My roommate in college walked in to our apartment with a shit eating grin he previously reserved for the time he showed back up with a concealed carry permit. Apparently, a coffee house opened up in downtown Flagstaff and he was holding a previously unavailable product in an absurd quantity.
“What do you have there?”
”Its Chai.”
This is my review of Wren House Brewing Company Chai Jolly:
I did run downtown later that week and picked up a latte, myself. It reminds me of at one time in Atlanta I decided to try a Publix Chicken. You see, I thought it was pretty good, maybe even very good. The problem?
I was expecting life-changing chicken, because I was promised life-changing chicken. I believed this was possible because I was told the same thing about Bojangles. Quite frankly, Bojangles is indeed life-changing chicken. There can be no other discussion on the matter. As much as I respect the Colonel and his secret formula of herbs and spices, he is not in the same league as Bojangles.
Meanwhile, Chai turned out to be one of those things I kept coming across after I graduated. Chai itself is not a mystery. Its is a blend of tea enjoyed on the Indian subcontinent for millennia. Using a high quality black tea leaf and infusing spices like cinnamon, clove, and cardamon. A classic beverage that gained popularity in the west during the 90’s according to this British fellow.
Where it gets weird: I’m an OIF vet. In case you were wondering about the origin of the turn of phrase “Chai Boy” it is NOT the Urban Dictionary definition, which isn’t that odd. Nope. Where Chai gets weird involves Iraqi Army officers:
They must buy an office full of ostentatious and uncomfortable furniture. And, they get dedicated chai (tea) boys to answer their every whim. Most officers have a call button that will summon their chai boy at any moment. Push the button: Tea! Here comes some tea. Push the button: Dinner! A plate full of chicken, rice and goat balls.
These chai boys are uniformly…effeminate. Is this some sort of ancient Babylonian custom that strong men must be waited on by THIS GUY
Thus getting caught dead while drinking Chai was means to be insulted by colleagues and coworkers. So now you know.
How does this work in a beer? Not particularly well. Beer is one thing and tea is another after all. This type of beverage though is spice infused, and thus the spice blend by itself can be added to the beer, the resulting product doesn’t sound that odd. Is this beer going to put you in a mind altering state that allows you to transcend time and space in a manner that allows you to travel beyond the stars?
Absolutely not, but it was certainly interesting. KULL WAHID! Wren House Brewing Company Chai Jolly: 2.2/5
See also, Bacha Bazi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
Thus getting caught dead while drinking Chai was means to be insulted by colleagues and coworkers. So now you know.
I think for men this is still true.
Not this man.
I like it and will fight anyone who says it isn’t delicious.
::fist bump….or whatever the kids are doing these days::
Tapping elbows
No. Just no.
Deep tongue kisses?
I got a dog you should meet.
French poodle? German shepherds may be interested in the other end.
That just leaves that much more for me.
Still doubt that I’d try it in a beer, though.
Yeah, I’ll pass on the beer as well.
It’s a pretty common flavor profile for quite a few beers. I’ve seen stouts (imperial and milk), brown ales, barleywines, and Belgian style darks all being “Chai spiced”.
The one and only time I had chai was in the late 90’s when it wasn’t yet widely available. It came in a carton like a juice box. We brought it camping.
I was really thirsty and we were packing up to leave and I drank a huge slug of the tea.
Five minutes later, I was shooting vomit out of my mouth further than I ever have in past vomiting instances. It wasn’t the taste or expiration date or anything like that. It was almost as if I had taken a dose of Ipecac. Totally unexpected and very much involuntary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SKdN1xQBjk
You describe that reaction and then expect me to click on a YT link??
I bet more than one nerd here can guess exactly what that links to
A cartoon clip of a certain “contest”? If it’s that, it really is up there among the funniest scenes in TV history – for the last line alone.
Still not clicking in case I’m wrong.
Nerd: confirmed
You are correct
OK, then. THAT I’ll click.
I was afraid it might be Mr. Creosote.
It could have been the pie eating contest from Stand By Me as well.
I would have guessed something related to Two Girls, One Cup
Some folks have some cleaning up to do.
Luckily it was in the woods. Some wild animal got a snack, I guess?
OT to KK: Sorry to see Minotaur go down in their first BB fight, but you have to admit it made for a spectacular show for both that ‘bot AND Tombstone to go up in flames.
Minotaur & Tombstone were shockers!
Sorry, was referring to the video.
