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I wonder how he does. He seems a bit abrasive, in the Torts mold, and I don't see that working with a young NHL team, despite his success in juniors. 

why should they have to take a drug test during the off season? Theyre normal people wth normal lives(during the off season) If i got laid off for 5 months but still had to go take a drug test for work i think i might be annoyed.. not that i do any type of drugs but just saying.

Drug testing should be for performance enhancers only, but needs to be year round. Otherwise, you could bulk up when you know you won't get tested and not ever get caught.

I sorta agree with the author.  While I do like beers with plenty of hops such as Pilsners and IPA's, I feel a good portion of the craft brewing industry in the US have been going overboard with it.  At some beer festivals it almost seems like craft brewers have been throwing flavor and drinkability out the door to instead go after some dick-measuring contest as to who can put the most hops and alcohol in their beer.

It's not the amount that's the problem, it's the laziness. I love some massively hoppy beers (Stone is my favorite brewery), but you can't call it a day just because you put a ton of hops in your beer. It's the type of hops you use and how they interact with each other and the other ingredients. You can make a really hoppy, alcoholic beer with a great flavor, or you can just knock out people's taste buds and say it's good. While Stone talks a ton of trash about the hop content/knocking out taste buds, there's actually a ton going on in most of their stuff. Pliny the Younger gets mentioned in the article for having way more hops than they need, but it's a great beer. I'm not sure what they do, or if they add different kinds of hops each time, but they got something right. Good brewers know how to use hops as a tool. Worse ones use them as a crutch.

Oh ok sorry then I apologize lol.

 

Every time I say to another beer nut that I am not a fan of Founders I get a reaction like I just committed an awful crime.

 

I do tend to like the Pilsners and other German styles.  I also have in the last year or so fallen in love with IPA's.  I do appreciate Stouts and Porters but I doubt I will ever really like them the way I like others.

 

Belgium styles I am on the fence on.  I guess depends on who is the brewer.

I like Founders, but I don't like pilsners much, and my brother likes Founders more than me and hates pilsners. I tend to like Founders powerful/heavy style more than lighter beers, so that may be why you don't like them.

We agree on IPAs and German style beers. If you're ever in St. Louis, check out Urban Chestnut. The bottles they sell are nothing special, but they have some amazing sh!t, most of it German influenced, on sight. They're building a new one, so they're expanding, and I'm hoping that means they improve some of their wholesale stuff soon.

Missed you, manta