Pro Bono Brew Review

I had a disturbing experience this over the weekend.  I shared this with Jim while training tonight.  After I got home, showered and sat down with a quality brew I felt that it out be an important public service to share my opinion on the matter.

We went to the the in laws in Wildwood this weekend.  (I will post a great route map for those who make it to St. Louis with their road bike in the future.)  After the ride, at lunch, my father in broke out a "gift" some one have recently given him.  He was appalled at this "gift" and insisted that I try some. I demurred.  He insisted.  I resisted, I knew this was a bad idea.  The little lady stepped in and accepted one.  The "gift" in question? 

 A six pack of Bud Light Lime.

As both of my readers know, I enjoy a good beer.  I'm not a wine guy or a single malt scotch whiskey guy, just a beer guy.  Nothing wrong with liking wine or scotch, its just not for me.  I'm generally a big experimenter with various beers from around the country and the world.

As an experiment, I took a swig.  How bad?  Worse than I imagined.  Sickeningly sweet with a beer aftertaste.  Super. 

A beer with a shot of lime? 

 Why?  

Who is the market for this thing?  High school girls?  People who can't manage to get a lime in a Corona?  I suspect the next rowdy, underdressed (not in a good way), sunburned, drunk chick you see acting like an idiot at a concert or pub crawl will have a Bud Light Lime in her hand.

Beer and sweets just don't mix.  Period.

 Look at what goes with beer:  brats, pretzels, pizza, steak just to name a few.

What's not on the list: Fruit.  

The orange slice in a wheat beer?   How did this become standard operating procedure?

The lime in a Corona?  It was to cover the taste.  For years the reason people liked it was because they were on vacation when they were drinking it.  As Jim corrected pointed out, its now brewed in Chicago for the U.S. market, so the taste improved.

Adding a shot of "100% natural lime flavor".  

Whatever that is.  Will it stave off scurvy?

My father in law is a Bud man and a Bud fan.  He's a shareholder and a big supporter.  Even he was at a loss to explain this product.

Maybe one of the few good thing about summer ending is that hopefully this will all go away.  Save your money. 

This guy must have a fantastic trust fund

He's at every race.  I saw this dork back when he was only a longhorn.   Bastille Day 2004.   The gendarmes start telling people to get off their bikes. The closer to the finish line, the bigger the gendarme.  Mizzou football Saturday highway patrolman working the intersection of Stadium and Providence big.  It is probably about 30 minutes before the publicity caravan came through.  The gendarmes became more and more “serious” in their warnings to stop.  Then begin physically stopping people.    Like Dalton, they were nice.  But firm . About 10 minutes later Longhorn comes riding up. This gendarme stops him, he gets off his bike and starts walking.  After 5 feet he hops back on his bike. The gendarme walks over and picks up his bike by the seat post and panniers.  He was still on the bike.

This was the same day I saw Richard Virenque and Axel Merckx in the break.  Virenque dropped Merckx up the road from us and won on Bastille Day.  The French celebrated. 

I did not know a human could sweat like Merckx.  It looked like he had a water hose in his helmet.   It was pretty  macho. 

Is anyone training Tuesday?

Sometimes nothing can be a pretty cool hand.

Now there goes one cool dude.

S

Thanks but no thanks

I the interest of avoiding having a blog full of stories that all end "and I dropped off the back" I thought I might on occasion share some "legal" stories that both my readers may find interesting.  

In my business you come across all types.  I am surprised that I still get surprised at what some people expect.  

 This little gem occurred this week  

I recently had a prospective client show up at my office unannounced demanding to see me.  I was in court out in the country and this person scheduled an appointment for the next day.  According to my assistant this person then waited in the parking lot for about an hour for me.  

Next day this person shows up and demands some pro bono work from me.

pro bono publico |ˌprō ˈbônō ˈpoōbliˌkō; ˈbōnō ˈpəbliˌkō|
adverb & adjective
for the public good : [as adv. ] the burden they carried pro bono publico.
• (usu. pro bono) denoting work undertaken for the public good without charge, esp. legal work for a client with a low income : [as adv. ] the attorneys are representing him pro bono | [as adj. ] pro bono legal services.
ORIGIN Latin.

What was the emergency you ask?  How could I serve the public good you ask?  

Was this a situation were I was saving widows and orphans from  Snidely Whiplash?  Was I to defend some poor soul against the man?  No.

This person wanted me to negotiate with and/or file a lawsuit against his/her mechanic to get his/her Mercedes out of the shop.  The shop was threatening to sell it for failing to pay a repair bill from a collision. This person had spent the insurance money on something else.

Now your saying,  “Kman this person needs that Mercedes to go to work.  I’m sure that car is this person’s only dependable form of transportation. What type of bike did they ride to come see you?’

This person was driving their other car.  

Surely it was a Yugo or Reliant K you say.

You would be wrong,  it was a Humvee.

As Jim would say "thanks for coming"  

 

In the show even the world champion wrenches

The halo effect of owning a (real) rainbow jersey.

Watching Lars Boom and the Rabobank crew break down the team bikes was pretty amazing.  I don't think it was their first time.  Thanks for the hat, Lars.

Vande Velde

Jim and Skip were there Sunday also.

Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright passed away Monday.  You couldn't grow up in the 80's and hit college in the early 90's without having a little Pink Floyd in the background.  You just couldn't.  I broke out the cassette tapes this week.  They were talking about touring next year.  I was in.   Shine on you crazy diamond.

 Were have all the good bands gone?

Here's one for the Phi's and Mom Miller

I'll come back with something a little more current but here is an old school photo back when the peloton was ruled by the hard men.  

I think this guy is from Belgium.

Here's a couple of more photos from St. Charles.

Does this thing work?

I figured now was as good a time as any to dork out and start a blog.  

Here are some photos of the St. Charles Stage of the Tour of Missouri.  We used the "rain" camera, so these are not Hogan quality.

The little lady and I headed to St. Louis for the final stages of the Tour.  We caught the stage in Augusta at the Augusta Brewing Company right on the Katy Trail.  These folks were cool enough to let us camp in their beer garden 7 years ago when we rode the Katy Trail.  Good food, good beer, good setting.   Highly recommended.

We stood at the top of a hill, right outside the brewery.  Huff said he saw us, but we missed him.  We then headed over to Defiance, but just missed the riders.  

Then on the St. Charles.  It was packed.  Saw these two idiots

We stood about 50 meters from the finish with a good view of the video board to watch the last 10K.  Huff came by about 7 or 8 back and looked great.  3rd place.  Here are some post race more to come.