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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reverend Joe
Because I live in Amerika, dude. It's the best blonde beer we can get here, and I hate dark ale.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
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.
Americans actually invented beer.
:inquisitive: I'm fairly sure that was German monks...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
actually it was probably invented in ancient egypt or mesopotamia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reverend Joe
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.
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if i'm in a more american mood and looking for something hoppy, this is probably the best IPA i've had:
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my hot-weather just-after-hard-physical-work beer:
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Sir yes sir :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Reverend Joe
I seem to recall that it was the Celts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_John
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.
I'm an aassman.
Though Hansa, CB and Arendalspils also works.
@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:
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Originally Posted by Reverend Joe
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How's that stack up to their Arrogant Bastard Ale? I've had and enjoyed ABA, but never had Ruination.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_John
I'd suggest Yuengling, but being in Texas, you're out of luck on that one. :sweatdrop:Quote:
Originally Posted by SFTS
Last night, I enjoyed a couple bottles of Pocono Pale Ale. Pretty good for a local beer. :yes:
You didn'tQuote:
Originally Posted by Reverend Joe
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Originally Posted by Reverend Joe
Definitely sig-worthy. :medievalcheers:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reverend Joe
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xiahou
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:
Dont know why, just drank it one day and really liked it. Really good.
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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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I agree with the frenchie. I'll take rotten grapes over rotten grains any day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
But if I must, cheap and fast is the only way, a 6pack of bud light.
:inquisitive: you're not a texan.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigTex
Yuengling American Lager
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Blue Moon Pale Ale
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Two of my favorites
Keystone is horse piss. I can honestly not drink much "party beer" anymore.
people were bonkers for yuengling back east, when i was in college.
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Originally Posted by Idaho
Sapporo is good tho. The Japanese know how to make rice beer NOT suck.
oh, and i REALLY like yuengling.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
hooray dead slaves!
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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...
:)
i mostly use beer to make women seem more bearable.
QFT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_John
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:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_John
Oh and I'd drink more beer if it had even close to the amount of resveratrol as wine.
haha, i take resveratrol supplements. i needs my antioxidants when i lift.