Werewolf beer...

I love Quebec. I love beer. I love Quebec beer. Its all so simple. However, this past weekend my love has been called into question. I was helping a friend move, because the week before and the week after July 1st everyone is moving (see last blog in June for more details.) So anyhow, as custom dictates the movee will reward the mover with beer and food. In this case, there was no normal beer at the store and so we got beer from a small micro-brewery in Quebec City. The beer itself was all right, but the labeling and packaging left much to be desired. It is a horrible idea, but I have to admit drinking werewolf beer is pretty damn funny!

Anyhow, Grimousse is a play on words from the company name Grimoire... (the beer is a red beer so in french it would be a "rousse" and there is foam in the beer and in french that is called "mousse.") Why they chose a werewolf for a label, I have no clue. Absolutely none! This company has other "different" types of names for their beers. For example: L'Armure (which is armour), Ivrest (Everest), Hawaienne (with a bikinied girl on the label), and La Noire Soeur (the Black Nun... which is a play on words in french... the phoenetic sound of Noir Soeur means darkness). So basically we have these trippy beer names. And I am OK with people getting creative with the names. However this beer takes the extra step to add on some weird poem/prose on the label. The french is just as bad as the english translation... have a look:

"Damned to wander in obscurity

Such is his fate for being different

No one could see what is.

Day and night, he prowls; a shadow.

His look dazes those he encounters.

But do not fear, for he can be tamed.

Indulge him and you will see the truth.

When you are ready to whisper his name,

You will be different from the others,

For the legend will be eternal.

His aroma will be unique.

His silhouette will be fearsome for others."

What kind of acid was this guy on? Its a beer people!!! Its a beer with a werewolf on the label!!!! What name am I whispering? What aroma am I sniffing? What are the marketing guys sniffing? What am I indulging to learn the truth? Indulging in too much of the product before it leaves the warehouse most likely.

Anyhow... I found this really funny and bizarre at the same time!

RRRRRAAAAAANNNNNNNTTTTTT!!!!

Following in the footsteps of some blogging greats, I have decided to get a few rants off my chest....

- Moving Day in Quebec....

This is probably my biggest rant as everyone in Montreal is temporarily homeless on the 1st of July. Well not everyone, but almost... The whole city goes nuts as people are moving from one appartment to the next. The majority of leases are up on the 1st of July, so the night before you have to be packed up and out by morning onto your new domicile. We are like crazy-ass nomads. Nomads do it all the time, but their lifestyle facilitates their frequent moves. Try moving awkwardly shaped armoires with no hand holds that are made of the heaviest woods imaginable up a narrow flight of twisty stairs. It sucks. Everyone is moving, no one can come help you move, all the moving trucks are rented...

Do-gooders of the world! Come to Montreal and help people move!!!

I think its a big conspiracy to get Montrealers to forget Canada Day... I know I haven't truly celebrated it in years because of this issue!!!


- white-suburban homeboys

I dont get it... why do people think this is cool? When white kids dress up in really big clothes and then act all tough and make life difficult for others. (I feel so ridiculously old as I type this. Ya know? Like one of those old guys yelling at technology from his rocking chair on the front porch). I dont know why it bothers me so much. But to see them posturing wearing althletic wear when they aren't athletes or fans. Can you name me one person on the New York Yankees? Because based on the amount of NY gear you are wearing you should own the team. Can you even tell me what sport they play? I think its just a great waste of generation... They are ripping off someone else's lifestyle... live your own!


- tank top undershirts (aka wifebeaters)

Unfortunately not everyone can pull off this look. I cant... not a chance... so I dont do it. Unless you are guy that is really jacked and in shape or an attractive girl (cause that is really hot looking) do not wear these as an outershirt! The only exception to this rule is if you are a really, really, really fat guy. Cause at that point you can wear whatever the hell you want... it can look cool or funny. Either way... I am amused. In between guys.... you just look like rejects from an early 90's boy band audition. Sorry... someone has got to tell you.


I am a horrible and shallow person for letting these things get to me... what can i do? Forgive me people!