Beer of the Week

The beer: Sauron's Nightlight

Brewed by: Brick & Feather Brewery, Turners Falls, Massachusetts

Description (from Untappd): "A (very) Robust Porter, packed with roasted malts. At 8% ABV, we taste tons of coffee, dark chocolate, and some dried fruits, complimented by a huge body."

Would I buy it again? "But they were, all of them, deceived, for another beer was made." I'm disappointed that this came from a random small little brewery 500 miles away, because this is honestly one of the best porters I've had. The malt taste is perfect, and there's a hint of chocolately sweetness, but not too much. Hopefully Sauron's beer doesn't have the same magical property as his ring, or I'm going to be doing my best Gollum impression very soon. It's the precious, and we wants it.

Uh oh.

Thoughts on the Second Hobbit Movie

So, I've seen The Desolation of Smaug twice now, and to be honest, I'm not sure what I think of it.  I mean, I enjoyed watching it, but I'm not sure how good it actually is.  Now, while I love The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, I'm not a diehard Tolkien fan.  Tom Bombadil was absolutely the worst part of the Lord of the Rings, which I talked about here.  It's not the fact that they added a lot of new stuff, it's a movie, not the book, I expect it to be different.  That's what adaptation means.  I'm just not sure the new stuff was done all that well.  I think I actually liked the first movie better, because while there was some stuff added, it was all related to the original plot.  There weren't any new subplots between a female elf and one of the dwarves.  The first movie was the first 140 pages of the book expanded into movie form.  This movie was...I don't know, but it wasn't what I wanted.  Two movies would have worked for this, but we needed to get three, because money.  Oh well.