Wassail Ale – Recipe

I searched the internet long and hard for a good recipe for Wassail Ale. In the end, I took a little bit from all those I found, and concocted a pretty good recipe of my own. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays!

  • 8 oz Brown Sugar
  • 96 oz (8 Bottles) of Brown Ale (Newcastle)
  • 12 oz (1 empty Ale Bottle filled) of Cream Sherry (Savory & James)
  • 6 Cooking Apples, Peeled, Cut into 1/16ths
  • 2/3 tsp Ginger
  • 2/3 tsp Nutmeg
  • 1 Lemon, Zest-ed
  1. Preheat your oven to 350.
  2. Mix together 8 oz of Brown Sugar with 12 oz of Brown Ale
  3. Peel your 6 apples and place them in a large, oven-safe dish. Be sure the apples are evenly distributed to make a single layer of apples.
  4. Pour the Brown Sugar & Ale mixture over the apples.
  5. Place the apples in the oven for 30 minutes.
  6. After cooked, separate the apples from the broth by pouring the broth into a pot.
  7. Mix the remaining ingredients into the pot, and simmer for 5 minutes on medium heat.
  8. Remove from heat and place the apples and the drink in a serving bowl.
  9. Serve HOT!

Enjoy!

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The End..?

Don’t you hate it when you play through a game, work so hard for hours on end, only to find that the ending you’re presented with is some lack-luster montage of pictures which seem hastily put together, or an animated sequence that brings up more questions than it answers? Well, I hate that too. And to a degree of hate which is normally reserved for children and men who wear Crocs. This article has spoilers, so check out Yahtzee’s review of Assassin’s Creed below instead of the rest of the article if you don’t want anything spoiled.

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The Plan for a Better America

As a young political science student, I had to spend a lot of time in college learning about the American political system. The topic most covered… the ignorance of the American public. It didn’t matter if something was right or wrong. All that mattered is what the public wants. So if I am a Congressman from the 3rd District of South Carolina and my constituents want every 2nd Wednesday of the month to be “Beat the Living Shit Out of a Minority Day”, then there is a school of political thought that tells me that I had best get my secretary (who is probably having sex with me on the side) to start drafting said legislation. Why? Because I want to get re-elected so I can continue to have sex with my secretary (which technically could be considered government sponsored prostitution). In the world of politics, good and evil are all just moot points.

After 4 years of college, I grew frustrated. The public, ignorant of the world around them, would even have the audacity to go into the voting booth on Election Day and vote what is called a “straight party ticket”. That means that to vote, all a lazy American has to do is vote Republican or Democrat. Every candidate assigned to that party would be voted for. Adolf Hitler could be on the ballot and if he were a Republican (which I am sure he would be), then I could guarantee you that 33% of the Deep South would vote for him and not even realize it. We are dealing with a political process that allows dead people to vote. For those out there who have the intelligence to beat a grapefruit at a game of chess, you can even find a away to vote more than once. No one checks! No one cares! The voting process in Iraq is more secure!!! I think the voting process for American Idol is more secure! Hell, while we are at it, I could promise you that more people care about voting for American Idol then they care about who our next president is going to be. Well… maybe they will care after they have voted me into the White House!

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Can’t win in life without your 3 Rs…. well, not if you’re Canadian

Golf clubs, Tampons, and unaided mathematical skill-testing questions. Poor Canadians can’t win at chance, so I sure hope they know their multiplication table!

So I’m using the restroom at work today, and as I always do while I’m in there (besides the obvious), I am reading something.  Now its important to understand that I’m obsessed with reading in the bathroom.  I have gotten to the point where I feel very lost in there without something to read.  I have also noticed that the smaller the type, THE BETTER!  Very often, I have found myself reading the back of the bottle of aspirin, or even the instructions for the ladies OB tampons.

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Silly rabbit, Trix ARE FOR KIDS!

Shame on you General Mills!  Shame on you! I’m in the office the other day, and I receive an email from my boss which discusses advertising to children.  The email, which is actually a copy and paste from Advertising Age, talks about how food companies are circumventing traditional advertising by using new media to target kids directly.

This OBVIOUSLY sparks a huge debate between Dark Prism and I about advertising to children, parental responsibility, and corporate liability. After about 40 minutes of healthy on-the-man’s-clock discussion (oh ya, f@$k da man!), we mention the article-sited millsberry.com (an internet endeavor by General Mills) and I go freakin’ nuts!

What the hell is it with these cereal companies anyway!  Advertising to children? Please, that’s the least of my concerns. How about PROMOTING theft!

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Why we need a zombie uprising.

You ask in a puzzled stupor, “Why would you want a zombie uprising? Wouldn’t that be a bad thing?” I reply, somewhat perturbed, “Of course it wouldn’t be bad! It would be the greatest thing ever!”

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