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Yes, I've had Arrogant Bastard at some time in the past and it's a nice dark ale. It's a product of the Stone Brewing Company in Escondido, CA - 7.2% per their site. Johnboy, your "stubbies" are equivalent to our standard 12oz bottles or drafts/draughts. I'll have to add Stoke Dark to my list to watch for.

Not much into the English brews as we enjoy (for some years now) a number of fine microbrew products up here. I have taken to drinking Newcastle Brown Ale when in restaurants that mainline on the boring Bud, Miller, etc. stuff. Somehow Newcastle has managed to get some stocking position at these boring bars. My first choice is a good Porter..........tough to beat Black Butte, though some others are good as well. But in a lot of places you ask for a Porter and the wait person goes blonde on ya.

I've got a good buddy who is an IPA freak, so I'll get some every once in awhile to have on hand for him. They're a bit too hoppy for my tastes, but I got to taste something interestin a couple weeks back. A young lad in the area was buying some parts from me, and needed some help disassembling a '39 Ford rearend (he didn't have the proper hub puller for the tapered shank hubs). So I told him to load the axle in the back of his truck and we'd blow it apart. Turned out what he thought was a '39 was actually a '37, but for what he's doing the differences weren't significant. Just before he was leaving he reached into an ice chest in the back and pulled out a six pack to "pay" me for the additional help. Quite surprised me. It was Bridgeport Kingpin Double Red Ale.................moderately hoppy compared to IPAs, smoother finish, overall, pretty tasty. What a wonderful world!!

Yesterday my wife and I returned home from a sixteen day trip to some Black sea cities.

We went across on Lufthansa Airlines in a coach-class seat only fractionally wider than my skinny rear end. That has nothing at all to do with the subject of this posting but I thought I'd throw it in anyway.

Well, the flight attendant came around with with her beverage cart and asked if we would like something to drink. Jane asked for diet coke and I said I'd like a beer. She said German beer? I said yes.

She brought me a can of "Warsteiner". I had never heard of the stuff, but I have to say that it was just about the nicest beer I have ever had, and I told her so. She came around later with another one which I accepted. When she came back to pick up empties Jane quickly interceded and said "no thanks" before I could open my mouth.

I googled "Warsteiner" and learned that they have been brewing the stuff since 1753.

I clicked on proper spot to find the place closest to Keller Texas where I might buy some. It said 360.7 miles away.

So much for that.


Jim

Jim,
Keller's in the DFW metroplex, and I'm surprised there's no one stocking Warsteiner in such a big place. It's got a regular spot in the store I frequent, but then they focus on carrying a wide range of import and micro brews. You might see if you can find a similar package store in your area. Than again, maybe my local is the one 360.7 miles from Keller!!

Ahhhh German beers. Every area has its own beers. We did a couple of industrial power plants for BASF - so I was able to sample some of the local products. Most are very nice though not all. What is nice are the spring and summer festivals, the young (and some not so) ladies carrying huge steins of suds, some dancing, young ladies ..... oh my .... the memories

Funny thing with beer is in America prior to the grain rationing that Randy mentioned nearly every area had thier own micro breweries. The beers were heartier is strength and color. With the war on, and most of our troops over seas, women took over the bulk of the work force, and with grain being rationed, were serve light watered down stuff. Until the late 70's this stayed the trend, with imports being the only alternative. I think companies like Sierra Nevada paved the way to reawakening the beer culture that is now thriving. We have several micro breweries here in my town alone. The west coast has several hundred! My biggest regret with the latest micro brew rage is the over hopping of beers. At first glance, hop lovers were really pleased by the extra punch. But this like everything else here is now a competition to see just how much hops one can shove into a beer. To balance this out triple grain amounts are being added and beers with 12-13% alcohol are being bumped out. Some of the newer breweries can hide their brewing mistakes by overdoing it with hops. It will mask all sorts of bad quality beer. One fine exception is DogFish 90 minute Pale Ale. This beer goes down smooth, with a nice hop balance, but be forewarned, two of these will set your head into a fog zone!

