When I was growing up My Dad drank a Carlings Black Label once a week. When I was old enough I drank Old Style, then Miller Lite, then rum and coke. Now it's the occasional Dos Equs amber.
Beer.....
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When I was in high school my dad kept a basement fridge stocked with Hudepohl, Burger, Schoenling and Wiedemann beer (all local German brews).
He said that after dinner as long as I was done with chores, homework and tormenting my younger sister and brother I could imbibe with him and mom (she drank ginger ale shandies).
What great parents!
He said that after dinner as long as I was done with chores, homework and tormenting my younger sister and brother I could imbibe with him and mom (she drank ginger ale shandies).
What great parents!
racoonbeast
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I have not had a beer in twenty years, so I don't have much to offer on the beer front.
I did just pay twelve bucks for a nothing special package of hot dogs. It is getting to where it might be cheaper to just drink beer and forget the food. I might have to take it up again.
I did just pay twelve bucks for a nothing special package of hot dogs. It is getting to where it might be cheaper to just drink beer and forget the food. I might have to take it up again.
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A pork chop in every can!
A pork chop in every can!
In many cases my purchasing habits will range between if-it-was-any-worse-I couldn't-stand-it and if-was-any-better-I-couldn't-afford-it. But there are 4 categories which demand top quality: shoes,mattresses, fire arms and booze. This last category definitely includes beer.
Here lately there are more brands and types of beer to choose from and the differences in taste vary widely. I have never liked lite beer but of those I like Michelob Ultra the best.
The new, so called crafted beers all (the ones I've tried) taste sharp/bitter. Then there are the fruit flavored beers. you can have my share of all that
Good old Shiner Bock has more and better taste for every day consumption. Mexico puts out some great full flavored beers. Negra Modelo and Negra Leon to name a couple. Fosters Lager from "down under is very nice.
I'd like to comment on a statement made above something to the effect
that there is no bad beer. T'aint so. San Miguel from the Philippines is BAAAD.
Here lately there are more brands and types of beer to choose from and the differences in taste vary widely. I have never liked lite beer but of those I like Michelob Ultra the best.
The new, so called crafted beers all (the ones I've tried) taste sharp/bitter. Then there are the fruit flavored beers. you can have my share of all that
Good old Shiner Bock has more and better taste for every day consumption. Mexico puts out some great full flavored beers. Negra Modelo and Negra Leon to name a couple. Fosters Lager from "down under is very nice.
I'd like to comment on a statement made above something to the effect
that there is no bad beer. T'aint so. San Miguel from the Philippines is BAAAD.
stonebuster
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I also had to quit alcohol five years ago because of medication I now take. I feel bad about the workers Coors had to lay off after I quit. I suppose they could get a job making Bud Zeros because I drink cases of the stuff
I agree Becks is probably the best tasting na beer.
That is what I pay at the drive-thru at the end of my street. A bargain.
For you draft lovers, back in the 60s, you get get a pre pressurized 2.5 gallon keg to put in your fridge. Problem was, the deposit didn’t come close to covering manufacturing costs, and people weren’t bringing them back. They were turned into lamps and all other manner of man cave decorations. This is one of my dad’s from National Bo.
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sigp220.45
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I worked at a bar that sold more Olympia beer per square foot of floor space than any other bar in the United States. I don’t know who figured that statistic out, but we were sure proud of it.
One night the unthinkable happened and we ran out of Olympia kegs. I anticipated a riot. The manager said we have plenty of PBR, hook that up. As long as the tap handle says Olympia, no one will know. He was 100% correct. No one noticed.
Once decades later I was stuck on some federal goatrope with an ICE agent I didn’t know. He was a beer afficianado, and prattled on about beers I had never heard of. He asked what I liked. I didn’t want to sound like a complete rube, so I said Modelo Especial. He sniffed and said: So you like OTHER country’s Budweiser. What a tool. He reminded me of people who insist Olive Garden isn’t Italian food. (I love me some OG)
One night the unthinkable happened and we ran out of Olympia kegs. I anticipated a riot. The manager said we have plenty of PBR, hook that up. As long as the tap handle says Olympia, no one will know. He was 100% correct. No one noticed.
Once decades later I was stuck on some federal goatrope with an ICE agent I didn’t know. He was a beer afficianado, and prattled on about beers I had never heard of. He asked what I liked. I didn’t want to sound like a complete rube, so I said Modelo Especial. He sniffed and said: So you like OTHER country’s Budweiser. What a tool. He reminded me of people who insist Olive Garden isn’t Italian food. (I love me some OG)
Solid!
After decades in search of the perfect barstool I learned that after the first six or seven they all tend to taste alike.
Premium IPAs are my go to beers, Elysium Space Dust my favorite. I do like a cold lager to kill my thirst after mowing the lawn, Corona does that nicely. I've gone down the IPA trail and anymore nothing does it for me unless its loaded with hops, Bodizapha, Tricerahops, the more hops the merrier.
Usta make these.
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I admit to not being a snob. I do what I do because I want to, and I don't apologize for not being politically correct.
I like a mild lager. I used to buy Old Milwaukee because it was cheep, but now in retirement I switched to Budweiser. I just like it better.
Eons ago when I had to travel on business to Europe (I won't say the country because I don't want to offend anyone) I found the local country
beer to be horse fodder. The only other option was either wine (which didn't set well) or Heineken. It was not the American made version, but the "real" thing.
That was the worst 2 weeks in my life. To this day I would rather drink horse fodder. When I stepped off the plane in the USA the first thing I did was stop at MickyDees and then a deli to buy a sixpack of Bud.
Funny thing was that the food was worse than the beer.
I like a mild lager. I used to buy Old Milwaukee because it was cheep, but now in retirement I switched to Budweiser. I just like it better.
Eons ago when I had to travel on business to Europe (I won't say the country because I don't want to offend anyone) I found the local country
beer to be horse fodder. The only other option was either wine (which didn't set well) or Heineken. It was not the American made version, but the "real" thing.
That was the worst 2 weeks in my life. To this day I would rather drink horse fodder. When I stepped off the plane in the USA the first thing I did was stop at MickyDees and then a deli to buy a sixpack of Bud.
Funny thing was that the food was worse than the beer.
If you are ever in Milwaukee, you should go on the Miller Brewing tour. Then follow up with the Sprecker tour.
I would enjoy those. There are so many different tours here in the OTR Brewing District that it would take me weeks to complete them all. It would be time well spent.
venomballistics
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from a brewers perspective, these are all pretty much "SMaSH" brews. Single Malt and Single Hop. we often do them to evaluate a new variety of hop since it's such a well established baseline.
How this plays out in the industrial level is that the hops are going to be one of four varieties. Hallertau, Tettnanger, Saaz, or Cascade ... if not these, a beefed up derivative of them like Magnum. We all know the flavor of them ... it's definitive beer.
Yup ... I keep every one of them on hand.
chuckie
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My best friend's dad when we were in High School worked at the Carling Brewery on the shores of Lake Cochutuate in Framingham Ma. We may or may not have snuck one or two once in a while.
