Welcome to Desert Island X (DID/B)

[MeridianFC]

With a nod to the thread started by Skahtboi, I present (if it hasn't been presented already) the Real Beer Desert Island Disc & Beer Thing.

A short time from now a radical shift happens in the politics, law and culture of the world. For whatever reason you have run afoul of the world body and it is decided that you are to be banished to an island never to return to your home. The Desert Island Relocation Bureau allows that a supply of food and beer will be dropped off for you every week, the only caveat being you can only choose from 10 beers (it's part of the new DIRB-World Brewing Union for Exiles Agreement of 2014). You can choose whatever format you like (keg, cask, bottle, can) but you're stuck with that choice. You can have a different one every week but it can only come from a list of the ten. Proper arrangement for storage and serving the brew have been made. The temperature at your exile site is moderate with slight swings hot and cold in the appropriate season.

Due to mounting pressure from the Friends of Exiles Committe, the DIRB will drop 10 cds off for you to listen to, but they'll do this just once. It has to be a commercically available disc (box set is ok), but there's no hiding extra cd's in the jewel case, making up compilations that don't exist, or going over the limit. A very nice stereo has been provided for you, sorry there's no tv though.

The Bureau is really sorry that it's so hard to make these choices but at least you aren't being sent to the Southern Zone Temperance Re-Education Center.

Please sign here and put on your parachute before boarding the flight to Island X.

[steveh]

If there's no internet connection, we're all sunk!

S.

[MeridianFC]

Before being muscled into the plane and screaming for freedom, I find out about the beer provision and I become as passive as a lamb. Thank goodness for the WBUEA & FEC! I knew there was a reason I voted for president Garrett Oliver in 2012.

Signing my official Beer Drop & Musical Option documents in the 5 minutes I'm given before the flight I opt for:

1. Bitter & Twisted (Harviestoun)
Cask
This will be the session beer to guide me through many a day of fishing on the islands north shore or just sitting around talking to the coconuts. The spicy tea like hop character with hint of malt will have me forget all about where ever the hell it is I came from.

2. Dunkel (Andechs)
Keg
When the weather gets a wee bet colder I'll have this dropped off for sessioning my way through the fall. It'll be great to sup this great malty brew as I take part in the Island Football (Soccer) Championships wherein I am simulataneously in first and last place having beaten/lost to myself for every game. We'll get 'em next year.

3. Pilsener (Brooklyn)
Keg
Ah, the sweet malt and gentle hop of the finely crafted Pilsener (very much indebted to the German version if you ask me) will be good to offer to the friends I've made amongst the island's wildlife. Come her you bastard monkey I'm offering you a feckin' BrookPils............get back here!

4. Our Special Ale (Anchor)
Keg
Come the festive season I'll rejoice that I have the mix of spice and malt that make up one of my favorite beers. The disappointment at receiving coconuts and shells for the umpteenth year running will be washed away in this glass of liquid good cheer.

5. Deuchars IPA (Caledonian)
Cask
Some days I'm sure I'll have a lot of work to get down to what with sweeping up the sand from the floor of the hut, or stacking palm fronds. On those days the gentle hop and silky smootheness will help me through the workaday world.

6. Saison (Dupont)
Bottle
Sunsets in the spring and the fall will call for a essence of orange and corriander, suggestions of straw, and cloudy unfiltered Belgian goodness. Hey vernal and autumnal monsoons don't bother me at all.

7. Moonraker (JW Lees)
Cask
There are going to be times when a good stiff 'un is called for. There's a need for post dinner libation after grilling the last of the shark I've caught. The bastard shark that nearly ate my leg. Ha! I showed you! This rich, roasted malt flavor will have me mellow as I fall asleep under the stars. Or sun. Or whatever.

8. Oerbier (De Dolle)
Bottle
Sour and sweet Belgian brown flavor has me acting as madcap as brewer Kris Herteleer. As I run around the island in my tattered loincloth, the complexity of taste here will having me howling at the moon. In other words business as usual.

9. Back in a Flash (Hambleton)
Cask
Roast malt, firm mouth, crisps hop. Yup, this will do fine. I'll not bother with the signal fire today (no one's going to pick me up anyways).

10. Black Biddy (Biddy Early)
Cask
Deep rich comple roasted stout. I'll pound these while telling the boys....er...the monkeys about the work week. I can't believe I've managed to keep my sanity this long. Now where in the hell did I put my Mary Ann made out of banana skins?

CD air drop:

1. 1975 - Bothy Band
2. London Calling - the Clash
3. Handful of Earth - Dick Gaughan
4. 1962-1966 - Beatles
5. Rockers (soundtrack) - Various
6. She's Gotta Have It - Bill Lee
7. Original Masters - Steeleye Span
8. Murmur - REM
9. Satie Pieces pour guitarre - Lanieau
10. All the Best - Stiff Little Fingers

[MeridianFC]

Originally posted by steveh
If there's no internet connection, we're all sunk!

S.

President Keanu Reaves does away with the internet in 2010.

[hops99]

Keanu? Whoa!