We are truely blessed with lots of breweries, but unfortunately they are all pumping out strong alcohol brews and highly hopped brews right now, which takes me back to the previous staement of balance and this is where the british and germans are the leaders. It says a lot that certain breweries have been around for 300 plus years! A good ESB will quence your thirst, stimulate your palate, and leave you functioning for the drive home!
Here's one from Uncle Bob's neck of the woods

You're on target, Steve. I won't hardly buy an IPA any more, as I cannot stand the over-abundance of hops. They had a History Channel show on featuring the guys at Dogfish Brewery in Delaware not too long ago. They really seem to have their act together, and go after some new and different brews using alternative ingredients. And Red Hook ESB (bitters) is an old standby for me - always safe to grab a six of that when something new doesn't strike my eye! One of my favorites, not so strong in ABV but extra good in flavor is TurboDog by Abita Brewery, which is in Abita Springs, LA about 30 miles south of New Orleans. Found TurboDog when I was doing a power plant in French Camp, MS staying in Starkville - ABITA BEER

Thanks Roger I'll pick up a sixpack. We are also fortunate to have a new beer house in town called TAPS. They have over 30 brews on tap, and constantly change the menu, and serve new stuff. Unfortunately they tend to pick the high alcohol and hops brews, but they do have some nice toned down classics as well. They keep HopBrau House German lager as a staple and serve it in the traditional 1/2 litre glass mugs(for about 4.50-5.00 bucks) not too bad!

Dang - now I'm thirsty.

Only have a couple of Guinness, some Yuengling Black and Tan and my fall back local ale, Genessee in the fridge (tho I did stop at the local watering hole yesterday for one a pint of their Sam Adams (hot day = 93+).

The big beverage store I use has a lot of foreign beers, but few micro brews - and the crap that Magic Hat brews in Burlington, VT and sells under several names IMO, should stay there and used to flush toilets.

Are we sure this isn't a craigslist ad?

Sorry Roger..

Originally Posted by 34_40

Are we sure this isn't a craigslist ad?

Sorry Roger..

Heck no, CraigsList is for private sales. This is a MicroBrew Listing!! Drinker.jpg

Isn't it amazing that, within only one week of Tiger Woods crashing his Escalade,
the press found every woman with whom Tiger has had an affair during the last
few years?

And, they even uncovered photos, text messages, recorded phone calls, etc.!

Furthermore, they not only know the cause of the family fight, but they even know
it was a 9 iron from his golf bag that his wife used to break out the windows in the Escalade.

And, each & every day, they were able to continue to provide America with updates on Tiger's sex rehab stay, his wife's divorce settlement figures, as well as the dates and tournaments in which he will play.

Now, Barack Hussein Obama has been in office for three years, yet this very same press:

· Cannot find any of his childhood friends or neighbors;

· Or find any of Obama's high school or college classmates;

· Or locate any of his college papers or grades;

· Or determine how he paid for both a Columbia & a Harvard education;

· Or discover which country issued his visa to travel to Pakistan in the 1980's;

· Or even find Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis on racism.

They just can't seem to uncover any of this. Yet, the public still trusts that same press to give them the whole truth!

You cannot get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek.

Today's media is a joke!!! They're so dang busy expressing their (or their network's) OPINION and trying to convince all the rest of us that THEIR SIDE is right that reporting the facts of a story as a news item is completely gone!!!!!! Everything is reported in a biased manner and the whole program is an editorial. I guess we're all just too stupid to form our own opinions when presented with the facts and need the press to tell us how to think?????

We need Huntley & Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, John Chancelor, Edward R Murrow, or just an honest, speak from the gut news man who's not trying to sell a story, but reporting truth. Not so hard, is it, to seek the truth, and then tell what you've found?