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Gallup Survey: U.S. Obesity Rate Climbs to 27% in 2013
Highest rate in Gallup's 6-year tracking history (February 27)
In the U.S., 27.1% of adults were obese in 2013, the highest rate measured since Gallup and Healthways began tracking in 2008. The obesity rate increased by nearly a full percentage point over the average rate of 26.2% found in 2012. As more Americans moved into the obese category in 2013, slightly fewer Americans were classified as overweight or as normal weight.
The World Health Organization classifies a body mass index (BMI) of 30.00 or higher into one of three classes of obesity:
- Obese class I = 30.00 to 34.99
- Obese class II = 35.00 to 39.99
- Obese class III = 40.00 or higher
Those with BMIs of 40 or higher (obese class III) are often considered to be "morbidly obese." According to Americans' self-reports of height and weight, the percentage of morbidly obese individuals has been slowly rising since 2011, and is now the highest Gallup has recorded, at 3.8%.
The percentage of Americans in obese class II has also been on the rise, reaching a record high of 6.3% in 2013. The percentages in obese class I have varied, but the 17.1% who fall into this group matches the highest rate recorded since tracking began. Thus, the overall increase in obesity in 2013 reflects an upward shift among all three obesity groups, the survey finds.
The results were based on telephone interviews conducted as part of the Gallup–Healthways Well-Being Index survey from January 2 to December 29, 2013, with a random sample of 178,072 adults, aged 18 years and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Source: Gallup; February 27, 2014.
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Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe
Dundurn, 2006 - Literary Criticism - 223 pages
What do Superman, Prince Valiant, Cerebus the Aardvark, and Spawn have in common? Their creators ? Joe Shuster, Harold Foster, Dave Sim, and Todd McFarlane are Canadians. And while many of the cutting-edge talents of contemporary comix and graphic novels are also from Canada ? artists such as Chester Brown, Seth, Dave Cooper, and Julie Doucet ? far too few Canadians realize their country had a remarkable involvement with the "funnies" long before.
Invaders from the North profiles past and present comic geniuses, sheds light on unjustly neglected chapters in Canada's pop history, and demonstrates how this nation has vaulted to the forefront of international comic art, successfully challenging the long-established boundaries between high and low culture. Generously illustrated with black-and-white and colour comic covers and panels, Invaders from the North serves up a cheeky, brash cavalcade of flamboyant and outrageous personalities and characters that graphically attest to Canada's verve and invention in the world of visual storytelling.
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A fantastic summary and history of the Canadian Comic Scene from the creators who started it all for Canada, and the creators who've kept our individual imprint "alive". Lots of information is packed ... Read full review
Without John Bell the history of Canadian comics wouldn't exist. Essentially his third book on the subject, it is one of few that make up the reference collection on the subject and includes everything from small press artists and authors to the epic writers such as Rand Holmes, Chester Brown and Dave Sim. Due to his years of collecting and documenting, John Bell has certainly put together what may have never been, a definitive and concise history of all things comic related. On top of that, it reads fantastic.
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Alan Smithee Podcast 95: Island of Lost Souls (1932, Erle C. Kenton) / The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996, John Frankenheimer)
Alan Smithee Podcast 94: The Invisible Man (1933, James Whale) / Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992, John Carpenter)
Alan Smithee Podcast 88: Judge Dredd (1995, Danny Cannon) & Dredd (2012, Pete Travis)
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In this episode of An Alan Smithee Podcast, we travel to the grim n' gritty future of Mega City One for two very different takes on the beloved 2000 A.D. comic character Judge Dredd. One is abysmal, the other is awesome! Can you guess which is which?
Alan Smithee Podcast 79: Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956, Ishiro Honda & Terry O. Morse) / Godzilla (1998, Roland Emmerich)
Why is a giant humanoid rampaging through a city such a potent vision of apocalypse? In the best case scenario for humanity, such a giant could be like an unknowing child, wreaking havoc on a world his brain doesn't comprehend. A particular scene in the trailer for the long-forgotten sequel Honey I Blew Up the Kid frightened me as a child: as the parents are lifted up inside a car by their now-gargantuan toddler, they scream "No honey, don't eat us!" The thought of being brought to your destruction by something unknowing and possibly indifferent was, and is, unsettling on a cosmic scale. King Kong, the grandaddy of movie giants understood this. His tale is a clash between primitive id and a New York City recently modernized by the showbiz glitz and mechanical industriousness of the 1920s. The flappers and hucksters were brutally reminded that still there be monsters in the recently departed old world.
Godzilla was different from all that, emerging directly from the folly of men as a visceral gut punch and rumination on the new definition of mass destruction, after World War II went out with two bangs. This monster doesn't just destroy Tokyo, he dwarfs it. His appearance is like a bipedal dragon, a cold-blooded demonic reptile beyond even the temptations of pretty blonde things that ultimately felled the beast Kong. The original Japanese film is all of these things and a lot more. Unfortunately, the heavily recut American version with Ray Milland (as the distractingly named reporter Steve Martin) makes soup out of Gojira's narrative while Rosie Grier's other head looks offscreen and pretends he's listening to Japanese actors. The tone barely survives and the subtext is reduced to the most minimal lip service, but certainly this was heady stuff for American audiences used to the oft-goofy giant bug flicks of the 1950s.
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! is useful as a cultural history lesson and nothing else when the original cut is available from Criterion.
