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January fundraiser begins today [sticky; new posts below; THURSDAY UPDATE]

For those of you who made it one of your New Year’s resolutions to support this site with that bit of disposable income you might otherwise spend on Subway meal deals or twelve packs of faddish, extra-hoppy IPAs — and I imagine that numbers in the hundreds of thousands of you — consider this post my gift to you all.

Don’t mention it.

Thursday update: Thanks to all of you who have so far contributed. I’m about half-way to my target. I’ll keep this post up through Sunday, then put it to bed. Hopefully with a hot water bottle and a glass of scotch. And maybe a hooker, if it turns out you people get really generous.

56 Replies to “January fundraiser begins today [sticky; new posts below; THURSDAY UPDATE]”

bh says:

January 2, 2012 at 4:02 pm

Had a couple faddish beers at New Years: New Glarus Belgian Red, which tasted like a really good cherry wine cooler even though that doesn’t sound like a compliment, and a Sierra Nevada Celebration, which I actually preferred to the Torpedo I had right after.

The rest weren’t worth mentioning but they apparently had some strange headache-inducing substance in them. Strange.
Jeff G. says:

January 2, 2012 at 5:03 pm

Thanks, bh! And thanks, John B!
Jeff G. says:

January 2, 2012 at 5:04 pm

Whatever you people do, don’t try a Canadian rye whiskey blend out of Canada called Spicebox. It’s so freaking good — and tastes so much like pleasant peppery vanilla candy — that you’ll not notice you’ve had an entire bottle. Until after you’ve had an entire bottle.
Jeff G. says:

January 2, 2012 at 6:50 pm

Thanks, zoyclem!
Jeff G. says:

January 2, 2012 at 6:50 pm

Thanks, geoff!
John Bradley says:

January 2, 2012 at 6:56 pm

Whatever you people do, don’t try a Canadian rye whiskey blend out of Canada called Spicebox.

I’m most certainly not going to walk to the local State Store (offensive on so many levels) and purchase a bottle of same from a unionized public-sector employee.

Unless I see something in the news tomorrow that annoys me; in which case, all bets are off.
cranky-d says:

January 2, 2012 at 7:06 pm

So, you’re going to buy some of that whiskey tomorrow, then, John.
bh says:

January 2, 2012 at 7:43 pm

No, I’m not curious and this Spicebox has not been added to my shopping list.
Jeff G. says:

January 2, 2012 at 8:52 pm

Thanks, Terry H!
EBL says:

January 2, 2012 at 9:32 pm

You did win a major award. Oh wait, not that, this.

Anyway, congratulations!
EBL says:

January 2, 2012 at 9:53 pm

bh, I go with this.
Jeff G. says:

January 2, 2012 at 11:13 pm

Thanks, Charles W!
Ernst Schreiber says:

January 2, 2012 at 11:19 pm

No “e” in whisky when it comes from Canada —Or so I’ve been told.
Jeff G. says:

January 3, 2012 at 8:46 am

Thanks, Sarah R!
Jeff G. says:

January 3, 2012 at 8:47 am

Thanks, Mueller!
Jeff G. says:

January 3, 2012 at 9:12 am

Thanks, John H!
Squid says:

January 3, 2012 at 9:32 am

I had that Belgian Red a couple of years ago, and it’s surprisingly tasty. It shot right to the top of my favorite candy-flavored coping sauces.
Jeff G. says:

January 3, 2012 at 1:32 pm

Thanks, SDN!
Mueller says:

January 3, 2012 at 2:34 pm

Jeff G. posted on 1/3 @ 8:47 am
Thanks, Mueller!

Get off my fuckin lawn!
Jeff G. says:

January 3, 2012 at 3:37 pm

Thanks, Joe S!
Jeff G. says:

January 3, 2012 at 9:17 pm

Thanks, di!
Jeff G. says:

January 3, 2012 at 10:03 pm

Thanks, William P!
John Bradley says:

January 3, 2012 at 10:04 pm

So, you’re going to buy some of that whiskey tomorrow, then, John.

Went out shopping today, with the expected non-results. (A government-run liquor store staffed entirely by piggy, wildly overpaid public sector union employees: what could go wrong?) Then I went online to discover that PA is one of only 4 states that won’t let you mail-order such things. Can’t have the proles trivially bypassing the state’s precious booze-monopoly, after all.

So now I’m doubly annoyed, and utterly Spicebox-less.
Jeff G. says:

January 4, 2012 at 10:22 am

Thanks, LMC!

JB — I warned you about that Spicebox stuff.

