if the granny photo isn’t hanging in a gallery somewhere, it should be.
on another note, hair of the dog is sometimes mandatory.
i used to get so bad with the sweats and the vomitous maximus at oh…5 AM. when you’re that bad, go for bending the elbow with beverage in hand. otherwise, call the ambulance, because your constitution is in rebel mode.
The constitution is mutinous. My legs actually went numb, I’ve never had that before. They’ve regained more feeling since the obligatory expulsion of badness.
And I wish to be drunk on 2 beers, it would save so much consumption of pure evil.
[pirate]
AA , dude.
AA is for quitters.
word.
i should have a nice post in here tomorrow night when the St Patrick’s day festivities come to a close…
Ignoring the initial intention of this thread (posting drunk) and just bumping it up hoping we can continue the beer discussion here rather than on the Gerda thread (which irks me for some reason- just ready for that thread to drop off… like by continuing to post there we are tempting fate or something and she might just come back… shudder).
Any Schlafly fans here? The second largest brewery in St. Louis (after Anheuser Busch). They’re not distributed very far away from St. Louis, but you can find it here and there. Their Coffee Stout is awesome, one of my favorite brews. They also have restaurants with really good locally sourced food at both their main brewery and their bottling plant, well worth checking out if you’re ever in tha STL.
Also really happy that it’s the season for O’Fallon brewery’s Pumpkin Ale. By far the best pumpkin brew I’ve ever had. Saw some 6-packs of it up in Chicago, which was surprising since you can’t get Schlafly for love or money up there, and O’Fallon is by far a much smaller brewery. O’Fallon Wheach (peach wheat beer) is some good beer too, on the sissy side of things, but pretty good. I tried their Smoke Porter once and it was gross. Seriously just tasted like someone dropped a charcoal briquette in a beer.
On the cheap tip, I really don’t mind Pabst. I was drinking a lot of Stag for a while there, but I can’t stand it anymore. I’ve never had (or really heard of) Blatz before- I saw it listed as the cheap beer when I was up in Chicago, but didn’t try it. There used to be a club here in St. Louis that had $4 pitchers of Old Style. Got sick off of those a few times. $1 cans of Falstaff is the new thing here.
In college I only drank cheep beer. We all (like every college housing . . .) had a bunch of bottles and such lined up around the top of our kitchen cabinets. But while my roomies had all the bottles of microbrews and imports and such, mine was an extensive collection of aluminum cans and 40’s.
Let’s see . . . Shaffer, Olympia, Pabst, Rainier, Schlitz, Busch, Meister Brau, Keystone, Natural, Olde English, Mickeys, Brown Derby, Country Club, Milwaukee 1851, Old Milwaukee, Milwaukee’s Best . . .
The most commonly consumed beer when I was in college, though, was Henry Weinhards. It’s quite good and came in a number of styles (Red, Ale, Hefe, Lager, etc.) but for some reason was REALLY cheap. You could get a 12’er of the stuff for about $5.00
But . . . since I could get a 24 can pallet of 1851 for about $6, my loyalties were kept to the can.
My tastes a little more refined now, but I still enjoy some watery, ice cold, American piss beer from time to time.
Now that they’ve got those make-your-own-sixpack things at stores everywhere, I rarely drink the same beer twice.
Also, today I’m wearing a Guinness t-shirt.
Now that they’ve got those make-your-own-sixpack things at stores everywhere, I rarely drink the same beer twice.
Also, today I’m wearing a Guinness t-shirt.
HAHAHA!!! My shop (Total Wine and More) has the little 6-Pack cartons for convenience. They don’t give any discount or anything for filling it up (they just price all the beer individually) but the psychological influence is just unstoppable.
It’s impossible for me to leave an empty spot in the box. I’m totally driven to make sure I pick 6 beers.
Oh, this is a resurrection. I looked back there and remembered that rough session from two years ago. I’ve had worse since and despite drinking heaviness from about Feb to April of this year, don’t drink as much any more. But when I do I suffer like a total bitch.
Aw, AA dudes! reaches for a group hug
WHhooops I di d it aghin!
FAGGOT NIGGER SHIT THIS SHIT SHITN SHIRT
Humphfrey McDoonald poopd in my farty BITCH !@!$&^
CUNT KKKUNT
me so fa lo ta do
do re me fa so lat ti do
(I pracitde my fuck kin singging NIGGER JEWW)
GUNNAR IS A FUCKIIN dyke and soO is that KUNT “mrs/ Berker” sandy old cunt I qwan
a fuck her raw]w in the wringly ol white buttt
I recently bought a choose your own 6 of all pumpkin beers. I took little notes on each one. Later I’ll post the results here, when I’ve got them in front of me.
oooooooh… MICKEY’S
I recently bought a choose your own 6 of all pumpkin beers. I took little notes on each one. Later I’ll post the results here, when I’ve got them in front of me.
That’s awesome! I try to review my drinks right after consuming.
Tonight I drank this one . . . .
Great Divide Brewing Company — Hades, Belgian Style
It’s a Belgian pale ale. Kind of a little sister, if you will, to Duvel or some of the big boozy Belgian pales. The head is weak as heck and foams up about and inch and a half and dies rapidly, quickly leaving nothing on top and no lacing. Booo!!! In all honesty, the color (a uriney yellow) and lack of head really turned me off initially because it gave me horrid flashbacks of trying to finish my 12 pack of Steel Kettle Whistle.
Initially I wasn’t impressed with the flavor and thought it felt like a fuller non-skunky version of Stella or one of the other cheapo mass market Belgians or Dutch brews.
Where was I? Or right . . . I brought my beer over to the couch where my wife had chips and a spicy salsa. It actually made for a perfect pairing. The sweetness of the malts balanced the spicy salsa so nicely and I finally started to appreciate the beer and it’s flavors. While certainly not as complex or exciting as Duvel, it was still pretty good. Fruity (citrusy) yeast and malts are the predominant tones here. There’s a nice bit of bitter hops aftertaste in the back of my mouth which adds kind of a cleansing finish. At first I was thinking that my choice to let it warm up (I pulled it out of the fridge about 30 minutes prior to drinking) was a mistake, but it actually improved when it got even a bit warmer.
I think it’s about a 7.8% and drinks quite smoothly, though it’s hard for me to be objective on this point anymore as I’m drinking 10+ beers quite regularly and brews that I would have thought tasted like paint thinner 5 years ago barely faze me now.
Anyway, overall this is a really nice beer. I’m only comparing it to Duvel as a frame of reference. Instead of worrying about whether it’s as “good” as Duvel, it probably makes more sense to quantify the value you get. I think this one was probably about $2.50 or something for a 12oz. Considering Duvel is about twice the price for an 11oz, this is a pretty good go to if you’re looking for a budget substitute.
I don’t usually like beer above 7% alcohol. Starts to taste more like barley wine or something.
There’s quite a plethora of styles and varieties of the higher alcohol ales. Barley Wine (I tried a “barley wine” by Green Flash the other day and loved it, btw) is one of them, but there’s IPA’s, Stouts, etc. They’re not really what you want to pound by the pool or anything, but there is a vast range of available options.
But if someone if more partial to the lagers, pilsners, or hefeweisse, then some of the heavy beers may be a bit harsh to jump into. I don’t drink the higher ABV beers just for the booziness (that’s a nice bonus, though). I feel like these beers that have been brewed in such manner tend to bring out more complex flavors.