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Goodbye

Paul Newman always seemed like a standup guy, and so the man who played everything from Cool Hand Luke to Doc Hudson’s voice in the movie Cars will be sorely missed. He was one of a rare breed, Hollywood men who marry and stay faithful, and who live far from the strange micro-system which is Los Angeles.

Apparently he was also a beer drinker, at least according to the BBC, which claims Newman “credited a regular beer intake for his good fortune.” According to an interview with David Letterman, Newman preferred suds over grapes because “It’s the drink of the common man,” although it would also seem he had a tendency to have a few more than might be advisable in one sitting.

So, while you’re hoisting that Oktoberfest beer today say a quick zum Wohl to one of Hollywoods most uncommon men.

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Paul Newman, actor and beer drinker

Now, that lack of oversight looks to beget yet another. As taxgirl reports on her blog, current proposals would give Treasury Secretary Paulson a $7000 billion blank check, with no congressional or judicial oversight whatsoever. Given the actions the executive branch has taken with oversight during the course of this administration, I’m somewhat skeptical that the money will be spent wisely or effectively.

If you’re in the US I urge you to read it and act, before it’s too late. Those of you abroad, many of whose financial markets are interdependent with ours, just hope we get this right the first time.

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The new most powerful man in the world

Ok, I promised more information about Kraft’s Bull’s Eye Barbecue Sauce with Guinness in my last post, and here it is. We took your basic pork ribs, cooked them over a combination of charcoal and hard wood coal (since I like the taste of the hard wood but find it difficult to control for longer cooking times), and the result you can see in the picture above. It was, quite frankly, the best ribs I’ve ever made. That, unfortunately, had little to do with the sauce.

As per the instructions on the bottle, I added the sauce towards the end of the cooking time. It’s a relatively mild sauce, with only a little bit of spice to it, but you can clearly taste the Guinness. I’m not sure where the “draught” comes in, but in any case it was not a bad sauce if you like things on the mild side (as my children do). Given my choice, I’d have slathered on the Gates hot barbecue sauce, but that’s just me.

image is mine

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Beer and Ribs

I love Wikipedia, but there’s actually an entry for this product in Wikipedia. Does that mean they have an employee whose job it is to create Wikipedia entries on every product ever made by Kraft? Or is someone really so enamored of a product whose claim to fame is having once been offered at Burger King that they feel the need to put it on Wikipedia?

The internet is a strange and wondrous place.

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A slight diversion

It’s the UK’s second bite at the apple, having been the most important financial center through much of the 1800s.

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They’re catching up

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Bavaria and beer

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Go east young man, or west, or somewhere other than here

Ok, so I’m not actually getting tired of hops per se, but I am quite tired of the idea that every beer, of every style, must be hopped to the hilt in order to be of any worth. In fact, I have to admit that I was almost thankful for the hop shortage, hoping it would lead to a somewhat more discriminate use by brewers. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t. In fact, the other day I picked up a variety pack of Flying Fish, a fine local brewery, only to find that they too have jumped on the Hop head bandwagon, replacing one of the four beers with HopFish. As you can guess, it’s a hoppy IPA.

Nothing against HopFish, which is a good beer, but it seems to me that hoppy IPAs are going the way of heavily-oaked Chardonnays. Too much of a good thing can be, well, simply too much.

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Tired of Hops

If you see it in your town let us know!

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Tracking a box