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Offline Uncle Ernie

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Re: Your favorite beer...this is the "Open Forum"
« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2005, 06:14:13 PM »
Boy, lots of memories here. I had something called a Belgian white ale a few times. Seem to remember a little snap of pineapple at the end.  Wht's that ale with the green label and a picture of a Scottie in the middle? Loved that one too.
Being as how I worked for 10 years in a San Francisco liquor store in the heart of downtown, I'd have to guess I've probably tasted almost everything ever made. I even invented a drink called a Tennessee Dancer; large wide glass with one large (old fashioned) chunk of ice (the stage). Pour in your JD and spoon on a floater of German apfel schnapps (the dancer). >clink< cheers-
I thik the only thing I Don't like is peppermint schnapps.
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« Reply #26 on: July 27, 2005, 06:29:18 PM »
Boy, lots of memories here. I had something called a Belgian white ale a few times. Seem to remember a little snap of pineapple at the end.  Wht's that ale with the green label and a picture of a Scottie in the middle? Loved that one too.
Being as how I worked for 10 years in a San Francisco liquor store in the heart of downtown, I'd have to guess I've probably tasted almost everything ever made. I even invented a drink called a Tennessee Dancer; large wide glass with one large (old fashioned) chunk of ice (the stage). Pour in your JD and spoon on a floater of German apfel schnapps (the dancer). >clink< cheers-
I thik the only thing I Don't like is peppermint schnapps.
A good friend of ours lived in Pacific Hieghts for about 8 years...I've been there twice. San Fran is a really nice city....expensive but very nice. Yeah....I hear you about the peppermint schnapps(Yeck!)
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Re: Your favorite beer...this is the "Open Forum"
« Reply #27 on: July 27, 2005, 06:30:27 PM »
 I've tried so many can't remember most of their names but these are some of my favorites.
newcastle pale ale,warsteiner,grolsch,labatts blue,molson canadian,ricards red
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Re: Your favorite beer...this is the "Open Forum"
« Reply #28 on: July 27, 2005, 08:20:57 PM »
Granville Island Pale Ale!

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« Reply #29 on: July 27, 2005, 08:31:38 PM »
Peroni is a good Italian beer.
Shiner is good as well but only avilible in Texas

the best is an "Irish Car bomb"
1/2 pint of guinnus (however you spell it) in a 1 pint glass
1/2oz jameson & 1/2 shot Bailey's in the same shot glass

DONT MIX UNTILL READY TO DRINK.

say something Irish like "fu(k the Queen!" ...drop the whole shot glass into the beer and drink as fast as you can!! (watch your teeth on the shot glass)

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« Reply #30 on: July 27, 2005, 09:29:37 PM »
The best beer is FREE!!! The neighbor buys all kinds of beer.  He keeps giving me them and asking if I like this brand or that.  Even if its not that good.... I like it cuz I'm not buying it. 

I usually buy MGD when I have to break down and buy my own. 

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Re: Your favorite beer...this is the "Open Forum"
« Reply #31 on: July 27, 2005, 11:33:37 PM »
I'm from St. Louis Missouri, and my favorite is the King Of Beers, Budweiser.

I don't necessarily think that Bud is the "best" beer, just my favorite :)

Lost Coast Brewery, Great White is a good one. Depending on the temperature, if I you put a Guiness and a Bud in front of me, you may get the Bud. I'm in Seattle now, and almost every neighborhood has some sort of a microbrewery. There's a lot of good beer here.
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Re: Your favorite beer...this is the "Open Forum"
« Reply #32 on: July 28, 2005, 12:32:38 AM »
Speights is great.

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« Reply #33 on: July 28, 2005, 03:22:12 PM »
 Great Lakes ,Conways Irish Ale gets right to the point or a Rolling Rock on the hot days after work.

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« Reply #34 on: July 28, 2005, 10:00:01 PM »
My brother-in-law's business partner told me about a pub in Chicago that has a club gathering on Wednesday nights, and there are supposed to be a ton of Honda sohc fours.  I thought I knew where it was but couldn't place it.  So today I was about to get on the expressway but it was a huge traffic jam.  I went around the block from my work and lo and behold, the bar he was talking about is only ONE BLOCK AWAY from my work!  Egads.  Their sign even has a sort of woodcut of a bunny rabbit riding what appears to be a British cafe-racer ( I didn't get a really good look).  Place is called the Bucktown Pub if anyone is in the Chicago area on a Wednesday night.. It's just south of Armitage and just west of the Kennedy Expressway.  I'm not sure what the street is called, though.


Anyways, I just finished a Harvey's Tom Paine Original Ale (UK). It was good.  I think I'll have another.  Maybe the brown ale this time?  Nice to be in the beer trade...I drink what I like and it's basically free.  But, as they say, "WORK HAPPENS".

BTW I just picked up 5 new beers for my portfolio all from Poland.  One is called of all things...DUBLIN and it's a Polish version of an Irish Stout, only it's lagered and it's waaaay good.  Can't wait to start selling that!  I'll be serving my peers tomorrow to get a 2nd opinion on them.

