Drinking It All: # 1 Fence-Post 32 oz. High Life
big High Lifes are by nature higher high lifes
Drinking It All will be a document of my attempt to try every beer in circulation. It's a Herculean and tragic attempt at best. But it's the means, not the end that counts here.
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Let's start this new feature, Drinking It All, with one of my favorite beers: Miller High Life. And not only is it High Life, it's a big High Life. 32 oz. big.
I'm an unashamed fan of High Life. It's a good solid blue-collar beer in the good company of PBR and Olde Style, and it holds its ground. The "Champagne of Beers" is easy to drink, as are most mass-produced domestic lagers, and it doesn't hurt you where the money is. We'll not get into the taste too much. The beer is heavily carbonated and tastes like a mildly hopped and mildly malty lager. It's inconspicuous by design.
It's the beer you drink when you're cutting the yard on the riding lawnmower, practicing with your band, tailgating, or plowing through a new difficulty level on Halo.
Thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs definitely up.
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I'm going to be shifting gears and focusing, almost exclusively, on homebrewing and beer. In an effort to more narrowly define my site and hopefully find a focused niche, I won't be posting about all of my interests anymore. Nobody's a pro at it all, except maybe Tom Waits, and I ain't Tom Waits.
I'm currently trying to find a new home (read: blog) for The Box of Vinyl Project (only one rejection so far) because I think the idea is too much fun, and hopefully, to you guys, interesting, to quit altogether. If you know of a blog that it might fit in well with, let me know. I'll definitely send them a proposal to pick it up. And I thought submitting to literary magazines was hard. Sheee-it.
So from now on, you can look to Typed Slowly for all of your fermentation-related interests and also to satisfy your time-killing urge at your terrible job (everybody's job sucks--yours is no different--unless you're Jim Koch) by reading about beer. Fun, fun, fun. Yes, yes, yes.
Having said that, I'll probably manage to sneak in a post about a book, record, show, film, internet video, or lawn-mowing experience every once in a while--while Kirby's not looking. Mum's the word.
On the sunny side, I'm starting another feature to fill the canyon-like void that will be left by The Box of Vinyl Project. We'll call it (adopt Don LaFontaine's voice (look him up)) Drinking It All. The title sounds a bit more Dionysian than it actually is. I'll be setting out on a mission to try every beer I can get my hands on. I realize I've set myself up for failure from the beginning (it's tragically flawed); I can't possibly drink every beer made. But I'm goddamn gonna try. It'll be fun. I'll drink beers you wouldn't consider smelling. I'll drink beers I wouldn't normally consider smelling. Emphasis on the drinking here, not the smelling. I'll take suggestions and I'll make suggestions. It'll be educational. Economical. Inspirational. Farcical. It'll be about beer.
It's fixing to all be about beer.
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