Does anybody like beer?

[Gallaeglagh]

I do. Fat Tire, Guiness, 90 Schilling,Boulder Beer,Heineken,Becks [mmm Becks} and even occassionally American beers especially with a meal as they are geneerally so light.

[Donna]

Beer? Did somebody say Beer? Oh yaaaaaaaaaa, a nice frosty Molson Canadian is mighty fine.:) :)

[ranchdog]

Being a Colorado native everyone thinks
I should drink Coors.

Bah. Humbug. I do not like Coors.

Living in Tx. I found a beer that is Primo.

Schiner Bach.

It is a Bach beer of quality. Can't drink
just one. :D


RD.

[BigBlue66]

Hmmmmm, beer.

[kfh]

Hi All,

Na teetotal me.
Now a nice cup of 'rosie lee' goes down nice in the afternoon.
Hmmm wonder if Paul K likes a pint of 'Liffey water'.
:D

kfh.

[gogreen1]

Nothing like a "cold one", especially when you have just finished mowing the lawn. Hmmmm. Think I'll go out and re-do the yard. Yak, Yak. Jim

[Burt Gummer]

Lone Star.
Schlitz.
Scheiner Bock.
Old Milwaukee.
Sapporo.
Foster's.
Colt 45
Schlitz Bull (Quarts only).
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Free.

[dilsburger]

Yingling - the nation's oldest brewery is 1 hr away from here, but I prefer Sam Adams!

[david eaton]

Yes I like the traditional British Bitter. I know, a lot of Americans think it's flat and warm but I like it:D

David

[Jiggy]

you cant beat real ale and a good beer festival.

[Anubis]

Foreign: Bass
Domestic: IceHouse
Domestic cheap: Budweiser
Domestic broke: Red Dog
Domestic no way in hell I will touch: "Beer", when I was in the military at the class 6(liquor shop for civilians) there was this all white can with just "Beer" in black letters on it. There is no way in hell I would touch that stuff.

[bassman]

AAAHHHH YESSSS, cold beer is the food of the gods, at least in my heaven:D
Imports
Negro Modelo
Guiness Extra Stout
XX
and several others
Domestic
There are quite a few micro brewers around this area, two of my favorites are "Red Rocket" and "Racer X"
Mighty fine brews indeed but if I had to name a favorite, hmmm...
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AAH Yes, the lady in red wets my thirst everyday.

Hey gogreen, you wait till after you mow the lawn to have a few???:confused: :D

Malted grain, it's not just for breakfast any more:rolleyes:

[Steve]

Beer? ummmm....Yup!

I like Harpoon IPA, made in Boston. Long Trail Ale, made in Vermont. Red Hook IPA, made in New Hampshire. :) We have a local brew up here called Tuckerman's. mmmmm, very delicious. And the one I like best of all is my friend Johns. Made in his kitchen. :D

[randyrhoads1981]

No beer for me that i cant spell.. its Bud or its a dud:D

The favorite here is the local moonshine, thats 200 proof for people not in the know.

[RKBA]

Aside from fresh draft beer in a German bar, the best beer I've ever had is that which my wife and I made ourselves. It's surprisingly simple and easy to brew (http://www.beertown.org/AHA/BREW_LEVELS/brew.htm), and the results are superb. The only ingredients are malt, hops, yeast, and water - all very inexpensive. In fact, I once read somewhere (Zymurgy Magazine (http://www.beertown.org/magazines.htm) IIRC) that it's illegal to brew and sell beer in Germany with any other ingredients (though I don't know if that's still true or not, and it may have applied to a specific type of German beer).

The most tedious part is the bottling, but with a little extra investment that step can be eliminated by purchasing a 5 gallon (19 Liter) keg (http://www.paddockwood.com/catalog_equipment_kegging.html) and racking the beer directly into the keg instead of going through the bottling step. The downside is that you then have to find room in your refrigerator for the keg, or buy an extra refrigerator. I never progressed to that step, but at one time I had cases and cases of homemade bottled beer stashed in just about every nook and cranny of the house! In fact, I was making so much beer that I actually bought empty beer bottles. They're very inexpensive and can be reused indefinitely of course. At one point, I was even growing my own Hallertau hops (http://www.brewsource.com/ProdNav/Ing_14.asp). They're vines and grow like weeds, and will choke off any thing around them so I was constantly cutting them back. One vine will produce more hops than you could use in a lifetime.

The second most tedious part is sanitizing everything, but the dishwasher and a very dilute solution of household bleach works well for that, and I never had a batch go bad because of contamination. I remember getting up once in the middle of the night because of strange noises in the house. The noises turned out to be coming from the fermenting beer bubbling CO2 rapidly through the airlock. It isn't noticeable in the daytime, but when I shined the flashlight on the 5 gallon glass carboy of fermenting beer, even though the container had been sitting perfectly still all day long the beer inside looked as though it were alive - it was swirling all around and bubbling rapidly as though it were being stirred - just from the activity of the yeast alone!

