FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Second-Season Premiere

Found this on Aint-it-cool-news: The season 2 premiere of Flight of the Conchords will be exclusively on www.funnyordie.com December 17th so put it on your calendars!

BEERS OF THE WEEK

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BEERS OF THE WEEK: (From Your Host, Dan VK!)

Found the following at Ladd's this week:

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale

alcohol content 6.8% by volume	bittering hops Chinook
beginning gravity 16.0 Plato	finishing hops Cascade & Centennial
ending gravity 4.0 Plato	dry hopping Cascade & Centennial
bitterness units 62	malts Two-row Pale & English Caramel
yeast Top-fermenting Ale Yeast

The long, cold nights of winter are a little brighter with Celebration^® Ale. Wonderfully robust and rich, Celebration^® Ale is dry-hopped for a lively, intense aroma. Brewed especially for the holidays, it is perfect for a festive gathering or for a quiet evening at home.

"…best beer ever made in America."
– Stan Sessor, San Francisco Chronicle

GOLD MEDAL WINNER
United States Beer Tasting Championship (IPA: 1994)

FIRST PLACE
Chicago Beer Society — 1996 Fall Beer Tasting

SILVER MEDAL WINNER
California State Fair (IPA: 1999)
Great American Beer Festival (IPA: 2002)

Hang Ten, Weizen Dopplebock

ABV: Approx. 10%

Hang Ten is the Heavy Seas wheat beer you've been waiting for. A classic German-style weizen bock, slightly cloudy and bursting with flavor. Hang on and surf the Heavy Seas wave! Seasonally available in July while supplies last.

Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock 2008

5.5% alchohol

This beer was $15 for a single 750 ML bottle at Ladd's. (I had to pass on this one but thought it was worth a mention!)

Description from Samuel Adams website:

Samuel Adams® partnered Felchlin, a renowned Swiss chocolatier, to develop a unique innovation, Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock. We started with a complex selection of carefully roasted malts combined with hand-selected Noble hops from Bavaria, the world's oldest growing area. After using a centuries old brewing process, called Krausening, we slowly aged the beer on a bed of rare dark cocoa nibs from Felchlin®, a renowned Swiss chocolatier. Known for their quality these wild cocoa nibs, harvested from the rainforest of Northern Bolivia, impart complex aromas and flavors of chocolate, honey and vanilla in the beer. The resulting beer, Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock, has a big, malty character that is combined with the subtle sweetness of chocolate, giving this brew a complex full-body taste with a velvety finish.

Tettnang-Tettnanger and Spalt hops were hand-selected from the world's oldest growing area and combined with a complex selection of malts including two-row Pale, Munich and Caramel to create a rich and satisfying brew. This dark beer has a big, malty character that is combined with the subtle sweetness of chocolate. Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock was aged on a bed of cocoa nibs to create its unique layers of flavor. As the beer matured, the fruity, tart, earthy and chocolate aromas were released into the liquid to give the brew a complex, full -bodied taste with a velvety finish. A hint of vanilla was added to meld the symphony of flavors together.

210 lbs.

The scale keeps going in the wrong direction - maybe if I start posted my weight here - I'll be more motivated to get that number back down to where it should be!

JD Ryznar to Host 2008 Channy Awards

by Channel 101

JD Ryznar, creator of the legendary Yacht Rock, set to host 2008 Channy Awards on December 7th.

Los Angeles, CA - JD Ryznar has been set to host the 6th annual Channel 101 Incredibly Prestigious Achievement Awards, otherwise known as The Channy Awards. The event will be held on Sunday, December 7th at Cinespace in Hollywood. An afternoon affair, the doors will open at 3:30pm and the show will start promptly at 5:00pm.

Free Science Faxtion MP3

Science Faxtion

http://www.landsharkpromotion.com/science-faxtion.html

New band featuring Bootsy, Buckethead, Brain, and others!

Check out more on their myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/sciencefaxtion

The Hot Kid

The Hot Kid

by Elmore Leonard

Published by William Morrow

320 pages, 2005

Finished this over the weekend - I like it better than "Cuba Libre" the last Leonard novel I read.

What's On Tap

Found this on tap at the Muskegon Athletic Club (M.A.C) tonight:

Unlimited Release This is our unique version of an ancient style. A style as old as the ocean trade routes of the last centuries Great Ships. Not as old as the equator they had to cross twice enroute, nor as old as the 10,000 or so miles of Di-Hydrogen Oxide and Sodium upon which they sailed, but older than the Circulithium-4 Lentloid that binds the Lupulin Quartnate onto your taste buds. Weird. Think about it. Now stop. OK, go again, now stop. Think again, and stop. But we digress. Made with 43 different hops and 65 various malts, this redolent ale will likely float your boat, whatever planet you're on. Thanks for your trust, and as always:Think Globally, Drink Locally!! Say "LAH-GOO-KNEE-TUSS"