I will watch this. But really, they cancelled Heroes, do they expect this to succeed where that didn’t? I don’t know. Either way, I’m on board.

Via Bleeding Cool.

So Brian and I are having a Beer Mile tonight!

What exactly is a Beer Mile, you ask?

1) Run a quarter mile.

2) Drink a beer (or cider if you can’t drink beer. I have at least one friend with celiac).

3) Repeat! (until you’ve run a full mile and drank four beers)

This may or may not be a good idea in the end, and someone will probably end up sick, but its a challenge (we like those), its beer (we like that), and its running (we… okay, Brian likes that).

If you’re in Lansing Michigan, love beer, don’t mind running, or simply want to come watch us make fools of ourselves, come on out! Shoot me a message for more information if you need it. Its at my house, at 5pm today.

Feel free to bring friends, just no jerks. And don’t be an idiot. You will probably not be driving after this. A DD is encouraged.

BYOB

Michigan has had absolutely beautiful weather lately and there is no better way to spend a Spring evening than making music with friends.  In preparation for watching the sunset from my porch, Ian and I went for a quick shopping trip. As he perused the isles for the best microbrews, I search for root beer. I almost missed the stack of Abita root beer until he pointed out this six pack.

Abita brews their root beer with spring water and they use cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. This root beer is not very rooty and gives you a very soft mouth feel. Abita has kept the carbonation low so that you can enjoy the subtle taste. I wouldn’t pair it with any overpowering flavors.

I am really happy to see Abita is making muslim-friendly drinks. I highly recommend their root beer. It has been a fast favorite for me.

8/10

P.S. Thanks a lot to the Beer and Comics crew for letting me post here! I like root beer almost just as much as they like beer. I look forward to sharing my passion with you all.

GeeksAreSexy.net posted this great piece where fashion personality Tim Gunn analyzes superhero styles.

He’s smart, funny, and has a lot more interesting things to say about these costumes than most of us might have thought of initially.

He also gets it. He understands the cultural relevance of these characters. He gets why Superman and Spiderman work. Not just how iconic they’ve become (which is a large part of their value), but why they worked in the first place.

Well worth the time.

I feel bad I can’t give you a picture, but I need to describe this beer. Poured like any other ale, maybe a little on the lighter side. Orange-ish. 0.5 cm head, pure white. Smells like apples and funk. I was confused, momentarily by this. Then again, green apples smell a tad bit funky, so I dealt with it. It does not at all, smell like horse apples, for those of you concerned about that.

As for taste, there’s a definite sour bite to it. Its very similar to a lambic, or a spontaneously fermented beer. That could be expected though, from the scent. While I doubt this is spontaneously fermented, the apple certainly lends that character to it. The biggest surprise is the smokiness. I get that it’s a smoked apple porter, but I after reading the label which mentioned the smoked malts, I wasn’t necessarily excited for it. I thought that the malts would taste more burnt. This was clearly incorrect, and this is a smoky, slightly sweet, sour treat. Very different from anything I’ve had before. I can honestly say I’m thrilled by this in ways I hadn’t imagined I would be.

Is it the greatest beer known to man? No. Is it stellar? That’s up for debate. All I’m comfortable saying is that I really like it for it’s strangeness. In a career of tasting well over a thousand beers, I’ve never had anything like this. It is truly completely one hundred percent unique. Shorts is doing a great job of DOMINATING that category right now. Buy any of their special beers (I highly recommend Good Humans as well) and you will likely be knocked off your chair. Not by the booze, necessarily, but by the innovation.

8/10