… so do yourself a favor, check out this brewing company website, but the first time, click that you aren’t 21. And if you’re a beer fan, maybe you could reward them financially for their awesomeness.
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James Hare
That should be the new RickRoll.
Martin
I’ll go with this sites 404 page for maximum awesomeness.
Freddie deBoer
Another great one, Martin.
Yuppers
I don’t understand. They’re a small (nano) brewery. There are literally hundreds of such breweries across the US, all worthy of our support as beer drinkers. Hell, there are dozens in my town alone.
Why are we singling this particular one out for accolades?
Freddie deBoer
Did you click that you aren’t 21?
MikeJ
It never even asked me if I was under 21.
c u n d gulag
That was Sparks, wasn’t it?
I used to love them back in the ’70’s.
tomanjeri
Original full version from the YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32FB-gYr49Y
Comrade Mary
It asked me and I lied about my age, but my iPhone couldn’t download the file. What should have happened?
Marc
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=5a5ef1c4c9446384&hl=en
Is another one I liked.
j
I’ve had the Winter Solstice and the Green Tea Ale at a local tasting. Both were pretty good, and I bought a couple of 6 packs of the Winter Solstice.
Does anyone know what version of that song is? I hear the “original” 9more popular and thus gets air play) and I still don’t know what the name is, or who does either version.
Violet
@Freddie deBoer:
That is awesome.
DougMN
Who among us doesn’t like HeMan and 4-non blondes?
MikeJ
@Yuppers: I tend to agree with you. I rarely drink anything imported from further away than Orygun. Why I would reward marketing people by getting stuff from the other side of the Rockies(+ another 1000 miles) is beyond me.
Roger Moore
@Martin:
OK, that’s fucking awesome. Somebody deserves a Webby for that thing.
TooManyJens
@Comrade Mary: It plays the video that tomanjeri linked in comment #8.
Jason Bylinowski
Ah, the greater wonders of 4chan always bubble up to the mainstream eventually. Love that video. Also, Martin, I really enjoyed the 404 error.
Freddie deBoer
@MikeJ: I wasn’t actually saying everybody should buy something from them, you know. I just thought this was funny.
Samara Morgan
so freddie….got that link for me yet?
i just can’t find it anywhere, and i dont remember reading it.
JenJen
I said hey!! What’s goin’ on!! Frawesome.
Samara Morgan
that isnt why i dislike you, you know….this is why i dislike you.
Samara Morgan
Better get Cole to IP ban me stat.
it won’t stop.
Yuppers
@Freddie deBoer:
I did… but it didn’t do anything. The direct youtube link by #8 was funny though…
Martin
Market goes up, market goes down. Day traders must be cleaning up on this shit.
Samara Morgan
@Freddie deBoer: do you know whats funnie?
i don’t recall you ever “outing” me.
could it be you are lyyyyyyyyying?
Worked2Death
Meme of the day for me: Downing Loot
Freddie deBoer
Hmmmm maybe it’s a browser thing? Dunno. I have Firefox 4 myself.
Nerull
@Samara Morgan:
Ah, internet crazy people.
Nerull
Wait, is this m_c? That explains a lot.
NoPublic
If you’re running NoScript (or equivalent browser settings) you won’t get the interstitial age popup.
Samara Morgan
@Freddie deBoer: nice change from your usual formula post of attacking bloggers a lil’ higher up the food chain, or a 1000 words of firebagging and Obama concerntrolling.
mistermix’s advice?
Freddie deBoer
Oh, I also finally have cleeks Balloon Juice pie filter going.
freelancer
@Nerull:
nailed it.
MikeJ
@Worked2Death: Perfectly captures the essence of the tories. The only difference between the tories and the looters is Savile Row.
Samara Morgan
@Freddie deBoer: wont stop me.
:)
ill ruin every post until either give the link or admit you are lyyyyyyyyyyying.
or get Cole to ban me.
:)
Samara Morgan
and im not interesting emailing freddie.
he can just de-credential me right here. many would love that.
he can stick his fingers in his ears all he wants.
ill just trackback the bottom feeders.
:)
PeakVT
@Freddie deBoer: Makes things nicer, doesn’t it? Protip: using the alternate message makes it easier to identify and scroll past garbage posts.
