BEST SUMMER BREW™ REVIEW: HINANO
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me: Check this out
Jeff: mmmm beer gun
me: that's one way to speed up slow delivery in the bar...making a gun that'll take 12oz bottles...tough
my f--king neighbors have a bird, and all it does, all day long is chirps...I swear...I'm investing in a bb gun
Jeff: There are a lot of good ones in the beer category
me: nice: This is probably one of the most creative - http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worth1000.com%2Femailthis.asp%3Fentry%3D304440
Jeff: one word: defogger
just set it off when they're not in the apartment
love that
i can't stand those smug f***ing Apple commercials
me: yeah, the problem is that their windows are on the same wall as mine - so to get to this damn bird isn't that easy...
Did you read the review in Slate.com about those apple ads?
Jeff: no
why, should i?
or "why should I?"
Sent at 5:14 PM on Friday
Jeff: oh, i have to get some beer reviews up on the blog
me: I never get to see US commericals, so I get my news from stuff like slate...I don't even remember exactly what he said, but it was somewhere along the same lines as what you just said
Jeff: it's not like i haven't been drinking any, i've just been lazy
me: Part of his conclusion from Slate: And isn't smug superiority (no matter how affable and casually dressed) a bit off-putting as a brand strategy?
Jeff: Sierra Nevada Summerfest, Brooklyn Weisse, Magic Hat #9 IPA, Saranac Kolsch (which was AWFUL), Shipyard Summer Ale, all of these and more have been consumed!
EXACTLY
just sell your iCrap and shut up
me: Wow! I drank my Togolese beer, but I was at the beach and didn't pay much attentioni...Other than that I have a Weisse in the fridge and I NEED to go to the beer store soon b/c I'm all out
Oh, yeah, I drank a Fijan (fijian?) beer and it was awful...Bud in a different package...no taste...I didn't even review it
Jeff: And those were just the ones I had BEFORE work!
Fijian?
Jeff: What was with that weird animated smiley thing?
That scared me. But then again, I'm drunk. ![[nose smile]](http://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif){kind=small}
me: I don't know - Gmail does it whenever you do THAT
Jeff: CREEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeff: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! MAKE IT STOP!!!!
me: wow, Google, taking over the world, one animation at a time
Jeff: You know someone was in a basement in Palo Alto working on that for 72 hours straight.
me: GET IT RIGHT DAMN IT!!! I don't want some 1/2 @ssed "Microsoft" image!
Jeff: MORE RED BULL I MUST CRUNCH CODE FOR INVERTING EMOTICONS
Sent at 5:21 PM on Friday
Jeff: There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling!
me: that beer I had was so underwhelming that I can't even remember the name, or actually confirm that it was from Fiji
Jeff: Fijiweiser?
me: Budiji?
Jeff: Fijiller Lite?
Sent at 5:24 PM on Friday
me: Jebus...it was from Tahiti: http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hinano.com%2Findex.php
Jeff: I went to a place called The Map Room while in Chicago. If I wasn't already drunk and could read the chalkboard, I would have tried several more of their beers. I think I had an Ayinger Weisse but I can't be sure . . .
Tahiti???
http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maproom.com%2F
Yeesh.
me: yeah...Who knew that ancient french colonies could make fake bud?
Jeff: It's probably better than drinking the water . . .
Sent at 5:26 PM on Friday
Jeff: I think I've drank so much bottled/filtered water over the past few years that I can't process regular tap water anymore--the water I had in the Catskills a few weeks back tasted like antifreeze
me: yeah...that's true...Hopefully the alcohol kills any bacteria still in the water when they make the beer
Sent at 5:27 PM on Friday
Jeff: eh i just closed the window accidentally
i'm so wasted . . .
me: Created in 1955, they noticed their problems early and in 1957 "Mr Robert Ledoux realised the first taste improvements"
Sent at 5:29 PM on Friday
Jeff: Huh???
me: I don't know either...it's a bad translation from French I'm sure
are you really still drunk?
Jeff: i wish
no i haven't had a drink all week
just talking my liver into tonight's festivities
i had a Summer Ale on Tuesday, and about 1/5 of that awful Saranac crap
I lied
me: We went out for some going away party for julie's coworkers last night and since I don't know anyone, I buried myself in the bottles and bottles of red and rosé thatt were at the table
I was ok this morning, burning headache was all
Sent at 5:33 PM on Friday
Jeff: nice
me: I'm still looking at the Hinano website, check out this entry from 1976: "The sales to China takes over the presale" WTF? I don't even understand
Sent at 5:34 PM on Friday
Jeff: 1965: Hinano lawyers determine mass deaths were not for the purpose of the lager found with at the party.
me: 1993 "New label improvement made more modern"
2006: "Sale of bad crap beer, still main interest of company"
Jeff: 2005: Plutonium bottle scrapped for aluminum one, for increased image enhancer potential.
Sent at 5:37 PM on Friday
Jeff: 1959: Smoking and beer taken together proven by top scientitians to be double enjoyment for Hinano lovers!
me: 2007: Cancer rates for Hinano drinkers decrease 2000%
Jeff: I was just LLOL and my boss came in and asked "What's the matter?"
I admitted I"M DRUNK . . . ON LIFE!
me: nice!
does your boss speak english?
Jeff: I immediately pretended to be really into an Excel spreadsheet
Yes, XingXing knows many English words, and will disclose them when forced to.
The first panda bear to ever be taught English.
me: well, at least you've got that going for you...you "can" communicate, in a pinch, if need be
Jeff: I might be drunk by the time I make it to the dentist's office.
Uhm, sort of.
Sent at 5:41 PM on Friday
me: well, pandas had to start learning to speak sometime...It may also be the first panda bear to lead a chemistry group...have to look into that
Sent at 5:42 PM on Friday
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Jeff: You have full permission to use any of my jokes herewith at your discretion.
---------------------------------------------Anyway, you get the idea, Crap Beer. Zero thumbs up
