Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

i dont think herzog has been baconed yet

i mean how many people are really going to sit down w/ aguirre the wrath of god

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low-level baconing to be sure but baconing nonetheless

living it up at the joke-tel California

"subsequent baconings include bill murray, werner herzog, and sriracha."

friggin' IPA. everyone likes beer and then people ruin it.

IPA, good christ. i live on the west coast and it's like "we brew both kinds of beer: IPA and double IPA"

that article in the new york times about people standing in line all night to buy IPA. ugh. get one real beer. at a store. and then go home.

Oh god, articles in the new york times

you keep up with current events we get it

Hey, I like IPAs! I wouldn't stand in line for one, but I enjoy the drink.

it was just like two days ago. big article. about standing in line.

i think everyone in line was a fan of The National.

hate it when national fans bring kids to the beer line

oh shit sorry you are a beer line person. sorry.

just not an IPA fan. its symptomatic of something about america that i don't like. oooh, four kinds of nutmeg....

a too muchness thing. 14% goblincock beer kinda thing. you can't actually taste 8 kinds of hops in a beer. it's scientifically impossible.

I liked IPAs. Then IPAs ruined it for me. Actually had a really good one not long ago. Long Tail Limbo, but ymmv. But I keep buying them because they're usually the only beer at my liquor store that's not a lager or a stout.

you should try crushing some sessionable IPAs with some National fans sometime

when my kid is grown up enough to ask what beer tastes like I'm gonna give him an IPA

i bought a 6-pack of IPA last night! they make it at a trappist monastery up the road. i get my jam from them too. it's simple. i just like beer with like 4 things in it. that goes for jam too. there is a store here that has about 1000 beers and i just get the same boring german/belgian stuff.

fucking america can't brew a beer that doesn't have 3,000 calories in it, jesus. if it's not the ipas it's the fucking bourbon barrel everything. i mean i guess the plus side is i can drink one and then not eat for a week, but jesus.

i had a zombie dust yesterday. it was okay. not the best beer i've ever had.

i think it's just a cultural thing. americans really love beer that is either water or heavy as fuck. red state/blue state.

i think microbrewers are worried that fucking idiot The National fans won't be able to tell the difference between a light refreshing beer and budweiser. and they're probably right.

yeah and they do need to stand out because of all the competition and all the garish goblincock beer labels out there. i get it.

have you ever tried an american microbrew "pilsner". they're cute. get back to me in 500 years, beerbro.

The National indie band or The Nationals baseball team?

http://images2.laweekly.com/imager/u/745xauto/5492832/photo-3-adjust.jpg

http://www.laweekly.com/music/what-else-are-steely-dan-fans-doing-at-coachella-5492765

i knew something like this must exist:

The Dan Abides
Danger Brewing Company
Homebrew, Porter - American

no t-shirts though. someone should get on that. $$$!

all those dudes look like ilxors

I don't know how I got here, or when.

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, February 7, 2017 10:59 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm the same way. I believe I joined around 2007, but I have no idea how I found this place. I want to say it was from a blog post from an established music critic, but I can't remember. It wasn't google, though.

I joined in 2007. I was at one of the lowest points in my life and was googling things like "I am sad" and "I am lonely" etc. One day I made a conscious decision to turn that around and google things that I actually liked instead, and I googled "I love music". It was a move that exponentially enriched my life.

I posted 15 years ago with a thread that reflected my age and naivete. I got made fun of for liking Tori Amos and some ilxors were pretty mean. Didn't post for 15 years but lurked the whole time and honestly love this place.

please provide a list of which beers are acceptable to drink

like, seriously, I'm not saying this is an example of "toxicity" or whatever before anyone jumps down my throat, but I am saying that I am going to be even more self-conscious when ordering a drink than I already am

"I was at one of the lowest points in my life and was googling things like "I am sad" and "I am lonely" etc. One day I made a conscious decision to turn that around and google things that I actually liked instead, and I googled "I love music". It was a move that exponentially enriched my life."

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Katherine, as you may know, that's why I stick to gin. It's the Geneva of alcohol.

that's the new recruitment poster! we need to print those out. and we need a snappy ILX logo. can someone do that?

and a new slogan. "FEEL THE....ILX!"

IPAs give me headaches, so not those. yuengling supported trump, so not that. the rest are fine

I can have opinions about stupid american beer culture. i don't really care what people drink. i never leave the house! i just read an article in the paper. and it reminded me of stupid stuff i think is stupid.

i've never been a big fan of the american heavy alcohol percentage/stupid label/knock your socks on your ass thing. and i'm even a metal fan. and same goes for wine. would rather drink some cheap italian table wine than a lot of pricier american headache-makers. but that's just me. we are all different.

i think most people can handle my scathing beer opinions. but i mean standing in line all night in the bitter cold for beer? they sell beer everywhere! i've never been a big line person though.

i should point out that despite my bitching about ipas i just drank two and they were fabulous.

horchata blue moon is like drinking an ilx thread

IPAs aren't inherently bad, i think it's the fact that at least here on the west coast it's the style that's most overwhelmingly popular. i mean i like the dirty projectors too but i don't want my local record store to stock 75% dirty projectors soundalikes.

I like "session IPAs": hoppy but still light enough to have with food. Evil Twin Citra Sunshine Slacker is one I've been drinking lately.

random thoughts:

just as there are crappy liquors that are more likely to give you a headache, there are crappy wines that will give you a headache

i thought the ipa craze was an american thing

and in terms of beer giving me a headache, i usually drink no more than 650ml/22oz per sitting and only one or two days a week so i've not experienced a beer-induced headache in a long time

i'm sure i can get one if i drink a 12oz 18%abv stout though (i've never drunk an entire bottle)

drinking a modern times black house while listening to the national rn

i can't really drink beer like i used to. cuz i am an old steely dan dad. wine is fine though. i am drinking tormaresca neprica puglia right now. negroamaro/primitivo/cabernet sauvignon.

but i only opened a bottle because i was making beef stew.

those two spencer beers i had last night were tasty though!

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and i only had those beers because i was losing it in a big way. 39 days without smoking cigarettes and it is no easier than the first day. even with nicorette products. even harder maybe....

beer advocate people are claiming that it is not actually trappist!

Trapp House...