Beer drinking thread

[chequita guevara]

Re: The Perfect Woman

Originally posted by SlowwHand

No way. She serves lousy beer.

[SlowwHand]

Right. Like a Commie knows about beer.

[Lung]

Originally posted by Arrian
Lung, while I'm not familiar with Australian beer (I've had Fosters, but am fully aware that Australians think it's piss... which it is), but you are too quick to put down American brewing. Throw out Bud, Coors, Miller, etc. That isn't beer, so it isn't worth discussing.

Unfortunately, like Fosters, those are the exports. My memory of businessmen buying "imported" Bud at happy hour in a London Pub still gives me the shivers. At 2.8% or 5%, it's still utter crap. But I digress...

I actually don't spend a lot of time sampling the various microbrews, since I'm the type who finds something he likes and tends to stick with it. A month or two ago I tried Sam Adams Light, and I haven't bought anything else since. I LOVE the stuff. I still love Newcastle, but I like it more in the winter because it's such a heavy brown ale. Sam Light is more of a summer beer.

-Arrian

How the hell can you call light beer beer at all?

Anything less than about 4.5% is watered-down piss! As for American beer, how do y'all expect your beer to be loved when you have beers with 2.8% alc/vol that are actually liked? You blokes give beer a bad name

[connorkimbro]

how do y'all expect your beer to be loved when you have beers with 2.8% alc/vol that are actually liked?

You have ****ty beer, we have ****ty beer.

You have some really great beer, we have a WHOLE ****ING LOT of really great beer.

[Lung]

Originally posted by connorkimbro

how do y'all expect your beer to be loved when you have beers with 2.8% alc/vol that are actually liked?

You have ****ty beer, we have ****ty beer.

You have some really great beer, we have a WHOLE ****ING LOT of really great beer.

If that were true, then you would send me a case of your finest ale

[connorkimbro]

Well there's a local monterey brew called Fat Lip Ale. . . if you get a chance to try it out sometime, you'll be amazed.

Unfortunately, I don't live in monterey anymore. . .

I've had some truely amazing american beers (all local microbrew type beers) some of the BEST of the best I've ever had were from the eugene, oregon area, and northeastern PA area.

As for a widely sold brand, i really really like (and almost always buy this exclusively) Amber Boch (made by Michelob) It's a good dark beer, REALLY tasty.

[blackice]

Anything less than about 4.5% is watered-down piss!

Alcohol content: 6.1%

Best served with ice crystals starting in beer.

In Canada, 'Black Ice' is a term that describes when a thin layer of ice freezes over the roads, making driving conditions extremely dangerous and highly stressful. I can tell ya, though, you worry a lot less about keeping the car on the road when you've got 40 ozs of this potent **** in you!

[connorkimbro]

the term "black ice" isn't just used in canada.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Lung


If that were true, then you would send me a case of your finest ale

It would be wasted on a VB drinker like yourself.

[blackice]

the term "black ice" isn't just used in canada.

That is intreresting to know, where else is it used?

Not Africa for sure

[connorkimbro]

Anywhere in the US that it gets cold. (at least, anywhere that i've ever been.)

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Right. Like a Commie knows about beer.

The motto of my cell in Chicago was "Beer - Brats - Bolshevism" though we had Italian sausage more often than bratwurst.

[Lung]

Originally posted by blackice






Alcohol content: 6.1%

Best served with ice crystals starting in beer.

In Canada, 'Black Ice' is a term that describes when a thin layer of ice freezes over the roads, making driving conditions extremely dangerous and highly stressful. I can tell ya, though, you worry a lot less about keeping the car on the road when you've got 40 ozs of this potent **** in you!

I've had BlackIce, er...Blackice So all this time you were talking about the beer? Anyway, it's sensational, and it led to fun, frivolity and serious merryment when i drank it in Vancouver some years back

BTW, black ice is a term also used in Australia, and probably claims more cars than in Canada as Australians drive like Chinese drivers on the rare occasions when ice is on our roads

[blackice]

You just got that Try Vancouver winters being from Alberta I sat in my hotel time and time again howling at the fiasco on the streets. Yup 1mm of snow the city was a junk yard of cars wrecks.

I may have known the states for sure

6.5% and up baby ya!

Filled with mingled cream and amber
I will drain that glass again
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain
Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
Who cares how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.

Edgar Allen Poe

[blackice]

A Home Brewed Recipe for Hot Sauce

Boneyard Barley Wine Hot Sauce
6 oz Home Brewed Barley Wine
6 oz White Vinegar
30-40 Home Grown Cayenne Peppers
1 tsp Sea Salt

Roast the Cayenne Peppers in a 200F oven for 5-6 hours until dried. Combine Barley Wine and Vinegar in a sauce pan and heat to simmering. Allow to simmer for about 5 mins or until it no longer smells of alcohol. Put the dried peppers in a food processor or blender and add 1/2 of the beer/vinegar mixture. Process until a paste is formed, adding more of the beer/vinegar mixture as required to reach the consistancy of tomato sauce. Pour mixture through a wire mesh strainer to remove the larger pieces of skin and seeds and then pour into a bottle.

Use caution when making hot sauces. Always wash your hands before rubbing your eyes, playing with yourself, or getting frisky with the old lady (she'll appreciate it!).