Upcoming for 2020!

[Gameface]

I am going to try to post useful content in the general discussion that you can find nowhere but here at jazzfanz.com

I'll be starting two threads. The first will be a guide to our best local craft breweries and their tap rooms. I know, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly, the owners of several of the best breweries in the state. I will be providing detailed reviews of many of their beers and the general experience you can expect in their tap rooms if they have them. Among the first places I'll be reviewing are Kiitos, RoHa, Bewilder, TF, Level Crossing, Toasted Barrel, Fisher and 2-Row.

The second thread will be a new and improved version of "The Best Bang For Your Buck at the Utah State Liquor Store." Things have changed with the move to 5%abv in grocery stores. The landscape for beer in Utah has shifted. I will be providing a new ounce of ethanol per dollar score for the cheapest beers you can find at the liquor store along with my impression of the beer and my own score for the beers overall and on a abv/$ basis.

So stay tuned and become a jazzfanz supporter. I am in no way sanctioned by jazzfanz.com, not supported by jazzfanz.com and most probably not well liked by jazzfanz.com, so none of this is "official" jazzfanz.com content. But I want a project like this and this is where I am most active, so this is where I'm going to put it. I hope that it is worth your time and my effort, either way.

Happy New Year!

Let's all be better in 2020 than we were in 2019. I know I cheated and set my bar low... Don't hate the player, hate the game. Anyway, love and best wishes for my dysfunctional jazzfanz family!

 

[Gameface]

Oh and I want to talk about food! I'm on the Yelp Elite Squad for 2019 and hope (and expect) to be on the Yelp Elite Squad for 2020. I eat out at great local restaurants a lot and I write high quality reviews that I post on Yelp. I'd love to bring a lot of that content to jazzfanz.com. I focus on many of the local ethnic eateries and I feel strongly that the Salt Lake Valley is very well represented by authentic cuisine from around the world, just so long as you're willing to look for it.

So I may also start a guide to local ethnic cuisine.

As a child my parents were always on the lookout for any new ethnic cuisine in the valley and they'd go out and try it and based on taste alone they'd very often try to recreate the food at home. Both of my parents were excellent cooks and excellent tasters. They had a passion for food and especially food that they had never experienced before. They passed that love down to me and I have continued their journey to discover the newest and most unique flavors in Utah.

I'd love to share my knowledge and experience of the most unique local cuisine with my fellow jazzfanz.com friends.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

So I may also start a guide to local ethnic cuisine.

How would this differ from https://gastronomicslc.com/ ?

 

[Gameface]

And my poker games will return in 2020. I updated my tables in 2018 with Jazz specific cloth but have only hosted one game since. I will be hosting poker games in 2020.

 

[Gameface]

How would this differ from https://gastronomicslc.com/ ?

Well, It would be my personal take that would be posted exclusively to jazzfanz.com.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

And my poker games will return in 2020. I updated my tables in 2018 with Jazz specific cloth but have only hosted one game since. I will be hosting poker games in 2020.

Main criteria for getting on the list for jazzfanz.com games? Don't be a dick. @idestroyedthetoilet is out, he's been the worst guest from jazzfanz anyway. Dave aka @TroutBum is out. He's lied to other guests in my house about being the alt of accounts he is not the alt of. Don't come into my house an lie about who you are on jazzfanz.com. Don't come into my house and lie to me. Dave is no longer invited to my poker games. I don't get it, honestly. He has been one of my very favorite guests. I don't know why he felt like lying multiple times. I'm not cool with that, so he isn't going to be back.

I'll have a new protocol for announcing and taking reservations for seats. I need to be more careful than I've been in the past.

I appreciated the hospitality.

 

[str8line]

I am going to try to post useful content in the general discussion that you can find nowhere but here at jazzfanz.com

I'll be starting two threads. The first will be a guide to our best local craft breweries and their tap rooms. I know, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly, the owners of several of the best breweries in the state. I will be providing detailed reviews of many of their beers and the general experience you can expect in their tap rooms if they have them. Among the first places I'll be reviewing are Kiitos, RoHa, Bewilder, TF, Level Crossing, Toasted Barrel, Fisher and 2-Row.

The second thread will be a new and improved version of "The Best Bang For Your Buck at the Utah State Liquor Store." Things have changed with the move to 5%abv in grocery stores. The landscape for beer in Utah has shifted. I will be providing a new ounce of ethanol per dollar score for the cheapest beers you can find at the liquor store along with my impression of the beer and my own score for the beers overall and on a abv/$ basis.

