Beer

[Iron Mego]

Chimay.

[megomania]

Hoegaarden
Newcastle
Bitburger
Lowenbrau

[Hector]

Being in the NW and being exposed to so many beers from around the world, I would agree wholeheartedly.

Exactly.

Never been to Belgium (my sister has, she lived right next door in France for a couple of years, but she's not a beer drinker...so she couldn't tell me, lol)...but I did go to England, Ireland, and Germany way back in the early 90s...and yes...their beers were awesome...but our really good micro-breweries are just as good...I really did not see any beer superiority over the others...all of them were just excellent beers, period.

[Hector]

You wish

I was waiting when where you going to make an entrance here.

Listen...making beer is not nuclear fusion...if you have knowledgeable brewers (with the same ingredients, recipes, equipment, etc...)...you can make the same bloody thing.

America is a land of immigrants from all over the world...we have and make anything just as good.

Yeah...giant breweries like Budweiser and Coors are there to make cheap beer for the masses....and that's probably the types of American beers you have tried.

But I guarantee you...if you go to...for example...to San Francisco' Anchor Steam brewery...you'd be impressed.

Just like I keep saying Mexico is the creator of chocolate...yet you say Belgium makes the world's best chocolate (have you even tasted Mexican chocolate?)...so in turn...you started making beer way earlier than America...but we can't make good beer either...just you?

If Mexico started with chocolate...and Belgium improved it...then why not America can do the same with beer?

I'm sorry...but you are just going by our cheap imported bottled beers...but you have not tried our really good micro-breweries (which most are not even imported)...and guess what...we have a bunch of really good chocolate-makers...many of them having learned the art in Belgium and other countries (or they immigrated here).

My two cents.

[SeattleEd]

Many microbreweries in the USA are as good as any beers around the world.

Being in the NW and being exposed to so many beers from around the world, I would agree wholeheartedly.

Right now my fav is Rouge Ales from Newport, OR.

I do half of this:


and half of this:


to get spicy sweet NorthWest style Black and Tan. Taste much better at the brewery.

[Meule]

Beerfest IS a great flick.
I prefer Euro brews.....usually have Heinekin on tap at home but occasionally switchout with Hoffbrau or Paulaner. Have also developed a atesed for an Austrian beer called Spiegl. Good tasing Lager

Heineken isn't beer
Palm is a delicious Belgian beer tho

[Meule]

Many microbreweries in the USA are as good as any beers around the world.

You wish

[wayne foundation 07]

Molson and all its forms and varities

[Nostalgiabuff]

Beerfest IS a great flick.
I prefer Euro brews.....usually have Heinekin on tap at home but occasionally switchout with Hoffbrau or Paulaner. Have also developed a atesed for an Austrian beer called Spiegl. Good tasing Lager

[Brad]

Brad,
She is basically left in full charge of the kids in the evening while he sits downstairs half the night on the computer swigging back rum.

Substitute Vodka for Gin and that was me.


And I don't know why but in AA I met more Gin or Vodka drinkers then anything else by far. And I lost three friends, two of them were very close friends, to the disease. They were in AA and sober but for some reason had not cleared through the wreckage of their lives enough and they all killed themselves.

[Adam West]

Brad,

Glad to hear you have been able to acknowledge the issue and take measures to stop. My sister's husband is an alcoholic who will not stop. Like you, he is fully functional. He has never missed a day on the job, doesn't drink on the job, etc. He doesn't even seem to get angry or irritable either. I actually didn't half believe my sister when she said he drinks a 750ML bottle of rum every day until I saw it first hand. He has been doing it for so long, he doesn't even seem to be impaired. My sister also said he drinks alone and although he's not a nasty abusive husband (even when he is drinking), my sister has said it is definitely taking a toll on her marriage. She is basically left in full charge of the kids in the evening while he sits downstairs half the night on the computer swigging back rum. I really do worry a lot about the long term effects of drinking that quantity day in and day out and hope he will stop before the damage is irrreversible.

[Adam West]

The part of Maryland that I live in does not allow alcohol to be sold in grocery stores. It is such an odd concept for me since I see it as a food product. They sell cigarettes and scratch off lottery tickets but no alcohol whatsover. You have to go to a beer/liquor store for that. Even stranger was the county in Maryland where I grew up (I no longer reside in that county). No alcohol in grocery stores...beer/wine had their own stores...and if you wanted something stronger, you had to go to the county run liquor store. They also sold beer but then you had to purchase it by the case and they were only allowed to sell it warm. Very strange rules.

[Brad]

Friend of Bill W since May 12, 2002, so no more real beer for me. I do on occasion like to have an O'Doul's Amber once and awhile.


Before then I mainly drank Bud Ice or Beck's Dark. I actually like a thick, full bodied beer the best. After my first wife left I would wake up to a couple Buds, drink a quart of Ice House for lunch, then come home to drink about 6 more Buds before finishing with a half of a bottle of Smirnoff's Silver Label.


I also used to be known as the nut job who would drink Everclear straight! Used to pull up to High School and park next to the only other Brad in our class. RIP Brad R. He died in a drunk driving accident a year after we graduated when I was at SIU. He wasn't the driver as the driver lived. I would reach under the seat to pull out my bottle for a couple wake-me-up swigs before class. You would think that was a sign but since I was a binge drinker who never had a DUI, lost a job, etc. it took another 14 years before it finally became evident that I am an alcoholic. I was an unsocial drinker as I mostly drank by myself at home.

[Mikey]

I quit drinking a few years ago but I always liked Milwaukee's Best Light ... which is a Miller economy brand.

Sometimes I'd treat myself to a Yuengling

[Mr.Krusher]

I only allow the FINEST to touch my lips:

Natural Ice
Olde English
Ballantine Ale
Colt 45



Seriously though, I enjoy all types of beer, ale, and lager, and Hector's pictures are like my version of Wonka's factory, but I'm not overly 'fussy'. I'm more of a 'Scotch snob' I suppose..

Great quote, this is Gorilla Monsoon speaking of Andre -

"Andre was a connoisseur of fine wines and blended whiskeys, but if that wasnt around he'd drink any wine...or beer...or.."