The 1998 American film of Godzilla is surely one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse for Hollywood Summer movies in the late 90s, bestride Batman and Robin, The Phantom Menace and, I've recently been convinced, Blues Brothers 2000. Roland Emmerich's film is kind of like a bad sitcom pilot with a two hour giant monster movie attached, and it's hard to say which component is worse. The ridiculous "human" story is an ensemble of decent actors in horrifically written and miscast non-roles, and whose banter is so achingly self-congratulatory and smug that Emmerich actually pauses between jokes to leave the audience time to laugh. The scenes with Godzilla himself weren't even impressive for the day, and today they're somewhere on par with a Sci-Fi Channel original movie about a dinosaur-gorilla hybrid or some such thing.
Kicking a dead horse isn't hard when it's the size of a building, and by the end of this episode there's barely enough rubber left on our sneakers.
Alan Smithee Podcast 75: Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma) / The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999, Katt Shea)
For a long time, Carrie was a title that evoked a reaction from perhaps more non-fans than fans of the genre, and this is the highest compliment you can pay the authors. The name conjures a very broad idea of high school, with many variations depending on one's personal memories of that time in their lives, all retaining the common thread of inherent hellishness within the walls of that mythologized American institution. Who among us (who are reading this) has not at one time imagined themselves the social scapegoat of their entire school, and subsequently imagined themselves the avenging angel of the prom that Sissy Spacek became?
Carrie was not merely the first horror film to deal with the unpleasantness of high school, but one of the first American films, period. Incredibly, the film includes John Travolta a mere two years before he helped heap on more of the same bullshit about the best years of our lives in Grease, nearly undoing all the pig-killing work he accomplished for Brian De Palma. As a film, Carrie is so damned good that even though every single detail has been parodied and referenced relentlessly in the past 35 years, it detracts not one whit from the viewing experience. This is the highest and rarest compliment you can pay to anything enmeshed in mass pop culture unconsciousness.
A shame then that Carrie does not enjoy the same reverence it once did for so long, even amongst horror fans. Whatever cache it once held has depleted and wouldn't you know, there's a remake on the way to rewrite history for the young unknowing. Tragically the film has suffered a fate cousin to the pain of the bullied – the pain of anonymity.
Before the anonymity, there was an intervening period of post-Scream quasi-recognition for young movie fans: those weird years of normalization when the New Horror of the 70s became accepted and dulled by the mainstream. This was a time of opportunistic revivalist sequels: if a Scream fan was likely to at least have heard of Carrie, some executive somewhere reasoned, then why not make a sequel? Whatever shallow inspirations led to the production of The Rage: Carrie 2, you can at least say on it's behalf that unlike filmmakers in the modern era of soulless remakes, the authors of this poor sequel at least had some kind of reverence for the original. That doesn't translate to a good film because unfortunately, the authors were also idiots. They bring back Amy Irving as Sue Snell from part one and, her for exposition and carelessly discard her.
Worse than being stupid, The Rage is also sorely bland. The influence of TV on film can be seen plainly going from Carrie 1 to 2 – for all of De Palma's visual glossiness, the high school of Carrie felt like it could be a real place. The school of Carrie 2 is a WB (CW now) teen drama, down to each melodramatic story point and especially Carrie 2 herself, who is conventionally attractive and nothing at all like Spacek's wonderfully awkward misfit.
Incidentally, The Rage: Carrie 2 came out the same year as the Freddie Prinze Jr classic, She's All That. Both films are alike in their basic teen-soap logic that all an attractive girl needs to do to be made over into someone even more attractive is take off her glasses. They really should've been the same movie, with Rachel Leigh Cook torching the big dance at the end. They could've just made a film of the infamous Carrie: The Musical.
Alan Smithee Podcast 72: Mannequin Two: On The Move (1991, Stewart Raffill) audio commentary track
This week on An Alan Smithee Podcast we return to a magnificent obsession that began with our first good-movie / bad-movie episode, the wonderful world of Mannequin. In keeping with that milestone, this is also our first non-special commentary track. Yes, we just did one for Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 but that was for Christmas and this isn't for National William Ragsdale Appreciation Month or anything.
The first Mannequin is sort of fondly remembered by pubescent fans of the very non-threatening Andrew McCarthy. What pubescent girl is going to dream of William Ragsdale? This is an important question as the target audience for the McCarthy-less Mannequin Two surely must have been undiscriminating girls being taken by their moms to the Saturday matinee. Or Andrew Wickliffe, whom it turns out was at such a screening in the unholy year of 1991. Even Kim Cattrall knew to stay away from this one, much to the chagrin of Crow T. Robot, since she can always brighten up dark stains on cinema like City Limits or Split Second. Or not.
Among topics discussed in the film's excruciating 95 minutes are consumerist fantasies, 80s teen heartthrobs, Comedy Central's movie programming in the 1990s, the city of Kill-adelphia, the awful filmography of Stewart Raffill, Meshach Taylor's courageous portrayal of African-American Homosexual-American "Hollywood" Montrose, Terry Kiser's awfulness, real dolls, the semantics of Two/Too/2 in the titles of unrelated 80s sequels, excising homosexuality through film editing, the lamented career of Zach Galligan, and much much more!