You sure you weren’t drinking the concentrate?
GT, missed you in the boobs discussion yesterday. ,Maybe you didn’t.
I did indeed miss it. Main site post or forum? I might be willing to weigh in if it doesn’t involve revealing TMI.
Main site if it is the one I’m thinking of. Morning links yesterday I think? It started with Q discovering a picture of Ghislaine Maxwell in a bikini and went from there.
I shouldn’t have said anything then or now. Sorry, GT.
Not that you have nothing to contribute. More in the vein of Red Foreman: “Why would you do that? What good could come of it?”
We all make mistakes.
The Sun will still rise in the East.
*Tits status: cool and calm*
Beautiful here on the east side. How’s it there?
You people.
Easily impressed, not easily offended…
That’s offensive.
Like throwing away a perfectly good white boy.
Easily impressed, not easily offended…
You know us too well.
How’s it there?
Rain earlier but I can see it is snowing to the south. And North. Hell it is snowing everywhere except here. It is actually warm. A balmy 39. How where the islands?
Where were…..whatever.
Nice.
No snow here, either. 42 and mostly cloudy. I’ll take it.
How where the islands?
Perfect. Probably the best weather we’ve ever had there. I actually experienced a green flag day!
?
I don’t know what green flag means.
Calm seas.
I don’t think you Missed anything. Our guys seemed impressed that they were large and real. Big whoop. Maybe they were imagining what she did with them. Yuck! where they’ve been…
Whair ma cemetery plot? Kindly kick my tombstone over after yer dun with me, thanks.
I’m sure you *could* contribute, GT. Ahem.
Could I go back to high school just to drop out again? kthxbai
Just got up from a long winter’s nap – a Saturday-only indulgence for me. It made the little black cat very happy.
My favorite quote about boobs – a sentiment with which I’m certain the vast majority of the Glibertariat would vehemently disagree – is “If you’ve seen two, you’ve seen ’em all.”
Hey, the omnicodex volume 1 and volume 2 are very comprehensive.
Left Hand has a great Chai Milk Stout – extremely good IMO.
Oh yeah? I’ll have to find it. Big fan of their stout.
I am admittedly partial to stouts, porters, dark beers in general and to milk stouts in particular. But I also urge you to seek out Left Hand’s Chai Milk Stout, it is yummy, yum, yummy/
Do they also eat Rocky Mountain oysters, or are those too expensive for common food?
Chai, like Indian food in general, is magnificent.
Still amongst the living, eh?
Also, agreed.
Hey, that’s a great idea: Indian food! I’ll get it native level to keep the sinuses open, it’s a great way of eating more vegetables, and Ayurvedic medicine’s got to be at least as good as anything the CDC is recommending these days!
I do that with Thai food. 50% of the time it works everytime.
So five years ago I hired a company to add an extension package into their ERP platform. I paid them good money for the time and helped specify, develop, and test it.
Because reasons, we haven’t upgraded the system since then but we need to now. They’ve gone through a couple of revisions on the original extension package since that time.
Needless to say, they’ve completely hosed it up and I’m spending my weekend debugging it. I just keep finding more and more problems that didn’t exist before. I think I’m going to send them a bill for services rendered.
OT (sorry MS): Chester FC which plays in the English National League South has been having fans at their home games as this is allowed under English rules. However, their actual playing ground and stands are in Wales (the main entrance, car park, and offices are in England) so now they’re being charged by the Welsh police with violating covid rules (map of stadium: https://tinyurl.com/5a4e8fj3).
Also a couple of upsets in the FA Cup third round (spoilers follow). National League Boreham Wood defeated League One Wimbledon; National League South Kidderminster defeated Championship Reading; League One Cambridge defeated Newcastle.
No need to apologize, I have no idea what you are talking about.
OFFS.
I used to like the early rounds so much, when it was on “free” cable.
Chai’s okay.
It’s best in those Thai iced tea drinks
Chai (чай) is also just the plain Russian word for “tea”.
Similar, 茶 (cha) for Japanese and Mandarin (chá) and other dialects.
India too.
“Chai masala” is the spiced tea we call “chai.”
Tastes like chicken tikka?
I found the name so ridiculous–given that I was told it’s not actually tea–that I’ve never bothered to try chai.
When I first heard of chai as some sort of Americanized tea, I figured it was a Starbucks-level ripoff selling drinks at fancy prices, just with fancy tea instead of fancy coffee.
