We seem to run a scotch/whiskey thread every 6 weeks or so. Been awhile since we did a beer one.
Thought I'd fire one off in honor of it being Saturday.
Whatcha drinking lately and if you make your own - roll us the specs...
Lately I've been hitting the craft/micro section of Woodmans.
Been loving:
1554 from New Belgium. (Black Ale) Abby from New Belgium. (Belgian dubbel 8.5% ABV)
Apple Ale from New Glarus - only sold in WI like all New Glarus beers. Basically once a year they brew something off the wall and there's no guarantee how much or if it will ever be offered again. I'm liking this one very much.
Duvel by Duvel. Bottle conditioned Belgian Ale. Pretty good. Like it quite a bit but at 8.5% ABV, you're not going to pound a case of it.
I never could like the usual Bud/Miller/Coors stuff. But lately I've expanded more, tried more, read up on different beer styles and found things I like.
I can and do occasionally like a PBR or Schlitz (60's recipe) in a pounder. Hamm's is off the menu tho. I can't like that at all.
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I'm a man of simple tastes, I taste 'em and simply decide if I'll buy 'nother.
There is bar/sandwhich shop in Corpus Christi that specializes in import beers. You fill out an index card with your name on it, and every type of beer you try gets recorded. I must have a couple-dozen entries, but pale in comparison to many, who have hundreds of entries.
Several walls of the place are adorned with photo's of patrons who have sampled all (or most) of 'em available - it takes months, if not years.
Lots of good stuff up here. My current refreshments include Snoqualmie Falls Wildcat IPA, Maritime Pacific Imperial IPA and Jolly Roger winter brew, Boundary Bay IPA, Black Raven Trickster IPA, Rogue Brutal Bitter and Three Skulls Hop The Plank IPA.
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Becks and New Castle for me..hate cheap beers!!! My wife says I have expensive taste..I just tell her that's good... won't let me drink as much this way !!!
Right now I have Bell's Expedition Stout, Guinness Foreign Extra, and Great Lakes Brewery Burning River Pale Ale.
The Expedition Stout runs $18.99/6-pack and is 10.5% ABV. It has kind of a Porter type taste to it that I do not like. Most of Bell's beers are exceptional, though.
The Guinness FE runs $10/4-pack. It is 7.5% ABV. It is good stuff, and tastes more like a stout should in my opinion. Has smokey overtones. However, you should get 6 of them for your $10.
The Great Lakes pale ale is $8.99/6-pack. 6% ABV. It is a very good pale ale. Tastes nearly identical to Sierra Nevada pale ale. I'm sure they use the same hops.......
Thanks probably high maintenance..Pilot no,aircrew member,yes...But you're right pilots tend to be a might..better stop there before I get jumped on by the Squid aviators who lurk in these parts!!
Back in the old days, when I drank on a regular basis I inhaled a lot of Falstaff, PBR, Grain Belt and Schmidt. Then I found I liked Miller High Life and when introduced, MHL-lite (not "Lite" or "MGD-Lite"). Now I drink very little of anything with alcohol in it, but with beers I like a darker, heavier beer now and then like Samuel Adams Cream Stout and similar brands. Find some nice micro-brews now and then, but as said, I don't drink much anymore, so my finds are few and far between.
I like beer a little more redneck than that I guess:
I've never been a beer drinker, but if I was, I think that's where I'd fall in.
Boutique beers, in some fancy fern bar, isn't what I think of when I think "beer".
I picture something more along the lines of sitting on the truck tailgate, with a can in your hand, not sitting in some trendy upscale gathering spot comparing notes.
There is a Bar/Restaurant at the Pike Place Market in Seattle that I've gone to that has over thirty or forty different import beers on tap that I like to go to and sample their wares along with a meal. A window seat, a meal and exploring the imports is a must if you make it to Seattle's Pike Place Market while you are in Seattle.
I like beer a little more redneck than that I guess:
I've never been a beer drinker, but if I was, I think that's where I'd fall in.
Boutique beers, in some fancy fern bar, isn't what I think of when I think "beer".
