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Strike For The South
09-08-2008, 04:18
My Favorite
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My Irish Mistress
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My beach beer
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My, "She needs to lose about 50 pounds before I would think about it" beer
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Banquo's Ghost
09-08-2008, 07:11
My Irish Mistress
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My dear Strike,
There is nothing Irish about that girl and you should not let her anywhere near your precious bodily fluids.
Find yourself a pint of Murphys stout and dally awhile with a sultry, dark colleen. (Even exported, 'tis well worth the ride).
:bow:
Nothing personal but I find it simply outragious that americans are allowed to have an opinion on beer. Hertog Jan or Brand baby.
My, the mods are slipping. To teh frontroom please :gah:
CountArach
09-08-2008, 10:48
Stella Artois is about the only beer I actually drink.
Innocentius
09-08-2008, 12:16
Beer is beer is beer is beer. Anything goes, although Starbrno and Staropramen are personal favourites.
And yes, this thread belongs in the Frontroom.
Beer is beer is beer is beer.
Trust me, my friend: You would not say such things if you'd drunk some of the American swill SFTS and I have been subjected to. (Frankly, I can't even stand Corona.) :no:
As for myself, I've long been partial to a couple local/regional brands, particularly Leinenkugel (http://www.leinie.com/home.htm) and Summit (http://www.summitbrewing.com/). I'm also a fan of my namesake (http://www.samueladams.com/Default.aspx), although it depends on which style we're talking about (I enjoy the Light and some of the seasonal brews, not the regular or "extremes").
Finally, I definitely love me a lot of the Belgian brews, although offhand I couldn't name one to save my life. (One of my best friends is a home-brewer and fellow lover of Belgian ale, and so I usually rely on him for the *really* good stuff.) :2thumbsup:
The_Mark
09-08-2008, 17:37
Gah! I need beer. No beer for me here in the army. Can anyone smuggle some beer for me here?
Louis VI the Fat
09-08-2008, 17:59
Beer is for horses. Civilised peoples drink wine, blessed nectar of Dionysus. :book:
Strike For The South
09-08-2008, 17:59
See I could never go to Europe. I LOVE the beer I drink now. So if their is better tasting beer somewhere out there I dont think I could handle it. I wouldnt stop drinking
Strike For The South
09-08-2008, 18:00
Beer is for horses. Civilised peoples drink wine, blessed nectar of Dionysus. :book:
communist
Louis VI the Fat
09-08-2008, 18:01
Stable boy. :book:
Reverend Joe
09-08-2008, 18:02
Beer is for horses. Civilised peoples drink wine, blessed nectar of Dionysus. :book:
Actually, I believe the first "civilized" peoples drank beer, whereas even animals know to eat rotten grapes... so actually, it's beer that marks civilization, and wine that is fit only for savages, no matter how expensive and refined it may become. :toff:
Strike For The South
09-08-2008, 18:02
Stable boy. :book:
Your mother doesn't seem to mind:book:
Banquo's Ghost
09-08-2008, 18:53
Your mother doesn't seem to mind:book:
That's quite enough of that, gentlemen. :beadyeyes2:
Vladimir
09-08-2008, 19:55
What happened to my beer thread in the Frontroom? The first thing I did when I got back from my vacation was drink that blessed Belgian nectar, Leffe blonde. The fridge was empty except for a six pack. :barrel: Sooo good! Almost forgot to let it warm up a bit before drinking. It had been so long. :sad:
I like Shiner...... other than that, I find your beer list to be lacking.:sweatdrop:
Goofball
09-09-2008, 05:01
That's quite enough of that, gentlemen. :beadyeyes2:
I'm not sure if you're aware BG, but here in North America "mom jokes" are now considered the height of humor, while at the same time completely on side and innofensive among friends. So, in Strike's defence, if he had said that to me, my response would have been something along the lines of "LOL!!! Strike for teh win!"
Knowing him as we all do, I'm sure Strike meant his comment in that spirit, and not one of true meanness.
