February 27, 2009
Theme of the Week: Oscar’s Montages Suck Beerhunter meeting convened 7:00pm. Roll Call: Present: Tom, Dick (secretary), Harry (curator) Absent: Andrew (Unexcused) Beer: #1-Svyturys, Baltijos Dark Beer #2-Farsons, Lacto Milk Stout #3-Two Brothers, Victor’s MemoriAle altbier #4- Dogfish Head, Olde School Barley-wine-style-ale #5-Southern Tier, Imperial Extra Pale Ale “Hoppe” Notes Unfortunately, we don’t have many notes for our vast readership this week.  Many of the beers were kinda “meh,” but more so, we were totally distracted, shocked, and in awe of how horrible the Oscar’s were.  Bad writing, really bad Hugh Jackman song and dance numbers, cheap set (recession), and a memorial montage where the names of those being memorialized could only be read with binoculars.  No respect.  “Paul Newman,” was in 9 point font. Editorial Note (from Tom): Ben (or is it Dick now?), you seem to have forgotten the one exceptional thing of the night (if we’re not counting Dogfish head’s “burial ale”, as it were): Kunio Kato’s hilarious, brilliantly self-effacing acceptance speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hODxuEKHWc Everyone, of course, knows the clip by now. But we were deep into a 15% ABV Barley Wine, so Mr. Kato’s gratitude to robots and pencils took on a special quality of hilarity and irreverance. Sank you, Kunio. You provided the one bright light to an otherwise dark and dull evening of scatological jokes from Hugh Jackman and profoundly cheap Hollywood back-patting.

Theme of the Week: Oscar’s Montages Suck

Beerhunter meeting convened 7:00pm.

Roll Call:

Present: Tom, Dick (secretary), Harry (curator)

Absent: Andrew (Unexcused)

Beer:

#1-Svyturys, Baltijos Dark Beer

#2-Farsons, Lacto Milk Stout

#3-Two Brothers, Victor’s MemoriAle altbier

#4- Dogfish Head, Olde School Barley-wine-style-ale

#5-Southern Tier, Imperial Extra Pale Ale “Hoppe”

Notes

Unfortunately, we don’t have many notes for our vast readership this week.  Many of the beers were kinda “meh,” but more so, we were totally distracted, shocked, and in awe of how horrible the Oscar’s were.  Bad writing, really bad Hugh Jackman song and dance numbers, cheap set (recession), and a memorial montage where the names of those being memorialized could only be read with binoculars.  No respect.  “Paul Newman,” was in 9 point font.

Editorial Note (from Tom):

Ben (or is it Dick now?), you seem to have forgotten the one exceptional thing of the night (if we’re not counting Dogfish head’s “burial ale”, as it were): Kunio Kato’s hilarious, brilliantly self-effacing acceptance speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hODxuEKHWc

Everyone, of course, knows the clip by now. But we were deep into a 15% ABV Barley Wine, so Mr. Kato’s gratitude to robots and pencils took on a special quality of hilarity and irreverance. Sank you, Kunio. You provided the one bright light to an otherwise dark and dull evening of scatological jokes from Hugh Jackman and profoundly cheap Hollywood back-patting.

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