I picture something more along the lines of sitting on the truck tailgate, with a can in your hand, not sitting in some trendy upscale gathering spot comparing notes.
just cause your sitt'n on a tailgate doesn't mean you have to drink krappy beer!.....
I like beer a little more redneck than that I guess:
I've never been a beer drinker, but if I was, I think that's where I'd fall in.
Boutique beers, in some fancy fern bar, isn't what I think of when I think "beer".
I picture something more along the lines of sitting on the truck tailgate, with a can in your hand, not sitting in some trendy upscale gathering spot comparing notes.
I like beer to taste like beer. Plenty of Sierra Nevada bottles rattling around in the back of my truck..
It's hard to enjoy a buzz when ya constantly waddlin' back and forth to the bathroom.
,..and if ya old,..like I am,..there's that wet spot on ya blue jeans ya gotta worry about.
You old guys know what I sayin',...You can squeeze, squeeze, squeeze 'till ya blue inna face,...shake it 'till people start lookin',..and it's still gonna dribble a spot own ya britches,...especially if ya been drinkin' beer.
i dont know if its just me or if other people find this too , but i find that during the different seasons of the year i like different kinds of beer for example over summer all i drink is ice cold, miller lite, coors lite,or budweiser select . but when its cold outside i can hardly drink any of the above mentioned beers, the last two winters i have been drinking everything i can find that is brewed by these people http://www.boulevard.com/wp-content/themes/boulevard960/ageverify.php?r=http://www.boulevard.com or when i want something different i get whatever i can find from this brewery http://www.bluemoonbrewingcompany.com/
From what I've tried, American beer is like having sex in a canoe ie its f***ing close to water!
I can only think you guys gave us Bud and Coors as the final FU after 1783!
Pete:
Tell us what you like. We'll give you a selection of craft beers to try when you come over. (Bud and Coors are not beer. I would call them fermented grain beverages.)
Personally, I favor Bell's Two-Hearted Ale, an IPA, and Three Floyd's Robert the Bruce Scottish style ale.
Not available everywhere in the US, but you can find Dogfish Head just about anywhere.
EH. once these Florida transplants get a foot hold and forget that we REALLY do have the "FOURTH" season..you couldn't move em with a cake of C4 !!!
I left active duty partially because my next duty station was going to be Offutt or Korea. After Colorado, Germany and Ohio, there was no way I was going to go to another freezing ass cold place. Anything below 60 is an annoyance, and the 60's themselves get old after a few days.
I'm digging some French Canadian stuff I picked up.... La Fin Du Monde. One of the better Canuck brews I've had. 9% alc....this ain't Budweiser piss water.
Also in my fridge right now are Radeberger Pils, Czechvar Pils and some Sam Adams Lager.
Damn FB we don't got no stinking cold here at Offutt!!!
Shyt, since at any one time 40% of my AFSC was at SAC HQ back in the day, half the people I worked with had gone through Offutt. Their stories of winter were enough for me.
I went into my division OIC at Wright Pat, a full bird colonel and told him.... "Sir, I'll go to Howard, Beale, Hickam, MacDill or any tropical special duty station you want to send me, but I can't do Offutt.....
A month later I was in the reserves back in Florida.... LOL
what pisses me off is that i cant get my favorite beer of all time around here for some reason . which would be the one and only Yeungling lager http://www.yuengling.com/our_beer/
Don't know enough about German styles to be helpful in a comparo, but my favorite wine shop will crack a bottle of beer to let customers taste. The sales guy said it would taste "grassy". It did, if that helps you. (I bought some on the spot.)
Lots of flavor. Around here, it'll run about twice the cost of Urquell, so I only have it once in a while. I haven't had it from the tap.
what pisses me off is that i cant get my favorite beer of all time around here for some reason . which would be the one and only Yeungling lager http://www.yuengling.com/our_beer/
The're rapidly expanding and importing to new areas, I would ask a distributer around your area if they could get some. my cousin just got his local beer store in Ok to get it on a mounthly basis so I don't see why mizzou would be a problem unless they have some weird lcb laws.
