BEER

I love beer !!!! Nectar of the Gods in my opinion. Im a lover of Stella Artois my self, not because i like to beat claire (has a 'wife beater rep lol) but i just love it!!! I also love Kronenbourg 1664, they've released a new 'dynamo' system where it has a widget and pours like a draught.......... im salavating at the thought !!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, its 4:48 here and im out the office at 5:30 tonight so should have a beer in me by 6:30 :D :D

Cheers :_beer:



you guys must have a favourite beer ???

I'm a mad beer fan myself. The Belgians are the best at it as far as I am concerned! I too love Stella if I am drinking green bottle, but here are some of my favs:

Delirium Tremens and Delirium Nocturnum
Hoegaarden (my first taste of this in Antwerp in 2001 which made it that much better!)
Trois Pistoles
Asahi & Asahi Black
Hitochino Nest Beer (if you can ever find the Hitochino Ginger Nest Beer, omg, so good)
Xingu Black Beer
La Merle
Old Speckled Hen -you basturds in the UK can get this easily I would think, hard to find over here, but there is one pub that has it on tap!

And I love Blue Moon and just about every other wit/wheat/white beer I can get my lips on...

I definitely don't like cheap beer (you Bud drinkers I will NEVER understand, that stuff is piss water) or uber-hoppy stuff like IPAs...no thanks.

:_beer: Bart

Mmmmmmmmm, beer is goooooood!

Fat Tire (New Belgium Brewery) is my all time fav.

I also love the following:

FOSTERS
Sam Adams - Boston Lager
New Belgium - 1554
Red Hook

Awwwwww hell, I love beer, all beer. Just not American Pilsner

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Originally Posted by Moncha

Mmmmmmmmm, beer is goooooood!

Fat Tire (New Belgium Brewery) is my all time fav.

I also love the following:

FOSTERS
Sam Adams - Boston Lager
New Belgium - 1554
Red Hook

Awwwwww hell, I love beer, all beer. Just not American Pilsner

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AMEN BOSSMAN! Fat Tire all the way! I am probably lucky I can't get it here in Utah because it has gone up $3 since I first started drinking it. Instead, I have to settle for Mississippi Mud, which is even drinkable when "warm" and is in a cool bottle.

GOOD MAN!!!!!!

Yep the belgians are good brewers!!!! you've prompted me to mension a few others i like too! :D

home,
Leffe Blond.....couple of these and im anyones lol,
i like a few of the Polish ones too like LECH and Tyskie
Duvel
Red Stripe
Magners cider


In the pub:
Stella Artois, a good staple!!
Staropramen, easy drinking
Peroni, when im feeling flush as its aroung £4 a pint in most London places
Grolsh, when none of the above are available

SUNDAYS = ALE and Guiness !!!! i like a London pride or even a honey Dew on a sunday with a nice pub cooked roast mmmmmmmmmmmm

You guys are making me hungry and thirsty!:yeso:

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GOOD MAN!!!!!!

Yep the belgians are good brewers!!!!

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And good chocolatiers as well! When I was in Brussels, I was sitting in Grand Place, drinking beer and eating REAL Belgian Waffles...OMG, SOOOOO good. Belgium is an amazing country. I want to go back someday.

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Duvel
Red Stripe

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Yeah, I've had both of those, like em too! And speaking of ciders, I am addicted to Fox Barrel Pear Cider. So crisp and refreshing!

http://www.foxbarrel.com/images/pear.jpg

Definitely look out for Old Speckled Hen. You'll like it I think. It one of the smoothest beers I have ever tasted.

http://media.beeroverip.org/beers/old-speckled-hen.jpg

I need to make a trip over to BevMo soon.

Bart

Newcastle Brown
Theakstons
Boddingtons
McKewans

...no particular order.

Just whichever finds its way into my glass!


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jo

basically anything wheat!

guiness...
woodchuck or other ciders

fat tire is alright but i've had too much of it living in northern colorado... its almost as common as coors light up here... (new belgium brewery is like 20 minutes from my house, and its cheaper than coors light at the brewery)

Anything over 100 on the IBU's in my book...