Alan Smithee Podcast 71: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) / The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997, Jon Amiel)
In the several most recent episodes of An Alan Smithee Podcast, Andrew and myself have agreed to pairings of films that actually made sense. No more pairings of Mannequin 1: Not Yet On The Move and Terminator 2: Judgement Day, but rather the clean through-line of Poltergeist with Poltergeist II: The Other Side, or even Roger Rabbit with Cool World. This week's episode is a dip back into the slough of disparate. You'll have to forgive us simply because this pairing of titles was too convivial to resist. Most conveniently, The Man Who Knew Too Much is a very darn well made piece of entertainment while The Man Who Knew Too Little is an unmitigated piece of shit. The extended suffix to both of these lengthy titles could have been, "about filmmaking."
In keeping with the spiring of Hitchcock, I confess the shift in An Alan Smithee podcast's format was brought about just as much by frustration connecting the themes, ideas or incidental details of unrelated movies in these write-ups as the desire to increase listenership through coherence in discussion. Yet as seems to happen, there's more in common with two marginally related movies – i.e, they were actual movies that were once made, like The Stranger and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back – than at first glance. The Man Who Knew Too Little is not a parody of The Man Who Knew Too Much. Bill Murray's vehicle had several arbitrary possibilities for a title bandied about, the most charming of which was probably the official German title, Agent Null Null Nix.
The face of each respective film, Alfred Hitchcock and Bill Murray, were on the precipice of a dark turn. In Hitch's case, this film and North By Northwest were his last "family entertainment" films, if you'll pardon the hacky marketing term. The Man Who Knew Too Much even stars a young boy and makes the reunion with his mother (played by Doris Day, 'nuff said) the emotional core of the narrative, even after Jimmy "James" Stewart has finished uselessly chasing the kidnappers. Compare this benignly oedipal comfort food a moment to several of Hitchcock's next films: the obsessive insanity of Vertigo, the original oedipal slasher Psycho, and The Birds wasn't exactly family viewing either.
Then there's the trouble with Billy. A goodly portion of our discussion is devoted to deconstructing Murray since there's so little to consider within The Man Who Knew Too Little except that it was his last attempt to remain a star in the American comedy mainstream. It's like when Steve Martin decided early to switch to safe family comedies instead of being funny. In 1998 he starred in Rushmore, which is a great movie but marked the continuing fluctuation between indie™ Oscar bait and godawful paydays like Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties. Bill Murray is more popular than ever, even though he's never been less funny.
Simultaneously and possibly unintentionally by Murray, hipster syndicates anointed him the funniest living man in America and a pop-art icon, like Marilyn Monroe in the hands of Andy Warhol. You'll hear our conclusions regarding this phenomena, but as you read these words consider the angle that Bill Murray's deification by hipsters as the greatest comic actor in history rests upon the same film as any normal person's recollection of Murray – that air thin miracle Ghostbusters – and every hipster wishes they could be Dr. Peter Venkman, a dryly sarcastic and emotionally barren asshole who nonetheless has all the best lines and ultimately gets the girl after her first impression of him is that of a total creep.
Alan Smithee Podcast 68: The Muppet Movie (1979, James Frawley) / Muppets From Space (1999, Tim Hill)
With the fabulous, sensational and hyperbolic debut of a new Muppet movie, the online podcasting world has been all abuzz as to how An Alan Smithee Podcast will score one or two extra Google hits on the ensuing carnage by pairing one good Muppet movie with one bad one which isn't the new one. Just kidding, The Muppets is actually half decent and a welcome relief to millions of parents choosing between it and Fred Claus. The only muppet movie we could really choose for a bad one is Muppets From Space, which like The Muppets is only a bad movie by the standard of other muppet movies.
Our good Muppety film is the very first one, 1979's The Muppet Movie, a film which not only celebrated the triumph of Jim Henson's vision on television but stood as a magical achievement in puppetry as well. This and Star Wars really heralded the arrival of puppetry into state of the art special effects for the following decade, as Kermit and company convincingly co-exist with our world to a degree that had never been seen before. In hindsight of Jim Henson and The Muppets' legacy since 1979, the story of the Muppets meeting each other and banding together only grows more poignant as time goes on. If you don't get piss shivers when those first banjo notes of "The Rainbow Connection" play over the helicopter shot of Kermit's swamp and the title "Produced by Jim Henson" appears, you're one cold fish. Presumably you're not, as only true misers and curmudgeons could reject the earnest showmanship of the Muppets and if that's the way you feel, you wouldn't be watching The Muppet Movie in the first place.
By the way, why didn't "The Rainbow Connection" beat out stupid "Norma Rae" for Best Song at the 1980 Oscars? Either the Academy is full of Commies or they thought people would be confusing Kermit's with that other song about rainbows which won an Oscar 40 years earlier.
Two decades later, the diminished stature and ambition of The Muppets as a continuing part of pop culture couldn't be better represented in the film Muppets From Space. Unlike the other relatively successful, Henson-less Muppets films of the 90s, Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island, From Space suffers from a serious lack of scale. The story plays out like an episode of some fictitcious Muppets sitcom, right down to the limited number of locations and reliance on Jeffrey Tambor. Fans of the short-lived Muppet Show revival Muppets Tonight! will at least appreciate the deference to characters created for that series such as Pepe the Prawn, Dr. Phil Van Neuter and Bobo the Bear. The conceit of the film – the Gonzo the Great is finally alerted to the origin of his species by messages from outer space – is less the response to unanswered (and unasked) questions about Gonzo's animal type than the response of uninspired writers to the wave of interest in paranormal alien activity that washed over docile post-Cold War / pre-9/11 America's imagination throughout the 1990s.
