Yes, I know this one was reported last week as Dreaming of Lee. That was the prototype and this is the finale. I put a double bock on the menu and no one is drinking it. Here’s my passive aggressive take on that–I guess no one likes good beer. The shit is fantastic. There’s a holy triumvirate of beer making on the other side of the world. It’s Belgium, Germany, and Czech Republic.

I can’t remember when I first heard the song Black Hole Sun, it had to be the 90s, a weird era. Clinton was in, things were pretty good. Hip Hop had sort of taken over. The mid nineties (90s?) were, for me, a time of heavy drug experimentation. I was a bit of a lost soul. Working in kitchens, learning something I suppose. A little angry for no reason, a little stupid and to tell the truth, lucky for being alive now to tell the story.

Black Hole Sun. What a tune. Surreal and just bizarre. Chris Cornell, god rest his soul, what a set of pipes. One of the creepiest and just plain strangest videos out there.

During certain parts of the chorus it sounds to me like Cornell is saying “Black Hole Sin, Black Hole Sin,” but watching the video it’s obvious he’s saying “sun” and sometimes I hear sun and sometimes I hear sin. I don’t know.

After I watched this I spent a good hour on youtube watching many other Chris Cornell performances. Lots of his acoustic stuff, covers, etc. The guy just got better and better. Haunting is the word. The voice coming out of him never made sense. Such depth, such resonance. His later stuff seemed even more soulful and resonant almost as if as he began to approach his own end he had remembered dreaming of his own fate and his voice and presence became more profound.

Black Hole Sun

1 oz. Living the Dream

1 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice

.5 oz. Nectarine Creme de Noyaux

.5 oz. Sunchoke Amazake Syrup

.25 oz. Lemon Sherbet

4 oz. Double Bock

2 Dashes Rico Pop Bitters

Fill a rocks glass three quarters full with loose ice and pour the beer over, then shake the rest of the ingredients and strain over.

There’s some cool stuff going on here. Upon first glance, this one seems pretty simple but of course many of the ingredients involved are, uh, involved.

Rico Pop Bitters are housemade Dr. Pepper bitters. Yes, 22 ingredients plus some molasses to finish.

The sunchoke amazake actually worked and is reeeeaaaaaaaal funky if you’re into that sort of thing. Kinda smells like tallegio cheese wrapped in my used jock strap after I ate pork, garlic, and cabbage dumplings…But in a good way…An extra side of hot black bean sauce please…

Nectarine noyaux? Shit man. I asked pastry to save all their pits this year. Yeah. We have shitloads of noyaux now. I think I made a post on it. Yeah, here we go. It’s good, so good. A regular of ours comes in three times a week and drinks it. Yeah.

Living the Dream is a blend of Japanese whisky and bourbon. 1:1. You get a little sweetness along with that nice malted flavor.