Episode 191 - Evolving Birds! [Discussion]

[travislopes]

Kindle 2: First Hands On, 1-night Stand Man Wakes to Find Lover has Carved Name on Him, Amazing Bird Fishes Like A Human, HIV Mutates to Death With New Drug, iJustine + Digg T-shirt = Cute!

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[therage800]

Loved the fishing bird story.

BTW, Hippy, you bend nails with the gloves.

[stevenbullen]

Not the best. Dissapointed by the stale beer at the start.

[dirtyhat]

Overall, an eh episode....

I'm no brewmaster but have a lot of experience with different types of alcohol, and especially beer.

The best by date is mostly a marketing ploy. notice how it always says best by and not expire. The taste will be guaranteed "best" by that date but is still good for a long time after. Draft beer, like you would find at a bar on tap, goes bad the quickest but is good up to 45 days. And depending on how you store the beer i.e. cool, dry, place out of direct light it can be good from 6 months to 2 years depending on the situation. Another thing is warm beer... As long as it doesn't cycle between hot, warm, cool, and cold temps a lot it is perfectly fine to store it outside of the fridge (of course put it in when you want to drink it as it does taste better cold) but thats why you see stores stacking it on the floor outside of the freezer section, and the trucks it comes in on are not the refridgerated ones.

anyways the point is, that beer they had was most likely still good... unless it was stored out of the box it came in, on a window sill, during fluctuating summer hot and winter cold days... ever since they received it in the mail.

[danhauk]

Originally Posted by dirtyhat

Overall, an eh episode....

I'm no brewmaster but have a lot of experience with different types of alcohol, and especially beer.

The best by date is mostly a marketing ploy. notice how it always says best by and not expire. The taste will be guaranteed "best" by that date but is still good for a long time after. Draft beer, like you would find at a bar on tap, goes bad the quickest but is good up to 45 days. And depending on how you store the beer i.e. cool, dry, place out of direct light it can be good from 6 months to 2 years depending on the situation. Another thing is warm beer... As long as it doesn't cycle between hot, warm, cool, and cold temps a lot it is perfectly fine to store it outside of the fridge (of course put it in when you want to drink it as it does taste better cold) but thats why you see stores stacking it on the floor outside of the freezer section, and the trucks it comes in on are not the refridgerated ones.

anyways the point is, that beer they had was most likely still good... unless it was stored out of the box it came in, on a window sill, during fluctuating summer hot and winter cold days... ever since they received it in the mail.

So you're saying the taste they got is most likely the real taste of the beer, which is the "rancid butter" taste? Sounds delightful.

This episode didn't really stand out to me. I zoned out while watching it. The bird story was pretty cool though.

[rabidbadger]

I'm seeing too much repetition with Diggnation and Diggreel. (bird was on both this week) They should really try to limit that.

[dirtyhat]

Originally Posted by danhauk

So you're saying the taste they got is most likely the real taste of the beer, which is the "rancid butter" taste? Sounds delightful.

Yea, assuming they didn't heat cycle it too much, They probably got a fairly accurate taste of what the beer tasted like. It could just be their minds giving them that opinion though. notice how I think it wasn't till after they found the date that they thought it tasted like rancid butter. Alex even kinda liked it at first. Sometimes the first taste is a little different in some beers too... There's this beer I've been into lately called, Blue Tongue (from the land down under, if you can look it up... it's a a little expensive to import but worth it) It has a distinctive bitter taste, but only on the first drink. other than that it is smoooooth.

(pic of some cases I got of the Blue Tongue, beer in the back of my car)

[therage800]

Originally Posted by dirtyhat

(pic of some cases I got of the Blue Tongue, beer in the back of my car)

I don't think you got enough of it

[bsg]

High Diggnation isn't nearly as funny as Drunk Diggnation.

[asystole]

Wow, I seem to be alone in thinking this was a pretty awesome episode.