Beer Review: Bud Light Lime

Let me just say that by no means am I an expert on beer, nor can I even claim to be a beer aficionado. I'm young still so anything that gets me buzzed, I appreciate. But I do know enough to know what I like. My all-time favorite beer is Corona, and in the summertime, lime and salt are ideal. I enjoy hefeweizens, ales, and lagers. But nothing beats a Corona with lime and salt.

They say that the best inventions are the ones that make you go, "Well, why didn't I think of that myself?" Budweiser certainly has the right idea by adding lime to their Bud Light to try and cater to consumers in the summer. Miller Chill and Rising Moon from Blue Moon are already lime-flavored, so of course Anheuser-Busch is going to throw their hat into the mix.

Last night was the first time I've ever had Bud Light Lime, so I decided to pay a little more attention to the details. I opened it and smelled a very slight hint of lime. I took a sip and then a swig. The lime flavor overpowers the beer taste and it basically tastes like lime juice with a hint of beer. Lime taste when you're drinking it and then a lingering lime taste after you set the beer down. Even my burp tasted like lime. A little overdone with the lime if you ask me. The thing about beer companies making drinks like this is that, lime is originally an additive. People know how much lime they like in their beer and it varies from person to person. When a company tries to define what a beer should taste like, it's going to be a hit or miss with the original consumers. But despite my apathy for this beer, it happens to be a very popular drink. To each his own. Maybe I will do more beer reviews as I get my hands on more flavors.

In the words of the great Tucker Max, it tastes like "watered-down horse piss," with a hint of lime. Was this beer able to replace the traditional corona and lime for me? Not by a long shot. Here's a tribute to my favorite beer:

Corona & Lime - Shwayze

R.I.P Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died today. No lie, he was my first favorite artist when I was younger. My first CD that I listened to regularly was his HIStory album. The first concert I saw, even if it was on Pay Per View, was Michael Jackson's concert.

I first heard the news from Charlee. He was on his phone and he said, "Oh shit, Michael Jackson is dead." I thought it was just a rumor. Then I got texts from my sister and friends telling me that Michael Jackson was dead. I came home to read the articles and it was indeed true, Michael Jackson is dead. Just writing this blog is so surreal. The weird thing is, only yesterday on the way to Del Mar Fair, we were in Bryce's car bumping Michael Jackson. The announcements were all over XM Radio and all the stations were playing music by Michael Jackson.

I really don't have much to say on this matter except, my prayers and thoughts go out to him and his family, especially his kids. Today, a legend died. Rest in Peace, MJ.

Though I loved his old music, this is my favorite song from him.

Del Mar Fair

The only reason why I call it Del Mar Fair is because I'm not used to calling it the San Diego County Fair. But people who refuse to call it SD Fair for the sake of being a San Diego purist or whatever need to shut the fuck up, seriously.

Anyways, woke up today and just chilled till Manny, Bryce, Wes and his lil sis Melanie arrived at my house. Decided to wake up early and work out a little harder than usual, in anticipation of the massive calorie intake that was about to happen at the Fair haha. We all met up my house and got to the Fair at about 1:30. We walked around for a bit because Wes and Bryce were looking for rattlesnake. They served rattlesnake like two years ago but it hasn't been around since then. Manny and I got impatient and we were like "Fuck you guys, we're going to get deep-fried White Castle." Bryce joined us and we went to Chicken Charlie's, which is officially my favorite food booth at the Fair.

We walked around for a bit, met up with Wes and Melanie after they ate. Manny was hell bent on checking out the "beer gardens" so we decided to go. We ended up at a place where we listened to a live band and Manny drank a beer in a garden haha. But the actual garden of beer that Manny was trying to hit up was across the way and we went to the wrong one haha. We walked around for a bit looking at vendors and then we started looking at the art exhibit, which had yearbooks and drawings, paintings and photographs from students from schools across San Diego. We kept comparing Westview and Mt. Carmel, and Westview had too many 1st place and Mt. Carmel had 2nd or 3rd place ribbons. We got bored of Westview owning MC, so we went and got more food. Manny, Bryce and I went back to Chicken Charlie's and got more food. They have too much good stuff. This time around though, we got a Krispy Kreme Chicken Sandwich and it was awesome as well.

After that heart attack in a tray, we wanted to try chocolate covered bacon before we went home. When we got it, it wasn't what we were expecting. It's bacon covered in chocolate, but it's frozen. We ate it and it just tasted like toffee. I was looking forward to having a taste bud adventure but I was utterly disappointed. As we were walking to the exit, I look to my left and see a guy I recognized. It was Quentin Jammer of the San Diego Chargers! He walked by and I was like "Oh shit, that's Quentin Jammer!" He stopped and Bryce and I followed him and asked for a picture. He shook his head and I didn't hear what he said, but I assumed it was a no and I said "Ok that's cool" and started to walk away. He was like "Wait, I said I don't mind." So we took a picture with Quentin Jammer! Made my day.

On the way home, we stopped by Westview, Bryce's, Manny's and my old high school. Walked around for a bit and reminisced. The school continues to change for the better. WV > MC. Looking forward to the potluck tomorrow at Coronado Beach that MY LIL SIS SANDI DODD IS IN CHARGE OF. Haha, so proud of her. Boss fams.

