25.10.24

Is This Disco?

 


You see a bottle on the table at a party. Nobody seems to want it. "Is this Disco?" asks the label.

LOGIC - That is definitely not disco, that is a beverage.

CONCEPTUALIZATION - It could be disco. Anything can be disco if you feel like it. Do you feel like it?

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - I DEFINITELY feel like it! See that? Seven percent alcohol. It's not optimal but certainly enough for disco. And besides, a bottle like that is surely worth quite a bit as tare! Try it now!

You pour a little of the beverage to a plastic mug. Not optimal, I know, but you go with what you have. You take a sniff.

PERCEPTION (Smell) [Medium: Success] - Sweet, fruity malts. Juicy even. This is a classic example of a New Elysium Isola Pale Ale, or "NEIPA". Beats traversing the Pale any day of the week. It's actually quite delightful.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - I can't smell the alcohol. Maybe this is not disco after all. Drink it!

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Hard: Success] - This was manufactured by a brewery called Olarin Panimo, and is a quite typical brew for them.

You take a sip. Your friends Toilet Frost and Jerry O. Bogman complain about a weird side flavor they can't quite put their finger on.

PERCEPTION (Taste) [Medium: Success] - There is indeed some side flavor, but what?

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Impossible: Failure] - You got me there. I have no clue.

SHIVERS - At the edges of Greater Olari, in an old abandoned train yard, men with bushy beards are brewing. There's a faint aroma of spray paint along with the barley, oats and hops filling the air. The men are busy discussing skate tricks while something splashes in the mash. They would've heard it if it wasn't for the Arno van Eyck anodic dance music blasting in the speakers. I guess we'll never know what it was.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - There it is! This is CLEARLY disco! Take some more!

PERCEPTION (Taste) [Medium: Success] - Like the aroma, the flavor is sweet and fruity. Quite nice, soft, and round body. Just like you, it's a bit bitter, but not very much so. 

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Challenging: Success] - The brewery says it's hopped with Mackinac, Gemini and Nelson Sauvin hops and should taste grapefruity.

PERCEPTION (Taste) [Challenging: Failure] - You can't find any grapefruit, at least not clearly. It's fruity, but not grapefruity.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Who cares! Seven per cent, remember that and take some more of that disco!

VOLITION [Impossible: Success] - You suddenly remember that the reason you are at this party is the birthday of another friend, Tom of Nethers. And you brought him nothing. Well, not nothing. You brought him the rest of this perfectly fine bottle of disco/beer! You donate the rest of the beer/disco to Tom, even if he clearly has had his fair share of disco already today.

ENDURANCE [Challenging: Failure] - Time to call it a night. See you next time in the next disco! 

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