Favorites:

Russian River - Pliny the Elder Double IPA and Blind Pig IPA
Anderson Valley - Hop Ottin IPA
Bear Republic - Racer 5 IPA Racer X Double IPA
Stone - Ruination(as in your palate) Double IPA
Mad River - IPA
Lost Coast - Indica Pale Ale
Lagunitas - Maximus
Green Flash - West Coast IPA
Maui Brewing - Big Swell IPA
Port Brewing - Anything there really
Rubicon Brewing - Hop Sauce

Seek out and you shall be rewarded with hoppy goodness.:p

The next one

Sam Adams Lite
Great White
Rolling Rock Pale Ale before Budweiser bought it and started using New Jersey tap water tainted with medical waste as opposed Mountain Spring water and stopped brewing in glass lined tanks

My first beer was Gennessee Cream Ale I loved it but have not seen it in awhile.

Is THAT what happened to Rolling Rock?

I'm a fan of Yuengling. Oldest brewery in the U.S.

Leffe is another favorite.

I had a Boddingtons for the first time about two weeks ago. I liked it, will try again.


Can't wait to get home from work now!!!

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Is THAT what happened to Rolling Rock?

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It was privately owned in Latrobe with its own brewery and bottling plant. The unions got too greedy so that not having a wide assortment the company could not make a profit. However, the unions also negotiated that anyone who bought the brewery had to honor their greedy *** contract. So the owners sold the brand to Budweiser who moved it to a brewery they already owned that made their piss water at a price that would have been good for the whole deal, and the owners kept the building and shut everything down. Funny thing is this is a good brewery very recent, and the mayor and council wanted those taxes and jobs back. So they approached several brewers it even looked like Sam Adams was going to go there. However the Democrat mayor and council allowed the union reps to come to the meetings and they told the brewers they would have to hire all the exemployees back at their old wages and senioruty or they would not brew one damn bottle of beer.

Here is a test what do you think happened?

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GOOD MAN!!!!!!

Yep the belgians are good brewers!!!! you've prompted me to mension a few others i like too! :D

home,
Leffe Blond.....couple of these and im anyones lol,
i like a few of the Polish ones too like LECH and Tyskie
Duvel
Red Stripe
Magners cider


In the pub:
Stella Artois, a good staple!!
Staropramen, easy drinking
Peroni, when im feeling flush as its aroung �4 a pint in most London places
Grolsh, when none of the above are available

SUNDAYS = ALE and Guiness !!!! i like a London pride or even a honey Dew on a sunday with a nice pub cooked roast mmmmmmmmmmmm

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Moncha, got a little project for you -

Is there anyway you can link this thread with the one on Obiesity started by the same Tubby Crotchrocket???

Seems they just belong together.:laughing::laughing::laughing::rotate::ro tate:

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Moncha, got a little project for you -

Is there anyway you can link this thread with the one on Obiesity started by the same Tubby Crotchrocket???

Seems they just belong together.:laughing::laughing::laughing::rotate::ro tate:

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with his picture posted in the other forum there is no room.

I can merge them.. But this is such a better topic than the other

Beer is a staple of my diet. As such, I usually don't go for the fancy stuff, tho when I find it I buy up all of the Alaska Brewery IPA I can find.

More mundane choices are Killians Irish Red (off tap, not bottles, the bottled is much more bitter). And the daily after work 6'er is currently Miller Lite <dons flame proof suit>.

Back in the college days I used to aim for the best bang for the buck which @ 6.2% and cheap as hell, Natty Ice would fit the bill. I'm too old for that now, killing 12-18 Nattys was fine when all I had to worry about was mid-terms.

Miller Lite which is practically hops tea, gives the illusion of drinking beer without smelling like a cardboard box from the pub dumpster the next day.

Most of my freinds drink Bud Lite, but just a few of those bring on nasty headaches for me. I think its all the detergents they use.

So yeah, compared to you all, looks like I'm low-brow.

Read Stripe

Corona

New Castle

these are a fue of my favorite things.................