If you really need some and want to pay the freight I'll be glad to send you some! As this is our local brewery there is at least 3 different yuengling taps in every bar. I'm about lagered out, though I thoroughly enjoy one from time to time. The black and tan is damn good beer IMO and at 12.99 for a case of pounders you can't go wrong!
what pisses me off is that i cant get my favorite beer of all time around here for some reason . which would be the one and only Yeungling lager http://www.yuengling.com/our_beer/
The're rapidly expanding and importing to new areas, I would ask a distributer around your area if they could get some. my cousin just got his local beer store in Ok to get it on a mounthly basis so I don't see why mizzou would be a problem unless they have some weird lcb laws.
If you really need some and want to pay the freight I'll be glad to send you some! As this is our local brewery there is at least 3 different yuengling taps in every bar. I'm about lagered out, though I thoroughly enjoy one from time to time. The black and tan is damn good beer IMO and at 12.99 for a case of pounders you can't go wrong!
Thanks for that info i will definately check with my local distributor. I never thought of that . I will definately keep your offer in mind and if i cant get anybody local to get it i will look into the cost of freight shipping and go from there.
I've heard much about this beer but have never tried it. What is it's closest comparable. Short of driving to PA or ordering it online I will never see it. We have too many big breweries (The Detroit and Milwaukee breweries) near me to allow anymore. Not to mention all the other smaller and local ones.
Tell us what you like. We'll give you a selection of craft beers to try when you come over. (Bud and Coors are not beer. I would call them fermented grain beverages.)
Personally, I favor Bell's Two-Hearted Ale, an IPA, and Three Floyd's Robert the Bruce Scottish style ale.
Not available everywhere in the US, but you can find Dogfish Head just about anywhere. - Tom
Tom/Teal,
From time to time, we used to have US Troops working with us and there was always a lot of good natured ribbing over beer. We'd say the stuff they brought from the PX was as weak as knats p1ss and they would give us a hard time over "warm British beer"..
I don't drink that much these days, but when I do, I prefer a pint of traditional bitter over the bottled lagers that are now the fashion...
In summer, if the weathers warm and I am working outside, a glass of cool dry cider (preferably proper brewed-on-the-farm scrumpy) or perry (pear cider) goes down a treat...
Pete, I was wondering why Europeans drink their beer warm?
Apart from "mulled" beer which you don't see very often these days, its not really warm, but just not super cold...The reason is that if you chill food or drink right down,it simply masks the flavour/taste...
Also, historically, pubs wouldn't have had refrigeration ect, and the beer would have been served at the temp of the cellar where the casks were kept..
These days, most most pubs have chilled beer lines, but usually lager is still served older than bitter. That said there is a fad for chilled Guiness these days, so part of it is fashion as much as anything..
I've heard much about this beer but have never tried it. What is it's closest comparable. Short of driving to PA or ordering it online I will never see it. We have too many big breweries (The Detroit and Milwaukee breweries) near me to allow anymore. Not to mention all the other smaller and local ones.
i would say Amber Bock would be pretty close to the Yeungling lager original, now the yeungling black and tan kinda has a flavor of its own,some people say the taste of it needs to grow on ya but i liked it instantly, the lord chesterfield ale is kind of a bitter-sweet flavor,[its the only yeungling product i dont really care for]the yeungling lager light is very good to me it tastes just like the original but it doesnt fill you up as fast, thats about all i can tell you because the other yeungling products i have not had the pleasure of sampling yet.
Thanks for the info. I had also heard drinking beer at room temp helps prevent hangovers. When it's cold and you drink it the rapid change in temp helps cause a hangover.
Don't know how much truth there is to it but heard Europeans don't get many hangovers.
From time to time, we used to have US Troops working with us and there was always a lot of good natured ribbing over beer.
You have to remember, these are GI's we're talking about. Mostly young, and awfully dumb about the likes of beer..
My SIL lives in Oceanside California, very close to a Marine Corps playground.. She even married one.. Well, one year we were visiting, and I needed a reload of the hotel room fridge. I made the mistake of going to one of the closest liqour stores to the post. I go in and they had about a mile of Budweiser Lite in a cooler. Then another mile of Coors Light next to it... And then way down in the bottom corner they had a couple of sixpacks of Heinekin and Coronas with spider webs all over them..
