Review: Slammin’ Sam Snead Premium Lager – Smoothest Beer In Golf
Bottle or can, the flavor is just as good…
The latest tests in “HOG Lab” were very tough. HOG Lab tests are very thorough. I go through every possible situation, setting, configuration. I put the products through extensive and detailed testing, in real world situations.
Can
At 5:01PM Wednesday I cracked open the first test unit, a can of Slammin’ Sam Snead Premium Lager, the self proclaimed “Smoothest Beer In Golf.” I don’t typically drink my beer straight out of the can or bottle. I really enjoy them when I pour ’em in to a frozen glass or mug. That’s just what I did in this test.
The color of this beer is a nice orange/yellow. Definitely a lager. I expected the beer to be on the light side based on the light color, but the body was quite surprising. Not overpowering though. The head of the beer was on par with more premium beers I’ve tried. I really enjoyed the taste, and found myself able to consume this beer much quicker and easier than I typically can. I’m not a gulper. I sip beer typically. Perhaps the beer really is that smooth if I can down it quicker than normal.
Pretty… Tastes as good as it looks too.
Bottle
I gave my palette a break for about 30 minutes between my testing of the canned and bottled version. Once again, I poured the beer into a frozen beer glass. Normally I enjoy beer from bottles better than cans. In this case however, I couldn’t tell one bit of difference between the bottle and the can version. Both had the same great body and smooth taste.
Yes, but can it help your golf game?
The following morning after I tested the two Slammin’ Sam beers, I played 18 holes in my usual weekly grudge match. I hit 13 of 14 fairways, for 93%, had two birdies and an eagle. The results speak for themselves.
Conclusion
Slammin’ Sam Snead Premium Lager is a fine brew. Very tasty and enjoyable. Do you swing as smooth as Sam Snead after enjoying this beer? I did. Now I need to get Slammin’ Sam to send me a lifetime supply so I can assure the same results on all of my golf rounds…
Tougher Conditions Friday At PGA Championship
Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, August 10th, 2012
Categories: PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods
Categories: PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods
PGA.com has live streaming of the PGA Championship in the mornings before the network TV coverage starts. It is pretty nice to watch, with a few commercials. The one thing which bugs me is their pop up voting console which I can’t set to stop popping up. They want you to vote on every hole, things like who will hit the longest drive etc. I don’t care about that. Just want to watch golf.
The conditions today (Friday) at the 2012 PGA Championship are much tougher than yesterday with much more wind and possible rain. -6 was the low score in round one, but I’m betting we won’t see close to that after today. Will those players who played in the benign morning conditions and scored well, like John Daly, back up in the afternoon?
2012 PGA Championship Round One Leaderboard
Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Categories: PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods
Categories: PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods
| POS | Player | R1 | Total |
| 1 | Carl Pettersson | -6 | 66 |
| T2 | Gary Woodland | -5 | 67 |
| T2 | Rory McIlroy | -5 | 67 |
| T2 | Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano | -5 | 67 |
| T2 | Alex Noren | -5 | 67 |
| T6 | John Daly | -4 | 68 |
| T6 | Geoff Ogilvy | -4 | 68 |
| T6 | Keegan Bradley | -4 | 68 |
| T6 | Joost Luiten | -4 | 68 |
| T6 | Aaron Baddeley | -4 | 68 |
| T6 | Adam Scott | -4 | 68 |
| T6 | Scott Piercy | -4 | 68 |
| T6 | Graeme McDowell | -4 | 68 |
| T14 | Pat Perez | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Ben Curtis | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Ryo Ishikawa | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Tiger Woods | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Cameron Tringale | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Peter Hanson | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Jamie Donaldson | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Miguel Angel Jimenez | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | K.T. Kim | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Justin Rose | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | K.J. Choi | -3 | 69 |
| T25 | Greg Chalmers | -2 | 70 |
| T25 | Thomas Bjorn | -2 | 70 |
| T25 | Louis Oosthuizen | -2 | 70 |
| T25 | Ian Poulter | -2 | 70 |