[chazwicke]

This is a very tough topic. I love reading other peoples DIDs in magazines but would be hard pressed to come up with a final list of my own. It would undoubtedly contain Beatles, Beachboys, XTC, Rain Parade, probably some Dead. Kirsty McKoll. Maybe some Sinatra. Well how about 10 discs from each catagory of music because I have not even gotten to jazz, blues, world, ....

As for beer, I admire your choices of Bitter and Twisted and the Duchers. I would probably add Coniston and Woodefordes Wherry And Harviestoun Schiehallen (sp).
I would need Schlenkerla and Oude Beersel Gueuze and Kriek (they would have to start brewing again) Way too hard decision.

[Theakston]

Ten brews:
1. Cantillon Gueuze bottle
2. Rodenbach Grand Cru bottle
3. Timothy Taylor Landlord Cask
4. Theakston Old Peculier Cask
5. Westvleteren 12 bottle
6. Orval bottle
7. Fantome Saison bottle
8. Alagash white keg
9. Victory Hop Devil cask?
10. Brooklyn Lager keg

Ten Tunes:
1. Frank Zappa Hot Rats
2. Captain Beefheart Troutmask Replica
3. Weather Report Black Market
4. Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
5. Miles Davis Jack Johnson
6. St. Germain Tourist
7. Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy
8. Family Bandstand
9. Bob Marley Songs of freedom
10. Radiohead OK computer

[chazwicke]

Hot Rats is my favorite Zappa album too. Love Peaches en Regalia. The finest Zappa song period. And I have ALL his stuff.

[chazwicke]

And I like Gaucho by Steely Dan best.

[Theakston]

Originally posted by chazwicke
And I like Gaucho by Steely Dan best.

They're all good. But I think they were at their best with Skunk Baxter on guitar. They were an actual touring band at that time. I saw them in Manchester and they blew me away.
It's funny how on most of these selections I have many albums by the artist but the one I picked is in almost every case the first one I heard by them. I guess that first "wow what the F@#$ is that!" stays with you for a long time.

[chazwicke]

I have an old Cd Hoops McCan plays Steely Dan. It was covers of many of their tunes by the studio musicians who played with Becker and Fagen. Excellent!

[Beaver]

Beer:
Anchor OSA
New Belgium 1554
Odells 90 Shilling
New Belgium Frambozen
Coopersmith's - Black Powder Barleywine
Great Lakes - Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Great Divide - Hibernation Ale
Avery - Old Jubilation Ale
Odells Isolation Ale
Chimay Bleu

I guess it's pretty much holidays all the time! I've got lots of beers to try so this will be an ever changing list. Can I have a rotating tap? :)


CDs:
Damien Rice - O
Radiohead - OK Computer
Portishead - Dummy
Son Volt - Trace
Patty Griffin - Living With Ghosts
Dave Matthew - Live at Luther College
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Counting Crows - Across A Wire: Live In New York City
Led Zeppelin - Box Set

[paul84043]

This thread is really funny, I only have one question to the original poster.....
What in the hell made you think of this? Is this some kind of ongoing thing that I missed somewhere, or are you really as bizarre as it appears???


I think I could live happily with ten different types of beer, my problem is that I drink mostly my own and not store bought, so I really have no idea how to list them other than by style.

[MeridianFC]

Originally posted by paul84043
This thread is really funny, I only have one question to the original poster.....
What in the hell made you think of this? Is this some kind of ongoing thing that I missed somewhere, or are you really as bizarre as it appears???

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
-Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

I don't think I'm all that bizarre. I was just curious if people were forced into a decision about favorite brews what they'd pick. Obviously there is no real world scenario where what I described could happen and most folks would rightly be reticent to pick a limited number of beers so I set up the above impossible (improbable?) scenario. It's a bit of a laugh, as they say. It's all made up.

Except for the part about me speaking to monkeys and coconuts.

[paul84043]

At least coconuts won't throw their poop at you!!

I find this thread as entertaining as it is bizarre!

:D

[skahtboi]

Somewhere in the Black Hills of South Dakota:

There lives a young boy by name of Rocky Raccoon. Code name for me, who is heading up the resistance movement to overthrow the world regieme.

[chazwicke]

Rocky said: "Im gonna get that boy!"

[S.F.B.]

I have a hard time coming up with lists like this. Every time I think I have good choices I remember another beer that should be on the list.
If pressed I guess I would have to got with these:

Fuller's Porter
Odell's 90 Schilling
Boon Framboise
MacTarnahan's Gran Luxe Tripel
Anchor Old Foghorn Barley Wine
Hair of the Dog Fred
Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Deschutte's Obsidean Stout
Pyramid Snow Cap
Bridgeport IPA

Those are in no particular order and definitely not all I wanted to put on the list.

I can do without any music since I will have the sound of the ocean and wind in the palm trees.

[chazwicke]

I'm hoping to soon have that sound of the ocean in my ears. I have been looking for property in Ocean City, MD for a couple of months. Ocean City is conveniently near Rehobeth Beach, home of Dogfish Head. :)

[skahtboi]

Originally posted by chazwicke
I'm hoping to soon have that sound of the ocean in my ears. I have been looking for property in Ocean City, MD for a couple of months. Ocean City is conveniently near Rehobeth Beach, home of Dogfish Head. :)

Ah ha!!! A supply line for the resistance movement!!!