Bucking Bar

You, I and most Judges like balance. If you can look past the marketing to the product, there are a lot of well balanced beers out there. IPA's were mostly never intended to taste great, they were the answer to a lack of refrigeration before the technology existed. Most are very unbalanced and bitter.

Lambic, Belgium style, ales might be to your liking, although I find wheat beers to be the wrong kind of texture for my palate. Often fruit is used to increase the acidity ... Try Sweetwater Blue and let me know what you think. If it was marketed more technically, it would have more snob appeal. But it is marketed as a chick beer which has resulted in many who would appreciate it passing it over without consideration.

It is good beer. The wonderful thing about beer brewing is you can come up with so many good ideas and variations.

Cohiba

Bucking Bar is sooo right. Delta was a bit late to the game because they didn't want to get locked down with the iPad. At the industry mtg's, several airlines were peeved that Apple isn't open sourced so a company can't just make up their own app--they have pretty rigorous standards ( and we all know how good the airlines are at writing computer code). The FAA was forced to accept the iPad (or other tablet) because American made a stink about it. Now the pilots want these add on's and guess what? Technically the add-on's make the device a flight instrument. Requirements like 35degree viewing angles, HF studies and SARP's apply and the FAA has egg on their face and the pilots are saying "hey...I'm using it on my private plane". This week, we were talking to Volpe (FAA technical Center) and asking about SMGS and their studies on charting. The iPad is 60-70 degrees off center. Volpe never figured this; they thought the device or chart would be attached to the yoke or put on the slide out tray (Airbus). So...they're trying to figure out if they're against a device being used in SMGS ops. No studies have been accomplished. When asked about the Content Locker and accessing manuals during abnormal ops--no studies. They assumed everything was in HTML and not PDF's. The difference is enormous. PDF's require exact words and then every word will be presented. Type in Datalink, New York and nothing comes up. In HTML, it's more tolerant and smart and comes up like a google search. This is going to be a mess for awhile--but they'll get there (on the pilots backs-of course).

Timbo

I like the weather in San Diego, and the ocean is nice but the wind is really light most of the time, and it's just too crowded for my taste.

I hate crowds, and I hate standing in line, and sitting in traffic. That's why I live in a small town in central FL, I don't have to stand in line for anything, ever, even at Starbucks, or worry about finding a parking space, anywhere, ever. It's really quiet, and that's how I like it. Some days I'm the only boat on the lake.

I'm going to go ride my bike now, not much traffic trying kill me, all the knuckle heads are out at the racetrack today watching the 12 hour Sebring Le Mans race.

http://www.sebringraceway.com/sebrin...ce-information


Later I'll go sailing with the dogs, and finish the day watching the sunset from the dock.

Ahhh... enjoying the peace and quiet....and the hops of course!

Cali is (was) nice, I was born in Sacramento, but it's just too crowded for me any more.

And Scambo, on the IPA thing, it's the only beer I can 'taste'. I think I fried my taste buds and burnt out my nose at Leopolds in Mumbai. Ever since eating all that Indian food (and Mexican here) I can't taste or smell anything but a really hoppy beer. Everything else just taste's like water to me.

I like a beer that punches me in the mouth, so I can feel it, as well as taste it.

Kind of like my women...

scambo1

Can someone explain to me, under 117, why a reserve would yellow slip his on call days?

Timbo

What are you guys using for a photo storage phone app/site?

I've got about 300 photos on my Droid phone I need to store somewhere else!

orvil

I'm a lager guy myself. I don't get the ale stuff. It all has a bitter finish that I don't like. I do like a good Hefeweizen upon occasion when I can't get a lager.

flyallnite

They might want to fly instead of sitting in a hotel, or they may want a particular good trip over the POS one that's in the pot.

Denny Crane

To add to flyallnite's list, maybe s/he figures they can fly to more than the reserve guarantee and hence get more days off during the month.

Denny

DogWhisperer

Maybe this will use him back to the discussion…Hey Carl…look what I found...

Dash8widget

Laurelwood Workhorse IPA, Lucky Lab Super Dog IPA, Breakside Brewing IPA, McMenamins Fresh Squeezed IPA, Double Mountain IRA, Pelican IPA.
Oh, and Amnesia brewing, Loowit brewing, Hopworks, Mt Tabor brewing, Rouge, 10 Barrel, Deshutes.....

Hops - gooooood!
Living in Portland - goooooood!