Brewery Name and Location: Redhook Ale Brewery - Woodinville, WA
Name of Brew: Slim Chance
Style of Brew: Light (Lite) Ale
ABV: 3.8%
Earlier this year Redhook introduced their Slim Chance Light Ale, and have knocked it out of the park. The light or lite beer market is definitely a huge sector of beer sales, but when you have a smaller brewery enter the ring against the likes of Bud Light, Coors Light and Miller Lite, there’s a lot of competition. However, to compare Slim Chance with those beers isn’t really fair. First of all, you’re not going to find Slim Chance in cans and maybe the closest competitor would be Samuel Adams Light.
I consider Slim Chance the beer for the health conscious boozer. Someone who wants to go to a party, enjoy a good tasting beer, get slightly buzzed, but not consume a ridiculous amount of calories while doing so. Slim Chance is only 125 calories and 8.7 grams of carbs per 12 oz., but still possess a 3.8% ABV. The most important this about Slim Chance is the taste, especially compared to other light beers, and finds a nice medium between a traditional light beers and some of Redhook’s other brews.
Slim Chance should definitely be considered for this weekend’s 4th of July festivities. It’s a beer that everyone can love, and love all day/night long, without filling you up too much and getting you blackout wasted before the fireworks start going off. Happy 4th of July!
The majority of the TastyBooze staff will be enjoying the 4th of July atop a deck overlooking Seattle’s Lake Union, the perfect location for the annual fireworks demonstration over Gas Works Park. Earlier this week, some douche tried to sue the city of Seattle to cancel the fireworks show because of environmental reasons. I don’t really know the history of the fireworks show, but I know it has been going on as long as I can remember, so, why now? Well, it doesn’t matter. Luckily, we have Stephen Colbert on our side and coming to our defense, so we can enjoy our Independence with shit exploding in the sky in cool formations.
Yesterday, “The Ledge” an all-glass balcony opened at the Sears Tower in Chicago. Just looking at these pictures make me want to grab a hold of my desk for dear life! I’m not necessarily afraid of heights, but this shit is ridiculous. The balconies are suspended 1,353 in the air, accessible from the 103rd floor of the building. Enjoy the view, assuming you aren’t afraid of heights.
Many people would say that the 4th of July is the great American holiday becuase it’s the day that we declared our indepdence from the tea-taxing-limeys. While I won’t argue with that, I would say that the 4th of July is the great American holiday because it’s the one day of the year that every dude basically gets a free pass to do whatever the fuck he wants. Eat shitty food? Done. Drink to much beer? Done. Blow shit up? Done. No other holiday is bringing to the table what the 4th of July is bringing to the table.
Cheese IN the hot dogs - All year long the cheese-in-the-dog is frowned upon by society but the 4th of July is the one day men everywhere can enjoy the greatest food advancement since bacon without shame. And the cheese hot dog is really just symbolic of the fact that on the 4th you can eat all the shit that your doctor tells you not to and you can do it in the name of patriotism.
Stars & Stripes Apparel - It’s the only time when you can wear that Stars & Stripes t-shirt/speedo/jean jacket/bandanna/shorts that you secretly love and will come off as bring patriotic and not a total douche.
Drinking - Thankfully this year it falls on the weekend but the 4th of July is generally the one day a year where every guy in America can get fall down drunk on a weekday and not be thought less of for it.
Fireworks (In Two Parts) - A) A lot of cities and townships have anal retentive policies towards blowing shit up on the 4th. That being said it’s still the one day a year where you can blow shit up for 8 straight hours without much concern for your neighbors or the cops. B) Fireworks makes ladies horny, it’s science. I can’t find the study right now but trust me, nothing gets a lady going like explosions.
Medical Advancements - It used to be that if you miss timed the fuse on the cherry bomb you were looking to drop into the toilet and lost a finger you were fucked. However in this day and age they can reattach just about anything as long as you have most of the pieces.
It takes time for the electromagnetic waves of our TV broadcasts to travel out into space which means if there is anyone out there on distant stars monitoring our broadcasts they’ve got some kick ass TV coming their way. I mean anyone chilling out on Wolf 359 and/or Sirius still have Janet Jackson’s boob headed their way. On the other hand those poor bastards out on Regulus and/or Mizar haven’t even seen the first baseball game that was ever broadcast on TV.
This thing is fucking brilliant. It’s like the classic Battleship except with booze involved. If you take a hit, you take a shot. It was designed by Mauricio (Tony) Harion, from Belo Horizonte, Brazil and hopefully some toy company will cut Tony a giant check ASAP so that they can license this thing and start selling it in the U.S.
It looks like the game has a good amount of booze on the board but not so much that it would take an hour to finish a game. However I wouldn’t mind seeing a five shot aircraft carrier floating somewhere on that board.
We definitely took our sweet ass time but we’ve finally had some pretty kick ass Tasty Booze stickers made and we’re looking to give them away for free. If you’ve been a reader of the site for a while you might recognize the sticker design as our old header image from about 4 re-designs ago.
So here is the deal, I mentioned they are free and they are, we aren’t fucking around with self-addressed stamped envelopes or any of that bullshit. Email your address to mitchmartin[at]tastybooze.com and I’ll mail you a sticker. I hate the post office so I’ll probably mail the stickers out in batches once a week. Since this weekend is a holiday weekend and a three day weekend for most the first batch of stickers will go out next Friday the 10th.
If you are looking for stickers our any other kind of printing check out VG Kids they did an kick ass job on our stickers and they were awesome to work with.