DUDE bart.. you and i need to go drinking together bud.. you pretty much just listed what i have in my fridge :thumbup:

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The next one

Sam Adams Lite
Great White
Rolling Rock Pale Ale before Budweiser bought it and started using New Jersey tap water tainted with medical waste as opposed Mountain Spring water and stopped brewing in glass lined tanks

My first beer was Gennessee Cream Ale I loved it but have not seen it in awhile.

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Hey, finally a thread I REALLY know something about!:laugho:
WOW Dave! You just brought back a ton of fun old memories with the Genny Cream Ale & Rolling Rock! Since we grew up in the same neck of the woods, makes sense we drank the same local stuff! I can't even recall what either tastes like now. Hey Dave remember I.C. Light???? (true piss water!)

I'm also into the Belgium/White/Wheat and almost ANY Hefeweizen....First choice is always Blue Moon! Thrilled to find more & more places have it on tap now! Yippee! Also like:
Sam Adams Summer Ale
Fosters
Pyramid Hef
Widmer Hef
Shiner Bock Hef (after all I did live in Texas for 12 yrs) Yeehaw!

Hey, think I'll make my way to the fridge right now! :_beer: Cheers! :dance:

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Originally Posted by circmand

It was privately owned in Latrobe with its own brewery and bottling plant. The unions got too greedy so that not having a wide assortment the company could not make a profit. However, the unions also negotiated that anyone who bought the brewery had to honor their greedy *** contract. So the owners sold the brand to Budweiser who moved it to a brewery they already owned that made their piss water at a price that would have been good for the whole deal, and the owners kept the building and shut everything down. Funny thing is this is a good brewery very recent, and the mayor and council wanted those taxes and jobs back. So they approached several brewers it even looked like Sam Adams was going to go there. However the Democrat mayor and council allowed the union reps to come to the meetings and they told the brewers they would have to hire all the exemployees back at their old wages and senioruty or they would not brew one damn bottle of beer.

Here is a test what do you think happened?

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Just to update you on that situation: Iron city beer will soon be brewed in the old Rolling Rock brewery. Iron city just ceased production in Pittsburgh last month. Seems they ran up a $2 million tab with the water company that they neglected to pay. :rollo:

So the Iron City brand is moving out to Latrobe, PA to start over. Hopefully they can find the old Rolling Rock recipe and start making a quality product. Iron City was always ;puke2;

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Originally Posted by PK

Moncha, got a little project for you -

Is there anyway you can link this thread with the one on Obiesity started by the same Tubby Crotchrocket???

Seems they just belong together.:laughing::laughing::laughing::rotate::ro tate:

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hahahahahahahaha:laughy::laughy::laughy:

I FORGOT CORONA!!!!!!!

how could i have done that, i love corona on a sunny day with a wedge of lime mmmmmmmmmm.

Stella Artois has to be the best beer in the world ( I have sunk a few from all over ) the Belgians are good at it.......well they have been brewing it since 1366.

Think I will open an ice cold one. CHEERS....

Jealous of this thread....

I am a migraine sufferer and found out the hard way, way too many times that I dont do well with Tyramine which is in beer, which triggers a migraine for me almsot everytime. But if the party is worth it or the beer game seems justifiable I will drink the beer and take one for the team.

As for me I have to stick to liquor - more $$$ in the long run:

Southern Comfort
Rums
American Honey

I need to but timid to try new beers from different styles of brewing and see if I can get away with drinking something better or more expensive will work. Becuase of this and my yearly consumption being so low it is hard to acquire a taste for beer since there is fear of sickness. I am going to try hoegarden as I have had this in my mind for about a week now.

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Hey, finally a thread I REALLY know something about!:laugho:
WOW Dave! You just brought back a ton of fun old memories with the Genny Cream Ale & Rolling Rock! Since we grew up in the same neck of the woods, makes sense we drank the same local stuff! I can't even recall what either tastes like now. Hey Dave remember I.C. Light???? (true piss water!)

