Victory's New Year Round Lager

Well, if they weren't selling, people wouldn't make them. But now that you mention it, I do feel like the dip in "session ipas" might have coincided with the rise of craft lagers. As I mentioned earlier, this Victory beer didn't feel like an "IPL" to me on first impression. Personally, I feel like the distinction in drinking an IPL vs an IPA is much smaller than the distinction in drinking a new-world-hopped craft pilsner vs a "session IPA" (especially if those IPLs/IPAs reach above 8%) But since I don't drink tons of these beers, my input on the matter will be lacking compared to many other users here.

 

Being image driven I don't think marketers even consider the etymology of a thing. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet but the same old rose with a new image could be more profitable.

As for Nouveau Pilsner I'll drink it at least once.

 

Baton Rouge is an easier sell than Red Stick any day!

 

So named by the 18th century French fur traders traveling up the Mississippi River who rounded a bend and saw the "red stick" which was a sizable pole set on a high promontory and painted red with blood. Basically a large sign for a preliterate society telling others to stay on your side of the river.

I live in Oktibbeha County named after Tibbe Creek which was the dividing line between hunting grounds of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. In both languages Tibbe roughly translates into "bloody border" and meant if you're not of our tribe don't cross the creek.

This relates to beer because they all drank it. Well, a type of beer made from corn yet being grain based and containing alcohol I'll call it beer which speaks to the ingenuity of man and universal appeal of beer worldwide going back to ancient cultures.

I say all except for those Gaulois traders who, being French, probably toted along a few barrels of wine.

 

I love it. I don't suppose there were many collaborations and shares of that corn brew betwixt the Choctaw and Chickasaw peoples? I wonder if they experimented with pumpkins?

 

Clampett was just molding our perspectives -- our observation skills at a very fertile age. I think he'd be proud that we carried that into "adulthood."

Now Avery, there was a mind-bender!

 

Oh yeah.They didn't eat frogs though until after the French showed up.