There's a famous Onion opinion article about a nerd appreciating the Muppets on a much deeper level than you. It's hilarious for a couple reasons: first, signaling in on the longstanding appeal the Muppets' innocence has had to emotionally damaged adult nerds who were picked on way too much. ("I never should have let you go to the kitchen for more Pringles during Kermit's big 'High Noon' speech to Charles Durning—the emotional apex of the film.")
Second and more to the point of this episode, it details the particular connection those who grew up with the Muppet Show feel compared to those who grew up just a few years later with Muppet Babies, Fraggle Rock or even A Muppet Christmas Carol. The 70s and 80s were a hard slog for kids living in the exhausted remnants of their parents' pop cultural golden age and the Muppets offered a window into old-fashioned children's entertainment for a generation facing the exponential growth in the mainstream of glib cynicism. No one will appreciate the Muppets on the deeper level that Generation X did – Jason Segel is more than happy to remind us – but the body of work Henson and company left us lives on and beyond.
Enjoy this episode of An Alan Smithee Podcast and discover how we felt. Get it?
Alan Smithee Podcast 67: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Robert Zemeckis) / Cool World (1992, Ralph Bakshi)
Will cartoons ever live in peace with man? Animation is the most degraded art form in history, a miracle of filmmaking which has lived in the entertainment ghetto so long that the Japanese surpassed America's product output years ago. On native soil, cartoons either shuck and jive for the kiddies in movie theaters or prattle listlessly for jaded ironic young adults on late night TV. The stigma of cartoon characters as harmless subhumans who can only entertain is an old one, while the alluring stench of danger that wafts around "cartoons for adults" was more recently spewed by the resurgence of animation at the dawn of the 90s, embodied by The Simpsons and The Ren and Stimpy Show. This episode of An Alan Smithee Podcast dives headfirst into the silent cold war of animation's struggle for legitimacy with two films that straddled the line between animated and live-action entertainment, with varying results.
The use of cartoons as a metaphor for black entertainers marginalized within mainstream entertainment was extrapolated upon by author Gary K. Wolf in his 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Although cartoons and humans had been matched onscreen before, the movie rights to Wolf's novel represented the bold possibility of a feature length collusion between the two. Robert Zemeckis, in his first of many obsessions with technological animated feats to come, seized upon the opportunity and released the (apparently minimally faithful) film version Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1988. Roger Rabbit was a bonafide cultural phenomenon at the time, although later films inspired by its technological feats were a lot less artistically compelling.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit was produced by Disney, and as such, although it contains a few cameos from cartoon characters of other studios it rather treats the medium of animation the way the Oscars treats the medium of film – that every contributor to the form has been part of one big happy tapestry and the very idea of itself deserves celebration for all the laughs and tears and tears of laughter we've enjoyed. That, and a horrifically malformed "sexy" cartoon woman named Jessica Rabbit who was probably the biggest factor in Disney taking their name off the opening credits and making it a "Touchstone Pictures" film.
The first and most infamous of Roger Rabbit inspired movies was, ironically, directed by an animator whose name was synonymous with "adult animation" – Ralph Bakshi, director of the first X-rated animated movie Fritz the Cat and other transgressive animated features in the 1970s. Just before Roger Rabbit he had given future Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi ("John K") his big break on the animated TV series The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and with the recent renewal of mainstream interest in animation, the opportunity to return to feature filmmaking seemed like a great idea. Bakshi pitched Cool World to Paramount Pictures as the story of a cartoonist who enters a cartoon world and has sex with a cartoon girl, resulting in a half-cartoon half-human daughter who vengefully seeks him out in the real world to kill him – a horror film.
That was what was meant to be, until the Bakshi showed up on the first day of shooting to be handed a completely rewritten script in which there were now two human leads in the cartoon world, and rather than any horrific half-breed cartoon/human child, the plot now concerned the cartoon girl's efforts to become human by sleeping with her cartoonist creator.
The resulting film is a giant disaster in which the convoluted metaphysical logistics are seemingly being written by the screenwriters minutes before the scenes are filmed, with hacky genre dialogue being peppered atop everything to explain the randomness – like the cartoon girl Holli Would referring to her human cartoonist's visitation as "just a mindslip." There's also head-slappingly cheesy lines which contradict whatever internal logic the writers were pretending to create, like when a cartoon person says "I don't give a doodle" despite the fact that the cartoon denizens of "Cool World" refer to themselves as "Doodles" and nobody goes around saying we don't "give a human." And that's even before you can begin analyzing the wretchedness of a Kim Basinger performance.
The concept of a movie revolving entirely around having sex with cartoons is tailor made for 13 year olds (the oldest children who could see Cool World unaccompanied by parents) but the concept was much better delivered in the Fred Olen Ray joint from the same year, Evil Toons.
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Exit From The Hospital Industry
Abstract"We study the exit of hospitals from the market for inpatient services. More generous hospital reimbursement significantly reduces the probability of exit throughout the 1990s. Conditional on reimbursement levels, hospital efficiency was not a significant determinant in the early 1990s but in the mid- to late 1990s, less efficient hospitals were significantly more likely to exit. Throughout the period, high-tech services increased the probability of survival, and for-profit hospitals were more likely to exit. The role of Medicare as a determinant of exit became less important in the latter half of the 1990s". ("JEL" I11, L11) Copyright 2006 Western Economic Association International.
