What Beer Are We Drinking This Summer? - Page 2

Griff · 08-11-2006, 06:38 AM

Guinness when available
Yeungling when I feel patriotic
Rolling Rock never again
Pacifica most recently

elSicomoro · 08-11-2006, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Griff

Guinness when available
Yeungling when I feel patriotic
Rolling Rock never again
Pacifica most recently

Looks like someone is drinking Yuengling right now.

If you tell me you're not drinking Rolling Rock any more because of its recent sale, I will have no choice but to beat you with one of their trademark green bottles.

Griff · 08-11-2006, 07:33 AM

Better start the beating now. Budweiser bought them and is shuttering the Latrobe plant and moving to Jersey. Bud bought them because of the brand value. If you separate the beer from its roots you have no brand value... even an mba should get that.

elSicomoro · 08-11-2006, 07:57 AM

Oh sure, blame A-B...they're always the bad guy. Who decided to sell the company in two pieces? Who was that again? InBev? Right.

I don't have no stinkin' MBA...that would have taken me an extra 6 months of accounting bullshit. An MA works just fine...and should make tw proud.

Pangloss62 · 08-11-2006, 08:06 AM

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the brewer of La Fin Du Monde, and Éphémère (the apple beer)

Thanks for that link, flint. After you mentioned that apple bier the first time, I got curious and looked for it at the same place I got that kriekbier (cherry). They didn't have the La Fin Du Monde, so I settled for the Lindeman's. I was dissapointed. It was way too sweet and it had kind of an artificial, Jolly Rancher smell. Sadly, this was one night after I had my first Lindeman's Kriek Lambic. It too had a pungent aroma of candy, and a too tooty-fruity taste. I like more bite, more sour. I know a store that sells the La Fin Du Monde and I'll check out that apple product tonight.

And stay away from those green-bottle high gravs! Just like Heineken or any other green-bottle beer, they skunk out after being in the light for a week or so.

Flint · 08-12-2006, 11:14 AM

I've never had a Lindeman's Framboise straight-up. I always mix it with a tart cider. That combination has a nice sour bite, with the heavy fruit element in there, without being too sweet. I don't think I would like the Framboise straight-up, I've never even tried to take a drink out of the bottle.

footfootfoot · 08-13-2006, 07:49 AM

nice idea about the mixing, Flint. Lindeman's also makes a Peche (peach) it is like peach wine cooler. summer, desert.

Flint · 08-13-2006, 09:26 AM

It wasn't really my idea, they made them that way at The Flying Saucer, which had over 300 beers on tap.

DanaC · 08-13-2006, 12:39 PM

Mmm....beer.....mmmm

I just popped open a bottle of Greene King's Abbot Ale. Very nice. Room temperature, deep golden colour, mmmm. Not tremendously strong compared to some (alc 5% vol.) Greene King breweries have been making such delicious beverages since 1799. I do like a beer that retains its roots!

One of the towns near my village is having a beer festival soon. So I shall hie me over to Hebden Bridge and try to remember what it is I am drinking so I can bring back a full(ish) report :P

Pangloss62 · 08-13-2006, 01:21 PM

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Oh sure, blame A-B...they're always the bad guy.

AB is completely irrelevent in any discussion of beer. All their products suck dead donkey dicks. Seriously. Why so many Americans drink AB or Miller products is beyond me. You'll see a guy driving a Mercedes 350 SL hop into his car with a 12-pak of Miller Lite. I don't get it. What the fuck is wrong with people in this country?

Thanks for that cider tip, Flint. That may be the ticket. I found a place that sells that Omnibrou and requested they get the apple beer. Is that good straight?

Dana C. Yorkshire. Goodness. You are lucky to be in a land of historic beer! We have a beer festival here in Decatur, GA, but they keep raising the price. It's now $30 U.S. dollars just to get in! Fuck that shit. I'll have my own festival, thank you.

Flint · 08-13-2006, 01:43 PM

Unibroue is top notch. I recomend you try everything they have. La Fin Du Monde is probably my favorite thing they make, an almost champagne-like beer that will knock you on your ass with something like 9% alcohol. The apple beer is brilliant, in that it has a sharp, clean beer taste with a very distinct aftertaste of sour green apples. It isn't sweet, and it isn't like a fruity drink at all. It's distinctly beer.

Pangloss62 · 08-14-2006, 07:54 AM

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It isn't sweet, and it isn't like a fruity drink at all. It's distinctly beer.

Excellent! (said with the voice of Montgomery Burns). That sounds like what I want.

I found 4 different Unibroues, but not the apple one. I will not rest until I have tasted said green apple bier!!!

08-11-2006, 06:38 AM	#16
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Guinness when available Yeungling when I feel patriotic Rolling Rock never again Pacifica most recently __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-11-2006, 07:33 AM	#18
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Better start the beating now. Budweiser bought them and is shuttering the Latrobe plant and moving to Jersey. Bud bought them because of the brand value. If you separate the beer from its roots you have no brand value... even an mba should get that. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-12-2006, 11:14 AM	#21
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I've never had a Lindeman's Framboise straight-up. I always mix it with a tart cider. That combination has a nice sour bite, with the heavy fruit element in there, without being too sweet. I don't think I would like the Framboise straight-up, I've never even tried to take a drink out of the bottle. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-13-2006, 07:49 AM	#22
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	nice idea about the mixing, Flint. Lindeman's also makes a Peche (peach) it is like peach wine cooler. summer, desert. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

08-13-2006, 09:26 AM	#23
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	It wasn't really my idea, they made them that way at The Flying Saucer, which had over 300 beers on tap. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-11-2006, 07:57 AM	#19
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Oh sure, blame A-B...they're always the bad guy. Who decided to sell the company in two pieces? Who was that again? InBev? Right. I don't have no stinkin' MBA...that would have taken me an extra 6 months of accounting bullshit. An MA works just fine...and should make tw proud.

08-13-2006, 12:39 PM	#24
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Mmm....beer.....mmmm I just popped open a bottle of Greene King's Abbot Ale. Very nice. Room temperature, deep golden colour, mmmm. Not tremendously strong compared to some (alc 5% vol.) Greene King breweries have been making such delicious beverages since 1799. I do like a beer that retains its roots! One of the towns near my village is having a beer festival soon. So I shall hie me over to Hebden Bridge and try to remember what it is I am drinking so I can bring back a full(ish) report :P

08-13-2006, 01:43 PM	#26
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Unibroue is top notch. I recomend you try everything they have. La Fin Du Monde is probably my favorite thing they make, an almost champagne-like beer that will knock you on your ass with something like 9% alcohol. The apple beer is brilliant, in that it has a sharp, clean beer taste with a very distinct aftertaste of sour green apples. It isn't sweet, and it isn't like a fruity drink at all. It's distinctly beer. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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