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randymar
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 posted May-01-2006 10:48 AM
  
This part worries me ... quote:
Originally posted by MikeMills:
... so Michael - always cool-headed and together in a beer-emergency - runs into the house, grabs his bottle-opener, returns and starts popping tops ...
Aren't you required - by Texas Law - to carry a bottle opener on you key chain??? Or to know where on your truck to slide the cap, to use the TRUCK as a bottle opener??? 
Mine was blue once, now it's silver with a bluish tint. I think someone needs to follow the lead set by LT's neighborhood: The trees have old-fashioned soda/pop machine openers NAILED into them, to facilitate curbside beer chatting!!! 
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MikeMills
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posted May-01-2006 10:58 AM
Really? In the actual trees??! That's amazing. Are you sure they weren't there to encourage kids to drink more refreshing and revitalizing Coca-Cola?
Yeah, actually I do have a bottle opener on my keychain - a Magic Hat one from our honeymoon. I was just to frazzled at that moment to think about it, what with dogs locked together at the end of my leash in a spinning, beer-lapping frenzy and all.
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randymar
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posted May-01-2006 11:15 AM
She didn't specifiy whether it was an actual Coke machine opener or just "Coke machine-like."Next time I'm up there, I'll check that out for you.
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MikeMills
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posted May-01-2006 11:46 AM
Dang! I hate it when you accidentally click <submit> twice and you get that "Did you double-click?" message, and then everything falls apart and all you can do is sit there and watch...But I'm fine now. Everything's fine. Randy: what's that non-Photobucket site you use to post images?
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La Tortuga
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posted May-01-2006 11:46 AM
So wait - I am hearing about two cute texas boys with their Shih-tzus, Chase and Zoe (aka Princess), drinking a beer called Skinny Dip and I am not suppose to wonder about this?I tried not to post this one, but it is Monday morning (for me - I just got in) and I'm just going with it.
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La Tortuga
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posted May-01-2006 11:54 AM
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Originally posted by MikeMills:
Really? In the actual trees??! That's amazing. Are you sure they weren't there to encourage kids to drink more refreshing and revitalizing Coca-Cola?
Nope - not for kids. We don't let them dye eggs with us and the openers are too hig for them to reach. They are found on trees, buildings and street sign posts. I love Somerville!
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MikeMills
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posted May-01-2006 11:54 AM
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Originally posted by La Tortuga:
So wait - I am hearing about two cute texas boys with their Shih-tzus, Chase and Zoe (aka Princess), drinking a beer called Skinny Dip and I am not suppose to wonder about this?
Actually, we've had this conversation ourselves. Another neighbor-with-a-dog approached us one day and said "lookit you two with your fluffy doggies...<wink> <wink>". Mike and I looked at each other, horrified, for a couple seconds. Then we shrugged and made-out.
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MikeMills
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posted May-01-2006 11:58 AM
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Originally posted by La Tortuga:
I love Somerville!
I reckon I do, too. I think I'm gonna nail a few bottle-openers to the trees around my place.
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La Tortuga
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posted May-01-2006 12:11 PM
Victim of marketing here - http://www.unibroue.com/products/ephemere-pomme.cfm It has apple juice in it as well as corriander and something else that I cannot remember. The BeerAdvocate people hate it: "Not a fan of this beer, like Zima with half of a sour green apple jolly rancher tossed in to add something to an otherwise unpleasant carbonated beverage. Not even good on a summer night (which a fruit beer should be) - Soda water with apple flavoring. Would pass on this one" "Pours a pale gold with a quickly fading 1 finger head and OK lace. Good green apple smells mixed with a bit of honey sweet light malt. If the intent here was to make a beer with nothing more that green appple flavor, they should have made a cider. As beer goes I think that this is nothing more than alcoholic carbonated apple water. Very flavorless (except for the apple). A definate summer beer. Very light. It's liteness does give it high drinkability though. I will have to try this one again on a hotter than hell summers day. A well made beer but just too wimpy for me." "Overall: Very dissapointing. Not much to it but green apple flavors and a touch of wheat. No hops and no malt. More like flavored water than a beer. I wouldn't waste the money or time." Why get it you ask? There was a pretty fairy on the label. And you know what??? I liked it. Not as a beer, but as fermented beverage. It went well with my California lunch of mustard chicken over field greens.
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MikeMills
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posted May-01-2006 12:16 PM
I don't remember the specifics of that one very well, but I remember liking it. I agree it didn't register as "beer" on my tongue, but it went down pretty easy. BeerAdvocates are mostly jackasses. The one's who aren't just haven't figured out what they've gotten themselves into yet.
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randymar
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posted May-01-2006 12:32 PM
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Originally posted by MikeMills:
Randy: what's that non-Photobucket site you use to post images?
