Beer (and beer pics!)

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#2,279
gsvol said:
Anyone know or interested in hearing how the name Budweiser became the Budweiser brand??
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How about what's more important? That they're not American owned anymore...

I'm sipping on some Blue Moon right now... it's pretty sub-par. I should just go grab a Bud Light, but I bought this 6-pack and I'm not wasting it.
 
#2,283
#2,283
Running from the house to my son's soccer practice. Will be about 5 miles. Cold brew should be waiting for me when we get home.
 
#2,284
#2,284
Family vacation in Hilton Head last week. (Folks, my sister's family, my family.) Almost no beer. Including for the football game.

It's really, really good to get home to my keg.
 
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#2,293
vol_in_ar said:
What kind of vacation involves no beer?
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USAF_Vol said:
Word:rock:
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rpvol said:
sounds kind of painful to me...
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hohenfelsvol said:
So when you say almost, is that four beers instead of eight? Or just one here or there?
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I am not proud. Believe me, I understand that vacation = beer. The frau and boy and I went to the beach with some friends last year, and I took five cases of beer with me just because I know that beer at the beach always sucks. Came back with maybe four or five bottles. (Caveat: I was not the only person drinking. Just the MAIN one.)

But. This year we went with my folks (who don't drink), and my sister's family (who don't drink either). And the frau is pregnant, so she's not really drinking right now. (Although she certainly steals enough sips out of my beers to partially make up for it!) So I was on my own. My folks know that I drink, and are theoretically sort of okay with it, but I still dial it way back around them. It's a big step for my mom to not freak out when she sees me drinking beer at all, so I figure it's decent of me to meet her halfway and not make her have to see me with a beer in my hand all week long. I took a case of beer with me (Dogfishhead 60 Minute IPA; highly recommended), but only drank about 8 or 9 bottles all week. And I only snuck out to find a glass of the black stuff once. Weak, I know. Let me tell you, spending time with the family was cool and all, but spending a week at the beach without drinking beer is like being Christopher Reeve at a swingers' party.

I've been working the handle of the Guinness tap like a mad bastard since I got back, that's for sure.
 
#2,295
#2,295
Vercingetorix said:
I am not proud. Believe me, I understand that vacation = beer. The frau and boy and I went to the beach with some friends last year, and I took five cases of beer with me just because I know that beer at the beach always sucks. Came back with maybe four or five bottles. (Caveat: I was not the only person drinking. Just the MAIN one.)

But. This year we went with my folks (who don't drink), and my sister's family (who don't drink either). And the frau is pregnant, so she's not really drinking right now. (Although she certainly steals enough sips out of my beers to partially make up for it!) So I was on my own. My folks know that I drink, and are theoretically sort of okay with it, but I still dial it way back around them. It's a big step for my mom to not freak out when she sees me drinking beer at all, so I figure it's decent of me to meet her halfway and not make her have to see me with a beer in my hand all week long. I took a case of beer with me (Dogfishhead 60 Minute IPA; highly recommended), but only drank about 8 or 9 bottles all week. And I only snuck out to find a glass of the black stuff once. Weak, I know. Let me tell you, spending time with the family was cool and all, but spending a week at the beach without drinking beer is like being Christopher Reeve at a swingers' party.

I've been working the handle of the Guinness tap like a mad bastard since I got back, that's for sure.
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that is funny as hell.

i am the same with my parents. i can feel your pain on this.
 
#2,296
#2,296
Going on vacation to Germany over x-mas. I will be visiting family. There will be mass amounts of different great German beers consumed.
 
#2,298
#2,298
Vercingetorix said:
None! My mom made chocolate chip cookies every other night, and I am as helpless around mom's cookies as I was when I was a kid. Beer may be an awful diet food, but it's not as bad as chocolate chip cookies.
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Too funny. Replaced one vice with another. I would have done the same.
 
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#2,299
hohenfelsvol said:
Going on vacation to Germany over x-mas. I will be visiting family. There will be mass amounts of different great German beers consumed.
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I envy people that get to drink with their folks. My son's not going to have this problem, at least. He already takes great pride in getting bottles of beer out of the fridge for people. He'll be pouring perfect pints of Guinness by the time he's five.
 
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#2,300
Vercingetorix said:
I envy people that get to drink with their folks. My son's not going to have this problem, at least. He already takes great pride in getting bottles of beer out of the fridge for people. He'll be pouring perfect pints of Guinness by the time he's five.
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Don't have that problem with my dad, brother and in-laws. Far from it. My son is TBD. He's only 10. But he's got the German blood flowing in his veins so he's doomed.
 
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