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4.65/5 rDev +29.2%
Poured from a 12 oz. bottle. Leaves less than one finger of a tan head that quickly fades to a foam ring at the edge, and leaves a very small amount of some spotty lacing. Body is a beautiful garnet.
Smell - raisins, dates, maltbread sweetrolls, caramel, cloves, and spicy alcohol. Mouthwatering.
Taste - much like the smell, if a little less intense. A maltbread sweetroll studded with raisins and dates, and swirled with caramel and much spice. Very delicious.
Mouthfeel - full bodied and semi-dry.
Drinkability - this is very good, but just a tad high in abv to be sessionable, although it would be very hard to turn the next one down.
08-12-2007 13:03:57 | More by ultralarry2006
New Jersey
4.38/5 rDev +21.7%
Pours a deep cranberry-burgundy-brown with a thin fizzy off-white head. Aromas of fruit and alcohol make this smell almost wine-like. For the taste, there's an initial sweetness of raw sugar or sugarcane, followed by a fruity middle of bing cherries and raisins. It all finishes with mild alcohol notes and a slight dryness that combines well with the lingering tiny bubbles of carbonation. As I drink, earthy, root-like, peppery notes evolve in the finish, while spices such as clove and cinnamon come through overall. The more I drink, I notice a little milk chocolate in there as well. Mouthfeel is slightly thick, but any heaviness is made lighter by effervescent tiny bubbles of carbonation.
Best served in a goblet, and wait at least 10-15 minutes after pulling it from your fridge. Overall, an extremely well-done American take on a Belgian... and hey, it's organic too, so you can even feel better about drinking it... not like there's anything wrong about drinking in the first place!
03-30-2006 04:08:27 | More by apintofknowledge
North Carolina
4.35/5 rDev +20.8%
Pours out an impressive murky, muddy amber color, looks raw and unfiltered and gorgeous. The head, while thin, is made of incredibly small bubbles, with copious carbonation feeding it, though it remains thin throughout the session. Modest patches of lace snake their way along the glass.
Smell is a fudgy, spicy, bready, yeasty tangle. Pretty much the stuff good dubbels are made of.
Flavor echoes the aroma perfectly, but there's more: pumpernickel, chocolate, chunky apple cider, raisins, fresh-baked moist cinnamon roll, and our good friend Yeast. Desserty...and seriously f**king yummy.
The mouthfeel is enigmatic. Has a nice gooey-ness to it, yet it's also highly carbonated (maybe a little too much so). The finish is so drying that it all but disappears immediately from the mouth, yet you're left with a fruity/chocolate-fudge aftertaste. Hmmm.
A bit on the heavy, sweet and alcoholic end to consider as anything but "good", drinkability-wise. But a delicious indulgence that's not too out of control or unwieldy. Really hit the spot.
10-16-2007 22:46:09 | More by Metalmonk
4.35/5 rDev +20.8%
Bottle Inspection: Certified organic product, lists water, organic malt, and hops as ingredients. Evidently theyve found a way to make beer without yeast.
Aroma: Aroma is primarily luscious bubblegum with rotten apples, pine, all spice, some minor phenols, and a bit of a vinous grape. Truly intoxicating
Appearance: Ruby brown with good clarity, a thin head of creamy coffee left no lace.
Flavor: Over ripe apples, Belgian banana, spiced apple and a hint of farm cider. Fruity and rich in flavor
Mouthfeel: Low carbonation, medium-heavy body, and a bit syrupy in the texture.
Overall Impression: Wow. Rich, complex layers of taste, outrageous smell, more, give me more, MORE! Ahem, highly recommended.
10-23-2005 04:25:33 | More by HardTarget
4.33/5 rDev +20.3%
I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I saw this on the shelves but upon popping the cap, the nose proclaimed "I'm a Dubbel, dude!". Bought a 4-pack of 12oz bottles for $6.99. Pours out to a cloudy medium-amber, forming a modest whipped light tan head with average retention and lacing. Carbonation is moderate. The aroma is as expected, which is good. Full of cloves and browning bananas and some toasted grains, reminding me very much of New Belgium Abbey Double, which is my favorite of the style. Mouthfeel is tangy and spritely yet goes down smooth and has a medium-dense body. Taste begins with a ton of phenols, like magic marker, followed by abundant toasted barley husk, some fresh green barley, and sweet amber malts in the middle. Alcohol is certainly perceptable but not offensive. There are interesting rotting orange, almond, and kiwi notes in the middle as well, with alot of lingering leather and rotting orange in the aftertaste. Bitterness is mild.
Quite an interesting brew this is. It tastes like an authentic Belgian Dubbel (which also happens to be my favorite style), so North Coast gets props for having the skill to pull something like this off (something Anderson Valley BC failed miserably at)
07-22-2006 16:38:08 | More by Mitchster
4.3/5 rDev +19.4%
Pours a dark brown with fluffy beige colored head. Smells like belgian yeast...bready, spicy along with some roasted caramel malt notes, alsohas some floral notes to it. Smells delicious. A nice mix of sweet roasted maltiness and belgian yeast/spice. The rich malt flavor blends nicely with the spicier flavors. Good high carbonation feel and good drinkibility. In my opinion this beer has a cleaner flavor than most. I've noticed with others that there is a funkiness that permeates the beer, not that it's bad, but this had a cleaner flavor to it and I enjoyed that. Only thing that I did not like is that the caramel flavors started to dominate when the beer warmed.
