Mattmc1973 Posted July 2, 2008 Author Share Posted July 2, 2008 May as well spend the extra. Newcastle is a good choice I made a few more calls, and found a store that'll do Newcastle for $140. So that's a deal! I think I'm gonna go with that. Just have to wait for the European tapper/coupler I ordered to arrive in the mail. The kegerator has an American Sankey tapper which works on all domestics, but European kegs use a different tapper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebk Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Anyone tried Lagunitas beers from California? I'm drinking a Lagunitas Maximus, a Double IPA right now... Finally had one tonight. Excellent!! Although I probably should have checked to see that it's 8.4% and eaten something first... Now, after dinner, I'm enjoying an Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 I made a few more calls, and found a store that'll do Newcastle for $140. So that's a deal! I think I'm gonna go with that. Just have to wait for the European tapper/coupler I ordered to arrive in the mail. The kegerator has an American Sankey tapper which works on all domestics, but European kegs use a different tapper. Can't really go wrong with the Newcastle. A nice beer that goes over good with most beer drinkers. As I told you, I've gained a real taste for the Sleeman's IPA and would have no problem having it as an everyday beer. Even the wife likes it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Finally had one tonight. Excellent!! Although I probably should have checked to see that it's 8.4% and eaten something first... Now, after dinner, I'm enjoying an Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout. Show off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxie Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 I'm too lazy to go through the 9 pages, so not sure if these have been mentioned yet. My beer of choice is usually: or Some people I know consider them both to be "girly beers" though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 I'm too lazy to go through the 9 pages, so not sure if these have been mentioned yet. My beer of choice is usually: or Some people I know consider them both to be "girly beers" though. Sleeman's Honey Lager and Rickards White are very big out here. I like both of them. Give the Sleemans IPA a try. It's only been out a few months and is selling like hotcakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Can anyone help ? I was trying to get Rock Action hooked up with some Marstons Pedigree. Much to my disappointment, it is no longer being sold in Vancouver and probably won't be for the forseeable future. Is there anybody out there in North America that has access to this beer ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebk Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Last night before the O's game, we went to The Wharf Rat. They brew their own beer - Oliver - so I tried 3: The Best Bitter, ESB and Irish Red. The first was quite smooth with a creamy head - very easy to drink. The ESB was good, but I really enjoyed the Irish Red. We're going to go back when there's no game because then we can get the samplers. www.thewharfrat.com (although at the moment I can't get the site to open...) If you're in Baltimore, check it out. The food's even good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Last night before the O's game, we went to The Wharf Rat. They brew their own beer - Oliver - so I tried 3: The Best Bitter, ESB and Irish Red. The first was quite smooth with a creamy head - very easy to drink. The ESB was good, but I really enjoyed the Irish Red. We're going to go back when there's no game because then we can get the samplers. www.thewharfrat.com (although at the moment I can't get the site to open...) If you're in Baltimore, check it out. The food's even good. I will be going to a brew pub in Bellingham this week. My neice has got one picked out but she want's it to be a suprise. I'll be suprised alright and I'll be paying ...of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle87 Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Whats up my drunk friends? Tomorrow, im gonna try a Belgium Beer... Whats up with those?.. They are good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Whats up my drunk friends? Tomorrow, im gonna try a Belgium Beer... Whats up with those?.. They are good? You betchya. Check out Matt's ratebeer list. Ales , lagers, most are good, Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebk Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Last night we went to The Quarry House Tavern in Silver Spring. They have a 10 page beer menu and we saw more than a few table ordering the 50 and even 100 oz bottles - nice tableside presentations... I had a dry-hop Rogue St Rogue Red - very good. Then I went with the Ommegang Three Philosophers. And it's stunning. I am definitely picking up a few the next time I'm at Total Wine. My friend ordered the 25 oz Abbey Ale. And since she didn't like it, I generously (ha) offered to finish it for her. I'm such a good friend... The other friend ordered scotch from the 10 page scotch menu... I had a couple of sips but I have no idea what I was drinking. All in all a lovely evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Finally got a chance to try something from North Coast Brewery. Tried the Rasputin Imperial Russian Stout and have to say that it is one of the best beers I've had in ages. At 9%, I can only have a couple at a time but , what a great taste. I'll be checking out more of they're product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronniedawg Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Corona (with lime), Coors Light (the Canadian version), and Moosehead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmie ray Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 Whats up my drunk friends? Tomorrow, im gonna try a Belgium Beer... Whats up with those?.. They are good? I see Stella Artois at many restaurants these days - it's pretty good. I hear Anheiser Busch is being taken over by the same company (in the Netherlands) that makes this and Becks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59LesPaul Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 Link Survival of the Sudsiest By George F. Will Thursday, July 10, 2008; Perhaps, like many sensible citizens, you read Investor's Business Daily for its