Filed under: Beercritic asks..., Imperial Stout (snifter), Rogue, Samuel Smith, Stout (English pint), Sweet stout (English pint) | Tags: Alcohol by volume, beer, Beer rating, Brewery, Drink, Food, stout, Twitter
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Tonight at 6 p.m., EST, I’ll be participating (as twitter username lemasney) in an online tasting event, part of Twitter Tasting Live, more commonly known on
Twitter as #TTL, where people tweet tasting notes all the time, and hash TTL as a way of updating those who are interested.
From time to time, specific beers are chosen for group review, like a book club, and we all get together on a Saturday night, virtually, to participate.
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Tonight, we’ll be tasting two British Stouts, and two American Stouts. They each have garnered 98s on RateBeer.com which is no easy task. Rogue’s Chocolate Stout and their Shakespeare Stout, as well as Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout and their Imperial Stout. I’ve had all of these before, but am looking forward to having them all again. This will be my first time participating in a group TTL event, but not their first event — I missed that one, and how sad I was.
For more info, visit: http://www.twittertastelive.com/events/twitter-taste-live-beer-stouts
Also, I’ve done some math on what I can expect to consume in calories this evening as a single taster who does not intend to throw any of this great beer away:
Brewery and brew RateBeer ABV Price FlOz Calories price per fl oz Rogue Chocolate Stout 98. 6.30% $5.99 22 347 $0.27 Rogue Shakespeare Stout 98. 6.00% $5.99 22 330 $0.27 Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout 98. 7.00% $3.29 18.7 327 $0.18 Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout 98. 5.00% $3.09 18.7 234 $0.17 1,238 Total Calories
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Using postbot to post the question: what is the best place in Philadelphia to get great beer on tap?
Filed under: Beercritic asks... | Tags: aleuminati, beer philosopher, beer porn, pourn
I wanted to give a shout of thanks to Shawn Connelly, aka the Beer Philosopher, who runs a great blog, and started my favorite home-away-from-home at http://aleuminati.ning.com — Shawn recently wrote on his blog about some of my visual work on The Aleuminati, his social network about beer:
John LeMasney, who can also be found on his own blog called beercritic, has consistently been cranking out some jaw-dropping visuals of high-end beers. Almost every day, Aleuminati members are treated to gorgeous photo spreads (nearly 400 of them now) of great beers in the photos section of the site. In addition to the excellent photos, John captures videos of the beers he’s enjoying as they’re poured into their respective glassware. These videos, mostly ranging from 1:00 – 3:00 minutes in length, are a lot of fun to watch. Not only are they well-made; they’re a true (not so) guilty pleasure to the true beer geek.
via Beer Philosopher – Drink Wisely.: LIKE WATCHING “BEER PORN”.
I’m sad to see the events as they unfolded on ratebeer.com recently. First a few weeks or months back, upon visiting the site, Firefox started warning of script redirects. If you wanted to still use RateBeer, you could, but only by ignoring the issues the site was experiencing, or by protecting yourself by antiscripting tools (e.g. the noscript plugin for Firefox) and/or great anti-virus tools. Sigh. Then yesterday, and a day or so before that, each beer listed would run a redirect script upon clicking. For the unprotected, it was more than just a nuisance — it was a threat. For the protected, the site became virtually unusable unless you starting typing in missing parts of URLs stripped by the antiscripting tools. Sigh again.
RateBeer shelf tags were perhaps the first way that I began to discover great beer, and I still use them today. I’m sad to say that it looks like that particular tool and its era are probably gone. The site currently reads:
RateBeer Security Timeout: I need some help!
So far I haven’t found a soul who can help. If you can help, please shoot me an email at joet @ ratebeer.com. I have recently been laid off, so I am a bit on the hurting for cash side. Anyone who can help here would be greatly appreciated. PayPal donations to joet@ratebeer.com would be greatly appreciated.Cheers,
Joep.s. thanks for all your support and understanding. 82 was compromised so it was closed.
Address : http://www.ratebeer.com/
Sorry to hear it Joe. Things are tough all over.
John.
Here it is:
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- this is my Novell LED all lit up.
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- This is my Novell LED flashlight light from the right only.
