Beer

LMNOP · Post by **LMNOP** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:18 pm

Mostess wrote: Hot potato, hot potato.
Hot potato, hot potato.
Hot potato, hot potato.
Potato.
Potato, potato, potato.

Fruit salad. Yummy, yummy.

Right there with ya, man.

Mostess · Post by **Mostess** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:15 pm

LMNOP wrote:Right there with ya, man.

Too useful for Monkey Affairs, but here are our antidotes:

1) http://www.festivalfive.com/
2) http://disney.go.com/littleeinsteins/swf/main.html

(shh. The kids don't know it's good for them).

Future Boy · Post by **Future Boy** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:18 pm

Dan, if you must drink cheap beer I recommend Red Stripe or Lucky Lager. They both come in small medicinal looking bottles and have picture puzzles under the caps.

j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:29 pm

My experience with Red Stripe is a particularly vicious chemical-feel hangover. Be warned!

mc3p0 · Post by **mc3p0** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:30 am

We're really fortunate to have so many experimenters conglomerate here in the NW. There are some good fruity beer ranging from sweet lemon lagers (nasty) to bitter blueberry, the palest ruby of India's alest and thee armada of wheaty-yeasty hefeweizens that go with chicken, chocolate, vegetarians and monkey affairs. Since I'm a lite drinker I like the tastiest experiences over the other refreshment and go for Obsidian Stout, an occasional Black Butte Porter or the faithful fallback Guinness (proper pour? - thar is no spoon). But I will not object to concocting black and tans - I'm no snob! There is a really, really tasty chocolate stout that someone puts out around x-mas I recommend to gift. Very manly. Also, Blackened Voodoo - it's the best stout imdrinkyo even tho it's Californian.

Middlemarch · Post by **Middlemarch** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:45 am

Hacker-Pschorr Weisse
Saranac Adirondack Lager, Traditional Lager, Belgian White (local brewery)

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:00 am

Hey Mm, German Weissbier is M's favorite, er, the only beer she drinks. If you like the Hacker you could also try Weihenstephaner, which is brewed in one of the towns we stayed in on our honeymoon (Freising, near Munich). She prefers it, somewhat...
-bill

Middlemarch · Post by **Middlemarch** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:55 am

HeuristicsInc wrote:Hey Mm, German Weissbier is M's favorite, er, the only beer she drinks. If you like the Hacker you could also try Weihenstephaner, which is brewed in one of the towns we stayed in on our honeymoon (Freising, near Munich). She prefers it, somewhat...
-bill

I'll check that out. We have a beverage outlet nearby that carries Hacker-Pshorr and some other Weisse beers. H-P come in huge bottles that my wife and I like to share (we're total lightweights nowadays--one beer's enough!)

I'll also add my support for Magic Hat #9.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:06 am

Oh yeah, that reminds me, there are a bunch of other Magic Hat beers at this place near me, but their names don't give much away. Also there are no descriptions on the bottles. Can anybody recommend a non-#9 Magic Hat to try?
-bill

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:10 am

My coworker Stacey has a #9 party on 9/9, so I figured she might know.

She recommends something called the '420' batch. Apparently it's a darker ale, and it undergoes batch revisions. Could be up to '422' now.

Also: Fat Angel. She says it's comparable to Long Trail.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:12 am

So kind, Stacey.
What's Long Trail like, anyway?
-bill

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:15 am

Jeez, I drank a bunch of it the other night. What was it like....?

I thought it was pretty good for a $2.50 draft at the bar. Certainly not dark... would you call it a Medium Ale, maybe?

Oh, Stacey also says Magic Hat has a 12-pack sampler with four different kinds in it, of which #9 is one. So if you find the other three kinds undrinkable (doubtful), at least you'll have three bottles of old dependable to fall back on.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:20 am

I believe the sampler was not available here, but that would have been a good choice. I checked the MH site and it says "English Ale" which is good.
Actually may have the chance to visit the brewery sometime. Is it worth taking a tour?
-bill

Mostess · Post by **Mostess** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:43 pm

All Belgian beer should be reclassified as some sort of carbonated spirits. And Bud Lite should be reclassified as some sort of alcoholic mineral water. Any word that describes both these liquids should have several syllables and a Greek root.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:12 pm

Mostess wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote: Barney the Dinosaur
No, no, dear Aussie. You can't avenge that twice. Don't know what I'm talking about? Here let me ruin your day for you:

(psst. northern hemispherians shut your eyes now!)

Hot potato, hot potato.
Hot potato, hot potato.
Hot potato, hot potato.
Potato.
Potato, potato, potato.

(okay, you can open your eyes again now).

OK, OK - I'll admit sending Steve Irwin was an act of agression - but you hit us first with a Hassellhoff-of -mass-destruction.

And there was really no excuse for Russell Crowe - but in our defense, he's actually a Kiwi - not one of ours.

But there is no way you can compare 4 harmless dorks in a big red car with that purple spawn of Satan. The Wiggles rock!

Actually - my daughter is not into The Wiggles - she's more a Hi-5 girl (though to tell the truth - at the age of not-quite 2, she can't tell the difference - it's all just colour and movement to her - it was her father who decided that she would much prefer to watch this than 4 middle-aged men in skivvies)

Middlemarch · Post by **Middlemarch** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:34 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:Actually - my daughter is not into The Wiggles - she's more a Hi-5 girl (though to tell the truth - at the age of not-quite 2, she can't tell the difference - it's all just colour and movement to her - it was her father who decided that she would much prefer to watch this than 4 middle-aged men in skivvies)

My daughter loves the US version of Hi-5. The Wiggles creep her out (rightly so).

Oh, and sorry about Barney. There's really no excuse.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:33 pm

BRAHMA.

End of fuckin discussion.

jack · Post by **jack** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:42 pm

rolling rock is good cheap beer.

in college, i used to drink shaefer. the one beer to have when you're having more than one...

but now i pretty much stick to red hook ESB and sierra nevada pale ale.

and it's friday and time to crack me one.

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:59 pm

Leaf wrote:BRAHMA.

End of fuckin discussion.

Oh god. My neighbor drinks that piss-swill. The ones with the goofy-shaped bottle? Hint: if there is a goofy-shaped bottle, the contents are crap. The bottle is to attract the miniscule attention span of basically retarded people. And, as far as my neighbor goes, it seemed to have worked. So, uh, what's YOUR excuse then?

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:08 pm

You're from Alberta aren't you?

I thought so.

END OF DISCUSSION.

Pssst. I think the bottle is very ... odd.

jack · Post by **jack** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:45 pm

songfight just wouldn't be the same without canucks and beer threads.

and canucks arguing about beer on beer threads.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:46 am

Report from the road:

I'm in Potsdam, NY. Last night I tried something by the Sackets Harbor Brewing Co., called Thousand Islands Pale Ale. It was tasty, but with perhaps too much character. I couldn't imagine drinking more than two of these before wanting to switch to something a little less overpowering.