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Topic: BEER |
goindownsouth
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 posted Jun-23-2006 01:18 PM
  
I am so blessed to have Victory Brewing Company no more than one hour from my front door... Life is indeed, very rough...
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TrailOBite
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-23-2006 01:25 PM
Pisswicklies! Something MAJOR was going on with my
computer earlier. I tried to post several times,and it would
disappear,and I'd get Travelocity popups.
Coinciding with that was my boss giving me three things to
do at once,and crap about taking next Friday off. When I get
4 weeks a year, plus another in various designated reasons,
plus holidays, plus sick time, I am going to be inclined to
actually expect to use a few of those days......
Thankfully, I work very well when I am very irritated,and am
now ahead of her triumvirate task cluster.RunMonkey, for sure do Randymar's suggestion! And stock
up on special beers for when life is not so bountiful.
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runninlaw
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-23-2006 01:31 PM
mmmmm, a cold Spotted Cow sounds really good right now.
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RunMonkey
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-23-2006 01:48 PM
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Originally posted by webfoot:
RunMonkey, CONGRATS!Just for the record, I hope your student loan was not for an accounting degree.....
Thank you. Goodness no-not accounting. (Esp. given my refusal to take into account that a "loan" will actually have to be paid back at some future date at which point I plan to be diving into a backyard pool of money at the end of each day. And yet another sign that financially speaking, I don't know my a$$ from my elbow: it's a graduate English degree. It's hard to top that one for sheer uselessness.) I think it will be Dogfish. And maybe a bottle of something different. Something unforeseen.
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randymar
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posted Jun-23-2006 01:55 PM
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Originally posted by RunMonkey:
It's hard to top that one for sheer uselessness.
It's made the BEER thread less lonely for LT and me.
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RunMonkey
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posted Jun-23-2006 02:00 PM
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Originally posted by randymar:
It's made the BEER thread less lonely for LT and me.
My useless degree?
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randymar
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-23-2006 02:03 PM
The skills that helped you GET that useless degree.So, in a way, yes.
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La Tortuga
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-23-2006 02:28 PM
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Originally posted by webfoot:
La Tortuga,
I love brown ales and they are so quick to make.....
Quick to make and quicker to drink - it was a partial mash that was really fun to brew. Colorado Cowgirl Brown Ale from Papazian's book
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RunMonkey
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posted Jun-23-2006 02:29 PM
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Originally posted by randymar:
The skills that helped you GET that useless degree.So, in a way, yes.
Well, thank you! Hard to believe that for a while I only stopped into the beer thread every month or so.
And now -- to the boozatorium to choose my celebratory beer. I wish I had a nicer place to buy beer, but it's really cheap. I've mentioned it before, it's our local Liquors 44. The name will conjure the image if you let it -- that and if you can think back to the smell of stale beer, spilled onto dorm room floors. It's like, cruddy grey berber (?) carpeting, flourescent lights, alcoholics sorting bottles in a separate white tiled room, staffed by people who all look like they've worked 24 hours a day for several years. It's awful. But they do have a lot of beer, including Arrogant B@stard and lots of Belgians (which intimidate me a little) and the Dogfish line and lambics and all manner of interesting items. But when you're spending $10 for like, four beers, it would kind of be nice to do it in a place that didn't make it seem like you should be walking around smoking and drinking coffee from a styrofoam cup. Here I go. Also--wait--I don't go yet: it's about four hundred degrees in my apartment, and very, very humid. The whole apartment is covered in dog and cat hair and filled with our hatred for our landlord. Here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to get the Dogfish, scrub the bathtub, and sit in a bath and drink my beer. I have a plan, and it is a fine one.
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La Tortuga
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posted Jun-23-2006 02:37 PM
Wait - before you go - if you get any Belgians - please save the corks and wire!!!
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randymar
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-23-2006 02:43 PM
Don't forget to consider the 5L Arrogant B ... with the LOCKED ON cork!!!
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webfoot
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-23-2006 02:58 PM
La tortuga wrote; "Colorado Cowgirl Brown Ale from Papazian's book"
No WAY! Thats my next brown ale planned. I'm ordering the ingredients for his "you'll see" Belgian/corriander ale, after I get that one out of the primary, THE GIRL GOES IN.... ;-)
I make most of my stuff from Papazians books. Except for the stupid stinky spruce ale, all of them have been exceptional.
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RunMonkey
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posted Jun-23-2006 03:01 PM
I'm back!Okay, here's what I got:
the DogFish 90
Chimay Grand Reserve
BBC Drayman's Porter I've never had a porter--I imagine it midway between stout and ale? Not having read the beer pdf yet I remain unschooled. I am at page 27, however. I'm skipping the bath. I realized I'm too wound up from my windfall to lie around doing nothing. I had to resist opening a Dogfish when I got home, but did, because I'm covered in mosquito repellent and just generally wandering around like a skankopotamus, so I'm going to shower, slip into something more comfortable, sidle on up to old Mr. DogFish and say, Hey, good looking. Or I'll just open it and drink it. Whatever. LT--why be kind to the cork? Do you collect them from people for home brewing or is will it bring some kind of curse upon me, like a monkey paw?
