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The drug of Gods: Magic Mushroom
Lets begin with the beginning. well, not really... for purchanging, finding & stuff, that's someting you'll have to sort out for yourself.
I never took it alone, so in that view I can't help.
When you want do do it in group, be sure it's with people you know and trust. They don't have to join taking the shrooms, but it's cooler when they all join in.
When someone is having a bad trip, talk to him, soothe him, let him know you care, try to be together in the bad trip and pull him out, let him search for the lightswitch, a door, a corridor, a hole in the sky or whatever... and give him some fruit (I prefer mandarines)...It may be just a psycological effect, but it DOES help.
If nobody is having a bad trip, then you're damn lucky or well trained I haven't taken a mindbaffling portion yet, but it's always cool to see al the objects coming to live when the psylo's start kickin' in. Once it did happen that that we were giving off an orange-pink light, and every corner we knew so well had a totally different feeling... But it only lasted for 3 hours...Also we did see a strange monster of which I was sure that it lived eons before there were dino's on the earth (It's a Hound of the Tindalos, if ya wanna know), so we thought we were Shaman's who actually were living in the past, but we were looking into the future, but via the future we were looking in the already-long-forgotten-past-of-eons-ago. Mushrooms are hard to follow hey?
Belgian
BEER
not for sissy's or Americans Not that you Americans would be a bunch of sissy's, but it's because you guys are not accostumed to beer that has more than 3% of alcohol in it. The weakest beers here have a percentage of 4.8%, while the strongest has 13% Here in Belgium, you can drink each day a different beer and still you wouldn't have tried them all after one year. The bear we mostly drink is the normal Pils-beer, but our special beers, like wheat-beer, Palm or whatever, are drunk in almost the same quantity...which means: Belgium is on the 3th or 4th place of beerdrinking countries, but they always calculate it a rato of the normal Pils, but they always forget that we Belgians double our drinking abilities with these special beers, which actually would put us on the first place... Oh yeah, and we own the 2nd biggest brewery: Interbrew, famous for Jupiler, Stella, Witte,...
Since there's not enough info on belgian beers to find on the net, I'll have to do it myself... here goes nothing:
Style nr. 1: PILS
The style of beer most people think of when you say beer. It's golden, refreshing, hoppy and not so strong (5,2%)
Labels: Jupiler, Maes, Stella, Crystal Alken,... Style nr. 2: : GEUZE- & FRUITBEERS
Typical beer from the region of Brussels, because the fermantationbacteria lives only in the valley of the river Zenne. Lambiek is the base for all these beverages and if you're lucky you can find just the lambiek. When the brewer mixes some younger with some elder lambiek, you get Geuze. If the brewer chooses to put something else in it (like fruit), you get a fruitbeer. Funny fact: the first time one of these fruitbeers was made, it was actually a VERY big mistike of one of the brewer's helpers.
The geuze is a rather sour beer, very refreshing, colour is a sort of mistlike blond and is not so strong (4.8% to 5%)
Labels: Timmermans, Liefmans, Mort Subite, De Neve
The fruitbeers you haven different variations. Most common are the one's on cherry, raspberry and peaches. Taste varies between brands and the fruit they've put in the beer. Alcoholpercentage: between 4.5% and 5 %
Labels: same as for Geuze
There is also a very sour geuze-like beer, called Jack-Op, one of my favorites, but sadly it's hard to find. Colour is amber and alcoholpercentage is 5%. Style nr.3: AMBER BEERS
These beers are a bit ont the sweet side, quite refreshing, amber colored and also not very strong (5%).
Brands: Palm, Vieux temps, Konick Bolleke,... Style nr. 4: WHEAT-BEER
Was once an extinct beer in Belgium, because of the World Wars, they were a real disaster for the breweries. But somewhere in the 60's there was this guy who heard about this bear (probably via his beer-loving grandpa or something) and decided he would brew it again. It turned out to be a major succes and now this man sold his brewery to Interbrew and they still make his beer. It's a beer with a very cloudy, pale colour, a bittersweet taste and a fruity aftertaste. Not very strong (5%)
Labels: Hoegaerden, Haecht,... style nr. 5: RED-BROWN
Sour tasting beer, made in West-Vlaanderen. Very refreshing, low in alcohol (5%) AND NOW THE BEERS WHICH MADE BELGIUM FAMOUS. BE CAREFUL WITH THEM, BUT NOT DRINKING THEM WOULD BE A SHAME ALSO Style nr. 6: TRAPPIST
This beer can only be made by (well, under authority of...) the monks of the Trappist order, so that leaves 5 in Belgium and 1 in Holland (it's the only good beer they have in Holland). The five Belgian trappists are: Chimay, Rochefort, Westmalle, Orval, Westvleteren. Mostly you have the choice between 3 variety's, being the normal (6%) which can be brown or blonde, the double which is mostly a heavy (8%) brown beer and the triple (between 9% and 10%). These beers are very tricky, they taste very good but they are much to strong to drink as a normal pils... Besides, when you would do that, you would surely be a lot of fun for the Belgians sitting in the same pub, you would get VERY drunk and the morning after- Well, you know how it feels. Style nr. 7: ABBEY-BEERS
Pretty much the same like Trappist, only they are not of the order of Trappist-monks...
Labels: Leffe,Cinay,Grimbergen,... Style nr. 8: KASTEELBEER
Of which we also have the same categories
Brands:Kasteelbier,Adler... style nr. 9: SPECIAL BEERS
These beers vary in color between blonde and black, with all the different variations of bitterness,fruityness, nuttyness or some crappy mess... Most of them are variations on a more well known type of beer from a brewery, mostly more ingriedients.
Labels: Grand Cru, Duvel, Judas,Guldenvlies, Brigand, Bush...
Oh yes, if you want to know what's my favorite brands, you'll have to take the first names of the labels I mention.
I know, you want to know more about the beers... I know, I didn't iclude all the beers...but hey,It's only out of my own experience I know these beers!
info on beers
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