My go-to summer beer here in Austin since it first came out. I even named one of my cats for Ruby Redbird. Nice review, although I might go with 50/30/20.

Got the error message 3 times, guess I missed that magic window when it actually worked. Oh well, I’ll just get Ernie to sign it when he does his inevitable in-store at BookPeople here in his hometown :) Or at Classic Game Fest.

yep, mailer daemon message

It’s not so much that they burned it to the ground (although that could mess up potential radiocarbon-datable materials), it’s that they used heavy machinery to remove the coals. It’s likely that the site is shallowly buried, and could handle impacts from foot and vehicle traffic. Heavy machinery, on the other hand,…

Whenever people ask me what my favorite beer is, I say “Free.”

The payoffs on the hallucination and the murder made this an excellent episode. Didn’t see any of them coming. But until that point, the talking devil bit had ruined the episode for me. So f’n obnoxious and unfunny.

Things that crack me up about Austin: people who bitch about all the Californians who move here but got stoked when Trader Joe’s and In-and-Out opened here.

Total strawman, although there are people that deliberately manipulate these terms to profit from their fad diets/lifestyles. There are obvious advantages to the advent of modern technology and preservation techniques like refrigeration, flash freezing and canning. This doesn’t mean that the widespread use of multiple…

And if the Creeks were drinking a roasted barley beverage, they were certainly not doing so before the 16th century, since that’s an Old World grain.

Put me on the “Was this ever good” list? I also wasn’t aware it was a fruit beer, despite now realizing that the weird taste was likely the apricot.

As an archaeologist (for a government agency, no less): I don’t dig dinosaurs. I don’t find treasures. The things I find, 99.999% of the time, don’t belong in a museum. I don’t try and hide stuff from the public. I’m not hiding secret information from you, besides the location of archaeological sites, because those…

Mine was surprisingly hot jalapenos, but did the same thing.

I did a 12-beer flight a few weeks ago and only checked in the 3-4 worth noting/remembering, mostly for that reason.

I’m an archaeologist who would rather we focused on and were outraged over the civilian atrocities.

What’s funny is I would balk at that price ($7 for 500 ml), even though I have paid $20 a couple of times for a 750 ml of a stronger, hard to find beer. Maybe I need to do math at the bottle shop more often.

The official article has now been published, in the current issue of Nature:

Dunno if you saw, but the article was published today in Nature, so they were not the ones who v*may* have violated an embargo :)

The Barnstormer Series Raspberry Geyser is a 2-year aged Raspberry sour from Blue Star Brewing Company in San Antonio. Available only in San Antonio (and possibly only at their pub). One of the best beers I’ve ever had, the raspberries taste really fresh and add just a touch of sweetness to a deliciously sour beer.

The collaborative Twilight Beasts blog highlights Pleistocene beasts, including a few on this list.

A few years back, I had to spend a lot of time in Oklahoma for work. The only “strong” beer you could get at many of the bars and restaurants was this beer I’d never heard of, called Boulevard Wheat. It was good enough, definitely better than watered-down Bud.