Thanks, cleek!
fordpowers
that was teh awesome!
i work on beer co websites all day long – and they’d never let us do something fun like that.
no humor in advertising anymore.
Samara Morgan
@Nerull: hmm…i wunner what your IP addr is….you dont look familiar.
David in NY
@NoPublic: I got the popup (even though I run noscript) by fooling around in the site — eventually it asked my age.
Samara Morgan
lol, but cleek cant filter links, right?
like this one.
Wag
so full of win….
Worked2Death
@MikeJ: O RLY? ;)
Abercrombie & Fitch Hoodies
trollhattan
@Comrade Mary:
It might could be that whole Apple Don’t Do Flash business. Try again from a PC…if you dare!
Scott
Matoko = Mall Ninja.
Samara Morgan
c’mon Cole…or DougJ can give me a timeout again.
it wont stop until freddie the liar gives up the link.
Is it okfine for front pagers to lie here?
Cole wont even publish emails. But i guess outright whoppers is ok.
Samara Morgan
are you mad freddie?
its not just me.
Hbin said it too, and TNC’s commenters.
bodacious
OK, that was fun. But I’m from the Portland OR area and a beer SNOB! I could never buy my beer from Inndianapolis ;-)
Ash Can
@Freddie deBoer:
Bravo!
And this would be a dandy time to repost the link to the pie filter. Cleek? Anyone?
Samara Morgan
@Scott: matoko= Samurai Princess
Samara Morgan
C’mon Cole.
you know you want to.
permaban!
then you can enjoy your glibertarian rentboi kumbayah c1rcle jerks in peace and safety.
Scott
Right — what I said the first time. Mall Ninja.
Samara Morgan
/taps foot impatiently
Samara Morgan
@Scott: but with more gore.
:)
Samara Morgan
c’mon cleek.
more people need to be shielded from the fact that freddie is a big fat liar and a creepy blogverse social climber.
Scott
Only from repeatedly shooting yourself in the face.
Gin & Tonic
Man, talk about your inside baseball.
Omnes Omnibus
@Samara Morgan: You have made your point. Multiple times. Protip: the gay blogger in Damascus is not you. Freddie wasn’t referring to you with the reference.
I, in the past, have made allowances for m_c’s actions because she is an Aspie. I have, however, run across enough other Aspies to realize that m_c is an ass who happens to also, and unrelatedly, be an Aspie.
PeakVT
@Ash Can: @Scott: Pie filters. Greasemonkey.
Samara Morgan
sheesh what a coward.
like i said, the unifying principle of libertarians, whether they call themselves neoliberals, liberaltarians, civil libertarians, classic liberals, or libertarians, is that they allus run.
they never stand and deliver.
Elliott
PDX is a serious beer town. Every dive bar has a recently-cleaned tap pouring fresh local beer. Seriously, back in the day, at a dive on MLK south of Hawthorne and north of Division, after drinking fresh Mirror Pond Pale Ales until close, I got a 64-ounce Schlitz in a plastic cup in a to-go cup to take to a warehouse party for NxNW volunteers.
Samara Morgan
@Omnes Omnibus: orly?
please interpret then.
it must be the aspergers but i read that as either i am not a girl or not a muslim.
you have a different interpretation?
freelancer
@Scott:
Thank you, that was a gorgeously entertaining profile of paranoid delusion.
Samara Morgan
@Scott: i relly identify more with Ruka-chan, but the reference is more obscure.
Omnes Omnibus
@Samara Morgan:
This is the only part to which I was referring. Here is a link explaining it. Nothing to do with you.
Ash Can
@Scott: OMG, that link is hilarious! Although it gives me the slightly creepy feeling that if either of those morons actually got their hands on some weaponry some day, the results wouldn’t be at all pretty.
Samara Morgan
@Omnes Omnibus: and not to mention, i never saw anything like freddie describes….so how could that make me mad at him?
hes another glibertarian shithead on the frontpage.
that is what i have against him.
Kain is a neoliberal now too….its just another codeword for glibertarian.
glibertarian: may style themself a neoliberal, liberaltarian, classic liberal, civil libertarian, but really just means a second tier blogger that expects to be paid for pageclicks someday.
so he can just just manup and give the link, or apolo for lying to you fine people.
Gravenstone
Yowza! Who yanked m_c’s chain? On the plus side though, I learned the pie filter now does graphics too.