I'm also into the Belgium/White/Wheat and almost ANY Hefeweizen....First choice is always Blue Moon! Thrilled to find more & more places have it on tap now! Yippee! Also like:
Sam Adams Summer Ale
Fosters
Pyramid Hef
Widmer Hef
Shiner Bock Hef (after all I did live in Texas for 12 yrs) Yeehaw!

Hey, think I'll make my way to the fridge right now! :_beer: Cheers! :dance:

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Funny things is not only do we have PA IN COMMON we also both lived in Texas (I was in Houston) but now AZ in common as well. Thats a coincidence and a half. I would love some beer but first I need to attempt to get that last yow hook bolt off for my hitch

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Just to update you on that situation: Iron city beer will soon be brewed in the old Rolling Rock brewery. Iron city just ceased production in Pittsburgh last month. Seems they ran up a $2 million tab with the water company that they neglected to pay. :rollo:

So the Iron City brand is moving out to Latrobe, PA to start over. Hopefully they can find the old Rolling Rock recipe and start making a quality product. Iron City was always ;puke2;

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The tab was for sewage not water. For those of you unfamiliar with Pa they are truely odd. Your sewer bill is figured out on the amount of water you use not the volume of product you remit. Since 98% of the water a brewery makes goes out in bottles and not form the drains the Sewage company was charging obscene amounts for sewage they never had to treat.

Other PA oddities

When buying beer if you want 1 or 2 six packs you buy at a bar. You cannot buy 3 six packs. But if you want a case you go to a distributor. You can not buy beer in a convenience store or grocery store

When buying alchohol you go to a state owned liquor store and get waited on by snotty over paid union employees who are state employees and cany get fired. They used to all be closed on Sunday until the state realized that they were losing money because people that lived closed to another state would go across state lines and buy there. So they decided that the stores within 10 miles of another state would open on Sunday the rest are still closed.

Whe moving to PA. You go to one place for your license another for road test and a 3rd for vehicle inspections, They do not take cash and do not mention it when you call about coming for a license. They also cannot tell you the cost over the phone so you must make 2 trips. To top it off you have 1 month to get all this done.

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Originally Posted by circmand

The tab was for sewage not water. For those of you unfamiliar with Pa they are truely odd. Your sewer bill is figured out on the amount of water you use not the volume of product you remit. Since 98% of the water a brewery makes goes out in bottles and not form the drains the Sewage company was charging obscene amounts for sewage they never had to treat.

Other PA oddities

When buying beer if you want 1 or 2 six packs you buy at a bar. You cannot buy 3 six packs. But if you want a case you go to a distributor. You can not buy beer in a convenience store or grocery store

When buying alchohol you go to a state owned liquor store and get waited on by snotty over paid union employees who are state employees and cany get fired. They used to all be closed on Sunday until the state realized that they were losing money because people that lived closed to another state would go across state lines and buy there. So they decided that the stores within 10 miles of another state would open on Sunday the rest are still closed.

Whe moving to PA. You go to one place for your license another for road test and a 3rd for vehicle inspections, They do not take cash and do not mention it when you call about coming for a license. They also cannot tell you the cost over the phone so you must make 2 trips. To top it off you have 1 month to get all this done.

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Sounds like a good place to be from,...:smilewink

Oh yeah, so as not to thread jack...BEER

[Alan ponders whether to go fetch another bottle of Peroni from the fridge...]

I like a lot of the Asian beers like Singha and Xing Tao as they're less fizzy that Euro veers or - god help us - US beers.

Anyhow, I can't have a serious converstation about beer with people from the nation that brought us Bud Light! :P

[Despite a 6am start, Alan goes to fridge and...]

A

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[Alan ponders whether to go fetch another bottle of Peroni from the fridge...]

I like a lot of the Asian beers like Singha and Xing Tao as they're less fizzy that Euro veers or - god help us - US beers.

Anyhow, I can't have a serious converstation about beer with people from the nation that brought us Bud Light! :P

[Despite a 6am start, Alan goes to fridge and...]

