Ordinary Sunday Brunch

9 thoughts on “Ordinary Sunday Brunch”

1. > your car gets thrown in reserves

   I’m glad the National Guard is enlisting civilian vehicles into service.Report

   1. Adds an element to the story…but I’ll correct it, thanksReport

2. Sp3: Related by the notion of women in men’s places, and with no disrespect… Under Colorado law, and with a handful of exceptions, any time two or more members of the General Assembly are discussing state business, it must be open to the public. During a break, two male members of the Joint Budget Committee, clearly still discussing a matter from the hearing, went into the men’s restroom. A female reporter from the Denver Post followed them in. When they looked at her, she said, “Open meeting law.” The two members decided to take turns using the restroom. By the time I was working at the JBC, “one member at a time in the restroom during hearings” was a tradition.Report

3. I feel like IPAs have been the dominant craft beer style for a while now. At least for ten years. The only ones I like on a regular basis are the juicy/hazy/New England ones. Pliny the Elder from Russian River is a good IPA.

   I’m a big fan of brown ales, porters, and stouts but those tend to a more minority following.Report

   1. Thumbs up on all of brown ales, porters and stouts.Report

   2. I have few theories on IPA’s

      1) Like Merlot, they have a good, easy to remember and order name.
      2) Early in the Craft Beer phase, IPA’s tended to be crafted better than a lot of the Ales – which were generally too malty and sweet – in part, I think in reaction to the rice-based industrial beers they were replacing. Thus, they were a “safer” choice during the explosion of craft beers of middling quality.
      3) Now they are a refuge from double-pumpkin-lambic-lagers.*

      * I’m sad to say that recently an IPA I ordered was off the menu, so the server asked if I wanted this other IPA from the same local brewer… sure, said I. He came back with what I can only describe as a mildly hoppy Hawaiian punch. So, the end of the world is nigh; plan accordingly.Report

      1. I also think IPAs are relatively easy to hide mistakes in because you can just add more hops. I am not a fan of overly hoppy beers. There has been a big thing for sours recently.Report

   3. I’m a big fan of brown ales, porters, and stouts but those tend to a more minority following.

      I agree, both with being a fan of all those and with the claim that they have a minority following.

      I didn’t read the linked article, but it’s frustrating to go into a store and see multiple varieties of IPA’s, sometimes by the same brand, and only one or two of the kinds I like. #firstworldproblemReport

4. Sp2 – boxing and horseracing have been in a long, likely terminal decline all our lives, for those of us in Gen X.

   Eta – I wonder if american football now is where these two institutions were in 1980.

   Eta2 – or perhaps 1970.Report

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