Samara Morgan
@Omnes Omnibus: dude…..it was to do with me.
you are a retard.
even Bella that hates me got that. it was part of the same comment and addr’d to me.
:)
haha, but okfine. Freddie can say that had nothing to me. i’ll accept that.
and he can also apolo for lying.
Samara Morgan
@Gravenstone:
i just want freddie to give me the link where he “pointed out that you are not, in fact, who you say you are”.
is that too much to ask?
Gravenstone
On topic (such as it is) that is a hilariously executed site, though.
Amir Khalid
@Gravenstone:
I believe M_C’s chain is the self-yanking type.
Samara Morgan
@Omnes Omnibus: i know who the gay girl in damascus is, retard, i wrote a post on it.
Samara Morgan
C’mon Cole, permaban NAOW!
you know you want to.
Samara Morgan
runaway little freddie.
Samara Morgan
/yawn, well…..when freddie comes back, i’ll be back.
unless someone bans me in the meantime.
do you suppose freddie is pleading with Cole to ban me like Kain usta?
Omnes Omnibus
@Samara Morgan: Then stop complaining about the reference. Jeez.
singfoom
@Samara Morgan: Condescending obsessive troll is condescending and obsessive.
aimai
Could someone please ban matoko? I’d pie her but its too complicated and this is like watching a monkey masturbate through a one way mirror. I’m just not that interested in her and as far as I can see no one is. Just ban her and her little pseudonyms too. She’s a mental train wreck and this isn’t helping her.
aimai
Scott
@Ash Can:
Although it gives me the slightly creepy feeling that if either of those morons actually got their hands on some weaponry some day, the results wouldn’t be at all pretty.
My general assumption with Mall Ninjas is that they can be divided into (a) dorks who talk smack on the internet but don’t actually own guns, (b) dorks who own guns, but only use them as props for their sexy boudoir photography they post on Hannidate, (c) dorks who injure themselves trying to shoot extremely large guns sideways to impress other dorks, and (d) dead dorks.
Amir Khalid
@Scott:
Reading the mall ninja link, I found myself reminded of a minor Marvel Comics “hero”, probably the gun-freakiest one in their line-up. Maybe, deep down inside, these mall ninja types secretly identify with The Punisher.
licensed to kill time
Hey, found a pic of matoko-loko !
She don’t let go of your ankle, not never.
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
For the love of FSM, please ban her already. In a way, it will make her happy – she will take it as vindication for her various obsessions
Catsy
When reading m-chan’s obsessive stream-of-consciousness word salad, is anyone else reminded of the internet posts by Jared Loughner that got dug up after that incident?
Amir Khalid
@aimai:
I hear ya. Really I do. But have to admit, I’m kinda sorta ambivalent about banning her. Her habit of pestering front-pagers and fellow commenters for attention is incredibly tiresome. But on a good day (I admit they’re rare), she can add something of value to the conversation, and I’d not be keen to lose that.
Besides, I get an amazing amount of sympathy from fellow Balloon Juice commenters when she picks on me, and I’m not keen to lose that either. ;-)
Earl in CA
unadulterated awesomeness. made my day.
freelancer
@Catsy:
Yes. It may be harsh, but reading his word salad after the fact was remarkably similar in tone and in infatuation with nonsensical topics/details, not to mention puzzling in the same fashion. I’m not saying MC, SM etc is going to shoot or harm anyone, but she could stand to benefit from professional help.
Sentient Puddle
I think we should actually talk about beer in this thread.
I’m about to start all-grain brewing. With it, I’m also planning on diving into the deep end of making my own recipes, as up until now, I’ve only done recipes provided by the local homebrew shop. Any other homebrewers around that know a thing or two about calculating efficiency? I sort of feel like what I’ve read about it is giving me some incomplete knowledge.
cckids
@freelancer:
I concur. At the least, someone should write her a picture book a la “Go the F#@K to Sleep”. Could work.
yeahnotreally
Until the nutbag drops docs, I’m willing to say m_c is best explained by this:
#6, right at the top.
freelancer
@yeahnotreally:
Have her fax you her credenzas.
Omnes Omnibus
@freelancer: Credenzas must be faxed to Cole, if you want to stay canonical.
