This is strong beer but I've always had this thing where pilsner is a cheap-ass drunk your dad keeps around for people he doesn't like. Well, in the summer I've found I get into the bitter, dry beer. Check this one out. Can't miss the old dude on the front. Drink it really cold.

The BC Liberals are just a PR wreck, and have no idea how to communicate anything to anyone effectively, and compounding that problem, everyone hates them and wants to punch them instead of listening.

Entertaining lecture, even if you don't agree with his point of view. He makes a number of great points and even went so far as to publish a book (let me know if you've read it). One point that I find hard to deny: Some people are responding proactively to climate change and they will thrive as a result.

It is definitely controversial to say that climate change presents an opportunity but only if you take an extremely dim view of opportunity (e.g. The "opportunity" to hold an oil dependent world hostage, or use energy demand to justify patently insane projects like the Athabasca Oil Sands project). A more enlightened view might see an opportunity to use our current resources more efficiently or to focus development on more sustainable cities rather than pouring resources into cities we know will ultimately have to be abandoned.

Love or hate him, it is hard to deny Kahn's central point: Climate change will create economic winners and losers. It might hard to pick a winner but the losers are easy to spot: Those who seek to maintain the status quo.

The link for the impatient: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-303.htm

Pretty cool idea: size is more important than entropy, at least for WPA. I understand the reasoning in terms of brute force. Generally applicable?

I get shit for too many rave reviews here but I liked all of these in their own way. I only post the ones that really blow me away. I've just not found that many to really complain about. I mean it really has to suck for me to write about it.

On the other hand, it has to be really good to write about too. Sometimes the taste just blows me away and I have to tell someone. Or it's been a crap day and a great pint comes along and washes it all away. That's the beer you'll find here. One way or another each one blew (what's left of) my hair back.

Seriously, how many times can you honestly say "this beer is so bad I can't finish it"? Not very often. You throw it back and never buy it again. Tell me this: have you ever thrown a beer away because it tasted so bad you couldn't finish it? You might find a beer or two like that here too.

Couldn't find those stouts I mentioned last time so skipped right into the IPA. Porter and stout are getting harder to find thanks in no small part to yours truly.

Have to say I expected a crazy bitter strong beer but this one surprised me. It had a full flavor and smooth. I could have had another one and normally can't stand more than one. I like my ales but find IPA, I don't know, dry. I'm usually thirsty for water after one. In this case I was thirsty but for more bitter.

Am I wrong? Check it out. Tell me what you think.

Those Surrey boys sure brew a fine Porter. I didn't notice all of the subtle flavors at first. But after the 5th or 6th bottle over a two week period it was like a flavor explosion. I know this will sound odd but try it: drink this one a little warmer. Take it out of the cooler and just let it sit for 10 minutes. Open and enjoy. 

What do you think? Am I right or what? I have three Russian stouts coming up next before Spring begins and I start really tearing into the IPAs.