It was great fun and very rewarding, but after I'd gained about 20 pounds of extra weight, I decided to put the beer making supplies away until I lost the extra weight. I'm still waiting... http://ron.dotson.org/pic/pi_blush.gif

-- Ron

[neveryona]

Now there is a subject I am quite familiar with...that would be Moosehead for me....light and easy on you the next day!!:cool:

[david eaton]

Oh, Say, for what were hopyards meant?
And why was Burton built on Trent?
Full many a peer of England brews
Far livelier liquor than the Muse,
And Malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.

A.E.Housman A Shropshire lad.

David

[Steve]

Just a few thoughts on beer...

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
- Benjamin Franklin

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
- Deep Thought, Jack Handy

And my very favorite:

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.
What care I how time advances:
I'm drinking ale today.
- Edgar Allen Poe

:)

[Vic 970]

I only drink water these days,

but I always put some whisky in, just to kill the germs. :D

[Lucias_Clay]

Well I don't drink much these days, if I do it's either Michelob or Bud.
Now when I Was in Germany(in the army) a good warm glass of double bock did the trick. But basically I'm a sour mash kinda guy. Me and Jack spent many nights together.:D

[hiredgoonz]

Iron City (only folks from Pittsburgh know about this)

Rolling Rock

Guinness

Molson Canadian (tastes better in Canada though)

[goober2003]

My dad brews a lot of different kinds of home brew and my favorites are rasberry beer, honey beer, corona clone. Other beers that I like are corona, lefthand, and bud light.

[Fruss Tray Ted]

...in bottles and a plastic drawstring bag.

Aahhh, memories... Foggy ones, but memories nonetheless :rolleyes:

Molsen Canadien Ale in the red carton used to be better. I remmember when the label changed to a tall ship, still red box though. Problem is the taste went south at the same time.

Saint Pauli Girl!

Yeah Matey's! Here's to the Lady. Cheers!
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[Jamie69]

I love beer. My favourites are Fosters, Guiness and Stella!!!!

MmMmMmmmmmmmm!!

I could drink beer all day (i do mostly)

[malcore]

mmmmmmmm.......DUFF........aughuhgugugaggug
DOH!

[Gallaeglagh]

Well it's good to see quite a few of us like Guinness, definetly my favorite, been thinking about getting a keg full of it but it requires a special adapter and a nitrogen setup. Sort of a pricey setup.

I also homebrewed for quite a while and made lots of great ales but I've sort of curtailed that hobby due to the amount of labor involved, still make a batch now and then though.

[steveo]

I like beer, I also like a lot of things :)

I don't like most Canadian beers but Pilsner makes the grade. Hi-Test is ok to. For mainstream American beers they're awful...yuck. How can you guys drink that stuff? LOL...that's ok, there's lot's of American micro brews I've never tasted that probably go down great. Tuborg Gold is a fine refreshment. Victoria Bitter is quite alright (got me through two tropical storms). Tooheys is fine.

Although Aussie's will probably hang me I like Foster's...just try finding it in a Aussie bar. I suppose I was always in the wrong bar!

I like Old Milwaukee which is probably weird.

That's it...

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[VCmute]

I have never aquired a taste for the stuff. I was however offered a Red Dog one time and at the time I liked it, but then I suffered from a wicked headache only after a few sips. I didn't give up though, a long while after that I tried Red Dog again, very gingerly, and again I got a severly wicked headache. Well, that was it, I will never touch the stuff again. I will stick with White wines and Zins.

[mjc]

Guinness, of course!

Now, HG, if you know about IC, then how about Old Frothing Slosh?

And a local microbrew...Blackwater Stout, almost a clone of Guinness.

There are a bunch of others, but none of them are the popular brands like Bud, etc.

[sleddog]

Originally posted by Fruss Tray Ted
[B]Molsen Canadien Ale in the red carton used to be better. I remmember when the label changed to a tall ship, still red box though.

That's not a tall ship, it's an armadillo. You're looking at it sideways :)

[Paul Komski]

kfh LOL :D only just read this thread. "Liffey Water" is most agreeable and the only panacea I know of.

Personally, as did Marilyn Monroe, I love true "Black Velvet"; 50/50 Guinness/Champagne; but even the French are inclined to say this is a waste of good Guinness!! It is, however, one of those combos that makes you drunk in the legs before it gets to your head; your feet give way and you can't understand why!

There is a wee pome (sic) by Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O'Nolan that discusses some of the merits of:-

'THE WORKMAN'S FRIEND'

When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night -
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

When money's tight and hard to get
And your horse has also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt -
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

When health is bad and your heart feels strange,
And your face is pale and wan,
When doctors say you need a change,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

When food is scarce and your larder bare
And no rashers grease your pan,
When hunger grows as your meals are rare -
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

In time of trouble and lousey strife,
You have still got a darlint plan
You still can turn to a brighter life -
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

:cool: :p

Gallaeglagh: a couple of tips for any kegs.
(1) Scrupulous cleanliness and quick turnover!!
(2) Store (if you must) at not only a cool temperature but most critically at a constant temperature.