The Puritan Pub

As you may, or may not know, where I’m from there’s not a lot of good beer on tap. The places in town tout the typical redneck “beers”: Bud, Bud Light, Miller Lite, Coors, etc. Thus, I don’t have the privilege of partaking of good beer on tap, for the most part.

This past Lord’s Day, however, I did get to enjoy a new beer (new to me, I mean). Samuel Smith’s Taddy Porter is a welcome addition to my mental beer repository. For a bit more information, one can visit here. The Taddy Porter (TP) has a very full and rich taste. Although I didn’t get the opportunity to do so, I think this beer would make an excellent drink with a nice, medium-well prepared, New York Strip.

It has similar tastes to several beers I enjoy. If you have ever been to a BJs Brewery, this has shades of their “Nutty Brewnette,” although I think this is much more refined and better tasting. The TP has a mild sweetness interlaced with the familiar “bitterness” found in darker beers. I’m not a “professional” beer taster, so it’s sometimes difficult to adequately express the varios tastes found therein.

So let’s just suffice it to say that this is an incredibly good beer, and I wholeheartedly commend it to your palate.

IN THE NEWS:

Here’s another example of the wicked results of alcohol consumption.

People who drink alcohol are less prone to the sometimes crippling disease called rheumatoid arthritis compared with non-drinkers, according to a Scandinavian study published on Wednesday.

Read the rest here.

In our post 9/11 world, fear has overcome common sense, and hysteria is preferred over Biblical reasoning.  I know our Christian readers already realize this, and are in no need of another example.  However, for the sheer stupidity and tyranny of it, I offer you this news:

A London man was stopped at the airport because his t-shirt, featuring a cartoon robot holding a cartoon gun, was considered a security risk .

Let’s hear your thoughts in the comments section.