One New York Life

Seriously? Cash that $37,000 game check for tonight and choke on it. Worst play I’ve ever seen. Hands down. Did I really spend the last two season defending this contract? Am I really this annoyed over one regular season loss? Perspective, Tom. It’s one loss. It’s not the kind of loss that will tank an entire season. He’s not going to start throwing the ball over the first baseman’s head, right? About to steal a game in Yankee stadium started by a clearly inferior pitcher and that happens.

Just what the Yankee fans needed. More ammo.

So, yeah, choke on it. Or light yourself on fire. Really either would be OK.

W – M Rivera (1-2)
L – L Castillo (9th inning, 2-out, 2-run E-P4)

Update: Saturday. OK, a night’s sleep, as usual, has added perspective. It was a terrible error, but just an error that led to a loss. It happens. It sucks, but it happens.

Glad to see he was back in the line-up today and glad to see he was properly sorry. He said he couldn’t sleep last night and kept reliving it. Good, I’d rather hear that than a patented Carlos Delgado interview saying “It’s no big deal, I just have to get back out there tomorrow, and there’s a lot of baseball left.” The oddest thing about last night’s game is I couldn’t process that the game was over for a couple hours. Baseball games just don’t end that way. Ever. It felt like there should be more game to play. The saddest part of the whole thing, other than the loss, was K-Rod losing his perfect save streak on an error.

Oh, and the ballpark is a joke.

Wagner Valley Brewing Grace House Honey Wheat

Brewed By: Wagner Valley Brewing
Brewed In: Lodi, NY
Type: American Pale Wheat Ale
ABV: 3.8(!)%

What They Say: An incredibly smooth well-balanced golden American Wheat Ale. Brewed with fresh, locally crafted clover & wildflower honey. Its light malty sweet character finishes very clean & crisp. A perfect accompaniment to food or a lawn chair!

Website: Addressed in Part One (Sled Dog Doppelbock).

Why I Picked It: This is the second of the four beers I brought home with me from Wagner Valley. In all honesty, if I’d known of the 3.8% ABV, I probably would have gone with something else.

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Presentation: According to the bottle: Grace House dates back to the 1840s and is the Wagner home. I don’t know, the Wagner labels are perfectly serviceable. Wagner Valley is written across the top of the oval label and the inside of the oval is images specific to the beers. The names of the beer are written across the oval on a banner. For some reason, these labels just don’t catch me. I can’t say why, though. 3

Originality: I like beers with honey. I’ve liked them since Dundee’s Honey Brown was just a beer and not High Falls’s faux-craft beer. As has been well-established, I challenge anyone to send me a better beer than Samuel Adams’s Traditional Ginger Honey Ale (and why I don’t recognize Beer Advocate as a real website with their B- rating for it). The territory is generally unexplored and points to Wagner Valley for using some local products in their brews. 4

Taste: This is an extremely light and refreshing beer. The taste of honey is bold thoughout. Ultimately, though, the overall taste is somewhat thin and the low ABV makes it a beer I’m not going to hunt down. Serviceable, and I’m a huge fan of the sweet honey flavor domination, but ultimately I wouldn’t buy this over, say, Honey Brown; which gives far more bang for the buck. 3

Body: A very thin, golden, super-carbonated ale. The overcarbonation kind of works with this beer. The only way I can describe it is that the carbonation, flavor, and light ABV makes this beer tend toward a honey-flavored soda. While that’s probably not a great property for a beer, it does actually help the flavor in this particular case. 5

Efficiency: We here at Those Beer Snobs disapprove of wine coolers. 1

Versatility: But, hell, drink a case… you’ll be fine*. Just don’t drink too many of them or the honey-sweetness might attract a hive. 6

The Beer Snob Says: This brewery’s other offerings blow this beer out of the water. If you’re filling a sampler pack, shy away.

22 of 50 – OK beer

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* – We here at Those Beer Snobs also disapprove of drinking full cases of beer at one sitting… unless you’re our Big Show… who used to case race with his roommate.