And so, the offseason ends. Tomorrow, we pack the car and head for State College, and try to resume some level of normalcy, whatever that means. We typically keep it quiet on Friday, and then set up shop the moment the parking lot opens on Saturday. It's been a long off-season, and I can not wait for football to resume.
Tonight's beer is another that came on draft at TJ's in Paoli - this one is the Kissmeyer PilNZer from Kissmeyer Beer. In the glass you see a clear gold color with a thin head, and your nose picks up a light aroma filled with grain. The taste gives you wheat, but not much in the way of hops, and there's a metallic taste in there as well. Sort of like drinking a beer with a penny in the glass. This beer checks in at 5.5% ABV, although it certainly tastes much lighter than that. Looking for something light, or something from Denmark? Congrats, you've found your beer.
Hard to get info on this brewery, although it appears the force behind it is Anders Kissmeyer, who has apparently spent time both in Europe and America honing his craft. Have more info? Send it my way.
Thing to Think About Today:
One of the highlights of any debauchery filled college career is the road trip. You and your closest friends decide on an absurd destination, pack up the car, and head off in search of adventure and memories. One of my favorite road trips from back in the day was the Thursday before PSU played Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1994, when a group of decided that we should road trip out to the game. No tickets, but we wanted to see our undefeated team march on towards a national championship. Armed with a vague sense that we could probably sleep at our fraternity's chapter house and a night worth of beer pong, we made the call.. Seemed like a perfect idea, which is why eight of us executed it at midnight on Thursday, arriving in Ann Arbor at about 8am on Friday. After making lots of new friends on campus that night (read: no we didn't), we ended up running into someone's uncle (or something) on Saturday morning, who let us tailgate with him in his tv-equipped van (a big deal in 1994, mind you) just a few rows back of the stadium. Also important - free beer all day. When PSU locked away the win in the fourth quarter, the party was officially on, and every PSU fan leaving the stadium stopped by to celebrate.
Yes, we drove 400 miles through the night to watch a game on a 15" television. We could hear the plays happen before they scrolled by on our tiny screen. But that wasn't the point - we were able to live through an adventure, share an experience outside the norm, and come out unscathed on the other side. That, my friends, is exactly the point of the road trip.
So, your thing to think about today is of course Road Trip, a movie that tells the tale of a college student who treks across the country to see his long-distance girlfriend who attends another school. Why? Because he accidentally mailed her a sex tape of him with another girl. Hey, honest mistake - could happen to anyone. Hilarity ensues as Josh, played by Breckin Meyer, enlists two friends and a guy with a car to race to her campus before the tape gets delivered. This movie also features a great soundtrack, featuring Eels and Run-DMC. The quality of the clip below sucks, but the movie? Legendary. It's an appropriate review for tonight, as tomorrow... tomorrow we road trip......
"What else am I going to do - stay here and learn?"
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