That would be Imageshack.us Make sure you put ".us" and NOT ".com" Glad to help.
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MikeMills
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posted May-01-2006 12:38 PM
^ It happened to you too! This site needs an update.Cheers, randy.
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MikeMills
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posted May-01-2006 12:41 PM
^ It happened to you too! This site needs an update.Cheers, randy.
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MikeMills
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posted May-01-2006 12:44 PM
This bottle-opener represents the popping of many  caps...  Anything...? [This message has been edited by MikeMills (edited May-01-2006).]
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randymar
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posted May-01-2006 02:10 PM
Look out, Mike!!!WORLDS ARE COLLIDING!!!!  ------------------
Life is Short ... Make Fun of It. 400 Beers
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randymar
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posted May-01-2006 02:18 PM
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Originally posted by MikeMills:
This site needs an update.
... and then some.
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randymar
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posted May-01-2006 02:27 PM
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Originally posted by MikeMills:
Actually, we've had this conversation ourselves. Another neighbor-with-a-dog approached us one day and said "lookit you two with your fluffy doggies...<wink> <wink>". Mike and I looked at each other, horrified, for a couple seconds. Then we shrugged and made-out.
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MikeMills
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posted May-01-2006 02:38 PM
^ Thankth.
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randymar
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posted May-01-2006 04:54 PM
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Originally posted by La Tortuga:
They are found on trees, buildings and street sign posts.I love Somerville!
The openers, or the kids???
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La Tortuga
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posted May-02-2006 10:05 AM
“The Mill on the Floss”Life was difficult enough for Maggie and her brother Tom. Her relationship with the poor deformed Phillip made their relationship even more strained. But then when her cousin’s lover Stephen was added to the equation – well – you can imagine. What does this have to do with BEER? Well at about the time that Stephen basically kidnapped Maggie and put her on a Dutch ship for Mudport, where they are to get married – after all who wants to get married in Mudport? At this point, El Señor offered me a choice between a SN IPA and a Celebration – the last one. Being quite upset over Maggie’s plight, I made the selfish move and took the Celebration. It will of course get worse as she is about to die in the next 40 pages. How do I know this? I’ve already read this book. Why do I do this to myself? I don’t know. Cheers!!!
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La Tortuga
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posted May-02-2006 10:12 AM
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Originally posted by MikeMills:
This bottle-opener represents the popping of many caps... Anything...? [This message has been edited by MikeMills (edited May-01-2006).]
Oh Magic Hat. I plan to knit a hat based on a Magic Hat beer cap - soon. I need to finish my Narnia mitten first. Oh yeah and maybe wait until Maggie dies.
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MikeMills
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posted May-02-2006 10:32 AM
Magic Hat hat?Narnia mitten? Maggie?
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therealman
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posted May-02-2006 10:34 AM
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Originally posted by randymar:
Send it in!!!
I emailed the dude and the Radical Beer Open is for commercial only. They do have a homebrew competition too but I can enter those locally. Which I might do again.
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therealman
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posted May-02-2006 10:58 AM
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Originally posted by MikeMills:
I tried Skinny Dip over the weekend. Funnyish story: I came home with said six-pack on the passenger seat of the truck - which Zoe had been loyally guarding the entire ride home - when I pulled in and there was my neighbor, Michael Jackson (I crap you ne pas), just walking out the door with his shih-tzu, Chase. So Zoe and I jump out, and Mike and I proceed to swap shih-tzu stories while the dawgs do their impression of a writhing, pee-spraying ball of fluff with four large eyeballs. Then it occurs to me: why not have a brew while we chat? So I start telling Michael about this new beer I got with lime in it while I reach for the passenger door, and CRASH the six-pack dumps out cap-first onto the ground. The bottles stay in-tact, but they're all fizzing and spraying furiously, so Michael - always cool-headed and together in a beer-emergency - runs into the house, grabs his bottle-opener, returns and starts popping tops.
So we finished the whole six-pack in about 30 minutes (which probably amounted to about 2 and a half beers each), and I have to say that we were definitely refreshed, but not really very impressed. "New Belgium’s Skinny Dip is a full-bodied, figure-friendly beer perfect for the lightly attired summer months." "Full-bodied"? Nope. "Figure-friendly"? Gosh, I hope so. I don't know about you lot, but those other fancy summer beers go straight to my hips. Lime? Ehh... a little. It was pleasant enough, but why make a whole other beer that's only marginally different from their Blue Paddle Pilsner? And why buy either when they're still offering Sunshine Wheat? And why buy any of these at all when Prima Pils is one shelf down?
So I went back to the store on Sunday and, well, Victory was mine.
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MikeMills
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posted May-02-2006 11:13 AM
Alright, all-together...?"Yup."
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