Some Days You Need A Big Gulp and Other Days Just A . . . .

I hope y'all are having a wonderful #beersaturday, I spent mine walking in the woods with the very lovely Mrs. @handofzara. We were hoping to get up in the hills to see some wonderful Fall colors in the changing of the leaves. You know the kind of colors that take your breath away, fiery reds and bright yellows.

Still a whole lot of green with hardly any fiery reds or bright yellows, not exactly breathtaking.

Have you ever thought about the word "fiery", well I did just moments ago when typing since apparently I kept getting that little red line under every attempt indicating that once again the old @handofzara needs to keep a pocket dictionary handy.

See I tried to spell the word fiery, which actually means consisting of "fire", F-I-R-E-R-Y.

Each attempt resulted in the red line. Who spells a word that means consisting of FIRE . . . FIERY?

Personally, I blamed the FRENCH, in thinking, although wrongly so that this literary nonsense had something to do with the NORMANS imposing their will on the freedom loving and sensible Angles and Saxons who spelled words just as they sound. You know how those Normans did things that are really messed up in a French language kind of way.

In English we raise "pigs" but we eat pork. See that word pork is actually French, which is why in North Carolina we EAT PIG and not no fancified PORK (once again the red line for the perfectly acceptable word fancified).

source: dictionary.com

I am beginning to believe that HIVE has been infiltrated by French spies who deliberately attempting to destroy the American Language.

I need to calm down and pour a cold beer that I picked up after our disappointing walk in the Fall Colors.

See what I mean!

The dang French have every Englishman spelling the word "colors" . . . C-O-L-O-U-R-S.

That right there is FRENCH, that sneaky "U" just plucked down for no reason at all and it ain't no kind of English!

The word is spelled C-O-L-O-R-S in proper American! See I figure if the English are willing to be bullied around by some beanie wearing Frenchman than I am taking the name of the language!

Somebody, somewhere, at sometime, has to draw a red line in the sand, and the @handofzara has this day on #beersaturday done just that! Proper spelling is hereby declared, optional, in the American Language!

The way I sees it, if you can't sound it out and figure it out then you were never meant to knows.

Dang I got myself all worked up and need to just calm down and have a Lil Slurp.

BEER NAME: Lil Slurp
STYLE: India Pale Ale (or should I say an American Pale Ale . . .hmmmmm)
ABV: 6.0%
BREWER: NODA of Charlotte, North Carolina
APPEARANCE: golden, cloudy and pours with a small head
AROMA: citrus with a slight hint of hops
TASTE: juicy grapefruit with almost no bitters IBU 8???????
MOUTHFEEL: medium body, high carbonation and a clean finish

I think there was more color in this beer than there were on leaves today.

EDITORS NOTE: The views of the author do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editorial Staff. The Editorial Staff apologizes to any who may have been offended by the outrageous behavior of the @handofzara who may have had more than a little slurp of Lil Slurp this #beersaturday.