{"id":26576,"date":"2011-09-20T05:26:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T09:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26576"},"modified":"2011-09-20T05:26:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T09:26:26","slug":"sometimes-you-get-the-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26576","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes You Get the BEER&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, BEER not BEAR!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a sad artsy-fartsy sorta liberal wind blowing through the country. As Spiro Agnew noted the <em>effete intellectual snobs<\/em> have been around for a while. Referring to the anti-war crowd (AKA: a type of hippie) . He actually said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEducation is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as \u2018The Generation Gap.\u2019 <strong>A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete core of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s a move afoot by some of that ilk to do to beer what they&#8217;ve done elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/thepourfool\/2011\/09\/14\/why-i-dont-drink-budweiser-and-why-im-not-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why I don&#8217;t drink Budweiser:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I don\u2019t drink Budweiser and never have<\/strong>. I\u2019ve<strong><em> tasted<\/em><\/strong> it three times (a total of about 3 ounces),\u00a0first while at the University of Maryland, once again in Myrtle Beach, SC, in 1984, and then again in Seattle, in 2005, at the urging of their distributor\u2019s rep, who\u00a0&#8211; correctly &#8211;\u00a0observed that tasting a thing \u00a021 years ago wasn\u2019t giving it a fair shake. It tasted <strong><em>exactly<\/em><\/strong> the same: like a wet piece of the cardboard that comes in new dress shirts \u2013 and that\u2019s not an original observation. I first read it on the website of the world\u2019s foremost beer critic, Britain\u2019s Michael Jackson. He had almost nothing positive to say about Bud. I don\u2019t either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Beer is NOT wine!<\/strong> I don&#8217;t drink beer to savor the nuance of the flavor blends. It doesn&#8217;t need to age to gain character.<\/p>\n<p>It is for those hot days when something icy cold and fizzy brings comfort. &#8216;Shine is similar; although I have some peach flavored moonshine that is kinda nice.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t there something mildly effeminate about discussing the prissy details about yer favorite quaff? I&#8217;m a belch and sigh kinda man myself.<\/p>\n<p>With that I leave you with:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lego Beer Song\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATBl4qH9I54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-14T00:27:06-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATBl4qH9I54?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ATBl4qH9I54\" data-author_name=\"Andreas\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@rohschinken\" data-height=\"375\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ATBl4qH9I54\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"Lego Beer Song\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, BEER not BEAR! 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