Smoking an Opus X Rubosto, Drinking Beer and Grillin' Bison Steaks with Hickory Smoke

[snubbyfan]

This time I put some hickory chunks on the coals and added hickory smoke to the bison steaks.
All I can say is that they came out perfect and tasted amazing.
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[jbull380]

Awesome cigar, but if you're going to bust out an X you need a real beer to go with it. I'd be looking at a craft beer.

 

[snubbyfan]

Awesome cigar, but if you're going to bust out an X you need a real beer to go with it. I'd be looking at a craft beer.

Living in a small town in the mountains of West Virginia, there's not that much of a selection.
But we do come down out of the mountains occasionally.
What would be a good beer to go with an Opus X?

 

[WuzzFuzz]

We're going to have to get you a better cigar lighter, than using that ole Zippo. Along with a good beer

WuzzFuzz

 

[snubbyfan]

We're going to have to get you a better cigar lighter, than using that ole Zippo. Along with a good beer

WuzzFuzz

It's a Zippo housing with a Vector Thunderbird butane insert. I looked at cigar lighters but I always liked the classic look of the Zippo.
I figger I get the best of both worlds.

 

[snubbyfan]

Also have a custom Zippo with a double torch insert for when it's breezy.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

Ok, you're forgiven.

WuzzFuzz

 

[Watchdog]

Don't fall for that craft beer propaganda, Snubby. We're awash in the stuff down here, with new brews popping up seemingly on an almost daily basis, especially the locally brewed stuff. Bars and restaurants offer the stuff at reduced prices...calling it their "special draft of the day" or something similar...simply because no one will buy the swill at regular prices. Some people will drink it, though, smiling on the outside while gagging on the inside, simply to be seen by their friends as being trendy and socially up to date.

I've had my share of them, and without exception, they've all been way overrated. I want my beer to taste like beer...not like fruits or spices or pumpkins or flowers and stuff. I don't need my beer to have a bouquet. I don't swirl it around in a glass held up to my nose. I drink beer, I don't play with it.

And lots of craft beers are recommended to be at room temperature when served. Seriously? It's 95 degrees outside, and a few degrees hotter around a grill...and I'm gonna drink warm beer? Get that bottle away from me.

I reckon I'm just uncouth or something. Lacking in sophistication, maybe. One of my many failings.

 

[jbull380]

When I say "craft beer" I mean a real beer made locally. I don't like fruity beers or beers trying be wine. I just think your beer should be as good as your cigar. Like a scope should be as good as your rifle.

 

[soFlaNative]

Hard to go wrong with Yuengling, oldest beer still brewed in the U.S. (PA).
Same price as Bud, not sure about the Miller Lite price.
They brew a lite beer that's drinkable if you're worried about maintaining that girlish figure of yours...

 

[jbull380]

Yuengling is awesome! We have to smuggle it into Oklahoma though.

 

[Bill Bates]

Living in a small town in the mountains of West Virginia, there's not that much of a selection.
But we do come down out of the mountains occasionally.
What would be a good beer to go with an Opus X?

This may sounds strange to many but a good root beer with hints of spice and vanilla will really complement that Opus.

 

[snubbyfan]

Hard to go wrong with Yuengling, oldest beer still brewed in the U.S. (PA).
Same price as Bud, not sure about the Miller Lite price.
They brew a lite beer that's drinkable if you're worried about maintaining that girlish figure of yours...

I've actually lost 76 pounds so far and thanks to Miller Lite, I can still have beer.
My brother in law's a Yuengling drinker. Every time we visit he offers me one. Of course I accept. I'm thinking a full body cigar should go with a full body beer.
Yuengling lite, might havta try it. Might be hard to find out here,

 

[snubbyfan]

This may sounds strange to many but a good root beer with hints of spice and vanilla will really complement that Opus.

I've done that before. Don't remember the cigar but it was full bodied and paired well with root beer in a frosted mug.

 

[da gimp]

On the OP..... Waugh...

 

[nachogrande]

BEER, YUM!

NO SUCH THING AS bad beer or bad *****. If it's cold & in a frosted mug, I'd take a good ol PBR over a glass of lite fruity tooty. Not a tobacco user myself but being around Cuban smokers alot, the Romeo & Juliet's smelled better than Cohibas to me.

 

[Watchdog]

If it's cold & in a frosted mug, I'd take a good ol PBR over a glass of lite fruity tooty.

PBR made a huge comeback here a while back...don't know if it's held onto its market share now or not. I was paying $.25 a can for it in '65 at clubs and bars here.

 

[soFlaNative]

Aaahhh... PBR!
At least it got the taste of that shiner I ate on a bet out of my mouth.

 

[jbull380]

Not an X but these sure ain't bad. Smoking one while I let my tractor battery charge. No beer this week since I'm on call.

 

[Arik]

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. I want my beer to taste like beer

Unfortunately the mass produced **** beers have almost no beer ingredients in them. Mostly chemicals and additives.

America makes many great things. Mass produced beer isn't one of those. After the prohibition a lot of great beers were lost further killed during rationing of supplies in WW2. The original Millers and Buds and Coors were completely different beers.

Beers originally were made with and still are made with flowers. Hops! Good hops have a flowery, citrusy smell and taste. The point of beers wasn't to act "manly" but to drink something which wouldn't turn your insides into liquid poop like water would. Beer that tastes like beer will not taste like Coors/Bud/Miller/

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