I did the right thing and traveled up the road a few miles to find a bit better selection..
I've heard much about this beer but have never tried it. What is it's closest comparable. Short of driving to PA or ordering it online I will never see it. We have too many big breweries (The Detroit and Milwaukee breweries) near me to allow anymore. Not to mention all the other smaller and local ones.
i would say Amber Bock would be pretty close to the Yeungling lager original, now the yeungling black and tan kinda has a flavor of its own,some people say the taste of it needs to grow on ya but i liked it instantly, the lord chesterfield ale is kind of a bitter-sweet flavor,[its the only yeungling product i dont really care for]the yeungling lager light is very good to me it tastes just like the original but it doesnt fill you up as fast, thats about all i can tell you because the other yeungling products i have not had the pleasure of sampling yet.
Don't know how much truth there is to it but heard Europeans don't get many hangovers.
I wish there was even a grain of truth in that, but when I was younger and more foolish, I've had hangovers that would slay an elephant!
Along similar lines, I've heard said that traditional ale's cause a less of a hangover than modern bottled lagers as the later has more chemicals added..Again, hangover wise, they both affect me the same and it was the quantity that was the major killer...
You have to remember, these are GI's we're talking about. Mostly young, and awfully dumb about the likes of beer..
My SIL lives in Oceanside California, very close to a Marine Corps playground.. She even married one.. Well, one year we were visiting, and I needed a reload of the hotel room fridge. I made the mistake of going to one of the closest liqour stores to the post. I go in and they had about a mile of Budweiser Lite in a cooler. Then another mile of Coors Light next to it... And then way down in the bottom corner they had a couple of sixpacks of Heinekin and Coronas with spider webs all over them..
I did the right thing and traveled up the road a few miles to find a bit better selection..
I know what your saying...many of them were young and on their first trip outside the US..Over here, they'd hit the NAFFI and go for the premium extra strong bottled lagers and would be wasted after about 4 bottles!
I'm having a Sam Adams Imperial stout now. I also have some Pilsner Urquell, Spaten Optimor, Spaten Premium, and a Sam Adams lager in my little fridge.
Like FlyboyFlem, I got expensive tastes.
Pete, I miss bitters and some of the pub ales over there in the East Anglia area.
My last Europe trip I walked through the lobby of the Bangor Me. Westin Inn singing the beer run song while pushng a luggage cart loded with two cases of Czech Bud and four cases of German wine.
Here is a beer story that i really enjoy. Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were:
1. The invention of beer, and
2. The invention of the wheel.
The wheel was invented to get man to the beer, and the beer to the man.
These facts formed the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals
2. Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered , it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery.That�s how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ�s and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.
Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men.
Some noteworthy Liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs, the evolution o f the Hollywood actor, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide all the meat and beer that Conservatives provided.
Over the years, Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.
Modern Liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard Liberal fare.
Another interesting evolutionary side note: most Liberal women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are Liberals.
Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboy s, firemen, lumberjacks, construction workers, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.
Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the Liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.
Here ends today�s lesson in world history.
It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.
A conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers, and to more Liberals��. just to piss them off. I don�t really consider myself a lib or a con so please don�t shoot the messenger:
I'm having a Sam Adams Imperial stout now. I also have some Pilsner Urquell, Spaten Optimor, Spaten Premium, and a Sam Adams lager in my little fridge.
Like FlyboyFlem, I got expensive tastes.
Pete, I miss bitters and some of the pub ales over there in the East Anglia area.
My last Europe trip I walked through the lobby of the Bangor Me. Westin Inn singing the beer run song while pushng a luggage cart loded with two cases of Czech Bud and four cases of German wine.
Good taste... but you know you can get Budvar (Czechvar) here in the U.S. without lugging it back from the fatherland?
I drink Water. Created the day the Earth was made. I also drink Tea made from plants that were created the day the Earth was made.
Historically, ale was drunk in the UK as the water wasn't safe..I'm talking about way back when water borne illnesses weren't really understood and before tea and coffee had been discovered.
What they did know was that people who drank ale didn't get sick, so it was drank pretty much like we drink tea or coffee today..There is even records of ale being served to pupils at the earliest boarding schools.
