Cloudburst lyrics full#

What a spectacle, that must’ve been a gas! So, what names were on these boxes? CB: Centennial, Chinook, Crystal, and Cascade. These things were relics, and all started with the letter “C” which is weird because there’s 26 letters to choose from… JC: Right. Cloudburst: Well, we were rummaging through our cooler one afternoon while brewing a pale ale and came across some boxes marked with what appeared to be names of hops? But like, not the hops people use today.

What a trip! Anyways, please enjoy this IPA with Motueka, Mosaic, Citra.Īmerican Pale Ale | 5.5% | 50 IBU 🎵da da duh da, da da duh da, do doodly do 🎵 James Callahan: Ok so tell us what you have here. Freestyle Hop Farms hired the sibling of the world famous Geico Insurance gecko to do its field marketing. Just as they were about to paddle away, they turned around and yelled “Did you know, brewing with Motueka hops from Freestyle Farms could save you up to 15% on your hop bill?” UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE. I took the cone and placed it in my shirt pocket, and without any words exchanged, the gecko began to walk back to their kayak. I rubbed my eyes to confirm and began to self-check my consciousness - Maybe I’m dehydrated? Maybe I ate too many mushrooms? - but by the time I snapped out of it, the gecko was standing in front of me, making intense eye contact, with their palm extended and a single hop cone resting upon it. As it neared, I shit you not, it appeared to have a human-sized gecko at the helm. IPA | 6.4% | 52 IBU Whilst walking the beach on the mouth of the Motueka River near the Western shore of Tasman Bay, a kayak approached. So, this beer - we decided to give Vista hops (the newest public hop variety from the USDA) another shot and paired it with two Yakima classics - Citra & Simcoe - which resulted in notes of satsuma, white grapefruit, pine needles and “if it hurts you then I’m sorry please don’t think that this was easssyyyyyyyyy.”

Cloudburst lyrics full#

This beer’s name is because it was brew number 1,111 - aka eleven eleven - which happens to be an early 00s emo lyric from an exceptionally cringey/whiney song that teenage Steve may or may not have used to sing at full volume while driving solo in his car. Like, I’m sure you were thinking we were gonna take this in a dark direction with the current state of affairs - like how House Committees are being taken over by right wing extremists, or how Florida is turning into Gilead right before our eyes, or how thoughts and prayers still don’t seem to be a panacea for police and gun reform - and how it’s hard to sleep right now, let alone dream, and have good dreams at that! Nope. “This is a contemporary choral classic and deserves its reputation.IPA | 6.5% | 55 IBU This beer name is not what it seems. (Adapted by Eric Whitacre, Translation by Lysander Kemp)

We must sing till the song puts forth roots, We must dream the dreams of a river seeking its course, Recordar lo que dicen la sangre y la marea,īut tell me, burnt earth, is there no water? Soñemos sueños activos de río buscando su cauce, Sólo pisadas de pies desnudos sobre la espina? This is a contemporary choral classic and deserves its reputation. I did, and the piece (now a lean eight and a half minutes) was finally published in 1995. Jo-Michael Scheibe sagely convinced me to “tighten it up”. The piece was originally about ten minutes long, but Dr. The finger snapping thing (all of the singers snap their fingers to simulate rain) is an old campfire game that I modified for the work, and the thunder sheets were giant pieces of tin we took from the side of the school. I had recently been given an exquisite book of poems by Octavio Paz, and around the same time I witnessed an actual (breathtaking) desert cloudburst, and I guess it just all lined up. She is an amazing conductor, legendary for doing crazy things on stage (choralography, lighting, costumes, you name it), and I wanted to write something for her that would really knock the audience out. Jensen approached me about writing a piece for her High School Choir.

After a performance of Go, Lovely Rose in 1991, Dr.