:clown:
Strike For The South
09-09-2008, 05:30
I'm not sure if you're aware BG, but here in North America "mom jokes" are now considered the height of humor, while at the same time completely on side and innofensive among friends and lovers. So, in Strike's defence, if he had said that to me, my response would have been something along the lines of "LOL!!! Strike for teh win!"
Knowing him as we all do, I'm sure Strike meant his comment in that spirit, and not one of true meanness.
:clown:
fixed
Banquo's Ghost
09-09-2008, 07:07
I'm not sure if you're aware BG, but here in North America "mom jokes" are now considered the height of humor, while at the same time completely on side and innofensive among friends. So, in Strike's defence, if he had said that to me, my response would have been something along the lines of "LOL!!! Strike for teh win!"
Knowing him as we all do, I'm sure Strike meant his comment in that spirit, and not one of true meanness.
:clown:
Thank you for explaining. :bow:
Apologies Strike; but maybe a smiley in future, for those of us ancients who still think insulting one's mother is grounds for gunning you down in the street like a dog? :wink:
There's already an official Beer thread. Also people who say all beer is fine apparantly haven't the slightest clue have they?
Also Frag. if it's dutch beer you want, you shouldn't forget La Trappe. It's possibly the best beer you guys have, and it's a trappist which is very unique. As it's the only one that is't Belgian.
Anyway Tripel Karmeliet ftw!
If I want a real beer as in beer La Trappe just can´t compete with with flemish ones, I also feel that buying your stuff is the proper thing to do, beer comes from belgium basta. Dutch pils is lovely though.
Louis VI the Fat
09-09-2008, 10:46
in Strike's defence, if he had said that to me, my response would have been something along the lines of "LOL!!! Strike for teh win!"Well in Strike's defense, a hot teenage college football player sounds exactly like the kind of toy my mother would seduce for a weekend's amusement and I was wondering which one was Strike and
Strike and I make friendly banter. Heck, if we'd like each other any more we'd have to get married. None of our mutual insults are ever mean spirited.
We should be a bit careful in our phrasing perhaps, lest people take us seriously and think ours is a proper standard of communication on the .org.
Back to beer: anything Belgian for me. When there, I'll have whatever local beer the bar has on draft. You just can't go wrong.:2thumbsup:
Beer brands can be deceptive. Recipies can be used globally. Some ingredients as well. But fully finished beer is too heavy and expensive to ship all over the world. So brands brew their beers locally. Most notably, they use local water. This accounts for the vast difference in taste and quality of the same brand in different regions and continents. Carlsberg, Heineken - they taste very differently in Europe than they do in America. For the real thing, one has to travel to North Europe.
Beer brands can be deceptive. Recipies can be used globally. Some ingredients as well. But fully finished beer is too heavy and expensive to ship all over the world. So brands brew their beers locally. Most notably, they use local water. This accounts for the vast difference in taste and quality of the same brand in different regions and continents. Carlsberg, Heineken - they taste very differently in Europe than they do in America. For the real thing, one has to travel to North Europe.
True. And by the time your Euro-brewed beers make it over here by ship, they just don't taste very good. Someone needs to tell your breweries to bottle their imports in brown bottles like the Brits do, all the continental beers are skunked by the time I get them off the shelves. :no:
Vladimir
09-09-2008, 15:54
True. And by the time your Euro-brewed beers make it over here by ship, they just don't taste very good. Someone needs to tell your breweries to bottle their imports in brown bottles like the Brits do, all the continental beers are skunked by the time I get them off the shelves. :no:
I’ve found this particularly true with Stella Artois. The green bottle gives it a skunky taste and while, even though it tastes great with some food (e.g. scallops florentine), I won’t buy it.
There are a few bocks that come in brown bottles, as well as some of the weirder Belgium beers, but pretty much all the pilsners are undrinkable. There's a place near me with a huge selection of imported beers, but it's pointless to buy them. Such a waste. :cry:
Reverend Joe
09-09-2008, 18:11
https://img391.imageshack.us/img391/613/duvelzs9.th.jpg (https://img391.imageshack.us/my.php?image=duvelzs9.jpg)
'Nuff said.