Apparently these were an everday ale's, fairly low in strength, with "real" ales being served in taverns ect being akin to our premium strength lagers today.
Of course we know understand that it was the brewing process that made the ale safe to drink, where as ordinary water would have carried who knows what bugs..
I have several different Diamond Bears(made in Arkansas),New Belgium,North Coast,Bell,Boulevard,Sierra Nevada,Goose Lake,and several others in my beer fridge.Latest finds include Dead Guy Ale,Old Rasputin Russian Stout,Kilt Lifter,and Dark Truth Stout.Currently working on a bigger beer fridge.Most of you guys have excellent taste! Lightman Oh yeah,have at least three different Shiners.
Foxbat, thanks for the info. With a C-130 there was plenty room for the beverages. I took the beer and wine into the hotel that one and only time because the temp the night we stayed in Bangor was really cold.
I'm retired now (2002) so I'll keep an eye open for the Czechvar.
Foxbat, thanks for the info. With a C-130 there was plenty room for the beverages. I took the beer and wine into the hotel that one and only time because the temp the night we stayed in Bangor was really cold.
I'm retired now (2002) so I'll keep an eye open for the Czechvar.
It's been one of my favorite beers for decades. First time I had it was at Templehof AB. They served it in the little bowling alley that was in the hangar/building. Got hooked on it.
Really surprised more of us here aren't making our own.
Tried a Michelob Pale Ale last night. Was okay, better than the usual but not nearly as good as something from New Glarus or Titletown. Drank my last Apple Ale too. I need to make a Woodman's run today....
Over the past year I did a lil traveling around the states, had some really good beer up around West point, had yuengling and some Adirondack brewing company as well as some others that I drank too much of to remember! Over Christmas was in the Seattle area and my BIL had quite a bit from Scuttlebutt brewing company that was pretty darn good. Had to have some Ranier too for old time sakes. Really been enjoying alot of beer here in CO, like alot of the New Belgium stuff as well as Breckenridge Brewings stuff. Glad that we get Alaskan here now, since I got hooked on that when I was in WA in the 90's.
That being said I always have "garage" beer in stock for when I am working on the bike, either Pabst or Keystone. When I am working on the bike I like the cheap beer, cuz if I forget about it, I don't feel bad when I find it the next day!
Odells is one of my favorites from Colorado. Left Hand is a great brewery as well as Oskar Blues. Many others in CO. are putting out amazing beers. A target rich state for sure!
I had a buddy in the airlines, and we used to take advantage of his travel benefits to take beer vacations in Munich.
One time we took another friend of ours, and after he returned he didn't drink much beer at all for more than a year. After having beer of that quality, truly fresh from the tap, often in the same building where it was made, he said he was really let down by the taste of just about everything over here.
Probably my hands down favorite thus far is Anchor Steam. Then it goes in no particular order; Longhammer IPA, Saranac Pale Ale, Sam Adams Boston Lager. The two best that I can remember having (that sounded bad didn't it?) was Alexander Keiths in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada and Kilkenny in Barcelona Spain.
Before I was 21 the beer to drink was Olympia, we bought it in 16 ounce returnable bottles and as long as we had the case of empties - I could always get it filled.
We drank lot's of Blatz - it was .75 a bottle for a 40 oz.
The brought back Rheingold last year - how many people drank Rheingold beer?
I have been to the Straub and the Genesee and the Yuengling brewery before.
Straub brewery was one of the first breweries to reopen after prohibition because they never got in trouble during prohibition for trying to brew beer.
I know a person who had the same problem as you have. He also had post nasal drip.
He found a Dr. who agreed to graft the end of his nose to the end of his penis. Now, when he goes to the bathroom and does the shaking routine, he waits for the last little drop to show itself.
Then, the nose graft goes Snifff, and sucks the little drop back in. No more wet pants.
Another friend always had a stopped up nose. He needed to be circumsized, and the Dr. grafted the skin from his penis inside his nose. Now, when his sinisus get stuffy, all he has to do is urinate and his nose starts running and he can breath.
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. I will definately keep your offer in mind and if i cant get anybody local to get it i will look into the cost of freight shipping and go from there.
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