A beer blog about drinking for yourself
Even if you’re (considered) lame and go to a cheap (but super…) place to get your haircut, you’re talking $30 to $40 bucks. When you are paycheck to paycheck, that is too much.
Too much because $40 is three live drinking sessions at a bar for me. I can stretch three, maybe even four, visits to a bar with $40. That’s much better than a haircut. So it’s long hair for me until further notice.
Cheers!
-Mike
This week Untappd announced they are shutting off the DM feature. Too many spammer DMs they had to wrangle, so they didn’t want to mess with it anymore.
Which, whatever, it’s fine. I will miss it, though, because plenty of listeners of the Perfect Pour would message me about the show or something related. But it’s not a big loss to me otherwise.
The thing that pisses me off about it is that the Untappd owners (some corporate entity now, I never care enough to look up who exactly anymore) haven’t given users a new feature in years. And they are taking another thing away?
Untappd users give and give content, and the owners only shove more ads in our feed – so yeah, like every social media app in existence then? Right. Anyone want to build a beer app with me? (mostly kidding)
It has hit the shelves. The 2025 version of Sierra Nevada Brewing’s famous Celebration Ale!
I know that Sierra Nevada wants us to call it a Fresh Hop IPA, and I get it. But we will always call it Celebration Ale, my friend.
So, I have had it. One so far. And every year I try to pull something different from the previous years, like everyone else. I can’t so far, from just the one beer. Cleaner, is the only note that comes to mind at the moment.
I will enjoy testing and documenting it more.
Here are some takes on Celebration ’25 from Untappd users:
“Still great, but the fresh hop character isn’t as prominent as in ’24.” – Lone P
“More subdudued and malty?” – MBBrews1
“This one is maltier and a bit less hoppy.” – Lone P
“Not enjoying the hop profile this year. Disapointing. I was really excited for this batch too.” – Chad O
“Excellent.” – Ralph C
Now I have to dive back in and see if I get that it’s maltier than the previous year.
If you ever wondered how they choose the Fresh Hops for Celebration, have a gander:
Cheers!
-Mikey
As an Amazon affiliate, I am hyper-aware of what Amazon is up to in the beer-related retail space and always watch for items that I (and you) might be interested in. Here are some items I found on sale (at the moment of this posting) that I think you would be interested in:
Don’t forget, when it’s Amazon Prime Deal Days, you need to be a Prime Member to get all the money off you can, click here to do that.
Hope you find something useful. I will keep looking out for us and report back.
P.S. Don’t sleep on my can cooler post.