05-12-2009 00:10:25 | More by Kromes
New Hampshire
4.3/5 rDev +19.4%
Pours a three finger cream head that fades quickly leaving traces of lace. Cloudy dark amber color. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied. Molasses nose. Flavor is sweet baked molasses but not cloying. $2.50 for a 12oz bottle from Beverage Warehouse Winooski, VT.
05-14-2009 22:33:53 | More by jdhilt
4.28/5 rDev +18.9%
Wow, beautiful label... and it's organic! But can the beer inside the bottle hold up to the appearance? Yes!
It pours a hazy deep chestnut brown body beneath a thin head of creamy yellowed-tan foam. Orangeish and golden highlights peek through. The head retention could certainly be better, and the lacing is limited as well :( , but perhaps this specific bottle just needed a little more time to condition and give it some more carbonation.
The aroma is quite nice with a strong note of cocoa and some dark fruit. Some floral hops linger in the background, and a touch of alcohol can be noticed if you look for it. Mildly vinous. Subtly candyish.
In the mouth it's medium bodied and smooth with a delicate caress on the tongue from a very fine bubbled, natural carbonation.
The flavor delivers the same cocoaish, chocolatey, and caramelish notes found in the nose, but they're much fuller. It's sweetish at first, but then the dark and juicy fruits (black cherry, plum, prune, raisin), floral hops, and splash of alcohol enter to thin it and dry it out. Firm bitterness... just enough to balance... really quite nicely rounded. A combination of dark, vinous fruits and subtle, creamy dark chocolates linger in the finish. Hmmm... mmm. Very interesting. There's almost a suggestion of Brettanomyces here. Leathery. Mineralish. It's like chocolate and wine. Very, very nice. Highly recommended. Quite original!
11-17-2006 01:55:37 | More by NeroFiddled
4.28/5 rDev +18.9%
Pours a rich, reddish-brown. Good sized tan head that drops to a thin ring and leaves no lace.
Smell is rich roasted malts, oak, maple, alcohol, yeast and smoke.
Taste is all of that the nose promised with no surprises.
Medium-full body with light effervescence, this brew warms the palate and goes down smoothly. Good stuff indeed.
04-20-2008 00:55:12 | More by PorterLambic
4.22/5 rDev +17.2%
For a domestic attempt at a Bekgian ale this is a good attempt.
The pour yields a great tight head that leaves a nice lace. The aroma is malty and alcoholic and persistes throughout the drink.
The body is very good, not as thick as honey but nice anf viscuous. The finish is definitely maltyand aclcoholic. I'm not a big fan of high gravity being the star of the show but it works in thia brew.
The price was also very reasonable for this quality of brew.
10-21-2009 21:25:23 | More by DarrellK
4.2/5 rDev +16.7%
Pours out a turbid, cloudy brown color with a light coating of off-white foam across the top. Nose has got a fair amount of sweet malt aroma, along with fruity-vanilla notes. Lots of fruit in the taste: candied apples, bubblegum-vanilla, and moderately-spicy phenols. Malt is more prominant than many Belgians, with a medium caramel-toffee flavor. A little acidic at the end. Medium-bodied, carbonation on the low side.
Highly drinkable Belgian-style. North Coast has really been turning out some great beers recently.
11-09-2005 18:45:22 | More by allengarvin
4.2/5 rDev +16.7%
Pours a medium-dark caramel with a medium head. Aroma is some candy sugar and raw grains, like a dusty grain storage room.
Taste is malty, sweet with a small sour mash note. A little yeasty and with some indistinguishable dark fruit. Heavy on the carmelized malts and candy sugar, very much in line with a traditional Belgian-style ale. Follow this with just a touch of unsweetened lambic, something wild and yeasty and just a little bit soured and lactic.
Mouthfeel is a little heavy but not too much -- the carbonation keeps it from getting sticky. I like the interplay of sweet and sour, never found that before. Not at all bad for an organic (certified) beer. I bought a four-pack blind and am glad I did.
Who lists this as a tripel? Bottle and package carrier all say "Belgian-Style Abbey Ale." Spot-on for this style, but nowhere near a tripel.
10-15-2005 02:07:42 | More by assurbanipaul
4.18/5 rDev +16.1%
This offering I picked up in NY. Pours a murkey brown and leaves a thin spotchy off white head that quickly disappears. The aroma is Belgian candy, plums, nectarine, raisins, brown sugar, just a lot of crazy smells coming from this brew. The taste is so sweet, delicious, candy, slight tartness of orange, lemon, grape, candied fruit on the palate. The hops help keep this beer from being cloying sweet, overall this is a great beer I paired this with an oven roasted rack of lamb with red potatoes and brussel sprouts and it was spot on.
07-27-2007 15:37:20 | More by Franchise
4.18/5 rDev +16.1%
Pours a medium-red color with a decent one-finger head that lingers in the glass.
Aroma is subdued with raisin and sweet malt sticking through in the nose.
