ahem... BEER.

Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 2:57 pm

Doug, back in Tokyo wrote:

Liquor, beer, wine....it's all good.

Also, the Japs are crazy....I ordered a drink of whiskey at a karaoke place, and they brought me a pitcher full of it. I didn't complain or nothing, but it made walking back to the hostel afterward very difficult. But also very interesting!

And Rickard's Red = I Wuv Woo

Who were you, again?

Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 8:21 pm

MMM, ALL YOU CAN DRINK!

(at some beer gardens, you can serve yourself. i usually end up walking around with my own bottle of hot sake woooooo)

Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 11:27 pm

shana wrote:

MMM, ALL YOU CAN DRINK!

(at some beer gardens, you can serve yourself. i usually end up walking around with my own bottle of hot sake woooooo)

Mmmmmh... Beer Gardens.... *Funny imaginary scene where Eidam strolls through the "beer gardens". It is fun, but as they give re-runs, the effect wears off, and Homer isn't as fun as he was*

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GambleOn: Hoegaarden doesn't really taste like washing detergent, but it sure as hell smells like it. As long as you can ignore the smell and go for the fruity goodness, it's quite the treat!

Today is Bank Holiday Monday, where everyone is legally required to drink!

Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 8:21 am

IT TASTES LIKE IT!

My current favorite beer (based on economical value and taste) is Cintra. It's from Portugal, but it's only $33 Aussie dollars for 24 beers, which, according to xe.com, is $24 US dollars.

And it tastes UNLIKE washing detergent, in that it tastes good. Real malty and satisfying.

Joined: 30 May 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Ottawa

I had my first Kilkenny today, I thought it was allright, personally I like a nice lager or a witbier, à la Hoegaarden.

I was raised on Tsing Tao, and can never stop loving it.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 10:56 pm

I believe that babies should be given milk.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 11:47 pm

ME TOO TFB

I GIVE HIM SOME MILK
HE GIVES ME SOME PUDDING
AND WE ARE ALL HAPPY*

*This is supposed to be cute.

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:11 am

TURNS OUT IT WAS CREEPY, SORRY

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:40 pm

I can't believe I haven't noticed this thread til now. I mean, I'm like 15% beer. As you may or may not know, I LOVE IPA's.

Whoever is saying American beer is rubbish is not looking in/living in the right places. Colorado has the second most micro-breweries (CA is 1) in the US, and 14 (!!) are in Boulder County. Corbie, even those Sweetwater guys met up in Boulder.

Locally excellent: Avery, Twisted Pine, Mountain Sun (does not bottle, but will sell ya growlers), Boulder Beer, Great Divide, LeftHand, Oskar Blues, so many more...

Good beers you may actually have heard of: (I prefer ales to the darks)
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (Chico CA)
Stone IPA (San Diego CA)
Redhook ESB or IPA (WA/NH)
Magic Hat Blind Faith or #9 (Burlington VT)
Harpoon Pale Ale (Boston MA)
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA (DE) -absolutely the best
Anything by Rogue (OR)

Major Brews if ya gotta drink em:
Labatt Blue
Molson Canadian
Red Stripe
Pabst (seriously, the best cheap beer. Seriously.)

That is all.

For now. *burp*

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:48 pm

yates wrote:

I can't believe I haven't noticed this thread til now. I mean, I'm like 15% beer. As you may or may not know, I LOVE IPA's.

Whoever is saying American beer is rubbish is not looking in/living in the right places. Colorado has the second most micro-breweries (CA is 1) in the US, and 14 (!!) are in Boulder County. Corbie, even those Sweetwater guys met up in Boulder.

Locally excellent: Avery, Twisted Pine, Mountain Sun (does not bottle, but will sell ya growlers), Boulder Beer, Great Divide, LeftHand, Oskar Blues, so many more...

Good beers you may actually have heard of: (I prefer ales to the darks)
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (Chico CA)
Stone IPA (San Diego CA)
Redhook ESB or IPA (WA/NH)
Magic Hat Blind Faith or #9 (Burlington VT)
Harpoon Pale Ale (Boston MA)
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA (DE) -absolutely the best
Anything by Rogue (OR)

Major Brews if ya gotta drink em:
Labatt Blue
Molson Canadian
Red Stripe
Pabst (seriously, the best cheap beer. Seriously.)

