[swingdjted]

Alright, on Friday, I was sent home from work early (before lunch even) because an off-site all-day meeting was cut short. This was just, well, wonderful, so I decided to celebrate. I pulled out something that I've had in the fridge for a while.

Left Hand Brewing Co.
"Wake Up Dead" Imperial Stout
Vender's site is here. Scroll and click on the one that looks like my picture.
RateBeer's review here.
Beeradvocate's review here. Aww, shit... right now, their site is down for maintenance. Google it later.




Now, I was so excited about getting a slightly bigger weekend, and about finding this deadly beer, and, it was a bomber bottle, too big for most of my glasses, that I thought... hmm... this would really kick ass if I drank it out of something of an unorthodox nature. Then I thought… bucket. A beer that is called “wake up dead” should be drank from a fuckin’ bucket. At the same time, I’ve always been a crystal collector. So, there’s some serious contrast here. Just to fuck things up even more. This thing requires two hands, as it is rather large and very thick/heavy. But I’m ok with that. Being home alone (wife was still at work), I found it a great time to have a heavy imperial stout, with some absurdly loud heavy metal while running dj gear tests since I had Valentines Day dances to prepare for. I had some hot chili with it too (made that stuff a while ago and froze a bunch of portioned out bowls of it). Nice pairing for the music and the beer. Needless to say, it was a (to pull out a term that's been dead a few decades) 'totally bitchin' Friday.