How it's Made: Airline Food

Fascinating... Watching this makes me want to jump on a plane and travel the world.

Top 25 Beers of 2009

It's that time of year again where I rate the top 25 beers I have drank, out of the many brews that I have tried throughout 2009. Click on the link to see what my exact thoughts were on the beer. What new beers have you tried that are awesome? Leave me a comment.

	Beer	Style	My Rating
1	Saint Arnold Christmas Ale	English Strong Ale	4.2
2	Deschutes Black Butte Porter	Porter	4.2
3	Unibroue Éphémère Apple	Fruit Beer	4.2
4	Orval	Belgian Ale	4.1
5	Big Sky Moose Drool Brown Ale	Brown Ale	4.1
6	Saint Arnold Winter Stout	Stout	4.1
7	SKA Modus Hoperandi IPA	India Pale Ale (IPA)	4
8	Avery The Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest	Oktoberfest/Märzen	4
9	Wolavers Pat Leavys All-American Ale	Amber Ale	4
10	Leinenkugels Classic Amber	Premium Lager	4
11	Duvel	Belgian Strong Ale	4
12	Magic Hat Roxy Rolles	Amber Ale	3.9
13	Silver City Whoop Pass Double IPA	Imperial/Double IPA	3.9
14	Tommyknocker Pick Axe Pale Ale	English Pale Ale	3.9
15	Spaten München Dunkel	Dunkel	3.9
16	Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale	American Pale Ale	3.8
17	Anderson Valley Boont Amber Ale	Amber Ale	3.8
18	Widmer Brothers Drifter Pale Ale	American Pale Ale	3.8
19	Sterkens White Ale	Belgian White (Witbier)	3.8
20	Brooklyn Lager	Vienna	3.8
21	Samuel Smiths Winter Welcome Ale	English Strong Ale	3.7
22	Lagunitas Censored (Kronik)	American Strong Ale	3.7
23	Southampton Altbier	Altbier	3.7
24	Lefebvre Floreffe Wit	Belgian White (Witbier)	3.7
25	Lagunitas New DogTown Pale Ale	American Pale Ale	3.7

Chocolate Lava Cakes

I keep seeing these Domino's Pizza commercials where they have this new molten lava cake for sale. Never one to back down from a culinary challenge, I thought I would find a recipe that I could copy. I'm going to try making the cakes from the video below. I'll let you know how they come out.

How to Make Chocolate Lava Cakes

Man Fired for Eating a Taco

Only in my hometown of San Antonio, can this be considered a serious issue. God, I love my town.

Carol of the Burgers

Angry Jimmy Dean Sausage Customer

Yea! A second Brewpub is opening up in town...

It's about friggin' time... Freetail will be closer to me so I'll probably be frequenting it more than the other Brewpub in town, Blue Star.

25 Best Beers In America

Men's Journal has come out with their 3rd annual 25 Best Beers in America. Sadly, I have only tasted one on the list, #16 Sam Adams Black Lager which was damn good BTW.

Update 08/04/07: I was able to taste two more beers, #2 Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
and #5 Avery Mephistopheles' Stout. Dogfish IPA was awesome but the Avery was a bit too sweet for my taste. I prefer my stouts with a coffee or bitter dark chocolate taste to them.

Ceviche

I had the most awesome ceviche this past weekend. we went to this trendy Latin restaurant here in town and man was it ever good! The restaurant serves over 100 different rums! I had a Mt. Gay XO Barbados on the rocks, that was totally worth the $16 for the shot. Back to the Ceviche, I ordered the seared tuna ceviche which was delicious. Of course this was a culinary challenge that I had to face. So I tried it at home.

Here is my recipe for Yellowfin Tuna Ceviche:

1 1/4 lbs Yellowfin Tuna
1/4 cup Lime Juice
1/4 cup Lemon Juice
1/4 cup Texas Rio Red Grapefruit Juice
2 Roma Tomatoes diced
1/4 cup Cilantro chopped
1/4 cup diced onion
1 Clove Garlic minced
Sea Salt & Freshly Ground Pepper to taste

Mix everything and let it mariniate in the fridge for about 1-2 hours. Serve with Tortilla Chips and ice cold Mexican Beer (preferebly Pacifico Clara or Negra Modelo). Thank me later...