Young's Double Chocolate Stout, a beer for champions

Hi there readers!
I'm a member of a group on facebook that is all about enjoying delicious beer and sharing reviews of said beer. Today, when I was in stop and shop for cotton balls and maybe some kind of chocolatey treat I happened upon a most glorious sight. There was a rack full of big huge beers at the end of an aisle. Forgetting my desire to consume my weight in peanut butter m&ms, I stood in front of that rack and stared. Immediately I knew that I would probably only like 2 or 3 of the options, since I don't know anything about beer and what the hell a heffeweisen is. I'm not even going to google it to find out until after I write this blog! Anyway, I saw on the shelf that was at eye level, a bottle with a purple label and the word "Chocolate" on it. I didn't care what else was inside, but chocolate beer sounded AMAZING. So, after picking up my pint of Young's Double Chocolate Stout (i read the rest of the label) I got some peanut butter m&ms anyway, and checked out. Worry not, I did remember the cotton balls!

So, I got home and put the tasty beer in my fridge and went to do something else, which is work on a project that I've had the idea for for a while but haven't bothered to start. This project is called the "RH Super Secret Planning Project" or RHSSPP for short. Anyway, there'll be photos of this project in this blog entry, that's why I'm telling you.

Finally, 5:30 came and I decided it was time to enjoy this chocolate beer beverage. I even took pictures for those of you who would like to see!


The empty glass next to the delicious stout, as yet unopened!


First pour. As you can see there's lots of bubbles :3
First Taste: OMG THIS IS FUCKIN DELICIOUS, i said to myself. So, I guess on a scale of 1-10 for tastiness it's a 10.

I moved myself from the table to the floor where my work was, and took a photo of my activities.

As you can see, I am hard at work with my delicious companion.

As I drank my first glass of this delicious stout, my integrity as a historian got worse You probably won't be able to read all of the notes, but I just summed up the Schlieffen Plan in a paragraph and then wrote "OBVIOUSLY, This didn't work :(".
But I soldiered on, and eventually poured my second glass...


Look at how tasty that looks! I just wanna lick my computer screen! Anyway, I'm enjoying my second glass as I type this because although the beer is only 5.2% alcohol I guess I have a very low tolerance when it comes to double chocolate stout.

My notes suffered as a result! These notes are about the technology and then the results of WWI. it says "results for Germany: They get FUCKED". I am so good at history.


Anyway, I guess I'm supposed to rank some stuff about the beer itself. Sooo,
Tastiness: 10/10 (you must try this if you like beer)
Sweeetness: This beer isn't sweet at all, so if you were worried about that, don't be...-0/10
Smoothness: 9/10. It almost doesn't feel like I'm drinking beer except you get that beer flavor. i am comparing the smoothness to water (or coors light)
Appearance: 10/10 the bottle is made out of brown glass which is great since it keeps out those nasty sunbeams that erupt from the florescent bulbs of the stop & shop. the label is pretty and i love contrasting color combinations, so the orange and purple makes me happy. The beer itself is a really really dark brown, and it looks just beautiful in that there clear beer glass!

I hope that this is an adequate review and that people enjoyed reading it!
<3 I gotta do this more often,
MeggyB

It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday

As many of you (those who read this) know, I've got a weird new obsession with this new meme song. It's pretty horrible.

on a totally different note, I said that this post would be about glitter and...something else. I'm going to write about the awesome parade that I went to today instead.

Today was the Mystic St. Patrick's Day parade and it was pretty cool. I got some sweet bling and had tasty beverages with my family. We went down to John's (a bar down the street) and had some shots of jameson and some tasty smithwicks (i think that's how you spell it) and watched the mass of people in the bar. I had a loverly time and it just cements for me how happy I am to have my sister and her husband as part of the family.

Dina moved up to new hampshire yesterday, and my parents and I went up to check out her new home and help her get her stuff in the apartment. Steve's place is really nice and it seems like she's really cozy and happy there. We went to the red arrow diner in manchester new hampshire. Amazingly delicious food and pie, but seriously cramped and the wait for a party bigger than 2 is really long. we wandered around downtown manchester for a while and checked out the shops and eateries and stuff. it looks like a great place to go out. The drive up and back was really long though, and honestly I have no idea how dina did it at 11pm, because I was tired after the drive up and I still had to drive back to CT. seriously, people who drive 2.5 hours anywhere (especially to visit me) got newfound respect because I would just say "make me a teleporting device!"

Anyway, today's parade was great. I had too much jameson and had a nice nap, then tasty steak for dinner. Now I'm just waiting for Big Love to come on, and I'll watch that with my parents. It's been an awesome weekend, and would only have been made better if the people I wanted to see lived down the street so I could just be like hey, let's go out tonight!

Next week I'm house sitting for Amanda and Michael which I'm really excited about. I also start my new job! It's going to be wonderful! Expect some kind of blog post about it :P
<3 til next time (when i've got something more important to say)
MeggyB