The year was 2008. I walked into the chow hall at Talil AB. Grabbed my food, and walked past several refrigerators filled with German-made N.A. Beer. As curiosity between young men tends to occur, one of us dared each other to drink one of the fake beers.
This is my review of Athletic Brewing Co Lite:
That was a St. Pauli Girl if I remember correctly, and the consensus among all of us that were old enough to drink was that is sucked and it sucked even more NCOs actually walked around making sure nobody underage was drinking NA beer in a dry country. Its like they’ve never seen the episode of Beavis and Butthead where they buy beer.
So this is the theme until I can drink again after Easter. Sorry.
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This is a market however that makes no sense whatsoever. Do people like beer? Certainly. The primary reason why of course is it contains alcohol, which acts as a social lubricant. It causes the release of dopamine for those of us that are probably alcoholics. Which is why NA beer is not recommended by 12 step programs—it is close enough to the real thing that reactions of withdrawal can intensify because that brief hit of euphoria doesn’t come.
Withdrawal however is not the problem I had. The problem I had was explosive flatulence. Making NA beer is essentially the same process as making regular beer. They simply add one step, which is to remove the alcohol. There are three ways to do it: distillation, reverse osmosis, and vacuum stripping. Distillation works the same way your cousin in West Virginia distills whiskey—simply heat the wort and take advantage of ethanol’s lower boiling point to remove it. Unfortunately heat alters flavors, so reverse osmosis is the other option. Finally the vacuum method pumps the wort with nitrogen, which binds to the alcohol, and vaporizes it. All of these sound like a potential reason to cause the apparently delicate ecosystem that is my gastrointestinal tract reject all of this. Violently.
In the end it might have been the fact I drank all six in one sitting. Given there is no feedback to how many one drinks other than a functioning set of kidneys, its fairly easy to go through all of them without realizing it. Athletic Brew Co. touts their awards and promotes their products as part of a healthy lifestyle. They aren’t entirely wrong, each of these was 20 calories each and has none of the deleterious effects of alcohol. Except for one thing: whoever gave them these awards should be shot. Seriously, this beer made me long for the full-bodied flavor of Coor’s Light. Athletic Brewing Co Lite: 0.9/5 <0.05%ABV
You are too kind in your review. NA beer is affront against Bacchus.
It sounds like the dining facility in Talil was as bad as the one in Camp Victory.
Maybe my standards are low but Taji and Fob Liberty were great.
Omad, BIAP and whatever that FOB in Sadr city I went to were terrible.
Rustimyah where I was based was pretty good as well.
Loyalty not liberty.
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I sometimes drink NA beer in a group setting if I’m the designated driver or have just had my allotment for the evening.
My favorite is O’Douls Amber, but most places don’t carry the Amber. Heinecken 00 is pretty reliable.
It serves a purpose.
Pictured: Hayeksplosives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yPCP5JWNP8&themeRefresh=1
The crusty E-7s/E-8s in my unit used to knock back a couple most meals at the DFAC – maybe for familiarization, etc.? Never tried the Becks they had at the time – wasn’t into beer back then.
O’Douls – that was the other one with Becks IIRC.
My wife likes the Becks when she’s pregnant. Hopefully I can knock her up one more time.
Keep trying.
BTW – surprised nobody mentioned it this morning – but if Disney is serious about whitewashing “Song of the South” they should return their oscars too.
I asked if Disney will lobby for the revocation of James Baskett’s Oscar.
Cuddling a Hooker
I thought the idea was to pay them to go away so no cuddling?
Just say no to non-alcoholic beer.
BTW….for afternoon reading, NRO is pimping Harrison Bergeron. Some good new blood there.
I wonder if they still teach that in schools.
They did ~24 years ago… Now, I can’t imagine they do.
We had it on there 10 years ago. Some of the student interpretations were about the opposite of what they should have been.
There was a vending machine selling beer in the chow hall at Biloxi when I was there (1972). First, and so far only, one that I have ever seen.
Can of Busch was 25cents.
They had beer machines in the barracks at Ft Huachuca and Ft Benning in 1980 as well.