Chai is delicious!
…if on the sweet side.
“Chai” is the undeclared uniform word for tea in many undisclosed locations I may or may not have visited. Every time it was poured up for me I found it good but that could have been because they fill half the teacup with sugar before adding the tea. Tea in beer? Not sure about that.
Whenever I go down to Houston my buddy will make chai, homemade – I don’t know what kind of Tamil witchcraft he uses, but it’s the most delicious, wonderful thing to drink after a night of alcohol induced stupidity.
A plate full of chicken, rice and goat balls.
I think I would prefer chicken, goat, and balls of rice.
In fact, I’m sure I would.
Now I’m wondering about goat meatloaf.
Some years back on TOS, HM posted a recipe for goat curry.
Thank you Mex for including the link to the blog! I fell into it and spent the next hour reading it. I was laughing out loud multiple times. 2008 was my last tour in Iraq and that year came back.
Chai can be good, but I’ll leave the taste out of my beer, thankyouverymuch.
I fell into it and spent the next hour reading it.
Yes, makes me want to drive to central Phoenix to that one place that sells Rip It.
In Afghanistan, my ‘terps got me hooked on “shudu chai” – milk tea – and nan, with honey on the side. Basically, it’s a low-grade chai latte, not steamed. Probably sweeter than is healthy, too, but tasty as all get out.
In beer, though?! Holy Moly, who thinks these kind of flavor mashups are a good idea??
It’s like… “Hey! Know what? We SHOULD TOTALLY PUT TABASCO SAUCE ON OUR MINI-WHEATS!!” No. You really shouldn’t. That’s what college frats do for hazing rituals.
Ditto for some of the rock-rap mashups (yeah, there’s a been a few good ones, but for every good one, there have been at least 10 shitty ones).
/steps down off of box, picks it up, meanders away
*And stay off of my lawn!*
You got tabasco sauce on your mini-wheat?
Lucky dude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3jqRlElOM
“That’s the way it was… and we liked it!”
I always preferred my goat balls breaded with mini wheats.
Relevant
*hurk*
It’s not mini-wheats…
There was also a trend a couple years back of hot pepper infused beers that went up to the level of ghost pepper and scorpion peppers. That has thankfully died out (with some good ones still out there).
*shudders*
Yeah, you’ll have to find someone else to try ghost pepper beer.
A (relatively) local brewery has a very good mango habanero blond ale called Hot Blonde. A solid summer beer.
Cave Creek Chili Beer was one of the only beers that I have ever had that I was not able to at least finish one bottle and had to pour most of it out.
Hey now. There is nothing that can’t be improved with Tabasco.
Lube?
Who am I to judge if you plan to eat lube?
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hellfire-the-world-s-first-edible-chilli-lube#/
I agree that when you’re at sea for more than 45 days w/o a resupply, and the lettuce is all wilted and brown (and that’s the least unrecognizable thing in the chow line), Tabasco/Texas Pete/Etc. is an absolute necessary.
I like my eggs with a healthy dash… but never my oatmeal.
Living Lettuce! (root and dirt still on)
¡Tapatío!
No… that’s used with beard oil.
I still get it waaay up here!
It looks like the left trying to dunk on Gorsuch for hundreds of thousands of flu deaths are trying too hard:
I definitely hear “hundreds, thousands of people every year.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/oklahoma-couple-accused-of-having-sex-after-gruesome-love-triangle-slaying/ar-AASzeET
JFC.
WTF?
YDWNTKT? (Why do we need to know this, Sean?)
It was a lil slow around here this afternoon.
Fair enough.
I saw that movie! Young Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette (mrowr!).
https://www.rt.com/sport/545451-skeet-world-champion-shooting-christian-ghilli/
Sad.
https://thecovidworld.com/deranged-mother-suffering-covid-madness-puts-teenage-son-in-trunk-of-car-to-avoid-covid-19-exposure/
WTF?
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/aRAJygH6RWaCMnNyH3l5Kw.G0hlO3BzcBVBwNceDrW2bi
I made some low carb biscuits.
damn……..how many g carbs per?
2 net
https://nutrail.com/products/nutrail-keto-butter-biscuits
Protip: made as per directions, they’re a bit dry. I add 2 tbsp heavy whipping cream and 1 tbsp avocado oil.
I’m still too fat to do the net C thing. I still count total when I am counting. I have really flaked since the holidays and am feeling it. I am weak.