So stay tuned and become a jazzfanz supporter. I am in no way sanctioned by jazzfanz.com, not supported by jazzfanz.com and most probably not well liked by jazzfanz.com, so none of this is "official" jazzfanz.com content. But I want a project like this and this is where I am most active, so this is where I'm going to put it. I hope that it is worth your time and my effort, either way.

Happy New Year!

Let's all be better in 2020 than we were in 2019. I know I cheated and set my bar low... Don't hate the player, hate the game. Anyway, love and best wishes for my dysfunctional jazzfanz family!

Need testers? I'm proficient in European pilsners.

 

[Shad]

Just sayin your bar might be a little higher than mine.

 

[Keefe]

And my poker games will return in 2020. I updated my tables in 2018 with Jazz specific cloth but have only hosted one game since. I will be hosting poker games in 2020.

Main criteria for getting on the list for jazzfanz.com games? Don't be a dick. @idestroyedthetoilet is out, he's been the worst guest from jazzfanz anyway. Dave aka @TroutBum is out. He's lied to other guests in my house about being the alt of accounts he is not the alt of. Don't come into my house an lie about who you are on jazzfanz.com. Don't come into my house and lie to me. Dave is no longer invited to my poker games. I don't get it, honestly. He has been one of my very favorite guests. I don't know why he felt like lying multiple times. I'm not cool with that, so he isn't going to be back.

I'll have a new protocol for announcing and taking reservations for seats. I need to be more careful than I've been in the past.

franklin, I get. But Dave? I mean, he wasn’t lying about personal information that was intimate and important in some way. It’s just alts. He just enjoys, I guess, having alts and being silly.

That said, it’s your house and you make the rules.

 

[Gameface]

franklin, I get. But Dave? I mean, he wasn’t lying about personal information that was intimate and important in some way. It’s just alts. He just enjoys, I guess, having alts and being silly.

That said, it’s your house and you make the rules.

I edited my post. No need to call Troutbum out. But All the same, I'm not big on socialising with people who lie, for fun or otherwise. I'm far too gullible a person to keep liars in my life.

 

[Beer]

Had the Level Crossing Soul Rex double IPA over the break. Really really liked it a lot. Highly recommend. Also had the Kittos Milkshake IPA (?) was not a fan at all. But their regular IPA was very good.

 

[Gameface]

Had the Level Crossing Soul Rex double IPA over the break. Really really liked it a lot. Highly recommend. Also had the Kittos Milkshake IPA (?) was not a fan at all. But their regular IPA was very good.

I have some Soul Rex in my fridge right now. I bought 4 and the first one (only had one so far) had floaties. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be "hazy" but I'm never a big fan of floaties. If the rest are the same I'll contact them as I have absolutely never had an issue with their quality before.

 

[Archie Moses]

I edited my post. No need to call Troutbum out. But All the same, I'm not big on socialising with people who lie, for fun or otherwise. I'm far too gullible a person to keep liars in my life.

After getting to know Trout and even working with him that's just part of his humor. I wouldn't look at it as he's lying as much as he really enjoys ****ing with people.

The dude just got married and looks mad happy. If you had another poker game I'd look forward to going more if he was than wasn't.

He's a good dude - a jackass, but a good dude.

 

[Archie Moses]

franklin, I get. But Dave? I mean, he wasn’t lying about personal information that was intimate and important in some way. It’s just alts. He just enjoys, I guess, having alts and being silly.

That said, it’s your house and you make the rules.

Besides destroying the bathroom (gawd, it was really that awful) what else did Franklin do besides inviting his friends with guns? He's always been entertaining, but I always leave pretty early too.

 

[Keefe]

Besides destroying the bathroom (gawd, it was really that awful) what else did Franklin do besides inviting his friends with guns? He's always been entertaining, but I always leave pretty early too.

I mean, I wasn’t there and I didn’t live in Utah so my perspective is vastly different than anyone native to that state, but the guns was to me an issue. A BIG issue.

 

[Archie Moses]

I mean, I wasn’t there and Indidnt live in Utah so my perspective is vastly different than anyone native to that state, but the guns was to me an issue. A BIG issue.

Hell yeah it was. It made me hella uncomfortable and uneasy. Franklin said he had no idea the guy was packing though.

It's never a good idea to bring guns to a poker game. Lol

 

[Gameface]

Besides destroying the bathroom (gawd, it was really that awful) what else did Franklin do besides inviting his friends with guns? He's always been entertaining, but I always leave pretty early too.

I brought negativity into a thread that should have just been all positive. I really regret that. Not the right way to start the new year as my best self.

