In honor of the Harvest. The Official Beer thread!!!

[Strike For The South]

My Favorite


My Irish Mistress


My beach beer


My, "She needs to lose about 50 pounds before I would think about it" beer

[Banquo's Ghost]

My Irish Mistress

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).

[Fragony]

Nothing personal but I find it simply outragious that americans are allowed to have an opinion on beer. Hertog Jan or Brand baby.

[Viking]

My, the mods are slipping. To teh frontroom please

[CountArach]

Stella Artois is about the only beer I actually drink.

[Innocentius]

Beer is beer is beer is beer. Anything goes, although Starbrno and Staropramen are personal favourites.

And yes, this thread belongs in the Frontroom.

[Martok]

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.)


As for myself, I've long been partial to a couple local/regional brands, particularly Leinenkugel and Summit. I'm also a fan of my namesake, 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.)

[The_Mark]

Gah! I need beer. No beer for me here in the army. Can anyone smuggle some beer for me here?

[Louis VI the Fat]

Beer is for horses. Civilised peoples drink wine, blessed nectar of Dionysus.

[Strike For The South]

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]

Beer is for horses. Civilised peoples drink wine, blessed nectar of Dionysus.

communist

[Louis VI the Fat]

Stable boy.

[Reverend Joe]

Beer is for horses. Civilised peoples drink wine, blessed nectar of Dionysus.

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.

[Strike For The South]

Stable boy.

Your mother doesn't seem to mind

[Banquo's Ghost]

Your mother doesn't seem to mind

That's quite enough of that, gentlemen.

[Vladimir]

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. Sooo good! Almost forgot to let it warm up a bit before drinking. It had been so long.

[Xiahou]

I like Shiner...... other than that, I find your beer list to be lacking.

[Goofball]

That's quite enough of that, gentlemen.

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.

[Strike For The South]

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.

fixed

[Banquo's Ghost]

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.

Thank you for explaining.

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?

[Moros]

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!

[Fragony]

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]

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.

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.

[drone]

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.

[Vladimir]

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.

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.

[drone]

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.

[Reverend Joe]

'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.

[Fragony]

Duvel is like swallowing a sponge it just has too many bubbles.

[Strike For The South]

I like Shiner...... other than that, I find your beer list to be lacking.

Well could anyone give me a relatively cheap but good beer I could get? Im open to suggestion!!

[Reverend Joe]

Duvel is like swallowing a sponge it just has too many bubbles.

That's the way proper beer ought to be... nice and heady.