Good taste! :clapping:
I bounce between wheat beers and stouts myself, and find the infatuation with pale ales to be completely dumbfounding. My favorite stouts tend to include vanilla, and my favorite of those is Southern Tier's Crème Brûlée Imperial Milk Stout:
Creme Brulee Imperial Milk Stout (Blackwater Series) | Southern Tier Brewing Company | BeerAdvocate (yes I copied the name, I had no idea how all that crazy accent stuff played out)
As for the other reason I finally replied to somebody here, it's piloting. I grew up absolutely infatuated with Top Gun. I would grill my babysitters over diagrams of F4s and A10s to make sure they understood how everything worked (in my mind, at least). Long story short, I decided that I wanted to fly Navy jets or Marine helicopters. Graduated Valedictorian of Morristown West but decided to stick to my guns--so I approached both recruiting offices and was turned down by both. Turns out that falling off a high diving board and shattering your left arm and shoulder kept you out of the service back then.
Wound up graduating from UT with a Computer Engineering degree and work at Siemens here in Knoxville on PET scanners (love the tech corridor here <3). I got my actual flying (skydiving) license well before I even began working on my private pilot's license, but that's a story for a different day. My father actually wound up buying a Bonanza and I'm logging time on it slowly but surely to finally get my wings. :rock: