• Beerporn: Editor’s Choice

    Tuesday is Editor’s Choice award day on http://hashtagbeerporn.com.  We are giving out an Editor’s Choice Award each week to the picture we think best represents beerporn during that week.  As an ongoing feature on Indy Beers each week I’ll be posting the Editor’s Choice winner from #Beerporn.  Remember, anyone can join and post pictures of beer to http://hashtagbeerporn.com.

     

    This week’s winner is PeterW.  We’ve had kegs as beerporn before, but I love the home brew!!  Check out the post here:
    http://hashtagbeerporn.com/2012/09/08/the-keg-is-in-the-cooler/

  • GoDaddy Attack Takes IndyBeers.com and HashtagBeerpon.com Offline

    GoDaddy took a huge hit today thanks to the Denial of Service (DoS) Attack initiated by AnonymousOwn3r.  We use(d) GoDaddy for DNS only (our sites are hosted with linode.com).  For several hours this morning our sites, along with potentially millions of others, were inaccessible because the DNS name could not be resolved.  Millions of dollars to small business were lost.  This is inexcusable.

    I considered switching from GoDaddy last year after their initial (but later recanted) support for the police-sate-inducing SOPA, but ultimately stayed with them for no other reason than I was too lazy to make the switch.  That is no longer the case.  The domains are (as I write this) in the process of being moved to namecheap.com.  If you can’t get to the site during that time, we’re sorry, but it is for the better.

    Here’s to hoping this type of DoS attack happens less, not more, in the coming years.

    –Scott
    Beer drinker, beer lover.

  • Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass

    Do you find that some days you drink more beer than other days?  Maybe it’s not you, but rather, maybe its the glass you’re using.  A recent study by experimental psychologist Angela Attwood of the University of Bristol showed that an optical illusion caused by the shape of a curved glass can dramatically increase the speed at which beer is consumed.

    To test the hypothesis, she and her colleagues randomly divided 160 young, healthy people—students and faculty members of the University of Bristol, as well as some members of the general public—into eight groups. It wasn’t difficult to recruit participants, Attwood says. “People tend to be quite happy to get free lemonade or beer.” Using the standard WHO test for hazardous drinking, called AUDIT, the researchers screened the participants to include only “social beer drinkers,” not alcoholics. They assigned each group to drink either about 177 milliliters or about 354 milliliters of lager or soft drink from straight or curved glasses. While the participants drank, they watched a nature documentary deemed emotionally neutral, so that they wouldn’t be “sitting there with nothing to do but drink,” Attwood says. The team videotaped the drinkers over two sessions, disguising the real purpose of the test with a fake word search task at the end of each session.

     

    After watching video of both sessions and recording how much time it took for the drinkers to finish their beer or sodas, Attwood’s team found that one group consistently drank much faster than the others: the group drinking a full glass of lager out of curved flute glasses. In a paper published this month in PLoS ONE, the team reports that whereas the group with straight glasses nursed their 354 milliliters of lager for about 13 minutes, the group with the same amount of beer served in curved glasses finished in less than 8 minutes, drinking alcohol almost as quickly as the soda-drinkers guzzled their pop. However, the researchers observed no differences between people drinking 177 milliliters of beer out of straight versus fluted glasses.

    So what causes the beer to be consumed faster out of the curved glass?  The belief is that drinkers are using the glass as a determining factor in how fast they are drinking and adjust their drinking accordingly.  This works fine in a straight glass, when the top inch of beer is the same amount as the bottom inch, but doesn’t work well when the volume changes from top to bottom.

    If you’re a regular reader of this site you may remember a particular Friday Beer Fun in which we presented the beer gauge chart to know if your bartender is cheating you.

    The average pint glass has sloped sides which, like the curved glass, has different volumes at different heights of the glass.  To verify this problem of perception another test was done.

    Another experiment in which participants were asked to judge different levels of fluid in photographs of straight and curved glasses showed that people consistently misjudge the volume in fluted glasses, Attwood says.

    While this may not be good news for your drinking, it could be great news for your local barkeep.  Lets just say, be cautious of any bar that only uses curved, flute style glasses.