Fiber is still good for you. These are pretty clean on ingredients too.
I get a decent amount of fiber. I eat a lot of salads. Mostly romaine lettuce but sometimes green leaf. Granted my salads are loaded with meat, eggs and cheese, but still, it is a salad.
Ive made biscuits (and gravy) with CarbQuik before. The gravy is great. The biscuits were a C+, but serviceable for that purpose.
Where are the guns??
Everywhere, but no one tries to steal biscuits.
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/royal-caribbean-pausing-operations-on-some-sailings-amid-omicron-outbreak
Will the cruise ship industry ever recover?
Once they get lobbyists more powerful than big pharma’s.
My NFL brain is disoriented. Week 18??? Saturday games??
Go Kansas City!!
Football is on on a Saturday?
Im about to open another beer and watch Axe Cop.
Tall Cans!
Green Bay!
They start playing Saturday games after the college season is over.
And they added an additional week for the Browns to lose this year.
/makes sure everything is ready to head up to Browns/Bengals tomorrow.
After tomorrow, I’ll be pulling for your Bengals.
Meanwhile, at Arrowhead West …
That turf at Denver is awful. They’ll be lucky if nobody sprains an ankle churning up clods of dirt. Yikes.
My go to streaming site quite streaming so no game for me.
Have an OTA antenna?
I have an old school antenna but I have to fuck with it a lot. I am in a hole for some network channels.
Guess I’ll check it out. I had no idea.
And they call it MNF. What the fuck?
Well, the news division is lying all the time, so why shouldn’t the sports division get away with it, too?
It’s sad. The best price for gas I found on my trip was $3.079/gal at an Irving/CircleK in New Hampshire. The price in the part of maine where I was staying was above $3.50/gal. I bought as little of that latter gas as I thought I could get away with. Used to be I’d have never paid $3.079/gal, let alone been happy to have found it.
$3.25 here
$3.20’ish here.
It’s been about $3.50 here for a while ago. Was about $2.75 a year ago.
*for a while now. Dammit.
For quite some time, Doctor, what do I have?
Dr: A type of inflation.
$2.85ish here.
Just over $3 here too.
$3.69 at Costco, $4.12 everywhere else.
suck it.
$2.78 at the BP around the corner from my house! Lowest in the area!
Lower than when I filled up a couple of days ago. ?
Hipster Juice alert!
So, I was reading this article. And unlike all the other articles speculating on this topic I have read over the past 50 years, this one is not total BS.
Because they are too far away, stupid
In fact, it is amazing that the majority of people have not already come to the same conclusion. It’s really hard to move anything with any mass at all at the speeds required to get anywhere on a galactic scale. Let’s say for instance, we had decided to put the James Webb in orbit around Proxima Centauri instead of where we put it. If we can send it there at 50% the speed of light and stop it on a dime when it gets there, it takes it 8 years to arrive. But we will not know it is has even arrived for another 8 years, because that’s how long it takes the signal to get back saying ‘Hey, I’m here!’. So 16 years have elapsed and we have not even unfolded this thing yet, and… And that’s taking it for granted that we can even send any sort of signal that is readable after traveling for 8 years through space. And, well, you can see where I am going with this… Star Trek was great for the imagination when we could still hope it’s more than just sciFi, but it’s not and probably never will be. Sad, but true. Back to Dancing with the Stars as the most exciting thing in the universe. Sorry, folks, that’s as good as it gets. That and wearing face diapers, forever.
Nerd.
Well, not the worst thing I’ve been called. And that’s only for today.
Hipster
OK. It was true only for today until just a moment ago…
Ummmm. I hate to mention this but I gotta. The arrival signal will only take 4.24 years to reach Earth.
Smartass! Nerd! Hipster!
The Solar system is a big place, with lots to keep humans entertained, we will be fine in space,
Hasten that day, Lord; hasten that day. I pine for the freedom only a frontier can provide.
No doubt it’s feasible to explore our own solar system. I was talking about FTL, which we’ll need to do interstellar travel. And besides that, ain’t much in this neighborhood. A little space on Mars, some asteroids to mine and some gas giants, that is about it.
On the way home, I stopped in Kittery to see the trading post glibs had recommended.
They had .45 Colt ammunition, so I cleaned them out. Only 125 rounds though, all cowboy load and perfect for shooting steel.
I should have bought a gun that fires hen’s teeth, those seem to be easier to find.