That is all.

For now. *burp*

YES!

Yates: you are a man after my heart. thank you for noticing this thread!

1: I totally saw on the Sweetwater site about those dudes meeting in boulder! Hell yeah.

2: Harpoon is awesome. It's been my default 12 pack for a while now (the mix pack). I love their UFO and Munich Dark sooo freaking much.

3: You mentioned Left Hand? Milk Stout is the AWESOME!

4: 14 breweries in boulder? there is a god!

5: I could go on and on and on, but I'm sure other people would like to post.

Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 974

It's strange to say, but I really miss National Bohemian!

I can't find it in California, and it was my mainstay in Maryland!

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:05 pm

That's cool LeftHand makes it all the way out to NC!

I just wish Magic Hat and Harpoon would make it out to me... Crying or Very sad

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:46 pm

I've officially determined that Rickard's Red is my personal beer; Lakeport is a close second, only because it's so cheap, but Rickard's is the only one I can drink and actually swallow it without feeling like I want to vomit. As long as it's cold, that is. Warm beer is just...well, wrong.

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Cold beer is invariably better. I always drink my bitters and ales cold (in fact, the famous Newcastle Brown Ale is specially brewed to taste better cold).

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:38 pm

Do British people actually drink warm beer on purpose ?!?@!

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:40 pm

Forget beer! Focus on COLD soup!

Out-Talled Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 4580

Some British beer is drunk warm. I have never understood this.

Also, my grandfather drinks his Newcastle Brown at room temperature. I have never understood this, either.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:55 pm

GROSS! You british and your meat pies are nuts!

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:22 pm

yates wrote:

That's cool LeftHand makes it all the way out to NC!

I just wish Magic Hat and Harpoon would make it out to me... Crying or Very sad

I have a friend who went to UVM and he would talk about Magic Hat and I'd be like, "that's a dumb name for a beer."

But even dumber is the stuff my step-dad drinks, which is called "Druid Fluid."

Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 974

Favorite beer naame?

He-Brew!

Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 493

um druid fluid? gross. it reminds me of patchouli smelling hippies at those weirdy medieval society/ creative anachronism gatherings. . . . and their fluids.

and he-brew -- WANT some!! what's on the label? send me some!

i like the names of the aforementioned tabernacin quebecois crazy juices, and they actually are descriptive -- it IS the end of the world and you ARE damned when you drink fin de monde and maudite..

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:33 pm

do you guys know that rickards red is crap btw! it's got food colouring in it! it's not even an amber ale . . . .
just what i heard . . . .

Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 974

Behold the power of He-Brew!

http://www.shmaltz.com/

Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 493

awesome!! ha -- i wasn't EVEN thinking that actually, i was more about like man-beer or even like HE-MAN. i expected a blonde bob, maybe a battlecat or two.
ok does it taste any good tho?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:26 pm

guinness wrote:

weirdy medieval society/ creative anachronism gatherings. . . . and their fluids.

Yeah that's about right.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:25 am

Anonymous wrote:

do you guys know that rickards red is crap btw! it's got food colouring in it! it's not even an amber ale . . . .
just what i heard . . . .

Oh wow, thanks for telling me that Rickards is crap! Now I'll never drink it again!

Yeah I'll decide what I like, thank-you, and what I likes is Rickard's Red.

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:52 am

I've never even heard of it and I know it's terrible, sgower! TODALY PWND

***

i despise the seedy ass bars in hotels. the beer at the one in baltimore was not only the horrible but also was the expensive.

what was bizarre was that they had lots of crap and ONE good beer... they had rolling rock, budweiser, michelob and ANCHOR STEAM?

that doesn't make any sense! 35 craps and one awesome? don't most places stock either awesome or crap, not both?

Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 493

i thought i would post this here because i'm a beer. . . . .
guinness will be unavailable for the next week so please replace with your second favourite stout, lager or ale. thanks!

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:21 am

guinness wrote:

i thought i would post this here because i'm a beer. . . . .
guinness will be unavailable for the next week so please replace with your second favourite stout, lager or ale. thanks!

But... you are my second favourite beer Sad

My second favorite Stout is Gimli.

Where are you going? Another string o' dates?