I will say that people from jazzfanz.com have been fantastic guests and to be the "worst" amongst them is still pretty good, tbpfhwy.

Against my better judgement I'm going to add a little clarification. Trout did not admit to having alts. Trout claimed to be posters who he is NOT. It bugged me several years ago when Ron Mexico was convinced Trout was Perl Watson and I didn't think it was true (and am now pretty sure it wasn't true) but when after the last game he claimed to be Firegirl I was sort of determined to find out. I sent Firegirl a PM that I worded vaguely so that if I got the right response I would know it was Trout. Well, Firegirl IS NOT Trout, so the response I got was that I was a weird creep.

I'm an exceptionally trusting person. I'm gullible in the sense that I believe the people I socialize with by default. If you tell me something I assume you are like I am, that you are careful about making assertions, that you take your integrity very seriously and that you have good intentions towards the people you let into your life. I am not a young person. I have been betrayed many times in my life. I live my life by a long list of "rules" and one of them is that if I consider a person a friend and they intentionally deceive me (I have several different categories for the types of lies people tell and I can forgive lies of certain types, but others I take as an indication that a person is, essentially, a malicious liar.) I put distance between myself and that person. That is how I've lived my life. It pains me to put Trout into the category of a person that tells malicious lies, but I'm not bending the rules on this. Those lies are red flags for me that I'm dealing with a person who lies for sport. I don't have time for that.

 

[Archie Moses]

I brought negativity into a thread that should have just been all positive. I really regret that. Not the right way to start the new year as my best self.

I will say that people from jazzfanz.com have been fantastic guests and to be the "worst" amongst them is still pretty good, tbpfhwy.

Against my better judgement I'm going to add a little clarification. Trout did not admit to having alts. Trout claimed to be posters who he is NOT. It bugged me several years ago when Ron Mexico was convinced Trout was Perl Watson and I didn't think it was true (and am now pretty sure it wasn't true) but when after the last game he claimed to be Firegirl I was sort of determined to find out. I sent Firegirl a PM that I worded vaguely so that if I got the right response I would know it was Trout. Well, Firegirl IS NOT Trout, so the response I got was that I was a weird creep.

I'm an exceptionally trusting person. I'm gullible in the sense that I believe the people I socialize with by default. If you tell me something I assume you are like I am, that you are careful about making assertions, that you take your integrity very seriously and that you have good intentions towards the people you let into your life. I am not a young person. I have been betrayed many times in my life. I live my life by a long list of "rules" and one of them is that if I consider a person a friend and they intentionally deceive me (I have several different categories for the types of lies people tell and I can forgive lies of certain types, but others I take as an indication that a person is, essentially, a malicious liar.) I put distance between myself and that person. That is how I've lived my life. It pains me to put Trout into the category of a person that tells malicious lies, but I'm not bending the rules on this. Those lies are red flags for me that I'm dealing with a person who lies for sport. I don't have time for that.

I get having rules, but having exceptions to rules isn't a bad thing either. Trout isn't for everyone, but he's not intentionally doing this to be malicious. He just likes to **** with people and he's consistent about it. When I worked with him he would never tell me his alts and would lead me to think some were him which weren't. It bugged me he wouldn't tell, but that's just who he is. Dude can keep a secret like no one's business. Lastly, Dave has a heart of gold. He's personally helped me a few times at bad moments in my life and I am forever grateful.

That said, I get your POV and support you in whatever, man.

 

[Beer]

I have some Soul Rex in my fridge right now. I bought 4 and the first one (only had one so far) had floaties. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be "hazy" but I'm never a big fan of floaties. If the rest are the same I'll contact them as I have absolutely never had an issue with their quality before.

Yeah, I couldn't tell ya. I drank it straight out of the can. I've never had an issue with floaties or super hazy beer though. I had some Heady Topper awhile ago and it was murky as ****.

 

[bigb]

@Gameface, I get your sentiment. I really do. I hate being lied to. I personally don’t consider @TroutBum a liar. He loves to joke around constantly. If he told you he was firegirl, and then you sent a pm, the only thing that would cross his mind is to keep you on the hook. He would absolutely respond with something to make you question your very existence. Jazzfanz is a game to him. He wouldn’t/won’t give me a straight answer on his alts either.
My experience with him in real life is completely different. Granted, we’re not as close as we used to be, but in real life situations, that dude is 100% legit. He helped me through a tough time in my life. I’ve tried to do the same to him. He would absolutely do whatever he could to help you if you needed it. Trout is one of my favorite people on this planet.
At the end of the day, it’s your home, your poker games, your life, and your rules. I love your poker nights and would attend whenever I can.


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