from the twisted minds of snm
A beer I brought back from BC, pours bright yellow with light head. Hint of funk in the aroma. Touch of sweetness. Quite light in flavor, light bitterness in finish. Carbonation does not persist, lending to a medium mouthfeel. I can’t say I’m very excited by this beer.
1 out 4 lakeboat monkeys
It’s nice to post a non-rant about customer service. You might recall (did I post about it?) that at the last rallycross event, I snapped one of my custom Driveshaft Shop shafts. These were 2/3 custom and supposed to hold up to hard use. I was well outside of the warranty period so was not expecting much, but I contacted them. DSS quickly got back to me and told me they would remanufacture and replace the ends, they had some suspect heat treat on parts around the time mine were made. All I have to cover is shipping, and they are now on their way. It took a while because the guy in charge of rolling the shaft splines had been out with a serious snowboarding injury, lol.
Part two of the story is that the shaft that broke was inside the differential side, in the KAAZ limited slip. To extract the broken part, I ended up welding a bolt to it and slide hammering it out. Ends up that I didn’t need to, could have inserted a rod from the opposite side and hammer it out that way, 20/20 hindsight. Anyway, doing so left bits of slag and the splines in the LSD were scratched. So I contacted KAAZ USA who also promptly replied. They gave me an initial estimate, which was far less than I expected, unless the housing was damaged. I shipped it off to them for closer inspection. They told me the damage looked worse than it was and said it should be fine if they just cleaned up the splines and bearing flange. The rest of the unit was in good shape and since they were in there they rearranged the clutch plates to shift the more worn ones around. They charged me nominal labor, the shipping charges came out far more!
I just finished reassembling and reinstalling the transaxle, which went in surprisingly easily. One kick and it slid back together. I guess having done it more than a half dozen times I’ve gotten the theorems down.
So shout out to The Driveshaft Shop and KAAZ, I would not hesitate to heartily recommend them to anyone!
Something new at Foodland from New Belgium, “Easygoing Ale.” Pours clear bright yellow, light head. Likewise light and bright aroma and taste, touch of citrus. Just a bit of hop and bitter in middle which quickly goes away. light mouthfeel although carbonation is weak.
Yes, easy drinking, but also nothing outstanding. I give it 2.5 easy monkeys.
an English brown ale. Pours deep amber medium strong head. Roast malt a bit of bitter in middle but does not linger. Surprisngly easy drinking and clean.
3 out 4 brown english monkeys.
Should have known better, but I thought it wasn’t an “I”PA so see what its like. The moment I cracked the cap I could smell the floral hops. Pours light yellow with light head. Piney, grapefruity aroma. Hop bitter that they’ve managed to keep under control.
You know I dislike heavy hop beers, but I actually finished this one, so I think I’d give more than 1 out 4 pale monkeys.
Finally got around to replacing tires on the FR-S, the original Bridgestone Turanza finally wore down to point of questionable safety check. Everyone would ask, oh are those the Prius tires? The FR-S actually comes from the factory with either of two tires, the “Prius” tires are probably better since they are summer tires. The ones that came on mine are the Turanaza’s which are all season, although their performance in mud was laughable.
These Potenzas are a new model that came out this past year and are considered the new king of the street tires for autocross, 200 treadwear qualifies them for street/stock class. Summer tires meant for ultimate road traction. They do not like cold.
Continue reading ‘Tires Are Good – Bridgestone Potenza RE-71R XL’
Deschutes seasonal, pours a very dark amber, medium strong head. Spice and floral aroma, Hops bitter, but well controlled. Medium mouth feel. Given its darkness, would hope for more roasted malt, but that’s not to be. Not a really high ABV, but there’s a decent warmth.
A pretty decent beer, but it also doesn’t really excite me either. Just barely 3 out 4 jubiliant monkeys.
From Full Sail this is a stout aged in bourbon barrels. Pours opaque black with weak head. Alcohol presence is pretty strong. Surprisingly not a strong smokey aroma, but there is a dark chocolate. There’s also some interesting flavors going on that aren’t immediately identifiable as being from the barrel aging. The bitterness is there, but actually very even and controlled. As expected of an imperial stout, a fairly thick mouthfeel.
Solid entry, more than 3 of 4 barrel monkeys.
On tap on nitro. Creamy strong head. Pretty strong hop, but mitigated by dark roast. Butt kicking 9% ABV does give it the alcohol presence in the middle, but its pretty sneaky. I am thoroughly enjoying this.
4 out 4 Russian monkeys.
Pours a dark amber with medium head. Bright aroma of the orange peel without being identifiable. The adjunct spices are unidentifiable also but lend to the brightness and warmth. A little bit of bitter gives way to a nice malt grain finish. Carbonation goes away quickly giving it a medium mouthfeel.
Im finding myself enjoying this quite a bit. Easily 3 out 4 spice monkeys.