog dish out in the three-season room froze.
For no reason I can identify, I love that sentence.
Nothin like coming home to a house that had the gas furnace pilot light go out when you opened the door to leave. Two days later your pipes are near frozen and the toilet could be mouse skating rink.
I’ve since purchased a alarm that calls me when the house temp goes below 55.
Getting a new furnace with a glow bar within the next 5 years.
What’s a glow bar and why do I want one?
Know one really knows, it’s alien technology.
Damn. Now I really want one.
Essentially a resistive heating element that replaced the pilot light on gas stoves and furnaces.
Ahhh…gotcha. I have one of those already.
Yes, I’ll check my glow bar privilege.
You’re Wisconsin, right?
I use the furnace on the nights it drops below 50 here. It’s self lighting.
The two dogs eat in different rooms because Goldie would steal Mickey’s food otherwise. So Mickey spends 5-10 minutes out in the three-season room at breakfast and dinner eating and in the winter that’s the only thing the room gets used for. There’s a water dish out there along with the food dish, and with the severe cold we’ve had for several days now, it was finally enough to get the temperature in the three-season room cold enough for long enough to turn the water in the dish to a block of ice.
So you punish Mickey for Goldie stealing his food by making him eat in the cold, cold room?
It’s rarely that cold.
My humming bird feeder is frozen solid.
It was in the 60’s here today with bright sunshine. Made it 80’s inside the truck.
Protected to be 27 tomorrow night though.
I suppose I’ll have to turn on the heater.
That Iphone commercial with the “animojis” and that bottle blonde chick drives me up a fucking wall. That is all.
Wood. Especially if it stoppped her from making those awful noises.
I can never “wood” a girl with different colored hair and eyebrows.
That ad also creeps me out. There is something not right about her.
When I was a tyke, I spent a ton of time at my best friend’s house because they weren’t psychos like my family. His dad owned and operated a Goodyear tire shop. Guy would get up at 4am every morning, work until 7pm or so and then come home and plop down in the leather recliner in front of the TV. His wife would set a chilled 12 pack of Old Milwaukee next to the recliner and he’d plow through as many as possible until he passed out. Then he’d get up again at 4am and do it again. 7 days a week. Never beat his kids. Always paid all his bills. Treated me better than all my other friends’ parents. High functioning alcoholic that died in his early 60’s. Irish.
Passed out from Old Milwaukee?
The box would only have 3 or 4 left at the end of the night, so, yeah, that’d do it. That and being exhausted from work.
seriously, a 12pack of OM would be like “warm up” for a night out (spent mostly urinating)
I’d still probably be legal to drive, or so I would insist at the time.
I was having a cookout one time years ago and lots of people showed up, but most left early and so me and one of my friends were the only ones there. After everyone else had left, he got a cooler of Corona Light out of his trunk and sat it down besides the grill. Told me he’d be back in 2 hours or so if I wanted to still hang out and drink. I’t summer and Saturday afternoon, so of course I’m like sure. Corona Light, I swear there’s no alcohol in it, there had to be at least 18 beers in there and I drank all of them before the guy returned, which was closer to 5 hours later than 2. So he goes to get a beer out of that cooler and is like WTF? You drank all of that? So I said, yeah, you want to go back to the store and get some damn beer with alcohol in it?
my measure of “how much light beer is normally-consumable” is based on similar experiences
basically, barbecues/cookouts where we’ve had basically unlimited amounts of canned, light-lager. the limit isn’t so much the # of beers, but the time it takes to drink them and the amount of peeing you’ll do. after 18 you slow down a bit tho (and then turn to hard-liquor, which quickly turns you from ‘buzzed’ to proper party-drunk)
It’s also about age. We used to do “Case Day” on Saturdays when I was in University. I’d have a hard time getting through six pack day now. Work, family and other responsibilities tend to multiply the effect of alcohol.
Yeah, we’re a Miller Lite household if we’re drinking beer as an activity. Sort of the difference between sitting down to a nice steak dinner versus standing around a bowl of popcorn: the steak is about the taste, the popcorn is about the action of eating. I’ll go through an 18-pack on my own without catching a buzz unless I’m actively trying to get drunk.
I used to have a best friend way back when and we’d spend a lot of time at each other’s home. His dad was a farmer and would work all day and drink like that also. The difference is he was one mean motherfucker, everyone was terrified of him, including me. You’d just stay away from him and things would be ok.
Definitely had guys like that floating around. Farmers are fucking crazy. There was this one kid in elementary school that had to do chores on his dairy farm every morning before school. His dad was a crazy drunk like that. The kid was a runt and would kick this one calf in the balls routinely. The calf grew into a bull, but the kid remained a runt. Went to his house one day in high school and he’s like, “Watch this!”. He takes me out to show me his bull. Huge fucking thing. He hops into the enclosure and the bull runs away from the little runt. I was hoping the bull would gore the little fucker.
Man what a little asshole. Rotten teeth too?
I can never “wood” a girl with different colored hair and eyebrows.
