Pyramid Oatmeal Stout

Ok, I’ve been working on this beer for as long as it has taken to finish the last 3 varietals of the Pyramid Winter Variety 12-Pack. At 7.0% ABV, it’s tied with the easier Snow Cap, but it’s super frothy and I suspect the only way to enjoy this beer is in an ice-cold glass. There you go, beer lovers. Enjoy. And don’t land it hard or you’ll get a mess on your coffee table.

1 month ago  /  0 notes

A sample of Pyramid.

I decided to try Pyramid’s winter mix tonight. It was on sale for 11.99 at the local  Rite-Aid and the last of its kind. I started with the traditional Pyramid Hefeweizen. Good taste, good body, some good fare by the local West Coast brewery. You never go wrong with Pyramid’s signature. Next I went for Chai Wheat. Fantastic spices and fermented orange peel flavored this beer perfectly, although I suspect that it’s not a beer you could live by unlike the original stuff. The Snow Cap was very like a light lager in taste, but had subtle overtones that indicated a heavier beer than your traditional light beer. The Oatmeal Stout might have been better in a chilled glass, but, out of the bottle, it frothed up too much to be considered enjoyable by anyone that drank beer for the refreshment of even a Coors Light, the standard  bearer of a chuggable beer. Overall, a good selection of beer, but I’ll have to bring out a chilled pint glass for the next Oatmeal Stout to give you a more favorable opinion.

1 month ago  /  0 notes

The usual shit…

Here’s a question for all of you. I’ve helped my dad with tax returns (that he’s reviewed as a CPA) and there are a lot of deductions that business owners and independent contractors can make use of, but why aren’t people who commute to the jobs where they are actually employees allowed to claim gas expense and a multitude of other expenses (including their own healthcare and other job-related expenses) allowed to deduct these on their state and federal tax returns? Just goes to show that the only back anyone in government is looking out for is the one burdening their employees with unnecessary expenses. You can’t go for the ones that are getting their exposure with lobbyist money because they never look out for the workers. Past Labor Day, we should reconsider how the everyday American is looked out for, because most of the time, they are workers and not the entrepreneurs, but every worker ever has brought their own experience, time and detriment of well-being because they believed in their job, and the facts show that nothing will change until we realize that. That is not all I have to say but we’ll leave it at that.

Share, bring our voice back to the conversation, and do your own bit, because until we are the Sandra Flukes or the Joe the Plumbers of the other side showing our voice, we are not in the national conversation. It’s time to show that we’re ready for that change and show what change we believe in.

9 months ago  /  0 notes