Featured contributors: Hayes, Ari, Mitch and the NYC Beerluck team
"At 2pm, we thought we’d leave by 7. We had stuff to do. At 10pm, I was eating pizza and passing a blunt."
– El Mitch, Charter Member of Team Burrito NYC
Beerluck.
It was about buds, suds, and sun. It was about rambles, scrambles, and hurls. It put the “ay!” in “yay!”. The “beer” in “beerrito”, and the “hi, ari” in “hilarious”.
It cheers, it jeers, and now, by decision of the New York Beerluck Association (NBA), it adjudicates.
In recognition of the past 2 beerlucks, we are proud to distribute the following BeerAwards.
The Blasphemous Brewski – Given to the participant whose entry sucks the most balls
5/18 – Beer: Red Stripe Winnerees: Che & Ravi Prize: Nothing. Not even a shot of mystery juice. Why? Because Beerluck Co-Final Arbiter Guy Hayes put the beer up to popular vote, and it passed. Beerluck Co-Final Arbiter Guy Ari was angry and the superdelegate debate ensued (and continues below).
2/22 – Beer: Michelob Ultra. Winnerees: Allah Palovigor and German Guy Prize: 56K Fax Modem and banishment from all future beerlucks.
Brew de Force – Awarded to the participant who supplies the tastiest libation of the day
5/18 – Winning Beer: Dog Fish Head 90 Min IPA (Extra points for coming wrapped in Bud 6-pack holder). Winneree: Mike Bareket. Prize: Free tacos
2/22 – Winning Beer: Victory Something Something: Winerees: Mitch & John Prize: Not receiving a 56k fax modem.
The subject still of much debate was whether the judging should be a popular vote, or should it rest on the privileged palates of several select superdelegates. Before a pan-Beerluck constitution can be ratified, each jurisdiction will operate under its own nominating rules.
All in all, Beerluck 2.0 was declared a raging success - breaking beer quality records, defying turnout expectation, and making Saturday night partiers out of would-be Sunday casual drinkers (and not to mention the Monday morning experience of many lavatories around Manhattan.) Before long, the beer luck turned into a potluck of sorts, featuring the organic mixed-greens in a super-sized burrito.
11 participants, 66 beers, 0 survivors.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
The 'Questionable Beer List' as mystery shot handbook
Featured contributor: Hayes S.
When the Beerluck Constitution was ratified in the Summer of 2006, the founding fathers envisioned protection of the god given right of flavor, complexity, and public urination. As Jefferson had envisioned for our country two hundred years ago, the ideal was an event of independent, small-scale brewers. However, changing times, and political and economic factors are forcing us to reconsider the structure of the organization as a whole, and the judging of inadequate beers. Whereas the Beerluck central authority has traditionally taken a small role in favor of a strong participant-based judicial system, the time has come when the constitution should be amended, or at least have this issue opened to discussion. There are numerous beers that fall in a grey area, whose validity have been continually debated without much consensus. The time is now to set a standard or a scale, and thus I submit to the general Beerluck assembly: the questionable beer list.
Let us decide once and for all, what is acceptable, and what warrants the mystery shot!
Purgatory (additions welcome)
Sierra Nevada
Stella Artois
Becks
Killians Irish Red
Widmer Hefeweizen
Red Stripe
Red Dog
Heineken
Tsingtao
Sapporo
Asahi
Kirin
Modelo (any)
Corona
Dos Equis
Amstel, light
Grolsh
St. Pauli Girl
Yuengling*
Brooklyn Brewery*
* Limit to East coast Beerlucks
Hell:
Bud, lite
Coors, lite
MGD, Lite, High life
PBR (unfortunately)
All non-beer (Bacardi Silver, Smirnoff Twist, Mikes Hard Lemonade)***
All non-alcholic beer***
Tecate
Natty Lite/Ice
Keystone
Steel Reserve**
Pacifico
Fosters
Tequiza ***
Colt 45 (unless paired with 2 zig zags)**/***
Mickeys**
Old English**
** Special consideration given if 6 - 40s are brought, and if that’s how you roll
*** Beers that will place offender in contempt, and shall warrant two shots
When the Beerluck Constitution was ratified in the Summer of 2006, the founding fathers envisioned protection of the god given right of flavor, complexity, and public urination. As Jefferson had envisioned for our country two hundred years ago, the ideal was an event of independent, small-scale brewers. However, changing times, and political and economic factors are forcing us to reconsider the structure of the organization as a whole, and the judging of inadequate beers. Whereas the Beerluck central authority has traditionally taken a small role in favor of a strong participant-based judicial system, the time has come when the constitution should be amended, or at least have this issue opened to discussion. There are numerous beers that fall in a grey area, whose validity have been continually debated without much consensus. The time is now to set a standard or a scale, and thus I submit to the general Beerluck assembly: the questionable beer list.
Let us decide once and for all, what is acceptable, and what warrants the mystery shot!
Purgatory (additions welcome)
Sierra Nevada
Stella Artois
Becks
Killians Irish Red
Widmer Hefeweizen
Red Stripe
Red Dog
Heineken
Tsingtao
Sapporo
Asahi
Kirin
Modelo (any)
Corona
Dos Equis
Amstel, light
Grolsh
St. Pauli Girl
Yuengling*
Brooklyn Brewery*
* Limit to East coast Beerlucks
Hell:
Bud, lite
Coors, lite
MGD, Lite, High life
PBR (unfortunately)
All non-beer (Bacardi Silver, Smirnoff Twist, Mikes Hard Lemonade)***
All non-alcholic beer***
Tecate
Natty Lite/Ice
Keystone
Steel Reserve**
Pacifico
Fosters
Tequiza ***
Colt 45 (unless paired with 2 zig zags)**/***
Mickeys**
Old English**
** Special consideration given if 6 - 40s are brought, and if that’s how you roll
*** Beers that will place offender in contempt, and shall warrant two shots
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