. Favourite Beer of the Week Before Last

The Friday before last Friday we drank some more City Beer Store beers.

We started with a Stillwater Artisanal Stateside Saison because Bryce liked the label, and because unlike book covers, beer labels are easily the best way to judge the quality of the contents.

The Stillwater brewery have some fine labels. This one is my favourite:

But we didn't have that one, we had this one:

It tasted like a Saison should taste, and it was jolly bubbly.

That's really all I remember, because next we had a Lost Abbey 10 Commandments, and it was dark and thick and sweet and rich and herby and spicy all at once.

Quite the complex experience.


Charlton Heston was quite a complex experience.

Between the The Ten Commandments and Planet of the Apes he got into politics as a moderate Democrat.

He campaigned for JFK, and actively supported civil rights and gun control.

But at some point between Soylent Green and Dynasty his political affiliations changed.

He became buddies with Reagan and the Bushes, and took over as president of the National Rifle Association.

He liked to shout the NRA's popular bumper sticker slogan: "From my cold dead hands."

Heston's taste in beer was as subject to change as his taste in politics.

In 1976 he famously enjoyed a Weizenbier with German Goalkeeper, Sepp Maier, shortly before Sepp destroyed his goalkeeping career in a drunk driving accident.

This was such a popular drink of beer that it was turned into a jigsaw puzzle. You can buy it on Amazon for £22.50 (+ £4.50 shipping)

But at some point between Midway and the Planet of the Apes remake, Heston's beer affiliations changed.

In this 1996 television commercial, a man called Johnny covets Heston's Bud Light.

But coveting another man's beer (even a truly horrible beer) is in direct violation of the 10th Commandment, and Johnny is out of luck.

When the commercial aired, Bud Light sales rose 12 percent, making it the second best-selling beer in the United States (after Bud Regular).

When Heston took over at the NRA, membership more than doubled, making it the second most powerful political organization in the United States (after Christianity).

The Ten Commandments is the 5th highest grossing film of all time. Adjusting for inflation, it made $997 million at the domestic box office.

It was broadcast on ABC every Easter Sunday from 1973

until it was replaced by Desperate Housewives.