Edit: hold on, imageshack is ******* up.
Well, what you should be seeing there is an image of Duvel beer, THE best blonde/pale/golden ale ever.
Edit 2: there you go.
Duvel is like swallowing a sponge it just has too many bubbles.
Strike For The South
09-09-2008, 18:23
I like Shiner...... other than that, I find your beer list to be lacking.:sweatdrop:
Well could anyone give me a relatively cheap but good beer I could get? Im open to suggestion!!
Reverend Joe
09-09-2008, 18:29
Duvel is like swallowing a sponge it just has too many bubbles.
That's the way proper beer ought to be... nice and heady.
That's the way proper beer ought to be... nice and heady.
Why do people out of all the brewing goodness that is there just have to pay tribute to that oh so overated piece of crap that is Duvel? Besides, you are financing the belgium nationalist party if you buy i if sheer taste for good beer doesn't cut it, fine with me of course who needs them anyway.
Reverend Joe
09-10-2008, 02:59
Why do people out of all the brewing goodness that is there just have to pay tribute to that oh so overated piece of crap that is Duvel? Besides, you are financing the belgium nationalist party if you buy i if sheer taste for good beer doesn't cut it, fine with me of course who needs them anyway.
Because I live in Amerika, dude. It's the best blonde beer we can get here, and I hate dark ale.
Quit whining, anyway. You're lucky. In terms of sheer expense, the best beer I can usually afford is Heineken, and even that's a stretch; I almost always buy Icehouse, and I LOVE it because I can appreciate the bad along with the good. So unless you have ever had to drink Keystone (:sick:) because that's all you can get, just shut up.
Sasaki Kojiro
09-10-2008, 03:31
Americans actually invented beer.
Reverend Joe
09-10-2008, 03:35
Americans actually invented beer.
:inquisitive: I'm fairly sure that was German monks...
Big_John
09-10-2008, 04:03
:inquisitive: I'm fairly sure that was German monks...actually it was probably invented in ancient egypt or mesopotamia.
anyway, here's my long-time favorite. the best strong pale out there (and i have had many).
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haven't had this enough, but the couple times i did i was blown away.. it could be my new favorite if i can get my hands on it more often.
https://img49.imageshack.us/img49/5660/2144205664278074c8dfii1.th.jpg (https://img49.imageshack.us/img49/5660/2144205664278074c8dfii1.jpg)
if i'm in a more american mood and looking for something hoppy, this is probably the best IPA i've had:
https://img49.imageshack.us/img49/1763/photova6.th.jpg (https://img49.imageshack.us/img49/1763/photova6.jpg)
my hot-weather just-after-hard-physical-work beer:
https://img49.imageshack.us/img49/4375/redstripebeerww8.th.jpg (https://img49.imageshack.us/img49/4375/redstripebeerww8.jpg)
Because I live in Amerika, dude. It's the best blonde beer we can get here, and I hate dark ale.
Quit whining, anyway. You're lucky. In terms of sheer expense, the best beer I can usually afford is Heineken, and even that's a stretch; I almost always buy Icehouse, and I LOVE it because I can appreciate the bad along with the good. So unless you have ever had to drink Keystone (:sick:) because that's all you can get, just shut up.
Sir yes sir :bow:
CountArach
09-10-2008, 13:15
actually it was probably invented in ancient egypt or mesopotamia.
I seem to recall that it was the Celts.
Big John is right Mesopatania it is. Believed to have something to do with a lack of clean drinking water during the flooding of the Tigris and the Eufrat.
HoreTore
09-10-2008, 15:48
I'm an aassman (http://www.aass.no/).
Though Hansa, CB and Arendalspils also works.
Reverend Joe
09-10-2008, 16:44
@Fragony: Sorry if I seemed angry. It's just that sometimes, when in the presence of such beer afficionados, I feel like an Ethiopian being criticized for liking plain rice.