Sounds like highway robbery in 1972, nickle beer night or GTFO.
Torrejon AF B had beer/beer machines everywhere. R & G, Guest House, all the clubs had a bar open somewhere, it seemed like.
By the time I was in you had to go to Class VI. It was a mile from the barracks. That didn’t stop the guys across the hall from drinking enough to get the nicknames Beer Man and Ale Boy.
I want. I think the shirt would be a hit out here.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-03-at-7.56.38-AM-519×600.png
Esoteric for a shirt, but sure.
Is this supposed to be the No Brainer shirt?
All of these sound like a potential reason to cause the apparently delicate ecosystem that is my gastrointestinal tract reject all of this. Violently. And I think
I laughed.
And I think I’ll pass on the “beer.”
NCOs actually walked around making sure nobody underage was drinking NA beer in a dry country.
Gateway beer!
Anyone else having site access problems today? I have been trying to finish a post and it keeps losing the site connection. All other Internet sites are not having this issue.
Yes
Yes, but I didn’t want to raise a fuss.
Thanks. I just built up a new PC. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t some problem on my end.
Yes
Yup
Aye
Oh, so I shouldn’t take it personally?
Let’s not be hasty.
Yeppers. The site hangs, keeps making me log back in, wouldn’t load at all on my phone when I was at the brewpub and using cell service rather than wifi.
I blame Trump.
consensus among all of us that were old enough to drink was that is sucked and it sucked even more NCOs actually walked around making sure nobody underage was drinking NA beer
I’m glad I missed the reflective belt era for the most part. No age restrictions twenty years ago but wasn’t provided for free either. Had to buy NA from the BX/PX.
Shit, closer to 25. Where did it go?
I’ve been drinking Suntory Allfree as my working day beer. Enough flavor to be enjoyable.
Halfway through my 05-06 Iraq tire they started making us wear them. Just my unit though. We all looked like fools because we were.
You’re here, so they worked!
Having to have a ground guide for everything nearly caused so many fatalities.
According to AF Lore, the reflective belt culture came about during the 90’s at Prince Sultan AB at night with blackout conditions. An Airman on the flight line was run over by a C-130.
Since the Airman was wearing double earpro he couldn’t see or hear the plane and the pilot had no reason to know he needed to stop.
On Liberty/Victory – I don’t think it was even in effect when we first arrived in Aug 2005 – started after a few accidents later that year (*don’t think it was on in AFG before that year either)
By 2008 the cartoons about those damn belts were pretty awesome. I kept one with the flag raisers on Iwo Jima wearing them on my wall wearing facing the desk of my USMC deputy.
“the full-bodied flavor of Coor’s Light.”
Heh! Good story, bad beer, yet you somehow drank all 6.
Had I not, I wouldn’t be giving them a fair shake, would I?
Okay, well. I finished that fucker with 11 minutes to spare. After all that angst and not sleeping last night and triple doses of caffeine, I’m feeling decidedly anticlimactic. I mean, I didn’t even get a quick orgasm out of it.
Luckily you’ve got eleven minutes to spare.
I bet you’ve aced it, when do you find out results?
I think the official answer is 7-10 days.
I had a similar experience with my PE. Glad I did it and all, and it’s been great for my career, but I never had an moment where it felt amazing to have passed the exam.
You get to find out a lot sooner than I did, which is nice.
I know you passed with flying colors. Go Mojo!
*sigh* I’d love such a prompt turnaround.
I won’t know the results of December’s Civil Service exam for a few more months.
Well, I mean, government…
They give them to the Elections bureau to tally up?
https://youtu.be/uMyCa35_mOg
To which I am contractually obligated to reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KJPP7GkuPU
😂
LOL
I’m sure you did fine. Don’t sweat it.
Woo-hoo!!
Been thinking about you and the Test. Glad it’s done 👍👍
That’ll happen when you get your score. 😉
It seems like Mojeaux has a spare 11 minutes to make it happen.
Glad you got through it!!
R37?
More likely F52.31
I have a lot of mental disorders. That ain’t one of ’em.