Texts From Last Night has become one of my favorite sites recently. I enjoy finding texts from the 206 and 425 area codes and guessing which of my friends could have sent the text. This one, for example, was an easy one to figure out. However, this one is pretty impressive:
(231): we both passed out while playing beer pong, woke up in the morning and continued to play coffee pong to cure our hangovers
I couldn’t imagine this. If I’m that hungover, I need to be somewhere laying down and there can’t be anything around me that reminds me of alcohol, especially the smell of warm beer in the morning.
Come on Reuters, why are you trying to make me think 1,800 employees are being finger blasted? You are referring to a company that was founded by a guy who is known for doing copious amounts of blow and walking around the office naked.
The actual story is about a Federal Investigation that found up to 1,800 workers in American Apparel’s Los Angeles factories may have “gained employment due to “suspect and not valid” eligibility documentation.”
The kid in the gold shiny leggings has nothing to do with the story. I just thought it was funny that American Apparel actually sells them for kids. I guess you’re never to young for hot pants.
Screw you, Michael Bay. Somehow you’ve managed to take this iconic franchise and turn it into a two-and-a-half hour shit show called Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which you also managed to make borderline racist, sexist and nationalistic. Bravo.
At times, Transformers is just awful. Any attempt at building a story line surrounding Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is utterly painful, the over-the-top slapstick dialogue belongs on ABC Family, not in a movie about robots fucking shit up. And Tyrese Gibson should not be allowed to act anymore, every scene that he was in featured one horrendous one-liners (which were usually just one word) after another.
Michael Bay did do one thing right: Megan Fox. Sweeping camera shots, low-cut tops for intense “Baywatch” style running scenes, and making sure she didn’t get too covered in dirt from surrounding explosions. Also, just limiting her “acting”, since we all know that’s not what we paid for.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is your typical big-budget summer blockbuster. Filled with cool special effects, lots of explosions and not much acting, for all that’s bad about the movie, it is entertaining and worth the price of admission. You may feel guilty at the end for liking it, but that’s okay, that’s what summer is all about; spending money on pointless shit and enjoying it while it lasts!
Some supervisor at the Department of Public Works in Miami-Dade County, Florida learned a valuable lesson this week. Always write out what you want painted on the street, don’t trust that the man behind the paint gun has mastered basic spelling.
A Public Works crew painted this sign outside of an elementary school. The word “school” was probably written on the fucking building. I mean if you had any doubt just look up and over to the right.
Baseball fans in Seattle will soon have the opportunity to drown their sorrows with a lap dance after a Mariner’s loss. A judge recently approved Deja Vu’s application to open a strip club just 400 feet south of the main home-plate entrance to the Mariner’s home of Safeco Field. Unfortunately, due to Seattle liquor laws, there will be no alcohol served at the establishment, forcing patrons to get drunk before entering ($8 beers, anyone?).
If Richie Sexson was still on the Mariners I could definitely see him frequenting the strip club between innings. He couldn’t get his batting average up, but at least he could get something else up. Of course, both the City of Seattle and Seattle Mariners were opposed to the strip club so close to the stadium, as I’m sure this will soon become the favorite hangout spot for players post-game. Which means less business for Cowgirls, Inc., the closest thing to a brothel strip club in the vicinity. Foul balls is going to take on a whole new meaning!
William Lainhart threatened to release his dogs on the cops so they returned the favor by releasing four tasers on him and what I’m guessing were a few fists, feet and clubs as well.
Officers showed up to Lainhart’s residence on an assault call. Once they arrive Lainhart ran and locked himself in his dog kennels refusing to come out. It took shots from three separate tasers just to get Lainhart on the ground with a shot from a fourth taser finally subduing him.
What the fuck was this guy on? Even if an initial tasing doesn’t take a guy down usually the second or third jolt will. I’ve never heard of the cops having to use four different individual tasers to subdue somebody. Sure the dude is a little old at 41 but if he can take that much abuse he might want to consider switching careers and get in on some UFC action.
These aren’t in any particular order but it’s easy to see with four entries in the list the W.C. Fields is by far the best boozer that has lived.
“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”–Frank Sinatra
“Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.”–W. C. Fields
“Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”–Homer Simpson
“You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.”–Dean Martin
“There can’t be good living where there is not good drinking.”–Benjamin Franklin
“I don’t care how liberated this world becomes - a man will always be judged by the amount of alcohol he can consume - and a woman will be impressed, whether she likes it or not.”–Doug Coughlin (Cocktail)
“I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.”–W. C. Fields [Read more →]
Earlier this year Redhook introduced their Slim Chance Light Ale, and have knocked it out of the park. The light or lite beer market is definitely a huge sector of beer sales, but when you have a smaller brewery enter the ring against the likes of Bud Light, Coors Light and Miller Lite, there’s a lot of competition. However, to compare Slim Chance with those beers isn’t really fair. First of all, you’re not going to find Slim Chance in cans and maybe the closest competitor would be Samuel Adams Light.
(231): we both passed out while playing beer pong, woke up in the morning and continued to play coffee pong to cure our hangovers
At times, Transformers is just awful. Any attempt at building a story line surrounding Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is utterly painful, the over-the-top slapstick dialogue belongs on ABC Family, not in a movie about robots fucking shit up. And Tyrese Gibson should not be allowed to act anymore, every scene that he was in featured one horrendous one-liners (which were usually just one word) after another.
Baseball fans in Seattle will soon have the opportunity to drown their sorrows with a lap dance after a Mariner’s loss. 