Taste is smooth with chewy malt, mild raisin and very little bitterness. Easy to drink.
Mouthfeel is full of brown sugar, raisin and chewy malt. Only a bit of alcohol warmth at the back of the throat.
Overall, smooth, easy to drink and not a bad dubbel to start with. Strong so use caution to sip this one.
12-30-2008 23:02:29 | More by Brad007
4.15/5 rDev +15.3%
I purchased this at the Sandy Butler deli in Ft Myers Beach Florida. I had no idea what to expect and was very pleasantly surprised.
Appearance: The brew poured a deep coppery brown with a two (small) fingered head. As I poured, I said to myself that the beer was just about the most perfect color a beer could be.
Smell: A very slight hops smell was present, with a fruit-like aroma detectable beneath this. The alcohol was also obvious.
Taste: Very smooth and pleasant. The hops were present but not powerful at all (a big plus in my book). There was also a taste of raisins or other rich smelling fruit.
Mouthfeel: A bit thin. The bite of the alcohol was too prominent for my taste.
Drinkability: I would love to drink a few of these but at 8% ABV, I would have to say the drinkability was limited.
Overall a very nice beer that I would love to try again.
02-15-2009 20:52:42 | More by captenaj
New York
4.15/5 rDev +15.3%
The glass fills with a rich, clear, auburn liquid covered with a fine, mocha head that settles to a thin lace.
Bourbon leads the way, followed by plump raisins, thick molasses, and creamy latté, awakening the olfactory to what is about to come.
Stimulates the palate with bananas dipped in chocolate syrup followed by cherries and nutty tones.
Smooth as velvet with prickly, soft carbonation and an alcohol afterglow.
The complexity of this experience leaves one contemplative and eager to share another glass with close friends and conversation.
07-19-2008 22:56:07 | More by SLeffler27
4.1/5 rDev +13.9%
North Coast just never disappoints me.
Pours a typical dark reddish mahogany with a cream colored head that melts to a faint ring. Not much lacing in this one.
Aromas are rich in toasted amber malts, Belgian sugars, brown sugar and some candied dark fruits.
Taste is full of candied dark fruits like raisins and prune and lighter plums...toasted malt and dark brown sugar....some bread or biscuit yeast flavors and a very typical Belgian dryness.
Aftertaste is sweet and dry with a nice alcohol warmth.
North Coast nails this Belgian style...it's not a west coast or even an American take on the dubbel...they've nailed it. In fact I give them a 4.5 on drinkability because the alcohol hotness is very subdued.
Good job.
03-08-2008 04:54:55 | More by IntriqKen
4.1/5 rDev +13.9%
First off, this ain't no Tripel. Nor does it claim to be. More akin to a Dubbel plus one.
Pours a deep mahogany with a tight tan rimming.
Nose goes through carob, pineapple, black tea, Cigar ash, root vegetables, brown sugar, and spiced rum.
It begins with stauch caramel maltiness that immediately gathers towards figs, dates, and tropical fruits. It is short lived, as a smokey dryness wells up, bringing carob and cocoa impressions with a minor rhubarb tartness. Fruitness resides with burnt plantain notes. Yeast qualities are earthen and dark. With its ensuing purple grapes, it develops a mossy, bemushroomed, tannic dryness that brings Viking (WI) firmly to mind. It's a fucked up, damp, murky, forceful yeast, but I seem to tolerate it fine, and thus it presents much like Vike's Abby Normal, which I enjoy a lot, as I do this. The reference won't mean much to many, but those that know will understand. It dries further on the close with burnt black tea and minor dark rum flares.
Lighter than median in build, the carbonation is steady, fine-grained and light. For its strength, this is a dowright quaffer.
It's raspy and funky, but I liked it plenty. Again, if you're looking for a Tripel, you're about a digit off, and you'll be pissed. Label this a Dubbel (or a Belgian {Strong} Dark) and dudes will be tripping over themselves to snatch this up. And rightfully so, as this is generally solid and a decent bargain.
12-15-2005 09:20:12 | More by cokes
4.1/5 rDev +13.9%
Pours a terrific chestnut brown with a super smooth 1 cm head in my Duvel glass.
The smell is 100% banana bread made with molasses.
This is caramel, smooth sweet biscuit aftertaste. Just a nice bit of hops; no alcohol burn;
just givre it a swirl and its creamy as hell. this is another great beer from north coast.
08-20-2006 00:47:30 | More by andjusticeforale
South Carolina
4.1/5 rDev +13.9%
Single 12 oz. bottle purchased at Whole Foods for less than 1/4 of their four-pack price. Go figure.
Hazy rusty orange with minimal head. Familiar aromas of spice and fruit, plus bubble gum. Lots of fruit esters on the palate, including banana and dark fruit, plus a sharp combo of spice and alcohol that's pushed along by some lively bubbles. Things turn malty just before mid-palate, then more fruit, finishing mildly tart. After the initial fizz wears off, things smooth out nicely in the mouth, and the hefty alcohol begins to do its work in the mouth and on down into the gut.
For an organic Whole Foods exclusive (I'm not going to call it a gimmick), this beer is quite good. Hell, this beer is just plain good no matter what context you put it in. Of course, I've yet to be disgusted by North Coast. It would have benefited from bottle conditioning in the authenticity and softer carbonation departments. But still, top-quality stuff.