Section N (the urogenital section) has a bunch of codes for male sexual dysfunction, but not so many for female. And not lack of orgasm that I could find.
“I didn’t even get a quick orgasm out of it.”
So I guess you just wasted your 11 spare minutes?
Oh, it doesn’t take that long.
🙈🙉🙊
Thanks for that NR link, it actually took me to something everyone was wondering about a few days ago. A crazy bill was introduced in Florida but a Republican, and the question became… Does anyone support it, short answer is ‘no’.
Longer: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/senator-jason-brodeur-is-a-moron-but-hes-a-solo-moron/
“Thankfully, though, the number of people in Florida’s legislature who are interested in this bill is . . . well, is Senator Jason Brodeu”
Yep – posted that link here 2x yesterday ;p
That bill, with a couple names switched, could have just as easily been written by one of the lefty fringe creatures around here. Lone wackos are always coming up with crazy shit.
Or a kickstarter to shut down Fox news?
Speaking of non-alcoholic beer, I am so fucking hungover from you people last night. It’s all your fault and I bear no responsibility
Now, see, THAT’s how you libertarian!
Quick, what’s the code for hangover?
F10.129
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Or should I say 🧁🧁?
I definitely picked the right night to drop in. That was really fun!
“As curiosity between young men tends to occur”
After that lead-in, I thought this would be headed in a totally different direction.
NA beer – no head.
No head!!?!?
Much sad.
St. Girli Paul?
Bow-chicka-bow-bow
” a functioning set of kidneys”
Hey?!
Sorrey
I’m getting the bee boxes cleaned up. 2 months and I’m adopting about 20k orphans, fatherless for the most part. Then they go to work, since they are all sisters I expect them to be well behaved and productive.
::snorts:: Did you ever HAVE sisters?? 😄
OK, pack it in, Fourscore is the Glibmeister of orphan labor.
They’re not orphans; they’re bastards. Mom is still alive.
“Seriously, this beer made me long for the full-bodied flavor of Coor’s Light.” Oof. Thanks for warning us all off.
Why did it get even a fraction of a point? Is it because it said “beer” on the can?
C’mon. Its my lowest score, ever.
Back from the grocery store. $50 is the new $20. Let’s go Brandon.
Permanent loss of purchasing power. And it’s only just starting.
It’s not Brandon. It’s climate change.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/02/27/climate-change-hitting-wallets-hard-as-insurance-costs-food-prices-surge/
How to lie with… well, just straight-up lies.
Not too long ago seeing a $100 bill in circulation was a little unusual. Now that’s a tank of gas in my F150. I think the price of gas has stabilized, I doubt if it will get cheaper. Groceries ain’t going back down, never a deflation.
I read an article a earlier at yahoo finance (more likely than not reprinted from Business Insider). No linkee.
The gist: Nobody I Know Voted for Nixon. Ron DeSantis is dead wrong about “woke capitalism”. It’s not top down social signalling by business executives looking to burnish their cred with the progressive Democrats. It is a necessary and rational response to a vast groundswell of honest inclusionaryism and brotherly love. Disney made a totally rational business decision when they threw 88% of their customers over the side in order to cater to the activist sliver groups, and anybody can see they will reap massive profits from it.
Thank you.
Your description of that flawed article reminds me of this.
https://cafehayek.com/2014/03/then-a-miracle-occurs.html
Quality driving and safe gun handling.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/11hqd2w/anybody_else_take_a_photo_of_their_gun_while/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Permanent loss of purchasing power. And it’s only just starting.
But deflation is the absolute worst thing which could possibly happen. Declining prices would be the death of us all. Just ask anybody. Anybody respectable, that is.
Anybody respectable, that is.
I’v tried, but Krugman won’t answer me.
Something you don’t see everyday:
https://twitter.com/WoldenAnita/status/1631794993643020288
You pig!
At the risk of drugs falling out da ass, Explosive Flatulence would make a great band name.
Your description of that flawed article reminds me of this.
Nice!
I saw nothing here about cuddling hookers. 1/10 would not subscribe again.