    Source: http://news.sciencemag.org/

  • Beerporn: Editor’s Choice

    Tuesday is Editor’s Choice award day on http://hashtagbeerporn.com.  We are giving out an Editor’s Choice Award each week to the picture we think best represents beerporn during that week.  As an ongoing feature on Indy Beers each week I’ll be posting the Editor’s Choice winner from #Beerporn.  Remember, anyone can join and post pictures of beer to http://hashtagbeerporn.com.

    This week’s beerporn comes from aser.  I liked the black and white bottle/beer matching the counter top.

    http://hashtagbeerporn.com/2012/08/29/lancaster-milk-stout/

  • Beerporn: Editor’s Choice

    Tuesday is Editor’s Choice award day on http://hashtagbeerporn.com.  We are giving out an Editor’s Choice Award each week to the picture we think best represents beerporn during that week.  As an ongoing feature on Indy Beers each week I’ll be posting the Editor’s Choice winner from #Beerporn.  Remember, anyone can join and post pictures of beer to http://hashtagbeerporn.com.

    This week’s beerporn comes from Vampkel.  She used the chill plate for some, but not all beers.
    http://hashtagbeerporn.com/2012/08/20/big-swell-ipa-maui-brewing/

  • [Infographic] Colorado Beer Facts

     

    Source: http://sporkmarketing.com/

  • Review – St-Ambroise Oatmeal Stout

    Today Chris and I are reviewing St-Ambroise Oatmeal Stout.  We’re t his house today, just to change things up a little. As a side note, the ride up I95 during rush hour wasn’t too bad.  He says it can be much worse.

    We’re doing this review today after reading a recipe for a Bloody Mary using St-Ambroise Oatmeal Stout.  This will be a 2 part review, with the first part focusing on just the beer, and the second part will be a review of Draft Magazine’s recipe for a Bloody Mary.

    In our ongoing review series we’ll be covering the following 5 items:

    • Appearance
    • Aroma
    • Mouthfeel
    • Flavor
    • Aftertaste

    Here is a quick guide for the beginner http://indybeers.com/beer-tasting-guide/. At the bottom of that page is an HTML template that can be used in our comments if you would like to post your own reviews along with us.

    About McAuslan Brewing:

    Based out of Montreal, Québec McAuslan Brewing began operations in January of 1989.

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/bierestambroise

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bierestambroise

    Appearance

    Scott: A nice nutty brown with a thickly bubbled head.

    Chris: Poured nicely with a small moca head.

    Aroma

    Scott: This one is teeming with aroma.  I’m getting caramel, molasses, espresso, and chocolate

    Chris: Awesomeness. Roasted coffee with hints of chocolate.

    Mouthfeel

    Scott: Very light and creamy feeling with a good medium carbonation.

    Chris: Medium thick body and medium carbonation. I was somewhat surprised as this is not as creamy as I expected. Excellent, non the less.

    Flavor

    Scott: A few of these will go down very easily.  I’m not generally a fan of oatmeal stouts, but this one is spot-on delicious.  Roasted malt, maybe some caramelized sugar, and a nice finish of bitter chocolate.

    Chris: Yummy, oatmeal deliciousness. It is has smooth roasted sweet flavors from start to finish with hints of chocolate throughout.

    Aftertaste

    Scott: A little bitterness with a nice espresso flavor.  Unquestionably pleasant.

    Chris: The coffee flavors last, but are not too bitter.

    Final Thoughts

    Scott: I should have bought more of these, but at $10.25 a 4 pack, they can be a little cost prohibitive. 5/5

    Chris: This is an excellent, 5 star, oatmeal stout!

     

     

  • Beerporn: Editor’s Choice

    Tuesday is Editor’s Choice award day on http://hashtagbeerporn.com.  We are giving out an Editor’s Choice Award each week to the picture we think best represents beerporn during that week.  As an ongoing feature on Indy Beers each week I’ll be posting the Editor’s Choice winner from #Beerporn.  Remember, anyone can join and post pictures of beer to http://hashtagbeerporn.com.

    This week’s beerporn comes from top poster Husar.  Another great post that employs the monochromatic style.