@Big John: is that Piraat available in America as far as you know? And I applaud your choice of lager. :bow:
Sasaki Kojiro
09-10-2008, 17:04
@Fragony: Sorry if I seemed angry. It's just that sometimes, when in the presence of such beer afficionados, I feel like an Ethiopian being criticized for liking plain rice.
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/01-05/0105-beer-snobbery.htm
:laugh4:
if i'm in a more american mood and looking for something hoppy, this is probably the best IPA i've had:
https://img49.imageshack.us/img49/1763/photova6.th.jpg (https://img49.imageshack.us/img49/1763/photova6.jpg)
How's that stack up to their Arrogant Bastard Ale? I've had and enjoyed ABA, but never had Ruination.
Well could anyone give me a relatively cheap but good beer I could get? Im open to suggestion!! I'd suggest Yuengling (http://yuengling.com/), but being in Texas, you're out of luck on that one. :sweatdrop:
Last night, I enjoyed a couple bottles of Pocono Pale Ale (http://www.lionbrewery.com/products.html). Pretty good for a local beer. :yes:
@Fragony: Sorry if I seemed angry
You didn't
It's just that sometimes, when in the presence of such beer afficionados, I feel like an Ethiopian being criticized for liking plain rice.
:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:
Definitely sig-worthy. :medievalcheers:
Big_John
09-10-2008, 21:29
@Big John: is that Piraat available in America as far as you know? And I applaud your choice of lager. :bow:here in san diego, i can find it relatively easily. the big liquor stores like BevMo carry it, and i can also find it at upscale stores like whole foods, world market, and jimbos.
How's that stack up to their Arrogant Bastard Ale? I've had and enjoyed ABA, but never had Ruination.ruination is hoppier, and more florid (a bigger, brighter bouquet). ABA, is maltier and more balanced, with a more well-rounded flavor overall. ruination is an IPA on steroids (actually it's a DIPA, iirc), ABA is an american strong pale. it's hard to really compare beers in words, you gotta use your tongue.
Proletariat
09-10-2008, 23:32
Hey Reverend, Piraat isn't really distributed for some reason east of the Mississipi, but if you have a Whole Foods nearby you can call them and ask them to stock it for you. I did that down here in Fairfax and it arrived in a few weeks time (the next time that distributor was making a stop). It's like 12bux a bottle which is a little steep for just getting ripped, but it does have a nice bananaey taste and a really cool bottle for soaking grilling skewers or putting flowers in.
I don't really have anything else to contribute other than seconding Sasaki's disdain for beer snobs.
~:cheers:
AlexanderSextus
09-11-2008, 06:31
Dont know why, just drank it one day and really liked it. Really good.
http://www.lagersandloungers.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image_00030.jpg
Rice beer is not good...
In the piss-water catagory Red Stripe, Sol and Rolling Rock are all good for a sunny day.
In the actually-is-beer catagory:
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http://www.ndline.eu/images/dbadger1.jpg
http://www.mwnch.co.uk/images/bath_ales.jpg
Beer is for horses. Civilised peoples drink wine, blessed nectar of Dionysus. :book:
I agree with the frenchie. I'll take rotten grapes over rotten grains any day.
But if I must, cheap and fast is the only way, a 6pack of bud light.
Big_John
09-11-2008, 16:25
I agree with the frenchie. I'll take rotten grapes over rotten grains any day.:inquisitive: you're not a texan.
Yuengling American Lager
https://img392.imageshack.us/img392/6758/yuengling2qe7.jpg (https://imageshack.us)
https://img392.imageshack.us/img392/yuengling2qe7.jpg/1/w640.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img392/yuengling2qe7.jpg/1/)
Blue Moon Pale Ale
https://img396.imageshack.us/img396/1527/bluemoonpalealevw4.jpg (https://imageshack.us)
https://img396.imageshack.us/img396/bluemoonpalealevw4.jpg/1/w497.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img396/bluemoonpalealevw4.jpg/1/)
Two of my favorites
Keystone is horse piss. I can honestly not drink much "party beer" anymore.