| T25 | Francesco Molinari | -2 | 70 |
| T25 | Charl Schwartzel | -2 | 70 |
| T25 | Padraig Harrington | -2 | 70 |
| T32 | Matteo Manassero | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Ken Duke | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Martin Laird | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Rafael Cabrera-Bello | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Trevor Immelman | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Dustin Johnson | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Ryan Palmer | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Tim Clark | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | George McNeill | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Brendon de Jonge | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Fredrik Jacobson | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Vijay Singh | -1 | 71 |
| T32 | Blake Adams | -1 | 71 |
| T45 | Marcel Siem | E | 72 |
| T45 | Toru Taniguchi | E | 72 |
| T45 | Jim Furyk | E | 72 |
| T45 | Shaun Micheel | E | 72 |
| T45 | David Toms | E | 72 |
| T45 | Bernd Wiesberger | E | 72 |
| T45 | Jason Day | E | 72 |
| T45 | John Huh | E | 72 |
| T45 | Thomas Aiken | E | 72 |
| T45 | Matt Every | E | 72 |
| T45 | Sang Moon Bae | E | 72 |
| T45 | Hiroyuki Fujita | E | 72 |
| T45 | John Rollins | E | 72 |
| T45 | Anders Hansen | E | 72 |
| T45 | Hunter Mahan | E | 72 |
| T45 | Ernie Els | E | 72 |
| T45 | Rich Beem | E | 72 |
| T45 | Zach Johnson | E | 72 |
| T45 | Davis Love, III | E | 72 |
| T45 | Matt Kuchar | E | 72 |
| T45 | J.J. Henry | E | 72 |
| T66 | D.A. Points | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | John Senden | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Rory Sabbatini | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Michael Thompson | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Darren Clarke | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Ryan Moore | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Chris Stroud | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Thongchai Jaidee | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | David Lynn | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Jonathan Byrd | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Nicolas Colsaerts | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Jimmy Walker | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Bubba Watson | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Bo Van Pelt | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Y.E. Yang | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Phil Mickelson | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Retief Goosen | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Paul Lawrie | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Nick Watney | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | George Coetzee | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | Simon Dyson | +1 | 73 |
| T66 | William McGirt | +1 | 73 |
| T88 | Jose Maria Olazabal | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Robert Garrigus | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Branden Grace | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Scott Stallings | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Jason Dufner | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Robert Karlsson | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Steve Stricker | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Stewart Cink | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Jeff Coston (CP) | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Seung-Yul Noh | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Alan Morin (CP) | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Marcus Fraser | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Rickie Fowler | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Luke Donald | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Chez Reavie | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Marc Leishman | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Ted Potter, Jr. | +2 | 74 |
| T88 | Jeff Overton | +2 | 74 |
| T106 | Johnson Wagner | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Lee Westwood | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Bill Haas | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Brian Davis | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Sean O’Hair | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Brian Cairns (CP) | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Bryce Molder | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Bob Sowards (CP) | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Darrell Kestner (CP) | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Thorbjorn Olesen | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Scott Verplank | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Kevin Na | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Rod Perry (CP) | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Paul Scaletta (CP) | +3 | 75 |
