@ sandy, I’m pretty sure Catamount is still in business. I might have an empty bottle around here from there. I was in Gritty McDuffs in Portland once too. Their claim to fame was the most beers on tap in the state of Maine. I tried to sample them all one night, but didn’t get very far. Cellar temperature is the way to go! That’s about 40-50 degrees F , so just a bit warmer than the fridge, but quite a bit cooler than the room. Ask a chef, they will tell you that cold masks subtle flavors. So if you make crappy beer, of course you sell/serve it cold, your customers will never know the difference. New England does indeed have quite a few great micro brews! Theres a good few around here too. I haven’t drunk a mass produced American beer in years. I guess I’m a bit of a beer snob. Prohibition destroyed our beer culture. Only the big companies were able to survive it, and they all make crap beer. Thanks to a generation of entrepenuers our beer culture is making a recovery. American beer is no longer the laughing stock of the western world.
Isnt it a shame that for some reason Budweiser still thinks its the best beer in America??? LMAO, thats a joke. I am not going to sa yI do not buy cheap lager but I will at times because good beer which can be as high as 22 bucks a 4-pack isnt something I can afford every day. Plus most of the time im drinking my homebrews or something similar to them but they dont last long either as I give them out as gifts just to try and get my name known as a maker of good beer. Anyways when I drink cheap its usually PBR ( Pabst Blue Ribbon ) At the moment im drinking McSorleys Irish Black Lager. Cheers!!
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Water for me tonight. I wish I had a beer in the house. Sometimes a drink before bed will help me get to sleep. I have to wake up and be at work in less than five hours and I’m wide awake 
Its interesting, I read a similar thread in another forum recently and someone posted the results from I guess an international beer competition and US brewers won the gold in nearly every category often taking 2nd and 3rd place as well. There is plenty of good beer in the US if you don’t mind paying 8-10 bucks for a 6 pack or traveling to a microbrewery. I just wish there were more good beers in the 5-6 dollar per 6 pack range.
Some really good tea and what ever you’re buying!!! It’s my b-day today.
Tonight might be Bloody Mary night. My band mate is coming over, I think, and we wanna get 3 new songs done. After about 6 double shot Bloody Marys though, my playing and vocals arn’t as tight. But it’s still fun.
I have a VERY sore head today. I just don’t seem to bounce back like I used to. Still, the Lager was particularly cheap and nasty. Chock full of chemicals no doubt. It’s a mug’s game really.
I had 3 beers last night while watching the game. Gave me a headache. I’m getting old.
It’s funny really, when I think back 20 years, I could chug beer down all night and still be ready for more. I’m in my 40’s now and I think if I ever tried to drink that much again it would kill me!
Well, I’m 42, and in my 20’s and even in my teens, I could slam beers non-stop all night. It is age, I believe, and not just physical, but just the passing of time, one isn’t the same person as when in one’s younger days. I find that when me and my high school buddy get together, it’s more often an attempt to relive the old times, which doesn’t happen much. Maybe 5 or 6 beers, and we are done, and taking a nap. But I have found for me, that I have had to switch off of beer to a mixed drink to even good a good drunk/buzz goin’ that will withstand more than a couple of glasses. So my drink of choice lately is Bloody Mary, standard size glass with 2 shots vodka, ice, currently V8, it’s rather low-carb, doesn’t bloat me, and I get a good effect.
I’m 45 and the recovery period for me these days is basically a day wasted if I go over the top. I like the odd beer but I’ve recently got into strong cider which I like for a long cool drink - Strongbow super, Normandy cider or Cornish Scrumpy being the favourites. I also go for a shot of Scotch - straight up, no rocks - or Vodka. I went to Poland on a drinking trip a couple of years ago and they have vodka menus in the bars, incredible, white, brown, even with flecks of gold in there. Just finished a bunch of early shifts getting up at 4, so will be relaxing with a nice cold cider and a couple of shots tonight, plus some WoS rose to go with it.
I’m drinking some Killians Irish Red. Not my favorite beer by any means but I let it warm up some and the flavor really comes out. I’m enjoying it this evening.
Sweetwater 420… Great Pale Ale made here in my own backyard, Atlanta Ga. Great Thing about this brewery is that they have some clever Names and slogans on their Beer The following are on every bottle of beer Sweetwater 420 - what time is? Sweetwater GA. Brown - Smoother than a Bill Clinton Appology Sweeterwater IPA - The beer youve been practicing for Sweetwater Donkey Punch - Youll Know it when it hits you on the back of the head, Those are a few but have best slogans. Looks like its Sweetwater 420 Tonight and several pinches of Toque Original
I got drunk as heck last night. The bloody marys went down like water. At the point where I could not even drink my last drink, I was seeing double. It was also 3 am. My band mate/buddy came over, and we worked on a couple of new songs for the coming album, didn’t get much done, but did get something done, and I sometimes just ain’t in the making music mode, so we didn’t record anything, but we have a recording session planned next weekend. But sometimes alcohol just puts me to sleep, gives me drunken energy, or more of s stupor, and I think last night was more of a stupor. Anyway, we had the snuff all out, and he loved the Wilsons White Snuff. I dumped some into an empty pill bottle for myself and gave him the tin. Then we watched an IFD/Lai Ninja movie.
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tonight i’m on jack and coke, earlier i had a screwdriver just cus it sounded good but now i’m back the the jd
Whew… I got way too drunk last night… Beer Pong/ Flip Cup and hell other games as well. Got so drunk I woke up and had that whole bad " How did I get home? " Tonight Its nothing… : ( but tomorrow probably gonna pick up some good bourbon to sip on and another 4 pack of FLying Dog Double Pale Ale. Oh, something sad did occur last night. I finished off my Johnny Walker Blue Lable ive been secretly hording to myself but its gone. : ( And it will be forever until the wife lets me spend 400 bucks on alcohol again
Last night I had four bottles of Directors whilst I watched the European election results. The far right have a foothold now, interesting times… I was enjoying Toque Christmas Pudding all the while.
Finished off a bottle of Jägermeister with a friend yesterday , i should get more , that stuff is good. Goes along really well with Toque Absinthe.