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Beer! (Split from National Stereotypes)

There's a brewery out west called New Belgium, and they make some good beers, 1554, Blue Paddle and Loft. They won't deliver anywhere that their trucks can't get to in a day, so my friends will make 3 hour trips to pick some up. I love beer, cold beer, and New Belgium makes some good stuff.
 
When I am on vacation in August I make a very definitive effort to do my absolute best impression of a Corona commercial.

Sitting on the beach, watching the waves crash with my tall neck Corona, dripping beads of sweat from the cold, cold bottle, and a nicely sliced wedge of lime stuck in every bottle I drink.....


ugggghhhhh......beer...... D'OH!!!!
 
Motokid said:
Sitting on the beach, watching the waves crash with my tall neck Corona, dripping beads of sweat from the cold, cold bottle, and a nicely sliced wedge of lime stuck in every bottle I drink.....
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You are giving me serious doubts about your masculinity, think you need to take a look down you pants, and change something in your profile. :D
 
Motokid said:
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We ship our beer cold-not because we have to, but because we choose to, ensuring a brewery-fresh flavor.
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um moto, my husband was reading this thread with me and he said you know what they say about american beer? it's like sex on the beach.
 
I love English beer. Young's ordinary, Bateman's, some really great beers over there. I'm horrified at how popular Budweiser has become in England. Real beer is like food. When we visit the UK, the CAMRA Good Beer Guide is my bible--it will always give you a reliable, good pub with real beer, tell you what hours it's open, and whether the food is any good. Plus, it has maps. What else do you need?

Anyone tried to make beer? My hub misses his English beer and so has made several decent batches, but hasn't yet found perfection.
 
Can't stand beer myself (which is lucky, as Ice always threatens never to kiss me again if I drink any) - I stick to the harder stuff :D

However, in 'the day', I preferred to drink weak piss-pot lagers, such as Stella and Fosters :)

Phil
 
Oh yes, around the ages of 15 and 16 I was very much into the whole 'drink more beer than you can handle and end up throwing it all back up' scene. It was a sad sight to see, to be honest, these days I'm a little more careful with my alcohol consumption (or a little more hale and hardy anyway).

Ahhh, the joy of youth. :rolleyes:

Phil :)
 
There's a bar in Brussels that has over a thousand different kinds of beer, if anyone's interested. It's supposed to be heaven on earth for the beer-lovers, though I myself wasn't too impressed.
 
'drink more beer than you can handle and end up throwing it all back up'
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That is sad.

I have a parttime job on Saturdays, and I work with a bunch of students. And every week, conversation consists of just how bloody much they had to drink last night and how crappy they felt afterwards, and how much they're gonna drink after work ... yada yada yada. Come on, there must be better things to do!

Cheers
 
Welcome to Britain, no theres really not much else to do unfortunately, especially if you belong to the 'kappa slappa' generation of kids we seem to be churning out everywhere - thank god I was a child of the eighties and not the nineties :D

Phil
 
phil_t said:
Welcome to Britain, no theres really not much else to do unfortunately, especially if you belong to the 'kappa slappa' generation of kids we seem to be churning out everywhere - thank god I was a child of the eighties and not the nineties :D
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Well, actually, now that you mention it... My sister is studying abroad for a year (in Leicester) and she's creating quite a few stereotypes with all the stories she's telling. Recreational drinking and thinking isn't exactly the British way, or so it would seem. :p
 
Its a big problem in our towns and cities ... even in the little villages like where I live you can always find a group of youths sitting around outside the chippy or offlicense drinking from large bottles of cheap and nasty cider. Leads to a lot of urban deprivation, teenage pregnancy and failing education apparantly, so in answer to the problems the Government is extending licensing hours for all pubs and offies to let the blighters do it well into the morning as well :rolleyes:

Phil
 
novella said:
I love English beer. Young's ordinary, Bateman's, some really great beers over there. I'm horrified at how popular Budweiser has become in England. Real beer is like food. When we visit the UK, the CAMRA Good Beer Guide is my bible--it will always give you a reliable, good pub with real beer, tell you what hours it's open, and whether the food is any good. Plus, it has maps. What else do you need?

Anyone tried to make beer? My hub misses his English beer and so has made several decent batches, but hasn't yet found perfection.
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English beer is good, but it cant beat the Belgian beers.

I have tried to make beer a few times, but i always end up with some horrible vaguely beer-smelling crap. I have learned to leave beer making to the professionals.
 
I don't drink much anymore, but back in the 90's they had all those micro-breweries popping up with their porters. Good stuff. I don't know how it stacks up to what you'd get in the UK but its great.
 
lies said:
There's a bar in Brussels that has over a thousand different kinds of beer, if anyone's interested. It's supposed to be heaven on earth for the beer-lovers, though I myself wasn't too impressed.
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There's a place in Memphis, TN, called The Flying Saucer that has a lot of beers (I don't know how many; probably under a thousand) on tap. You can join a club and drink three different types of beer a week until you drink everything they have to offer. They sell shirts that say "Beer Knurd" on them.
 
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