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« Reply #35 on: July 29, 2005, 02:25:00 AM »
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the best is an "Irish Car bomb"
1/2 pint of guinnus (however you spell it) in a 1 pint glass
1/2oz jameson & 1/2 shot Bailey's in the same shot glass

DONT MIX UNTILL READY TO DRINK.

We call this a "Depth charge" and you can use any beer...same user warnings apply  ;D

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Re: Your favorite beer...this is the "Open Forum"
« Reply #36 on: July 29, 2005, 10:59:42 AM »
I'd just like to add the following:

Beer makes you smart.

Yeah right you say. How can this be possible?

Well, Its a commonly known fact that alcohol kills brain cells. In the case of beer, It only kills the weak ones. Very selective the beer is.

Why is this good and how does it make you smarter?

Think of it as "thinning the herd". Only the "slow gazelles" of the brain get the axe. These "Slow" cells aren't really pulling thier weight! The beer goes in and thins out the "dead wood".

This thinning out of the weak and old also encourages the remaining cells to work harder, lest they be next.


Do you know why beer goes through you so fast?

Doesn't have to change color! ;D
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« Reply #37 on: July 29, 2005, 01:44:39 PM »
my favorite beer is a cold one! ;D
Frank A.

Which is only preceeded by free beer. ;D

So many choices... ???

Although if I was about to die and could only have one, a Java Porter for the Mountain Sun brew pub in Boulder, CO.  Pure heaven in a glass.

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« Reply #38 on: July 29, 2005, 02:23:31 PM »
Back when I was still allowed Carbohydrates, (and thirty more pounds to carry around)  I liked A&W until they started adding caffiene to it.  Then I switched to Stewarts.  Ah, the good old days.  ;D

I could also enjoy Hieneken Dark when operating machinery wasn't in the forcast.  (Not wise to dim whatever wit I have left while flying.)

Now, when I throw caution to the wind, I swill Rock Green Light.  It's enough to instill some "spirited" reminiscing. ;D
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« Reply #39 on: July 29, 2005, 09:01:19 PM »
Truth be told...I only have two brain cells remaining.  But they're REALLY strong.

Jordan AkA polishbeer

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Re: Your favorite beer...this is the "Open Forum"
« Reply #40 on: July 30, 2005, 12:19:01 PM »
I brew my own ;D

Ditto! I once (well, in 2000 actually  ;)) won second place in the 2000 South Australian Amateur Brewers Championship. My first and only competition, I withdrew from subsequent competitions in the spirit of good sportsmanship and now, back in Denmark, only brew for my own consumption. Fame corrupts, you know...
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« Reply #41 on: July 30, 2005, 01:38:05 PM »
i know people don't usually care much for the standard "american" beer, but i do love high life.  other than that, i like whatever is brewing in my basement, which currently is a lighter pale ale, or st. pauli girl, or slab city (another microbrew no one knows about).  leiny's honey weiss is also good. 

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« Reply #42 on: July 31, 2005, 06:01:40 AM »
I drink, therefore I am............ (drunk) Cheers, Terry. ;D

Hehehehee... reminds me of Monty Python's "Drunken Philosophers Song": :D
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Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
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« Reply #43 on: August 01, 2005, 05:17:18 PM »
A&W Rootbeer.  It's the best.  And it doesn't affect my riding.  Or my speech.

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« Reply #44 on: August 02, 2005, 06:56:08 AM »
Anything from here......... :D

http://www.virtualbartender.beer.com/beer_usa.htm
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« Reply #45 on: August 02, 2005, 10:19:11 AM »
Speights is great.

Would that be the special "brew" enjoyed in great hotels throughout Southland?

Can't find it in my neck of the woods

the old local brewery sold out, the new local brewery went out of business, so now I stick to about anything Canadian or Dutch (not Amstel).

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« Reply #46 on: August 02, 2005, 01:33:12 PM »
Yes it is ! brewed in Dunedin and widely avaliable. Their 'Distinction' brand is particularily nice.

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great hotels throughout Southland?

Sounds like you have partaken of this brand ?


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« Reply #47 on: August 02, 2005, 04:37:03 PM »
Drink Problem? I dont have a problem---I drink, I fall over---NO PROBLEM. Newcastle brown is OK for the general brain dead but the conesewers out there drink Newcastle Amber---tastes better but works quicker and who needs legs anyway!!!
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« Reply #48 on: August 02, 2005, 06:07:28 PM »
I'm NOT alcoholic, those bastards go to meetings ;D
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« Reply #49 on: August 03, 2005, 07:35:46 AM »
Yes it is ! brewed in Dunedin and widely avaliable. Their 'Distinction' brand is particularily nice.

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great hotels throughout Southland?

Sounds like you have partaken of this brand ?



Indeed, even bought the t-shirt (as any good American would)
My wife is a kiwi, I've been there once.  Mum-in-law in Christchurch had the beer fridge full for us.  I would love to back and do some cycle touring, unfortunately that won't happen for a couple years.