Paired quite well with my girlfriend's Caribbean BBQ Chicken.
05-01-2006 23:58:44 | More by VoodooBrew
North Carolina
4.1/5 rDev +13.9%
On tap at Tyler's in Carrboro:
Draught arrives in a chalice, sporting a red-brown body and a cap of creamy tan foam.Plenty of fine-bubbled lacing remains on the glass.
The smell of the drink is fruity, with banana, plums, pears, and juicy grapefruit.
The taste of the drink is fruity with a bit of savory, somewhat salty caramel. Banana sweetness with plenty of toasty dry malts tangle with a fruity, grainy character. Plenty of alcohol warming with a refreshing flavor of dry green banana that gains prominence as the drink warms.
Superb feel and drinkability.
08-31-2008 23:18:21 | More by cvstrickland
4.1/5 rDev +13.9%
Cherry caramel with blazing orange peel edges; a gorgeous hue when backlit. The cap is the color of orange caramel mousse and is heavily frothy (if that isn't an oxymoron). I didn't expect the vigorous amount of carbonation and amazing head texture that one might see on an actual Belgian ale... and didn't get it. Still though, this is one fine looking beer.
Cru D'or smells authentic to me. That doesn't mean that it's a top-shelf version that can compete with the best Belgian dubbels, just that it possesses a more than respectable nose that shows that North Coast did their homework. Maybe it's as easy as using the right yeast strain, who knows? It's brown malty, moderately dark fruity (bruised apples, fresh figs) and a tad nutty. Add clove spicy yeast and stir.
I like the flavor even more than the aroma. While it isn't the biggest, boldest version on the block, the initial burst when beer first meets taste buds is impressive. It's lightly sweet and caramel malty with just the right amount of yeasty phenols to add character and, again, authenticity.
The cynic in me wondered whether this beer would simply be ACME California Brown mixed with a Belgian yeast strain (just as I didn't see much difference between Old #38 Stout and the organic Old Plowshare Stout). I couldn't have been more wrong. The sweet, fruity, nutty, spicy flavor profile is deep and getting deeper as I drain the bottle. This is very good beer.
I had some concerns about the body initially; the first few mouthfuls were disappointingly light. Things have come together nicely though and as I enter the bottom of the bottle I'm enjoying it immensely. Even though I'd like to see a wee bit more heft, the smoothness and silkiness of the mouthfeel cannot be faulted.
The second highest compliment that I can pay Cru D'or is that it tastes like an authentic Belgian Dubbel. So much so that I would have said that it originated from that country if I hadn't known better. The highest compliment that I can pay is that it's delicious beer that will be purchased en masse the next time I see it on the shelves.
07-11-2006 15:21:26 | More by BuckeyeNation
4.08/5 rDev +13.3%
Bought at the brewery April 2009 - cellared at 50 degrees til 1/16/2010. First beer I've ever cellared....well worth the wait!!
A - Good thick head forms on the pour, great lacing. Head sticks around for a while.
S - Sweetish belgian smell, lots of malty ambers with a slight grape / currant overtone coming thru.
T - Wonderfully sutble beer after aging! Malty amber notes come thru with an undertone of currants. Currant notes come thru strong as it heats up. Slightly sour Belgian yeast aftertaste.
M - Nice creamy mouthfeel. Medium carbonation.
D - Quite high. Bummed I only cellared one bottle. This should be a main stay for North Coast - with a disclaimer noting the potential for cellaring.
01-18-2010 03:38:20 | More by Dijeriduster
4.08/5 rDev +13.3%
Appearance: Medium reddish brown in color, quite clear, with a small white head, and thick broken lace.
Aroma: Spicy, overripe apple aroma, with subtle hints of pine, apple peel, and phenolic alcohol.
Taste: Opens with a profoundly spicy note of cloves and cinnamon, midway through the taste, ripe bananas appear, towards the end of the taste, bitter apple notes reign ascendant, and carry well past the end of the taste. There is a sweet, warming undercurrent of alcohol throughout.
Mouth feel: Very full, almost syrupy; no carbonation noted.
Drinkability/notes: Beguiling, and quite unlike any beer I have ever had.
02-20-2006 00:06:00 | More by Pegasus
4.05/5 rDev +12.5%
Pours out a nice dark mahogony hazy brown with a brown head.
Smell. Rich with some dark fruits, raisons is dominant. Small caramel sweetness.
Taste. More raisons. It is quite sweet with a little bit of chocolate taste. There is also a nice spicyness and peppery with alcohol.
Mouthfeel. I find the balance to be quite nice. good amount of carbonation.
Overall i like this dubbel, not incredible, but its quite solid. I'm not huge on some dubbels, but i would enjoy having this in my fridge.
08-05-2006 18:11:30 | More by acrawf6
Cru D'or from North Coast Brewing Co.
82 out of 100 based on 195 ratings.


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"I Don't Think We Westerners Care About Muslims" - Robert Fisk Delivers Keynote Address at MPAC ConventionVeteran war correspondent Robert Fisk of the London Independent recently delivered the keynote address at the sixth annual convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Fisk says, "Do we in fact really understand the extent of injustice in the Middle East? When I finished writing my new book, I realized how amazed I was that after the past 90 years of injustice, betrayal, slaughter, terror, torture, secret policeman and dictators how...Dec 20, 2006 | Story
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