July 25, 2005

By Sheila Lennon / The Providence (R.I.) Journal

3:07 p.m. Monday (Blogroll)

How does Heineken Light compare with Amstel Light?

Fellow beer blogger Sean Polay asks this question in the comments on the Heineken Light: The Tasting post, adding that he's always considered Amstel Light "Heineken Light."

Both are about the same "weight," thinner than their full-bore parents, but in other ways they are noticeably different. First, the color of Amstel is a bit darker:

Amstel Light	Heineken Light
The camera was plunged into a giant paper cup, the flash illuminating the cup's round bottom as seen through beer. The Amstel Light also appears a bit darker in natural light.

The flavor of Amstel Light is "darker," too. When it's cold, Amstel Light has more flavor — a stronger grain taste with the bitter undertones of ale. I didn't much like that flavor. Heineken Light doesn't bite, and has no aftertaste.

My fellow taster preferred Amstel's stronger flavor — he thought the Heineken Light had a "musky" taste, so he claimed the Amstel cup. (Let the argument about beer in green bottles being "skunked" begin.)

About halfway through my Heineken Light, I grabbed his Amstel. It tasted salty.

But by the bottom of the cups, on this hot summer night, both warm flat beers tasted pretty much the same.

I mentioned in the original post that Heineken Light comes in a taller, slimmer bottle than Heineken. It's the same height as the Amstel Light, but has high, round shoulders and not much neck.

Updated: Greater Rhode Island Blogs & Bloggers list

Updated Tuesday, 3:09 p.m. with new listings in red.

Some sites suggested in the comments are bulletin boards, or "sites with Rhode Island contributors." For now, I'd like to stick with plain-vanilla Greater Rhode Island blogs. We'll revisit everythng else later.

When the Southern New England Bloggers site went down, we lost a handy list of local blogs. In the blogroll above, I linked to an archived page at The Wayback Machine, but it's lame.

So I've spent much of the night trying to start a new list.

Before I paste it in, a polite request and a few notes:

If you know of other local blogs — especially your own — that are currently active, please pipe up and send me an e-mail. If your blog is listed but you want to include/exclude your name, add your hometown, add or change the short description, e-mail me.

When it's more comprehensive, I'll put the list into a standalone html file that you may mirror or link to on your own blog. I don't own this list.

If a blog hasn't updated in more than a month, it's not here.

Greater Rhode Island Blogs & Bloggers

A Cry for Help Bil Herron
Aces Full of Links James P. Burke
Another Worthless Blog Aaron Wall
Being Ernest Blog of a Rhode Island-based math prof, long time Unix aficionado, and Newfoundland dog lover. Ernie Rothman
Brian Hull.net
Brian Jepson's Weblog Brian Jepson, Kingston
Common Sense Evangelist Gail Gordon
Dear Donut Ask a question...
Dolphin with Rabies Marina from Cape Cod
Fireland Joshua Green Allen
Give you joy! Greg Stone
H.M.S. Impossible - ThirdMate, "SouthCoast," Mass.
mattandjess.net - as you wish Jess Stratton
Ministry of the Internet by Reverend Sasquatch of Pawtucket
Motor Skills Jonathan Macy Biggs
Perfectly Dysfunctional Jenny S.
Rhode Island Weblog Adam Gertsacov
ryan.freebern.org
SaidShe.Net Crystal McBride, Pawtucket
Site of the Living Ed Ed McBride, Pawtucket
::Spinspeak Letter:: Exposing Deliberate Pollution of the English Language: Spinspeak Rots the Mind. James Baar
Subterranean Homepage News Sheila Lennon
Tales from a Screenwriting Hack V.2 R.K. Bentley
Top Story Live Raw, but c*nsored blabbing and blogging of a young journalist and local news producer in Southern New England.
The Tum Tum Tree Danielle aka ctegan
Tuttle SVC Free software, progressive education, and weblogging in schools. Tom Hoffman
xoloitzquintle (It's a Mexican hairless dog)

Topical blogs

Arts
AS220 News blog Art space
A Thousand Words Tegan
Backstage at the Narrows Steve Hug: News, reviews and events at the Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, Mass.
Black Olive Is: In the loop Knitting blog by Paula Abilheira
Black and White Photography by Paul Shelasky
Projo Art Blog by Kathy DeVault
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Weblog
Tiny showcase Art links and gallery of tiny art

Beer
The Beer Blog projo.com

Finance / Investing
Contrarian Today

Health
Six Until Me Living with Type 1 diabetes

Marketing
Collateral Damage by Constantine Von Hoffman

Outsourcing
Displaced Techies Gina Minks

Primarily political...
Black, White, Left, & Right

Left:
Loaded Mouth Tas and more
No More Mister Nice Blog Steve M.
Ruddy Gore Ben Jones, Providence
Rhode Island's Future An insider's guide to politics and culture in Rhode Island. Group
Rhode Island Policy Reporter by Tom Sgouros

Right:
Dust in the Light Jason Katz, Newport
Anchor Rising Jason Katz, Carroll Andrew Morse, Marc Comtois, Donald B. Hawthorne
The Ocean State Blogger Marc Comtois
Spinning Clio History blog by Marc Comtois

Libertarian
Absit Invidia Sports
SoxBlog projo.com

Who's missing?