Tell this to your friendly neighborhood wine snob and record their reaction. I can just about guarantee it’ll go something like this:

Beer Advocate score: 86 out of 100

Beer Advocate notes:

In keeping with historic evidence, Dogfish brewers use brown rice syrup, orange blossom honey, muscat grape, barley malt and hawthorn berry [to make Chateau Jiahu]. The wort is fermented for about a month with sake yeast until the beer is ready for packaging.

#protip: Pair this with a Mexican or Indian dish. Dogfish Head recommends it (much like a sommelier would recommend a particular cheese for a specific wine). I paired it with enchiladas and this was my reaction:

Oh, and it’s 10% ABV. This thing’ll put you on your ass if you’re used to chuggin' 30 packs of Bud Light and feeling more bloated than you do drunk.

BeerAdvocate score: 84 out of 100

BeerAdvocate notes:: “This sweet yet dry beer is made with ingredients found in 2,700-year-old drinking vessels from the tomb of King Midas. Somewhere between wine and mead, Midas will please the chardonnay and beer drinker alike.”

The ingredients below will produce a light- to moderately-bodied amber ale. This particular recipe was formerly brewed by Bryggeriet Skands, a Danish brewery established in 2003, but has since been retired.

Note: The label of “amber ale” is primarily a catch all for any beer whose color is less than that of a Dark Ale. For the most part, you can expect an amber ale to be a balanced beer with both toasted malt characters and a light fruitiness.

Reviews of this particular recipe depict the beer to be clear amber with a medium off-white head, with a sweet, malty aroma of caramel and fruit for the most part. Taste-wise, this beer is said to mimic the aromatic characteristics, that is it tastes sweet and malty with notes of caramel and fruit with a mildly hoppy and spicy finish.

Jim Koch with fellow brewmaster and founder of Dogfish Head, Sam Calagione

In 1984, Jim Koch brewed his first batch of beer using an old family recipe. At the time, the beer was simply referred to as Louis Koch Lager.

After soliciting the help of Joseph Owards — the man credited with the invention of light beer in the 70s — the Louis Koch Lager was re-introduced in 1985 as Samuel Adams Boston Lager at a re-creation of the first battle of the American revolution on Patriot’s Day.

No more than three months later, it was voted the “Best Beer in America” at the Great American Beer Festival, coming out ahead of the 93 national and regional beers that were in the running that year.

Peter Sokolowski is the Editor at Large at Merriam-Webster, a position he’s held since 1994. Since then, he has both defined and edited entries for a number of Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries.

As Editor at Large, Sokolowski is responsible for things such as representing the company in national author tours, radio, and television interviews, alongside recording podcasts of “Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day” and monitoring entries to the “Merriam-Webster’s Open Dictionary.”

Before joining Merriam-Webster, Sokolowki attended the University of Paris and taught French at the University of Massachusetts while earning his M.A. in French Literature.

99 Problems was released April 27^th, 2004. It was the third single released from The Black Album.

It reached number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Ilissus is a river in Athens, Greece that ran outside the Long Walls of the Athens of antiquity (pictured above).

Today, the Ilissus is not only largely channeled underground, but its banks — the banks mentioned here, which were favored by Scorates for walking and teaching — have been replaced by a busy intersection nestled between a Hilton hotel and an art museum (designated below by the pindrop marked with the letter A).

Here’s a GIF for each shot pumped into Max Rosby by the Hawthorne Police Department: