Some of these waiting at home in the fridge for this workday to end . . .
Posted on 08/21/2007 9:08:08 AM PDT by toddlintown
My parents once told me that I enjoyed my first beer when I was about three or four years old. I would help myself (so the story goes) to my Dad’s fish-bowl-sized schooner, filled with beer from one of the local breweries that still operated in Chicago during the 1950s. I don’t remember any of this, unfortunately, but the tale’s become a family standard.
I do remember my second taste of beer, this one from the “Land of Sky Blue Water.” I was a mere lad of thirteen. This beer drinker’s rite of passage took place at the grammar school graduation party of a friend of mine, a hot day in June as I recall. All the parents were upstairs in the kitchen enjoying the cooling effects of a window-unit air conditioner and iced beer. Downstairs in the basement, a reserve cooler of beer was calling to my friend and me. I don’t remember if it was the cartoon enticements of the Hamm’s bear or untapped teenage curiosity but we went down to the basement where the cooler sat and each grabbed a blue, flat-topped steel can and opened them with a “church key.” I got past my second chug of cold beer but stopped when I thought I was going to puke.
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Nothing goes with beer like some tits!
I didn’t think you would have been one of the Miller Girls.
Ricey beers give me a headache. So do beers loaded with preservatives. I avoid both kinds.
If that makes me a beer snob, so be it.
3 cups self rising flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 bottle of Shiner Bock (ok your sorry ass beer will work too)
Mix, plop into a loaf pan that has been sprayed with Pam
Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes...
woot... Shiner
8-)
I’m still a Coors in a glass bottle fan. If it’s hot, that’s a refreshing beer.
That's about my menu as well. But, then again, I can hear the whistle from the Yuengling brewery from where I live.
My favorite beer is Miller Lite in a can. I even used to enjoy drinking Milwaukee's Best Light and Schaefer Light, but they give me bad headaches these days.
Xena, have you had the Shiner beer bread at Saltgrass?
LOL.
We were just out in Lubbock helping our daughter move to a new apartment. I lived there for 4 years and the new Marsha Sharp freeway had me completely turned around! 50th past the loop looked like a foreign country to me...
Your taste in Beer is devine, as is your screen name!
I walked into the brewery last February, after skiing nearby, intent on walking out with a case of Double Bag. I tried the Double IPA, and walked out with two cases of that instead.
So much beer, so little time....
Yeungling is one of my favorites. Sadly, it isn't sold here in Connecticut. I always pick up a case or two when I visit my parents in NY.
technically, rice beers aren’t even beers. Anyone who doesnt like beer, should try a Hefe weissen. I have learned to enjoy wheat beers
(forget domestics) because of what you mention.
It’s like the late Justin Wilson used to say about wine: “What is the best wine? The kind you like.” There are objectively good and bad beers out there, but it really all comes down to what you like. I’ll drink the American megabrewery stuff — it’s definitely an Old Style at the ballgame, and my “everyday beer” at home is Miller High Life — it’s cheap and pretty good if served very cold; it goes well with certain foods and it refreshes during outdoor chores. But I’ll also go for the high-end brews and have even made of few batches of my own. Recently I was out of town on business for a couple of weeks and decided to do a “beers of the world” tour — having a different one every night at dinner — so among the ones I tried for the first time were some European imports and one from a microbrewery in New Jersey. There is so much variety and so much to enjoy among the various beers that it’s never made any sense to me to restrict myself to one kind.
Hmmmmm. Beer.
I’m a fan of Fat Tire out of Ft. Collins Colorado.
http://www.newbelgium.com/Images/OurBeers/FatTire/fattireglass_s.jpg
That or this fruity beer at this pub just up the road. But hey... if you’re buying, I’ll try it.
Beer church ping. :-D
FYI.
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