A few shows are returning after the New Year programming hiatus, and some new fill-in shows have started popping up. Here are some brief reviews after the page break: Continue reading ‘More 2013 Post-New-Year Anime’
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Pours a moderate dark brown, moderate head that quickly goes away. Roasty aroma, but not strong, nutty tones, well tempered finish, a bit of lingering bitter. Smooth mouth feel, but not heavy syrupy. An easy quaffing beer.
Solid 3 out 4 touch of wheat monkeys.
Pours clear medium amber, small head, light carbonation. Aroma is bam, floraly hops! Can smell it before even taking a taste. Flavor wise the hops is dominant, however not skunky. There is a bit of light roasty malt in the middle, strong lingering bitter finish. Mouth feel is medium, there is a touch of syrupy feel, but not objectionable. For how hoppy it is, I don’t find it offensive, however the bitter is a bit too much for me. I can drink it, but want strong food to go with it. On its own it’s a bit hard for me to drink. Oh, and it’s not my imagination, this does pack a bit of buzz, over 7% ABV is higher than your average beer.
2 out 4 hoppy monkeys.
Dang, at this Sundays auto-x I saw the potential of the car. A Subaru version running in my class, only change was race compound tires, was driven by one of the top drivers during fun runs. He turned in a awesome time of 40 seconds and change. More than six seconds faster than my best time and would have been in the top tiers of entire field, top ten and just besting the GT-R!
Now all I got to do is buy a set of tires, and a big box of skill. 6 seconds over 40 is huge, it’ll take way more than just tires to make up for that! I did spring for a day of the Evolution driving class in two weeks, too bad I can’t really afford the full weekend.
This highly-adaptable bottle carrier designed by ITS Tactical and manufactured by Zulu Nylon Gear can fit almost any EDC water bottle currently on the market, even legacy GI 1-quart canteens. Made from US-sourced materials in the USA, this MOLLE-compatible bottle holder uses a Velcro-adjustable perimeter nylon webbing band at its base and elastic shock-cord keeper at the top to retain bottles up to the size of a 1-liter Nalgene. The MOLLE attachment is a traditional 1″ nylon webbing weave strap with a terminal snap. It uses one channel in width and three high. It can also be configured to fit a 2″ belt by passing the strap under the lowest two sections of weaving webbing. The main body is made from a piece of 2″ nylon webbing folded over a LDPE stiffener. The webbing perimeter band is sewn to the body and uses hook Velcro on one end and loop on the other for diameter adjustment. The tail of the main body loops under the bottle and is captured in the adjustment of the perimeter band by hook and loop sections at its terminal tip to keep the bottle from just slipping out the bottom. The elastic shock cord top retainer has a grippy tab for easy manipulation, and can be adjusted both in girth by tying it larger or smaller (the knot is inside the tab) and height by using one of two slots in the main body. I got the MultiCam version that uses jacquard woven MultiCam webbing and pattern matched Velcro. The snap is a blackened, Mil Spec non-magnetic brass component. Continue reading ‘ITS Tactical Skeletonized Bottle Holder’
Saturday as we were finishing up the brake job on the Dodge, I heard a HFD truck approaching. Scat and eye looked at each other and immediately the thought was, oh, here comes HFD1! The pump truck however turned onto side street that wouldn’t be a normal route to the hiking trail. Looks like a house call. Ambulance followed some minutes later.
HFD1 did fly by later though, but it surprisingly did not go to Koko Crater. More sirens, but none going up our street so looks like it really wasn’t Koko Crater.
Scat and I hopped into the Dodge for a test cruise. As we were going down Lunalilo Home Road, I spotted HFD1 hovering along the Koolau ridge. Uh oh. As we got closer, I could see the flourescent green/yellow of the ground crew hiking up Yoga Sisters ridge and a bevy of HFD trucks at the skate park.
As a special edition for sale in Hokkaido as omiyage to take back to the rest of Japan, Yuraku confectionery introduced the Shiroi Burakku Sandaa (White Black Thunder) chocolate bar. Since the introduction of Ishiya’s Shiroi Koibito white chocolate coated butter cookies, Hokkaido has been inexplicably tied to white chocolate. This is of course in tune with the image of Hokkaido as a snowy, white realm. Thus, the substitution of a white chocolate overlay on the normal dark, milk chocolate automatically makes the Shiroi Burakku Sandaa “Hokkaido-ish”. I haven’t seen the white version as a single bar for sale in grocery or convenience stores, but I’m generally not looking for candy bars. This gift pack is available at various shops at the Shin-Chitose airport, and according to the packaging is in fact made in Hokkaido. I have eaten the normal version, but I can’t recall what it was like, beyond being not “premium” chocolate. The white version essentially tastes like an inside-out Oreo cookie.
Several shows are on hiatus over the new year holiday, but a few new shows have sprung up on CR. Nothing outstanding though, but a few are not terrible. Read about them after the page break! Continue reading ‘2013 Post-New-Year Anime’
Seasonal offering from Sam Adams. Pours with light head, medium dark amber, almost red. Nicely balanced, crisp. It does have addition of some spices but it really is subtle, I don’t think I could point it out if I wasn’t told. Nice drinking beer, one of the better winter seasonals I’ve tried so far!
3 out 4 ginger sipping monkeys.
Was just going to blog the other day wondering about if Security Equipments ownership changed? Nope looks like they’re filming prod HI50 there today.
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