We're still here, people... if you are. This Captain still drinks beer and thinks beer all the time. If you're out there, beer readers... if you want us back here... oh, it shall be so.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10139682

Utah colleges pushing for ban on beer commercials

The Associated Press

Article Last Updated: 08/08/2008 12:32:34 PM MDT

PROVO - College officials in Utah are among those calling for an end to beer commercials during televised NCAA sporting events. 

Representatives from Brigham Young University, University of Utah, Utah State and Southern Utah have signed letters urging the ban. 
   

The effort is called the Campaign for Alcohol-Free Sports TV. 

So far 60 Division 1 college presidents, 240 athletic directors and 101 football and basketball coaches have signed letters. 
Advertisements for cigarettes, guns, nightclubs and gambling are already prohibited college sporting events.

So the other night I went to an O.A.R concert with Action Jackson. I knew nothing of O.A.R. other than that "crazy game of poker" song, which is just fantastic... which always makes me thinking of a someone starting a fist fight and flipping up the poker table for some reason. Anyway, since I didn't know the music, we decided to visit the bar. After flirting with a saucy bartender named Jennifer i quickly chose to try a Foster's oilcan beer mostly due to its incredible size (the can itself is quite girthy).

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Gather round children, for I come bearing words of encouragement, rather than disgrace (reference my Apocalypse post of two months ago). As we speak (or rather, as you read the words I previously typed... previous, that is, to right now! Right... NOW!), my freshly-brewed Dunkelweizen is busily bubbling away in the coat closet. I wanted to pass on two tidbits for you fellow homebrewers out there: The first is a pile-on to the General's comments of a few weeks ago. He remarked about how freezing a jug of (distilled) water and then dropping the ice directly in your wort to rapidly cool it worked well, but urged caution when cutting the plastic jug off the frozen water.

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I can't quite muster the courage to effectively write this post. Last night, at approximately 0230 PST, a loud, wet sort of pop announced the end of a hefeweizen that had barely begun. Brewed on Friday, the OG was solid at 1.042, the color was an even, red earthy base with a mighty amber froth. Hell, even the yeast smelled incredible. It all stopped last night.   

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I can't believe it. I can't f%&#ing believe it. I can't F%&#ING BELIEVE IT!!! They all blew. THEY ALL BLEW! THE WHOLE G%#DAMN CABINET!!! It is quite possible that I have discovered a source of energy that is renewable, organic, has the potential to free us from the grip of foreign oil, and will get you drunk. If, that is, we can find some way to control its destructive force. I... have not.

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After 13 days of uncertainty after bottling, I finally cracked this sergeant's homebrewed IPA. Thank God all is well. Review to come!

Good afternoon, beervolk. Good? GOOD!? What's so GOOD about it!? My stout... is... is... it's stuck!!! That's right I---Captain Beer---have a stuck fermentation! Oh, the humanity! Did I shock the yeast when I pitched it? The wort seemed cool enough... did bacteria infect my precious fermenter? Oh dammit... dammit. Anyway, I think I'm going to be OK... I set out to one of the local home brew stores for another dose of yeast, and who did I randomly run into? Why... our very own Sergeant Stout!!! That's right! The good Sarge happened into the very same brew store where I was buying yeast to save my brau. I take that as a sign, folks. Sgt. Stout shows up when I have a stout in doubt? No doubt, I shout, my bout with stout-doubt will soon run out, if the Sarge brings clout.* * yes, I do vehemently hate myself right now.

Friends, this weekend we brew our first dark brau* and good 'ol Captain Beer is fired up about it. Our Belgian Wit came out wild and great, because we took the recipe and went nuts. This time? Lemme tell ya... I... like... may also be experimental. Dark beers should be more prevalent than they are. I think the Sarge and some others in the Fleet would agree, so be sure to demand of your local barrister** that they provide some fine dark brew for you. Last weekend, I tried a Cappuccino Stout. As soon as I can find it again, I shall do a glowing review, but for now, it's like Gatsby's green light. Anyway, I just wanted to pass on a scene of tragedy to you all. If you've seen this before, you may be hardened to the pain it causes. If not... brace yourself (assuming you have yet to look at the image directly below this text): *from the German for "Kenya." **y'know, like a British lawyer who also owns a bar.

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