WAKE N BAKE! FUCK YEAH!

Man, I’m all sittin’ on the screened porch with no shirt, catchin’ some rays in this Native American summer we’re havin’ her’ ‘n th’ Sout’ and all I can think is “What’s missing from this Rockwellian scene? What will make my urban neighbors and the business next door love me even more?”

A fucking beer. The morning (afternoon) coffee, to be fucking precise. Terrapin Goddamn Wake N Bake. (Or coffee imperial bullshit oatmeal porter for those pussies who made a stink.)

wake n bacon

Godjesus, this is some great fucking coffee. Thick, cold and black, like I like my beer. And goddammit I wish it was socially acceptable to be drinking a beer in the middle of the day like this before work. Guess I’ll have to pour this one out and wait until later. Or put it in a to-go mug for the road, all whitely commuting to the day job, pleated pants and a sense of entitlement.

But fuck if I’m not craving a Founders Breakfast Stout right now. Yes, that would be better.

I am the Rain King. I mean Storm King.

Man I almost got all wicked nostalgic tonight when I cracked a Victory Storm King. For some fucking reason the goddamn Wallflowers popped up all in my head. Then I started thinking about the retarded fucking name of this beer. Storm King. Really? That’s like Counting Crows’ “Rain King.” And then I realize that album came out more than half my life ago. Too bad Kevorkian’s gone. Seriously, I’m feeling all three-fifths of a person after remembering this song, as it’s been around for that much of my life and I think Adam Duritz was sum sort of mulatto.

Don Storm Martin Luther King.

This shit is a fucking maltgasm of fucking power and all roasted like King David if he were alive in Hitlerian times. This shit as all balls-to-the-wall with the darkness, yet the hops bring a brightness to the surface. It’s all like The Help‘s being nominated for best picture in the fucking Oscars and whatnot, all shiny and superficial and making white people think they’ve done something worth a shit for black people, ever. Nonetheless it’s good as fuck and I would drink it right now and tomorrow morning if someone delivered it on my front fucking step like a milkman or some shit. That would be hell of cool. God I would drink some fucking Dark Intrigue right now.

 

Fade to Black (metallica cover)

Darkness imprisoning me, all that I see, absolute horror, I cannot live, I cannot die, trapped in myself, body my holding cell. Landmine has taken my sight, taken my speech, taken my hearing, taken my arms, taken my legs, taken my soul, left me with life in hell.

Oh, fuck. Wrong song review. I mean beer. What the fuck?

Black in black.

Man, this fucking beer reminds me of being 15 again, all playing two riffs and thinking I was going to be the next Metallica cover band, like Elastica or Aluminumica or Formica or some shit. It’s fucking blacker than Spinal Tap could ever be. All spicy with black pepper and shit, all roasty as fuck with some crazy-ass malts. I probably should have saved it for black history month. But I couldn’t, because this beer is too goddamned delicious. Seriously, fuck you if you don’t drink one right now. It’s fucking amazing and might leave you pregnant, regardless of your innerworkings.

Recipe+Beer 001 – Badass Cookies

I’m knew to this posting recipes game, but I’m gonna win the shit out of it. In this segment, I don’t pair beer with food. Instead, I tell you what the fuck to drink while you’re making certain foods.

Here’s my take on the traditional chocolate chip cookie (as adapted from Mark Bittman’s book and chocolate chip packages and my tongue, et al.).

Mothafuckin' cookies!

Now this ain’t your traditional, fluffy-ass cookie, all bland and white and boring. I mean, those are good and all, but this shit will give your tongue a hard-on.

Here’s your fucking ingredients:

1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup turbinado sugar (that brown sugar stuff is bullshit!)
3/4 cup granulated sugar (you could even use the turbinado for this)
2 eggs
2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups chocolate chips
2 cups heath bar toffee shit

Now!

1. Preheat oven to 375 F(ucking degrees)

2. Drink a beer. I would suggest Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye.

3. Brown the shit out of your butter. I’m talking nearly burn that shit. Then, mix the hell out of the butter and sugars. Throw in the fucking eggs and beat the shit out of them.

4. Drink more beer. I believe Anchor Old Foghorn helps with the cookiemaking.

I thought there was a chicken hawk around here...?

5. Combine the dry shit (flour, baking soda, salt) in a bowl and sift that shit (or whisk). Throw it in the wet shit and stir like a motherfucker. Add the vanilla, chocolate and toffee chips. Mix.

6.. Throw that shit on something bake-worthy. I use ceramic pizza stones, and that makes a mean, chewy-but-not-fluffy, fuckworthy cookie.

Let that kick your taste buds’ asses for a while and see if you go back to normal cookies.

Barley Wine for a Rainy Day.

I’m talking about Dieu du Ciel’s Solstice d’Hiver, which, loosely translated, means SOOOOOOUL TAAAAKER!

OH! SHiT! Winter solstice. That explains things.

Holy fuck, this is a tasty lunch time barley wine. Weighing in at a measly 10.5% (they use metric system in Quebec so that’s like 3.8% in standard), this guy is still fucking full flavored. Smooth, sweet and a tiny bit of hops give this quaffer a great balance. Not sure why they call this a winter beer (probably the metric system again), but I could see it going well to hydrate while mowing the lawn or out for a run. Would also be a good beer to cook with. Could use a bit more heat, though. I give it a 14.

COMING SOON! FUCKING RECIPE+BEER PAIRINGS!