Beer

[Vercingetorix]

[vol_in_ar]

had 2 SAm Adams last night

I'm in Knoxville, so I'm hoping my brother in law and I get get out tonight, and stop at Union Jack's ot Toddy's

[hohenfelsvol]

May just hit the BWW's tonight for some TV and Guinness.

[hohenfelsvol]

Tick tock

Almost Beer O'Thirty

[BigPapaVol]

Guinness is easily the top of the heap for me, but I tried Young's Double Chocolate Stout and it was a very close second. I'm also a big fan of SA Cream Stout, Caffrey's and Turbo Dog.

[bigdaddy]

Had a Fort Collins Z lager tonight. Wish it was my first beer but it tasted really good. Trying to work my way around the Colorado beers this month (the ones offered here in Chatt-a-hell-hole at least). I have all the New Belgium beers already.....but that is not really much to brag about. Blah to say the least.

[Vercingetorix]

Originally Posted by BigPapaVol

Guinness is easily the top of the heap for me, but I tried Young's Double Chocolate Stout and it was a very close second. I'm also a big fan of SA Cream Stout, Caffrey's and Turbo Dog.

An equally Guinness-smitten friend and I were talking about this the other week, and here's how I put it: there are a lot of other beers that are "better," perhaps, or at least more interesting. (I'm drinking one of them right now -- a Great Divide Hercules Double IPA, which is an amazing beer and one I would no doubt pick in a simple Pepsi-challenge style taste test over Guinness.) And it's great that all these tasty beers exist. But: when I _need_ a little something from my beer -- I'm tired, perhaps, or hung over, or I need to celebrate something, or it's just been a hell of a long week -- then a pint of plain is your only man. Other beers may be fabulous, but nothing satisfies the thirst at the core of a man like a pint of the Black Wine Of Ireland.

[Vercingetorix]

(Keg is out tonight and I miss it. Nice double IPA in bottles, but damn. Pint of the black stuff would be magnificent right now.)

[bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by Vercingetorix

An equally Guinness-smitten friend and I were talking about this the other week, and here's how I put it: there are a lot of other beers that are "better," perhaps, or at least more interesting. (I'm drinking one of them right now -- a Great Divide Hercules Double IPA, which is an amazing beer and one I would no doubt pick in a simple Pepsi-challenge style taste test over Guinness.) And it's great that all these tasty beers exist. But: when I _need_ a little something from my beer -- I'm tired, perhaps, or hung over, or I need to celebrate something, or it's just been a hell of a long week -- then a pint of plain is your only man. Other beers may be fabulous, but nothing satisfies the thirst at the core of a man like a pint of the Black Wine Of Ireland.

That made me tear up.

[rockytophigh]

Originally Posted by Vercingetorix

28? Shite, I'm a decade older than you. I was 38 this past weekend. Didn't realize I was drinking with a child. You're responsible for 64 people, and I'm responsible for one. And yet he still manages to destroy me somehow.

The boy is three and a half. He distinguishes between "pints," which he knows are special, and "beer," which he knows comes in bottles. He likes to bring you a bottle, of course, whether you need it or not. And he always conscientiously brings an opener along with the bottle, which he hopes you'll let him use to open it together. I am doomed when he goes to school.

I should be here mid-August. We drink Guinness; we have three-year-old kids. Seems like there has to be a beer there somewhere, doesn't it?

I salute you sir...I too am a 38 year old class of '93 alumni....was a single dad to my son for quite a while myself and I know how hard it is. Kudos to you because I know you probably don't get the recognition you deserve for being a damn fine dad. I got married again 11 months ago so obviously I enjoy my beer as well, lol. I'm not a fancy pants beer drinker like you guys, but I regularly pound 14-30 Bud Lights in a night. Didn't I mention I was remarried???

[I40VOL]

Originally Posted by rockytophigh

I salute you sir...I too am a 38 year old class of '93 alumni....was a single dad to my son for quite a while myself and I know how hard it is. Kudos to you because I know you probably don't get the recognition you deserve for being a damn fine dad. I got married again 11 months ago so obviously I enjoy my beer as well, lol. I'm not a fancy pants beer drinker like you guys, but I regularly pound 14-30 Bud Lights in a night. Didn't I mention I was remarried???

14-30?.......

[rockytophigh]

Originally Posted by I40VOL

14-30?.......

I'm not a big fan of slowing down once I get started....I did go to UT ya know! I don't drink the stuff cause it taste like grape cool aid! Party on amongst yourselves, lol.

[vader]

You are apparently a quantity over quality kind of guy.

BTW, another old fart here. I will be 37 this year.

[rockytophigh]

Originally Posted by vader

You are apparently a quantity over quality kind of guy.

BTW, another old fart here. I will be 37 this year.

Indeed I am...guilty as charged. I just seem to have trouble getting sloshed early in the evening on the heavier stuff. If I drink slow it gets hot quicker & I can't do warm beer.

Any Nashvillians ever have the Blackberry Wheat at Market Street Brewery? They don't make it anymore but it was the one beer with a fruity aroma that I actually liked....more than liked actually.

If I want something heavy, I'll reach for the Jack or Gentleman like any good southern man should, lol.

[rbroyles]

Originally Posted by vader

You are apparently a quantity over quality kind of guy.

BTW, another old fart here. I will be 37 this year.

Hey youngin'!