A

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We do not serve it warm or low carbonation Yuck

We do not sell it in Liter containers (do you think all those people speeding on the autoban are just beer drinkers racing to the next exit to take a piss?)

We can serve it in stadiums and not have the whole Football Game (Yeah I said it Football) deteriate into a riot

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We do not serve it warm or low carbonation Yuck

We do not sell it in Liter containers (do you think all those people speeding on the autoban are just beer drinkers racing to the next exit to take a piss?)

We can serve it in stadiums and not have the whole Football Game (Yeah I said it Football) deteriate into a riot

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X2 lol

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Originally Posted by crotchrocket

I FORGOT CORONA!!!!!!!

how could i have done that, i love corona on a sunny day with a wedge of lime mmmmmmmmmm.

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Texans aka gringos "know" Mexicans pee in the Coronas;oob;:yesy:

1) Lone Star
2) Newcastle
3) Fat Tire
4) Tennant's Pilsner Lager
5) Pyramid Hefewiezen
6) DVD of "Deadwood". Now THAT'S a good evening right there.

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We can serve it in stadiums and not have the whole Football Game (Yeah I said it Football) deteriate into a riot

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clearly you have never been to a sporting event in philadelphia ;Db;

oh thought of a couple others that i really enjoy

Victory Whirlwind
Yuengling Black and Tan
Weyerbacher Autumnfest
Chimay Blue

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clearly you have never been to a sporting event in philadelphia ;Db;

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For sports I prefer the Western part of the state Pittsburgh

The Home of Champions and the Pirates

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DUDE bart.. you and i need to go drinking together bud.. you pretty much just listed what i have in my fridge :thumbup:

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Anytime, dude! :D

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I am a migraine sufferer and found out the hard way, way too many times that I dont do well with Tyramine which is in beer, which triggers a migraine for me almsot everytime. I need to but timid to try new beers from different styles of brewing and see if I can get away with drinking something better or more expensive will work. Becuase of this and my yearly consumption being so low it is hard to acquire a taste for beer since there is fear of sickness. I am going to try hoegarden as I have had this in my mind for about a week now.

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Well, don't feel too bad. I have discovered that the heavy wheat beers wreak HAVOC on my lower digestive system. A few pitchers of Blue Moon and a basket of hot wings and I will blow an O-ring the next day! It SUCKS because I love the stuff so much!

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I like a lot of the Asian beers like Singha and Xing Tao as they're less fizzy that Euro veers or - god help us - US beers.
Anyhow, I can't have a serious converstation about beer with people from the nation that brought us Bud Light! :P

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I pretty much agree, however there are plenty of microbreweries here in the States that kick butt. For instance, one of my favorites is North Coast. Their selection is amazingly good.

I completely agree that Budweiser is piss water and so is just about every other "cheap" American beer. I can't drink the stuff. Bud, MGD, Coors, all of that stuff is ;puke2; . The only one I can kinda tolerate is Michelob. But still, all you guys who like the cheap stuff can keep it, and the hangovers too. :D

Life is too short to drive an ugly car and drink cheap beer. :_beer:

Bart

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Anytime, dude! :D



Well, don't feel too bad. I have discovered that the heavy wheat beers wreak HAVOC on my lower digestive system. A few pitchers of Blue Moon and a basket of hot wings and I will blow an O-ring the next day! It SUCKS because I love the stuff so much!



I pretty much agree, however there are plenty of microbreweries here in the States that kick butt. For instance, one of my favorites is North Coast. Their selection is amazingly good.

I completely agree that Budweiser is piss water and so is just about every other "cheap" American beer. I can't drink the stuff. Bud, MGD, Coors, all of that stuff is ;puke2; . The only one I can kinda tolerate is Michelob. But still, all you guys who like the cheap stuff can keep it, and the hangovers too. :D

Life is too short to drive an ugly car and drink cheap beer. :_beer:

Bart

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Have you tried Lost Coast Brewery a few hundred miles north?

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Have you tried Lost Coast Brewery a few hundred miles north?

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Nope, I will check for it though next time I am at BevMo.

Bart