Deep-Fried White Castle

Krispy Kreme Chicken Sandwich

Quentin Jammer

Everyone else

Westview

Optimus Prime Is My Hero

Yesterday, Bryce, Manny and I headed down to BJ's for Jen Casal's Birthday Dinner. Happy Birthday, Jen! Manny and I split on a "BJ's Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza" and I swear it tasted like an In-n-Out Double Double, but in pizza form. We were in a rush to get out of there though because we were trying to get in line for Transformers. We bought our tickets in advance to the Mira Mesa Edwards and we were trying to get in line before 10:30, but the waitress was making it unnecessarily difficult to pay our bill. We could have left at 9:50 but we didn't leave till 10:15, thus we missed getting in line and not being able to sit next to some bRhos.

We finally got inside and it turned out that my ticket was in theater 9 and Bryce and Manny were in theater 18, and the theater staff would not let anyone switch. So for a bit it looked like I was going to watch the movie all by myself haha. But Mary was there and she had a friend who had an extra "theater 18" ticket, so I was able to watch it with people haha.

Let me just say, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are complete badasses in the second movie, especially Optimus Prime. It seemed like he destroyed every Decepticon that ran up or even got close to him. Transformers fans would love this movie, but even if you think it looks interesting, watch it. You won't regret it.

I Bought Manny a Blowjob for His Birthday

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Tony's Birthday

Today was my bRho Tony Lao's 21st Birthday at Phil's BBQ. It was the first time I've ever been to Phil's and it won't be the last. I got the half rack of ribs with a side of fries and cole slaw. I really wish I took a picture of my food but I was pretty much done with it before I even remembered to take a picture haha. Let me talk about the food real quick:

The meat is literally "fall of the bone." I picked the ribs up and the meat was hanging off the bone. The sweet and tangy sauce was perfectly married to the meat. The meat was so soft and tender that I didn't even need a toothpick after. I should be their spokesman.

Anyways, I picked Manny up and we headed down to Phil's near Sports Arena at around 6PM. Saw some of the San Marcos heads that I haven't seen in a while. We all had dinner and it was really good, we had the outdoor patio area. We all hung out outside of the restaurant for a good 30mins trying to figure out what we were going to do. Finally we all decided to go to Min Sok Chon to get a room for karaoke.

The night ended at Droth's house where we all just sat outside and talked. I always love the spontaneous nights. Well, I mean, Tony's was planned. But everything else after was fun.

Group Picture at the end of the night. Gamma Chapter and Ms. Gail

Racist Commercial

So KFC has been showing a new commercial with a bunch of people arguing whether grilled chicken or fried chicken is better, finally with KFC announcing that customers can get both in a mix and match bucket. Did anyone else notice the couple of Asian sushi chefs? I wouldn't say that their characters are necessarily racist, but their outfits and accents allude to the fact that Asians are foreigners and typically dress that way. At first glance, their outfits looks like karate gi's with one of them wearing a japanese rising sun headband. How stereotypical does that get? Why couldn't they show an Asian American in jeans and a shirt arguing with another guy in jeans and a shirt? As if the yellow skin and chinky eyes didn't already set me off to them being asian, they needed to be dressed in sushi chef outfits. Good job, KFC. I'm surprised you don't sell corn bread, watermelon or purple kool-aid.

Zack Morris is REAL

I was watching Jimmy Fallon last night and the guide said "Mark-Paul Gossellaar" as the special guest. I was kind of whatever because I guessed he was just going to talk about his show "Raising the Bar" but when I heard Fallon introduce him and I heard a school bell, I immediately thought of Zack Morris. Then Mark-Paul Gossellar came out as Zack Morris and I started to crack up. It was like watching 2Pac come back to life. The interview is hilarious! Jimmy Fallon is actually trying to do a "Saved by the Bell" reunion on his show. I can't wait for that.

Summer 2009

This summer has been going great so far. I hope that this summer lives up to Summer 2007, which was the best summer I've ever had. I just survived my first year in college, just crossed over into a Fraternity. I was hitting up the beach at least twice a week and I had a summer fling of sorts. Went to the the club every other week. It was just great to be alive during that Summer.

This summer, I just finished my third year in college, I am the incoming president of my Fraternity at Gamma Chapter. Haven't hit up the beach or gone to the club yet, and a summer fling is no where in sight haha. But the way the summer has gone so far, I feel like it's going to be a good one. I really want to buy a camera soon so I can make this blog more interesting.

I'll try to write about more interesting stuff as it comes to me.

Updates

So I barely ever write in this blog haha, but I really would like to try and keep up, maybe come up on a camera soon.

My last blog talked about the beginning of the semester and Financial Accounting. Well, I did decent this past semester. I got a B+ in Accounting! The rest of my grades were: B in Literature, B in History, C in Business Calculus. Thank God that Bus Calc is going to be my last math class, at least my last hard math class haha.

I've been working out all semester, and though I didn't reach my goal of 160 by the end of May, I got pretty close. I've lost 27 pounds thus far and I'm feeling great haha.

Starting Weight: 195

Update: 187

Currently at: 168