Hop springs eternal

 Austin  No Responses »
Jul 232004
 

I’m somewhat of a beer geek and an especially rabid beer geek when it comes to very hoppy beers. Stone IPA and Ruination IPA, which, sadly, you can’t get here, are some of my all-time favorites. You can imagine my delight when I learned that an award-winning IPA from Dogfish Head is coming to Austin. Let me be the first to officially welcome Dogfish to Texas. I hope your brews are worthy of their reputation.

Incidentally, Bitter End is a good place to get a locally brewed IPA with some formidable hoppiness, the aptly named Austin Pale Ale. Anybody know of any other local brews for a certified hop-head?

 Posted by on July 23, 2004 at 6:01 am

Document this!

 Politics  No Responses »
Jul 232004
 

In the wake of seeing Outfoxed earlier this week, it was interesting to find this post on the Tour De France today. Not surprisingly, Germany also seems to have a problem with biased networks who cut people off when they don’t agree with them. Even more ironically, and I’ve been thinking about this for a while, Al Jazeera was founded mainly to combat the many government run news agencies in the Middle East, but they seem to get nothing but bad press over here. I’d really like to see Control Room.

I finally watched Fahrenheit 9/11 last night. I may post more on that later, but I want to re-read some of the criticisms and counter-criticisms. My initial impression is that it isn’t nearly as radical as some have made it out to be. It’ll be a documentary hat trick this week if I get around to watching Fog of War which I borrowed from Casino.

 Posted by on July 23, 2004 at 1:55 am