Big_John
09-11-2008, 21:41
people were bonkers for yuengling back east, when i was in college.
AlexanderSextus
09-11-2008, 22:52
Rice beer is not good...
In the piss-water catagory Red Stripe, Sol and Rolling Rock are all good for a sunny day.
Sapporo is good tho. The Japanese know how to make rice beer NOT suck.
oh, and i REALLY like yuengling.
KukriKhan
09-12-2008, 01:58
I just wanna give props to the original cave woman (probably, woman) who didn't 'do the dishes' on their birch-bark bowls for a week, then noticed that the left-over grain-water gruel was bubbling a bit, and, instead of throwing it away, served it to hubby, who got half-drunk and bellowed: "Woman! More bubbly Gruel! Now!"
I don't care if she lived in the fertile crescent, ancient asia, or south Albuquerque... I love her.
I am Joe six-pack. Budweiser at the end of the workday. Guiness on holidays. Good Scotch on special occasions. Tequila & Corona, or #1 Saki & Sapporo, if I must by circumstance, but I may end up waking up in unusual places, with Mariachi or Oompah Bands, or Shinto priests, serving as my alarm clock.
That hasn't happened in quite awhile, and no international 'incidents' have been hung on me in decades.
Big_John
09-12-2008, 02:37
I just wanna give props to the original cave woman (probably, woman) who didn't 'do the dishes' on their birch-bark bowls for a week, then noticed that the left-over grain-water gruel was bubbling a bit, and, instead of throwing it away, served it to hubby, who got half-drunk and bellowed: "Woman! More bubbly Gruel! Now!"
I don't care if she lived in the fertile crescent, ancient asia, or south Albuquerque... I love her.
I am Joe six-pack. Budweiser at the end of the workday. Guiness on holidays. Good Scotch on special occasions. Tequila & Corona, or #1 Saki & Sapporo, if I must by circumstance, but I may end up waking up in unusual places, with Mariachi or Oompah Bands, or Shinto priests, serving as my alarm clock.
That hasn't happened in quite awhile, and no international 'incidents' have been hung on me in decades.
it was probably the fermented rations of some dead slave. the slave labor of the ancient near east was often fed on nothing but bread and water. for convenience, the slavers would just throw the bread and water into the same tankard and tell the slaves to like it. one day, some poor sap died pushing a boulder around or something and left his breadwater sitting in the sun. a few days later, another slave noticed it and decided to sneak him some extra breadwater so as to stave off the sweet respite of death, if only a small while longer.
hooray dead slaves!
http://www.beercollections.com/Breweries-Mexico/Images/IM606822.gif
KukriKhan
09-12-2008, 03:01
Nice theory Big_John. :thumbsup:
From whatever humble beginnings it sprang, I think we all (even the wino's and likker-lovers among us) can agree: beer is good. Long live the beer. It may make me fuzzy-headed in the morning, but last night, for a bless-ed few moments, it made me set aside the day's pain and anguish, making this morning's fuzziness a small price to pay - unless, of course, this morning I hafta kill a mastadon, or build a pyramid, or decide whether to launch a nuke missle...
:)
Big_John
09-12-2008, 04:36
i mostly use beer to make women seem more bearable.
Strike For The South
09-12-2008, 05:50
i mostly use beer to make women seem more bearable.
QFT.
:inquisitive: you're not a texan.
While I am a Texan, having been raised here. I feel I cannot continue to lie to you Big J, my name actually isnt BigTex. That Hilary Clinton comment in my siggy, isnt actually a proverb either, it's a quote of one of my quotes from someone elses siggy. I'm so ashamed :shame:.
Oh and I'd drink more beer if it had even close to the amount of resveratrol as wine.
Big_John
09-14-2008, 06:06
haha, i take resveratrol supplements. i needs my antioxidants when i lift.
Hosakawa Tito
09-14-2008, 19:43
After retirement I've always dreamed of running away to Belgium and spend my days tasting all the different beers they have to offer. These are but a few of my favorites:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/leffe.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/delirium20tremens-klein.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/hoegaarden.jpg
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