    Baraboo Lager, by user Husar:
    http://hashtagbeerporn.com/2012/08/14/baraboo-lager/

  • Beerporn: Editor’s Choice

    Tuesday is Editor’s Choice award day on http://hashtagbeerporn.com.  We are giving out an Editor’s Choice Award each week to the picture we think best represents beerporn during that week.  As an ongoing feature on Indy Beers each week I’ll be posting the Editor’s Choice winner from #Beerporn.  Remember, anyone can join and post pictures of beer to http://hashtagbeerporn.com.

    This weeks Editor’s Choice beerporn is a group of beers from Hawaii.  I love the shot, and I can’t wait to try some of the beers for myself!!

    Beers of da Big Island, Hawaii by User cro4317

  • How to Say ‘Cheers’ in 50 Languages

    Ever been out drinking and needing to say cheers to the foreigner at the bar?  How about traveling abroad and meeting new people in new places and being in need of saying cheers to toast the new fun?  Now you can.  The fine people over at matadornetwork.com have put together a great guide on how to say cheers in 50 languages.

    Cheers!!

    Cheers!!

    A-E

    Language Spelling Phonetic Pronunciation
    Afrikaans Gesondheid Ge-sund-hate
    Albanian Gëzuar Geh-zoo-ah
    Arabic (Egypt) فى صحتك: (literally good luck) Fe sahetek
    Armenian (Western) Կէնաձդ Genatzt
    Azerbaijani Nuş olsun Nush ohlsun
    Bosnian Živjeli Zhee-vi-lee
    Bulgarian Наздраве Naz-dra-vey
    Burmese Aung myin par say Au-ng my-in par say
    Catalan Salut Sah-lut
    Chamorro (Guam) Biba Bih-bah
    Chinese (Mandarin) 干杯
    gān bēi
    Gan bay
    Croatian Živjeli /
    Nazdravlje
    Zhee-ve-lee /
    Naz-dra-vlee
    Czech Na zdravi Naz-drah vi
    Danish Skål Skoal
    Dutch Proost Prohst
    Estonian Terviseks Ter-vih-sex
    F-M
    Language Spelling Phonetic Pronunciation
    Filipino/Tagalog Mabuhay Mah-boo-hay
    Finnish Kippis Kip-piss
    French Santé /
    A la votre
    Sahn-tay /
    Ah la vo-tre
    Galician Salud Saw-lood
    German Prost /
    Zum wohl
    Prohst /
    Tsum vohl
    Greek ΥΓΕΙΑ Yamas
    Hawaiian Å’kålè ma’luna Okole maluna
    Hebrew לחיים L’chaim
    Hungarian Egészségedre (to your health) /
    Fenékig (until the bottom of the glass)
    Egg-esh ay-ged-reh /
    Fehn-eh-keg
    Icelandic Skál Sk-owl
    Irish Gaelic Sláinte Slawn-cha
    Italian Salute /
    Cin cin
    Saw-lutay /
    Chin chin
    Japanese 乾杯
    Kanpai (Dry the glass)
    Kan-pie
    Korean 건배 Gun bae
    Latvian Priekā /
    Prosit
    Pree-eh-ka /
    Proh-sit
    Lithuanian į sveikatą Ee sweh-kata
    Macedonian На здравје Na zdravye
    Mongolian Эрүүл мэндийн төлөө /
    Tulgatsgaaya
    ErUHl mehdiin toloo /
    Tul-gats-gAH-ya
    N-Z
    Language Spelling Phonetic Pronunciation
    Norwegian Skål Skawl
    Polish Na zdrowie Naz-droh-vee-ay
    Portuguese Saúde Saw-OO-de
    Romanian Noroc /
    Sanatate
    No-rock /
    Sahn-atate
    Russian Будем здоровы/
    На здоровье
    Budem zdorovi/
    Na zdorovie
    Serbian živeli Zhee-ve-lee
    Slovak Na zdravie Naz-drah-vee-ay
    Slovenian Na zdravje (literally on health) Naz-drah-vee
    Spanish Salud Sah-lud
    Swedish Skål Skawl
    Thai Chok dee Chok dee
    Turkish Şerefe Sher-i-feh
    Ukranian будьмо Boodmo
    Vietnamese Dô /
    Vô /
    Một hai ba, yo (one, two, three, yo)
    Jou /
    / Dzo
    Moat hi bah, yo
    Welsh Iechyd da Yeh-chid dah
    Yiddish Sei gesund Say geh-sund

    Source: http://matadornetwork.com/