sturdy common sense in defending free markets and other rational arrangements. If so, you too may have been startled recently by an astonishing statement on that newspaper's front page. It was in a report on the intention of the world's second-largest brewer, Belgium's InBev, to buy control of the third-largest, Anheuser-Busch, for $46.3 billion. The story asserted: "The [alcoholic beverage] industry's continued growth, however slight, has been a surprise to those who figured that when the economy turned south, consumers would cut back on nonessential items like beer." "Non wh at"? Do not try to peddle that proposition in the bleachers or at the beaches in July. It is closer to the truth to say: No beer, no civilization. The development of civilization depended on urbanization, which depended on beer. To understand why, consult Steven Johnson's marvelous 2006 book, "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World." It is a great scientific detective story about how a horrific cholera outbreak was traced to a particular neighborhood pump for drinking water. And Johnson begins a mind-opening excursion into a related topic this way: ad_icon "The search for unpolluted drinking water is as old as civilization itself. As soon as there were mass human settlements, waterborne diseases like dysentery became a crucial population bottleneck. For much of human history, the solution to this chronic public-health issue was not purifying the water supply. The solution was to drink alcohol." Often the most pure fluid available was alcohol -- in beer and, later, wine -- which has antibacterial properties. Sure, alcohol has its hazards, but as Johnson breezily observes, "Dying of cirrhosis of the liver in your forties was better than dying of dysentery in your twenties." Besides, alcohol, although it is a poison, and an addictive one, became, especially in beer, a driver of a species-strengthening selection process. Johnson notes that historians interested in genetics believe that the roughly simultaneous emergence of urban living and the manufacturing of alcohol set the stage for a survival-of-the-fittest sorting-out among the people who abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and, literally and figuratively speaking, went to town. To avoid dangerous water, people had to drink large quantities of, say, beer. But to digest that beer, individuals needed a genetic advantage that not everyone had -- what Johnson describes as the body's ability to respond to the intake of alcohol by increasing the production of particular enzymes called alcohol dehydrogenases. This ability is controlled by certain genes on chromosome four in human DNA, genes not evenly distributed to everyone. Those who lacked this trait could not, as the saying goes, "hold their liquor." So, many died early and childless, either of alcohol's toxicity or from waterborne diseases. The gene pools of human settlements became progressively dominated by the survivors -- by those genetically disposed to, well, drink beer. "Most of the world's population today," Johnson writes, "is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol." Johnson suggests, not unreasonably, that this explains why certain of the world's population groups, such as Native Americans and Australian Aborigines, have had disproportionately high levels of alcoholism: These groups never endured the cruel culling of the genetically unfortunate that town dwellers endured. If so, the high alcoholism rates among Native Americans are not, or at least not entirely, ascribable to the humiliations and deprivations of the reservation system. Rather, the explanation is that not enough of their ancestors lived in towns. But that is a potential stew of racial or ethnic sensitivities that we need not stir in this correction of Investor's Business Daily. Suffice it to say that the good news is really good: Beer is a health food. And you do not need to buy it from those wan, unhealthy-looking people who, peering disapprovingly at you through rimless Trotsky-style spectacles, seem to run all the health food stores. So let there be no more loose talk -- especially not now, with summer arriving -- about beer not being essential. Benjamin Franklin was, as usual, on to something when he said, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Or, less judgmentally, and for secular people who favor a wall of separation between church and tavern, beer is evidence that nature wants us to be. Bottoms Up!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmie ray Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 That was a very nice story. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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eagle87 Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 I see Stella Artois at many restaurants these days - it's pretty good. I hear Anheiser Busch is being taken over by the same company (in the Netherlands) that makes this and Becks. mmm... Stella... Nice beer http://www.stellaartois.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebk Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 mmm... Stella... Nice beer http://www.stellaartois.com/ I like Stella. Good beer on a hot day at the ballpark. Fortunately, they sell it at the ballpark...quite near our section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Got stuck into the English beer this weekend...Black Sheep Ale and my old stand by Hobgoblin. Great stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrycja Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Beer Festival Toronto 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Beer Festival Toronto 2008 Thanks for that ! Looks like it will be a great time for anyone in the area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustle In My Hedgerow Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Dos Equis with a lot of lime and salt... love it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrycja Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Thanks for that ! Looks like it will be a great time for anyone in the area Like me! lol Complete bribery material if one's not careful You're welcome. And if you're ever in the area, there's also a cool place called the Bier Market, where samples of the world's finest come to you http://www.thebiermarkt.com/ Cheers, P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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