I think I had a bottle of it again last night. I think.
Jeff G. says:

January 4, 2012 at 10:48 am

Thanks, Lillian!
Lost My Cookies says:

January 4, 2012 at 11:21 am

Speaking of faddish booze… this New Years Mrs Cookies and I decided to have a bunch of people over to finally finish off all of the “non-essential” likker that came in a Basket of Cheer I won about six years ago. All of the chocolate and berry and cough-syrup flavored schnapps went into mixed drinks with sexually-charged names and from there into a gaggle of late thirty-something moms who marathon. No fights, believe it or not, and most of the men stuck to cheap beer until we started running low and I found this dusty bottle of Sweet Tea flavored vodka waaaay in the back of the cabinet. The Mrs said we should make Arnold Palmers with it but since we had this Italian stuff called lemonjello or something I decided on John Daly shots…

Couple, two, three things: 1) That shit is greeeeaaaaaaaaaat. 2) Fireworks. Not the good fireworks, the fireworks that got left out in the rain last summer… and the blowtorch… on the driveway. 3) I get the volvo back from the shop today.
ThomasD says:

January 4, 2012 at 2:53 pm

Extra hoppy IPA, plain old far too hoppy IPA, mellow not quite medicinally hoppy IPA, they’re all the same, your tongue goes numb, and taste buds AWOL, after the second one.

Went to a brewfest last summer and well over half of the beers available were IPA’s. Made the mistake of trying three IPA’s in a row, could have been drinking paint thinner after that and not known the difference.

BTW lignin naturally breaks down into vanillin – that’s one way barrel aged spirits get the vanilla flavor.
Lost My Cookies says:

January 4, 2012 at 4:09 pm

I’m back from picking up the car. And that Jeremiah Weed jerkoff owes me $465. Ka-blammo!

You know it was a good party when your wife doesn’t give you any shit for blowing the basketball goal off of its pole and into the tailgate. Unless I just can’t hear her. Either way, win-win.
mojo says:

January 4, 2012 at 4:12 pm

Brown Ale for me, thanks.
Chip In, If You Can | Daily Pundit says:

January 5, 2012 at 12:31 pm

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Jeff G. says:

January 5, 2012 at 7:17 pm

Thanks, Weslee!
Jeff G. says:

January 6, 2012 at 9:54 am

Thanks, Erik N!
Jeff G. says:

January 6, 2012 at 11:24 am

Thanks, Darleen!
Jeff G. says:

January 6, 2012 at 11:25 am

Thanks, Bill S!
Jeff G. says:

January 6, 2012 at 2:18 pm

Thanks, James P!
Jeff G. says:

January 6, 2012 at 3:04 pm

Thanks, cranky-d!
Jeff G. says:

January 7, 2012 at 12:39 am

Thanks, Evan C!
Silver Whistle says:

January 7, 2012 at 8:00 am

Didn’t manage to brew any perfect red ale in 2011, which was my resolution last New Year; we did manage a perfect brown ale, a top notch porter, and a mind blowing dunkelweizen. I really need to get that red ale sorted.

I got a parcel at work over Christmas from Australia – the customs declaration said it was an o-ring kit. I never ordered any such thing, so it was a complete mystery. Inside was a load of ultra-tangy Tasmanian hops from a mucker down under. Guess I’ll be whipping up some faddish, extra-hoppy IPAs too.
John Bradley says:

January 7, 2012 at 11:06 am

I got a parcel at work over Christmas from Australia – the customs declaration said it was an o-ring kit.

I’m betting that if you got one of those out of San Francisco, it’d contain something else entirely.
Silver Whistle says:

January 7, 2012 at 11:42 am

I’m betting that if you got one of those out of San Francisco, it’d contain something else entirely.

Could you ferment it and drink it, JB? That could be utilitarian.
Jeff G. says:

January 7, 2012 at 2:36 pm

Thanks, Patrick C!
Jeff G. says:

January 7, 2012 at 2:37 pm

Thanks, Silver Whistle!
Jeff G. says:

January 7, 2012 at 2:37 pm

Thanks, Chris Muir!
Jeff G. says:

January 7, 2012 at 2:37 pm

Thanks, Fred W!
Jeff G. says:

January 7, 2012 at 2:37 pm

Thanks, Cheryl L!
RI Red says:

January 7, 2012 at 3:10 pm

Uhh, Jeff, Cheryl L is RI Red’s better half. She may be surprised when she sees her paypal account.
Jeff G. says:

January 7, 2012 at 3:55 pm

Oops, Sorry, RI Red!

Thanks to you, then — and thanks to Cheryl L for allowing you to borrow the account! ;-)
Jeff G. says:

January 7, 2012 at 4:43 pm

Thanks, McGehee!
poppa india says:

January 7, 2012 at 10:06 pm

On the way-don’t spend ALL of it on adult beverages…
Jeff G. says:

January 7, 2012 at 10:09 pm

Thanks, poppa india!
Jeff G. says:

January 8, 2012 at 8:27 am

Thanks, R Gross!
Silver Whistle says:

January 8, 2012 at 9:08 am

Whatever you people do, don’t try a Canadian rye whiskey blend out of Canada called Spicebox.

Spicebox Boxed-up Mule.
Jeff G. says:

January 8, 2012 at 9:29 am

Thanks, Thomas D!
Jeff G. says:

January 8, 2012 at 5:30 pm

Thanks, William W!
nellie bly says:

January 8, 2012 at 7:32 pm

New York.
Jeff G. says:

January 8, 2012 at 7:48 pm

Thanks, guins.

I’d add the exclamation point but I just got the word about BJTex. I know you’ll forgive me under the circumstances.