Landshark Lager

Oh Jimmy.  Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy… (shaking my head) stick to music and adventure novels, please.

To be fair, I did try this after downing a bottle of Samuel Adam’s Triple Bock.  First sip was miserably horrid, and so I went and cleansed my palate with some peanut butter.  Came back to it, found it not that bad … put some lime and a bit of salt in it, and found it drinkable.

But really, if I wanted a Corona, I would buy a Corona.  Because really, obviously, that’s what this is.  It’s a Corona with Jimmy Buffet’s Margaretville branding on it.

Jimmy does have at least one good connection, however, to good beer … he was good friends with the late Hunter S. Thompson, and Hunter Thompson of course has close ties to Colorado’s Flying Dog brewery.  Or at least he did before they sold out.

That association doesn’t come though with this beer, though.  I suppose if I were in a boat in Florida right now, instead of freezing my goddamn ass off in Illinois, I’d be much more in the mood to drink a tropical beer that’s a rip off of Corona with a famous musician’s name stamped on it.  But I have to tell you, if I want a tropical beer I’m reaching for a Phuket Lager from Thailand.  That is some truly good tropical beer.

I feel somewhat obligated to proclaim Landshark groovy, at least by association.  But take that in the context it is intended.  I like Jimmy Buffet, and I used to love the old Landshark skits on Saturday Night Life.