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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I can stand a little corn, but if there’s some rice in there, I know it (the next day or even the next hour). Preservatives are the same way.
heh, that’s why i bought a sixer of atwater hell once (because it said “hell”). beer should not taste like sour cream.
*yuck*
Its 10 minutes to beer thirty!!!!!!!!!!..........
Probably one of the most overused quotes, but what the heck:
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Ben Franklin
I agree with your selections. Have you tried Smithwick’s which is an Irish ale now imported by the same company that brings Guinness to the US. Very smooth, no aftertaste... I really like it.
Dittos on the Long Trail Ale which is easy to find in NH. Sam Adams is good. Try Harpoon’s products if you see them. I like Pete’s Wicked Ale but don’t see it much in New England anymore...
Life is too short to drink boring beer....
Your post is the only one that makes sense to me.
I am a BuschLight man, myself. If I go out, I order BudLight.
No dark malt ale lager uber metro brew for me....
“beer should not taste like sour cream.”
That sure conjures up an upset stomach.
Verily I say unto you, sir, that you are correct.
“Nothing goes with beer like some tits!”
THAT’s what I’m talking about!
And I only said that in the hopes that there’d be some posting of appropriate samples. But sadly...
I have not! That sounds incredible. Bread and beer . . . two of my favorite things!
Yup. Once had something called “Bishop’s Finger”, I think it was a british stout and it tasted like the name. We ended up passing it around the table all taking turns and saying things like “I can’t believe how bad that tastes.” Nevertheless, we finished the bottle.
Not really. I drink Budweiser at my favorite watering hole, Budweiser Select at home, and Sam Adams occasionally when feeling wealthy. I even enjoy Guinness or McEwen now and then - but I never put anyone down for drinking Old Milwaukee. Most drink what they can afford.
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