| T106 | Robert Allenby | +3 | 75 |
| T121 | Kelly Mitchum (CP) | +4 | 76 |
| T121 | Charles Howell, III | +4 | 76 |
| T121 | Jeev Milkha Singh | +4 | 76 |
| T121 | Alvaro Quiros | +4 | 76 |
| T121 | Angel Cabrera | +4 | 76 |
| T121 | Mike Small (CP) | +4 | 76 |
| T121 | Robert Rock | +4 | 76 |
| T121 | Sergio Garcia | +4 | 76 |
| T121 | Mark Wilson | +4 | 76 |
| T121 | Brian Gaffney (CP) | +4 | 76 |
| T121 | Brendan Jones | +4 | 76 |
| T132 | Lucas Glover | +5 | 77 |
| T132 | Tommy Gainey | +5 | 77 |
| T132 | Danny Balin (CP) | +5 | 77 |
| T132 | Brandt Snedeker | +5 | 77 |
| T132 | Pablo Larrazabal | +5 | 77 |
| T137 | Mark Brown | +6 | 78 |
| T137 | Corey Prugh (CP) | +6 | 78 |
| T137 | Spencer Levin | +6 | 78 |
| T137 | Mark Brooks | +6 | 78 |
| T137 | Roger Chapman | +6 | 78 |
| T137 | Michael Hoey | +6 | 78 |
| T143 | Michael Frye (CP) | +7 | 79 |
| T143 | Paul Casey | +7 | 79 |
| T143 | Martin Kaymer | +7 | 79 |
| T143 | Webb Simpson | +7 | 79 |
| T143 | Charlie Wi | +7 | 79 |
| T143 | Mitch Lowe (CP) | +7 | 79 |
| T149 | Bud Cauley | +8 | 80 |
| T149 | Marty Jertson (CP) | +8 | 80 |
| T149 | Kyle Stanley | +8 | 80 |
| T152 | Charley Hoffman | +9 | 81 |
| T152 | Matt Dobyns (CP) | +9 | 81 |
| 154 | Bill Murchison (CP) | +10 | 82 |
| 155 | Doug Wade (CP) | +11 | 83 |
| 156 | Frank Bensel (CP) | +12 | 84 |
PGA Championship TV Schedule – DVR Alert – Expanded Coverage
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Categories: FedEx Cup • PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods
Categories: FedEx Cup • PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods
This isn’t your normal HOG DVR alert. The PGA Championship is this week. This is “Glory’s Last Shot” and our last chance at watching major championship golf for 2012, even though we have the FedEx Cup playoffs and Ryder Cup to enjoy later.
DirecTV has made arrangements with TNT and CBS Sports to provide their “expanded” live coverage of the PGA Championship. The main channel channel is 701. This expanded coverage is accessed by hitting the red button on the remote. After that magic button is pushed, a main window pops up with info and available feeds. From there one can select the main TV feed (channel 702), the marquee group (channel 703), featured hole (channel 704) and players in depth (channel 705). There’s also a leaderboard on the main expanded coverage page.
This is very slick and makes me glad I have DirecTV. That said I’m not getting paid by DirecTV and they didn’t ask me to mention any of this. I’m actually PO’d that I will not be able to get the Pac-12 football coverage on DirecTV (unless something has changed recently). So as happy I am about the extended golf coverage, I’m not happy I can’t watch my Utah Utes. But I digress. Back to golf.
Below is the regular network TV PGA Championship schedule:
| Thu, August 9 | TNT | 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT |
| Fri, August 10 | TNT | 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT |
| Sat, August 11 | TNT | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT |
| Sat, August 11 | CBS | 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT |
| Sun, August 12 | TNT | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT |
| Sun, August 12 | CBS | 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT |
First Look: Slammin’ Sam Snead Premium Lager – Smoothest Beer In Golf
Is Slammin’ Sam’s beer as smooth as Sam Snead’s golf swing? Testing to commence shortly. Stay tuned…
Filed under “being a golf blogger does not suck.”
I’ve received some of the most interesting, and bizarre product review submissions imaginable. Everything from BBQ sauce to complex golf training devices with lasers on them. Two days ago I received perhaps the pinnacle of product submissions, BEER. What’s next? Babes, guitars and a fast car…
Slammin’ Sam Premium Lager
I’ve had these babies in the fridge cooling now for about 48 hours. This evening I’ll be doing the first product testing. I’ve got mugs in the freezer ready to go. Its a tough gig. Tough duty. I’m up for the task.
Stay tuned for my upcoming Slammin’ Sam Premium Lager review…
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