Date night tonight for the wifey and I. We went out to Thai food and I took Chang for a spin. I wanted to love it since it has TWO elephants on the label. It's everything I would expect from a beer from Thailand (tropical climate you know). Its light, with little only a little it of crisp hop bite and a fair amount of skunkyness. As I sat and sipped, waiting for the food I thought, 'hmm this is just terrible'. But when the food came, it suddenly got quite a bit better. It complimented the spicy lemongrass seafood quite well and actually was a pretty great pairing. I've said it before, you gotta judge these things based on what the maker intended, and assuming the brewers intended a pretty blank beer to just sit back and slide down easy alongside some good Thai food... then it's not bad. But it's still just working with redeeming factor points... 4 out of 10.
But then we went and saw
True Grit. 9 out of 10.
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