This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 269: September 26, 2015
Diary entry:
Exhaustion.
That’s what I put it down to.
Total and complete exhaustion.
Slept in this morning, until 8AM. And that’s after falling asleep around 9PM last night.
And aside from writing, some work around the house and a trip to the grocery store, I didn’t do anything today!
Decided to skip Day 2 of the Borefts Bierfestival in favor of a little rest and relaxation, which I was sorely in need of.
That’s what weekends are for, no?
The Beer:
Name: Bashah
Style: Double Black IPA
Producer: BrewDog and Stone Brewing Co.
Alcohol content: 8.6%
Bottle size: 0.33l
Purchased from: Café Buitenlust in Oirschot, the Netherlands
Bashah by BrewDog and Stone Brewing. Was not expecting this one to be so good! Dark coffee and cocoa flavors with a delicious IPA base. Great!
Commercial Description (bottle label)
What does it mean? Yes, what indeed does it all mean.
Meaning of course is elusive and illusive. It can’t or shouldn’t be found on this bottle. Should it? Yet what if it was? Would you begin to look for pearls of wisdom or life direction on a beer label? Perhaps it’s been there all along. Since meaning is a mere illusion, perhaps we shouldn’t let it have any influence on our destiny.
This particular beer refused to succumb to the illusion of meaning or allow capricious parameters to have any influence on its own fermented fate. Are we even asking the right question? Are you feeling frustrated in the emptiness? If so, that could be because someone got to this beer before you, and thus there’s a reason for that emptiness. It’s empty. And if so, perhaps there indeed is not any meaning for you here after all.
Style over Substance, or Substance over the scriptures of Style? The latter, thank you very much. Twice.
