Like grapefruit, like spices, like weed

MM [walking into Saraveza]: Is there football going on?
JB: Is it Monday? No, it’s Thursday. Sometimes there are Thursday games.
MM: Okay.
JB: Oh, it’s the Blazers! Fourth quarter! We’re up five! Cool. So what did you order?
MM: I don’t know.
JB: What did you ask him for?
MM: I said “your choice.” Now I forget which one it was. Was it the “Monschoff”? I remember it had an old timey name.

65/1000: Pliny the Elder
JB: It was Pliny the Elder. What do you think?
MM: I like it. Is it, what kind of beer is it? Like an IPA?
JB: I don’t know, but I don’t think so. Okay, I looked it up. It’s a “double” or “Imperial” IPA.
MM [falsetto]: Called it!
NN: It’s very citrusy. It tastes like orange peels.
JB: Did you call it?
MM: I said IPA! Read the transcript! And it’s a double, it’s like I called it twice! I’m normally such an IPA weiner, but I like this.
JB: Why do you like it?
MM: I like the tangyness. The orange peel.
JB: The smell of a hoppy beer like this makes me so happy.
MM: The smell is grapefruit. It’s really strong. It smells like it would sting if it got in your eyes.
JB: Well, it might. Let’s find out.
MM: “Excuse me, sir, would you bring us an eyedropper?”
JB: We gotta stop talking about beer for a minute and watch this game. Okay, commercial break and we’re down by one. Let me have some more of that. “Pliny the Elder” … it comes in a bottle, too! I like its weird-looking label.
MM: The name is SO beer-nerdy. Can I try yours, Willow?
JB: What is it?

66/1000: Rogue Younger’s Special Bitter
MM: Rogue ESB… Younger’s Special Bitter.
JB: So, YSB.
MM: It tastes like it has spices in it.
NN: I don’t get that at all. To me, it’s unremarkable. Not a typical ESB… I don’t know.
JB: It has a…
MM: Would you say nutty?
JB: It tastes roasted.
NN: I expected it to taste fuller.
MM: There’s a picture of fire on the bottle, but also of fish. I would say it’s an icon more than a picture.
JB: It’s more drinkable than I thought it would be. I could knock it back. So, let’s taste the Caldera Dry Hop Orange.
67/1000: Caldera Dry Hop Orange
MM: Have we had this before?
JB: Not on 1000 Beers.
MM: I want to say I don’t like the name. Because it makes me think of an orange soda, which preps my taste buds in a way that I am sure will be wrong. [He drinks.] On tasting, I feel like it’s the most complicated of the beers we’ve had this evening.
JB: I was going to say Pliny was, but then the aftertaste on this changed my mind. It’s like taking a ride. It goes a long way.
NN: It tastes like weed.
JB: Like what?
NN: Like weed! Tastes like weed, smells like weed. Aftertaste, not so much like weed. It tastes like weed! Also, I like it.
JB: Having never experienced marijuana, I can’t evaluate that statement, but maybe I would like it, based on this beer.
[Postscript: In a nail-biter, the Trailblazers won the game, on the back of Brandon Roy’s career-best performance, scoring 52 points.]