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webfoot
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posted Jun-23-2006 03:05 PM
RunMonkey - Papazian has a saying - it goes like this;Relax, Don't worry, have a (micro/home)brew. Don't let Belgians intimidate you. There made by cute-cuddly monks afterall..... except, don't take it into the tub with you unless you have your favorate lifeguard around to pull you out. They pack a wallop! Cool, chicks in tubs with beer.
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RunMonkey
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posted Jun-23-2006 03:09 PM
MmmmMMM....tastes like...student loans...
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La Tortuga
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-23-2006 03:14 PM
Speaking of toiletries – I had a terrible experience with some styling cream this morning. Actually I thought that I had bought lotion, but realized what I had purchased before slathering it on. Well who knew that you had to read directions before using this stuff? I was supposed to shake it and then just use a dab. Well needless to say, my over-styled hair is now in pony tails.Have a fun week-end all of you, youse and y’all.
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randymar
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posted Jun-23-2006 03:22 PM
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Originally posted by RunMonkey:
LT--why be kind to the cork? Do you collect them from people for home brewing or is will it bring some kind of curse upon me, like a monkey paw?
You were having intern crisis yesterday and missed the "cork" conversation ... back up to page 65.
quote: Originally posted by randymar:
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Originally posted by La Tortuga:
If you liked the "the half pale brew half lemonade thing" perhaps a Belgian Beer. They are rather festive as they come in bottles with corks - which can be later shaped into small pieces of furniture - maybe Randymar still has the link.
A couple, actually. The one you sent that got me started Rules
Winners and Honorable Mentions
Some look oddly familiar. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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RunMonkey
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posted Jun-23-2006 03:26 PM
Okay, I'm not a good reviewer of beer but I will give this a shot, even though I'm sure Dogfish 90 has been done to death in the beer thread.Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA:
Burnt chocolate chip cookie/toasted sugar, which I think might be the barley--I looked at the label and that might have put the idea in my head. Anyway, faintly caramelized, and faintly bitter, which thanks to Good Eats I understand is the hops. Smells like late October/early November, when all the leaves are just about on the ground and you get that kind of sad heady feeling because winter's coming. See, I mess up the vernacular, because this seems really smooth to me, like if silk were a liquid, but invariably I'll find out later that it's not really smooth. It has a lot going on, like overripe cheeses and big red wines like California cabernets--like, there's this bitterness that you can kind of feel in your nose, like cold air, and this lingering taste that's almost like chocolate, like tannins maybe?, and deep down there's this sweet smell like rotting fruit. I like this beer a lot, but I think would like it better if it were night, although it's started to thunder and it gives the whole experience a kind of Englishness and maybe even appropriateness since it's my understanding (and I quite possibly made this up) that IPAs were British ales designed to survive the unpredictable voyage to (I imagine) steamy India.
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randymar
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posted Jun-23-2006 03:27 PM
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Originally posted by RunMonkey:
so I'm going to shower, slip into something more comfortable, sidle on up to old Mr. DogFish and say, Hey, good looking.
That would be me. And that's LT's job, sorry.
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RunMonkey
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posted Jun-23-2006 03:32 PM
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Originally posted by randymar:
That would be me. And that's LT's job, sorry.
Duhhhh...what?
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randymar
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posted Jun-23-2006 03:35 PM
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Originally posted by RunMonkey:
Dogfish 90 has been done to death in the beer thread.
Not really ... we can't always afford it. To be honest, as much as we (I) talk DFH up, the core products (Shelter Pale Ale, Indian Brown Ale, Chickory Stout) aren't that great ... It's the :60, :90 and :120 as well as specialty brews like Raisin d'Etre, Worldwide Stout, Pangaea, and Midas' Touch that get us (me) excited. Sam Calagione is always coming up with "out of the keg" ideas that push brewing; sometimes in ways it shouldn't go. Don't even get me started on their rums!!!
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webfoot
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posted Jun-23-2006 03:42 PM
"skankopotamus"That is BRILLIANT! (see earlier reason why beer actually does make you smarter, as told by Cliff Claven buried somewhere in this thread) That ranks right up there with "lobstrosities" in Stephan King's Gunslinger series........ Anyone else got some word-smith gems they are proad of or noted in the past???????
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La Tortuga
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posted Jun-23-2006 03:42 PM
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Originally posted by randymar:
Don't even get me started on their rums!!!
Speaking of Rum - I think this is where you post a photo of that adorable child of yours.
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TrailOBite
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-23-2006 03:44 PM
I love your descriptive writing, RunMonkey.Randymar uses the BEER thread as foreplay with LT. I
lurked here for a while and thought it was obvious.They
still welcome us anyway. (Unless I say "bad words"). Everyone: have a sublime weekend! I'm outta here!
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webfoot
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-23-2006 03:54 PM
nekkid wheanus?
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