If her face is buried in the pillow…
Getting a new furnace with a glow bar within the next 5 years.
I prefer a heater which will still work when the power goes out.
Anybody have experience with heating a house with a woodburning stove? I’m trying to get my stove to heat the finished portion of my basement, but it’s not putting out much heat. It seems that the heat is mostly going up the chimney, and the room stays cool. Are there any tricks to get the heat to radiate into the room more?
Add mass.
You have to judiciously use the flue control. Once you’ve got the combustion going full tilt, use the control to trap in more heat, otherwise it will piss out the stovepipe just as you’ve said.
I don’t actually have a flue control in this stove. It looks like the stove was hacked up and frankensteined into the fireplace opening. All it has is a horizontal shelf about 3/4 the way up that runs from the back to just in front of the flue. The only way to reduce the amount of heat loss appears to be by building the fire as far back in the stove as possible.
Fuck I’m out of ideas. Maybe some aluminized mylar?
/sarc
Yeah, you’re going to have problems controlling the heat then. You’re also probably burning up your wood way too quickly.
Yeah, it burns like a fireplace. The only way to slow down the burn is to severely restrict the air input, which makes it quite susceptible to snuffing out.
Oooh, it is in the fireplace. No you are hosed unless you can circulate air around the burn chamber and direct it back in the room. We had a contraption like that when I was a kid. Noisy thing but it blew hot air.
So it’s an insert? If it doesn’t have a powered circulation system of some kind you’re basically going to have to try and get the metal bits hot enough to radiate heat. Or just put a bonfire in the damn thing and hope for the best. Bear in mind that by doing that, however, you’re going to be pulling the air from other rooms into the fireplace, which will tend to make the other rooms colder.
When you can, hook up a fan system. Or if you don’t mind losing the fireplace aesthetic, put a proper, i.e. Franklin-style, woodburning stove insert in its place.
Yep. Way back when I was in my twenties, I rented a house from this farmer who owned 400-500 acres of land, a lot of it wooded. He told me, you’ll need to get you a stove, the house doesn’t have one. You see them woods over there? You can cut you some wood from over there. So I bought a wood burning stove with a enclosure and an electric fan. Worked great. The one thing you need to know is do not burn uncured wood or soft sappy wood, you’ll set your house on fire. You need a stove with a fan, but other rooms are always going to be colder and the room with the stove warmer. The other thing is that you will have to get up in the middle of the night at least once when it’s cold, so the fire won’t go out. I burnt wood like that for years. And some wood is much better than other, hardwood mostly is what I burned, oak and hickory.
Yeah, and there are a couple of controls you use, one in the pipe and the other typically on the front of the stove to let more or less air in. You can get it down, just takes a little practice.
I grew up in a house mostly heated by a wood stove and I have one in my shop now. The stove now will heat a 1200 foot shop to 70 F but it takes awhile. I haven’t been using it this winter as I could not afford the four cords like I burnt last winter. What kind of stove do you have? Is not the exterior of the stove getting hot and radiating? There are also fan attachments for some stoves but I have never used one. I just set a normal floor fan next to the stove blowing into the open space.
It seems that the heat is mostly going up the chimney, and the room stays cool. Are there any tricks to get the heat to radiate into the room more?
That’s why I don’t use a wood stove. There are “better” designs, but you still have to deal with keeping it going, and the mess it makes. I think it helps if it has an outside air intake, so at least you’re not sucking warm air out of the house and pumping it up the chimney.
Mine had a removable pan under it that collected the ashes, which helped to make it not so messy.
My in laws in Penn have a corn burner that keeps 2 rooms in their 200 year old two story farmhouse warm.
When In their in the first room they break out a space heater for our bedroom.
Saw my first fox there as well as some Canadian geese flying up the river running along their property in Allentown.
Freaked me out. The geese were high in the air to them yet they were at eye level to me and 75 yards away.
Never buy solely on packaging MS. The machines in the mens rooms used to get me to shove quarters in every time for that same reason. “Why yes, I would like to pleasure the girl on that french tickler package”. The wife was never amused. Prude bitch.
I picked up six of these today but have not gotten into them yet as I made another purchase today for the first time since legalization and I am not sure how stupid I want to get yet. I am on the Miller lite for hydration purposes until I get into the second purchase.
I just killed the last of the Von Pilsner from the same brewery earlier today.
Baltic Porter–YES!!!
Never buy solely on packaging MS
Also, part of the reason I picked it was because it was released recently. Which means somebody might be looking it up before buying. Which means they might come across this review–on this website. Thus, this is an attempt to expose unwitting beer hipsters to our frightening, libertarian ideas.
I was honestly expecting that to have more to do with French Ticklers
Just spent an hour or so shovelling. Achieved nothing in the greater scheme of things except hopefully gaining enough cleared space to allow the wind to flow around/under the truck better, so the snow doesn’t get packed quite so hard around it. Maybe tomorrow I’ll try to blast my way out.
Come on, wind. Blow this shit away.
I might even crack open a Coors light in celebration of the return of el sol.