Monday, February 16, 2009

Jason! You're stupid! You made a terrible mistake and I WILL NOT FEEL SORRY FOR YOU WHEN YOU ARE STUCK WITH A STUPID GIRL when this is all over!


Oh,  Jason, Jason, Jason. Really?  Sending Jillian home and leaving Molly and Melissa?  REALLY?  All right.  I will not feel sorry for you.  You could have had a smart, effervescent girl with a good head on her shoulders and some imagination and sensibility, but instead, you want one of the girls who, after six weeks, gush all over you like a four-year-old girl would over a Christmas pony.  All right.  Looks like Deanna comes back in two weeks, then you'll have a mess on your hands.  I long suspected you are a nice guy, but you lack confidence and you like stupid girls.  
So, in mourning, I am drinking a PETRUS OUD BRUIN, or Old Brown.  Old because it ages in oak casks for 24 months.  Petrus is named after Sint Petrus -- Saint Peter.  I have high hopes that the good saint is handing out goblets of this at the gates of heaven.  Like other Belgian "Ouds", it has a somewhat spicy and acidy nose, and a nice balance of sweet and sourness.  Greg Hall says "Sour is the new hoppy" -- meaning the sour qualities commonly found in some Belgian beers could be the new hot trend among American craft brewers, much like excessive hop bitterness became all the rage a few years ago.  I hope so.  These beers are complex and delicious, thirst-quenching and thought-provoking.   So if you are alternately disgusted, disappointed and ambivalent about your evening's reality TV choices, try a thoughtful, fancy beer.  

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