Comrade Luke
@Martin:
If we’re sharing favorite 404 pages, here’s my nomination.
TheStone
Very happy to see Beast-Man, Skeletor, Man-at-arms, et al find gainful employment in this economic environment. All the same, having just taken the bar, I cannot endorse any enterprise going under the moniker of BlackAcre.
Omnes Omnibus
@TheStone: Would you feel any better if a life estate in WhiteAcre with a reversion subject to a condition subsequent were granted. Is there a perpetuities problem? Sorry, I feel you pain although it has been years (5 and 15) since I was in your shoes. I recommend going drinking; it’s what I did.
That Other Mike
@ John Cole: Try Joe Pastry for bread and baking tips.
ETA: Oops, wrong thread. Sorry, should’ve been the bread one.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
another mini-micro, that sells overpriced overhyped, poorly made beer by jacking up the alcohol content to hide the lack of other merits while maintaining the faddish ethos.
someday, when its safe for the devout trendlies to disavow their prior held convictions and piety, we are going to look back on this and it will all seem funny.
ton
please , please make the troll go back under the bridge.
[nicest thing I can think of to say]
BTW, hate that song, but love that video -genius!
Ceiling Jesus is Watching You
This brought back horrible memories of taking the Filmation “test” for animators in the ’80’s. They gave you a raft of He-Man key drawings that you had to in-between– and unless you had no idea how animation “works,” you’d pass it. Sort of explains He-Man’s basic “look”, don’t it? I asked one of the animation grunts working there “what’s the deal with this “test?” He rolled his eyes, and said “Forget the test. If you have two hands and can run a xerox machine, they’ll probably hire you.”
Ron
Am I missing something about the site? It’s some local brewery which is brewing beer but isn’t open for business yet. The website doesn’t seem particularly awful to me. Maybe I’m missing something.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ron: Click on the “I am under 21” button like the instructions said.
Ron
@Omnes Omnibus: Gah, I misread it and clicked the “Over 21”. That is just awesome.
Mike Lamb
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal: Do you have other examples of this phenomenon?
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Haven’t read everything here but I’m wondering. What are the chances that people legit under 21 even know who that cartoon is?
Mike Furlan
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:
I don’t know about this brewery.
But some of the best beer in the world is being brewed now in the American Midwest by places like Three Floyds and Goose Island. Some things are better than they were “when I was a boy.”
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/top-50/
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Slim to none, but I think that makes it even more amusing.
BD of MN
@SentientPuddle:
get some software. I’ve been using ProMash for 7 or so years and love it, although I can’t get it to run on my new Win7-64 laptop.
if you want to calculate it by hand, here’s an example to walk you through it. Let’s say you’re using a Pilsner malt that has a potential starting gravity (SG) of 1.037. For a five gallon batch, five pounds of malt at 100% efficiency would give you a SG of that same 1.037… since nobody can actually get 100%, you have to adjust that downwards. Let’s take 75% efficiency as a starting point, so multiply 37 by 0.75, which gives you 28, or a 1.028 potential SG…
to work it backwards, let’s say your style calls for a SG of 1.050: 50 gravity points divided by your 0.75 efficiency is 66.7 potential gravity points, times your five gallons is 333, divided by your grain potential gravity points (37), means you need 9 pounds of grain…
clear as mud?
Mo MacArbie
@Sentient Puddle Efficiency is what you get after you’ve made the beer and you see how you’ve done. You have to kind of wing it at first until you get a track record on your own individual setup. 67% was the assumed efficiency to plug in until I knew better.
Keith Marley
I must of mistakenly selected over 21. Not much of a beer drinker. May Jack Daniels or even scotch would be better topics I can talk about.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Mike Lamb:
there seems to be a ton of them, any trip to a beer store will yield a ton of 40 dollar plus per case, over alcohol, small batch with odd and provocative sounding beer companies, and brands. it seems like all the hipster beer places are loaded with the inventory.
its beer, its supposed to be low %alc, if you want something stronger step into some wine or liquor. i hate it that beer got pretentions.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Mike Furlan:
and some things are just pretentious and over priced.
what ever happened to growing up and into adult beverages?
Mike Lamb
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal: I’m guessing, then, that you haven’t had the opportunity to try a number of these beers. And while some beers are absurdly over-priced, most are no worse than a cheap-ish bottle of wine.