The beer thread

[jmac70]

How much $?

I'm in Oklahoma City heading down to Houston TX. Strange liquor stores/supermarkets here re booze, compared to Texas, but have a 12 pack of Modelo for $13.40 which should see me thru the dark reaches of the nite...

$10 per can mate.

 

[deltablues]

$10 per can mate.

Whoa. Stay with Little Creatures/Mismatch.

Better beers, anyways...

 

[Saintly Viewed]

When in doubt?
Drink beer

 

[jmac70]

When in doubt?
Drink beer

What doubt?

 

[jmac70]

CPA Is a fine quaffing ale, but for a kind of Tennessee-sippin' ale I like Mismatch
http://www.mismatchbrewing.com.au/
- an Oz IPA which I like as well as Little Creatures.

What is a sippin' beer? Why, it's a hoppy beer you sip so that your pint glass has a lot of sippin' rings around it.

With a Green Label you just gulp it right down.

But I like all 3.

Haven't had Mismatch, will check it out. My favourite quaffing winter beer is White Rabbit Dark Ale, brewed by Little Creatures. Warms the cockles of the heart.

 

[deltablues]

What doubt?

I have a section on drink in my library. It includes Kingsley Amis's oeuvre "On Drink". It has a breakfast section, which additional to beer, describes Sir Winston Churchill's usual breakfast as - "a brace of snipe and a tankard of rum".

These days, to promulgate this quite reasonable breakfast menu, you would be shot.

Best to stick to beer...

 

[Saintly Viewed]

What doubt?

That's far better put than I put

 

[jmac70]

I have a section on drink in my library. It includes Kingsley Amis's oeuvre "On Drink". It has a breakfast section, which additional to beer, describes Sir Winston Churchill's usual breakfast as - "a brace of snipe and a tankard of rum".

These days, to promulgate this quite reasonable breakfast menu, you would be shot.

Best to stick to beer...

with a side of vegemite toast.

 

[deltablues]

with a side of vegemite toast.

Yeah/nah.

Am I doing it right?

 

[jmac70]

Yeah/nah.

Am I doing it right?

Puts hair on your chest.

 

[deltablues]

Yeah/nah.

Am I doing it right?

I was having a meal at the bar at the Texas Saltgrass Steakhouse in Amarillo, in the TX Panhandle, a few nites ago, and ordered some baby-back ribs with a side of baked Idaho potato with the trimmins. And my usual mai tai.

I chatted to the lady of a certain age sitting at the bar next to me, and when we exchanged some history as we ate/drank, she said - You're a Texan, but an Aussie Texan, and I love Aussies {she had some friends from NSW} so tell me, do you like Vegemite?

I said - I love it, especially in a cup of hot water.

She said - OK.

I mean, us Texans are very polite.

But if you want a nice TX beer - try Shiner Bock. German. Ist sehr gut.

 

[jmac70]

I'm in my happy place.

 

[deltablues]

I'm still in Oklahoma City, heading south to Houston Texas, and this evening grabbed a 12 pack of Steel Reserve 'High Gravity' lager, out of that wonderful German beer city, Milwaukee, in cheese country (Wisconsin).

$8.55 for the 12 cans, but they are only 12 fluid ounces - whatever that is in metrics - but 8.1% alcohol volume.

A sweetish lager with a good head, but maybe 8.1% is a bit high for a beer.

But, hey, I make these sacrifices for this beer thread...

 

[deltablues]

Back in Houston now. 12 pack of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale $13.97. Quaffing one now.

From Spec's. Spec's outlets in Houston are like Dan Murphy's. The deli version on Smith Street Houston is so similar to the original Dan Murphy's in Chapel Street, Prahran.

Houston traffic still Texas crazy - 80 mph in 65 mph zones thru the city freeways. 7 lanes up and down. No radar/traffic cops. You have to go with the flow. I just drove Dallas - Houston 400 miles bumper-to bumper at 80 mph. Just set it in Cruise.

In Oz ya'll would be arrested ...

 

[jmac70]

Back in Houston now. 12 pack of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale $13.97. Quaffing one now.

From Spec's. Spec's outlets in Houston are like Dan Murphy's. The deli version on Smith Street Houston is so similar to the original Dan Murphy's in Chapel Street, Prahran.

Houston traffic still Texas crazy - 80 mph in 65 mph zones thru the city freeways. 7 lanes up and down. No radar/traffic cops. You have to go with the flow. I just drove Dallas - Houston 400 miles bumper-to bumper at 80 mph. Just set it in Cruise.

In Oz ya'll would be arrested ...

Man that's cheap. A slab (24) of SNPs would set you back about $75 in Oz. Just out of curiosity, why no traffic cops? It's a major source of government revenue here.

 

[deltablues]

Man that's cheap. A slab (24) of SNPs would set you back about $75 in Oz. Just out of curiosity, why no traffic cops? It's a major source of government revenue here.

There are traffic cops here in Houston, but in the metro area they will only go you if you are hitting around 90 mph. On the freeways.

Because we all do 80+ here (but we have huge back-ups on 10 lane highways in peak period, or hurricanes [I survived Rita, Katrina, and Ike].

Houston is the 4th biggest city in the USA, but us Texans drive like real faaaast. So it works out OK.

 

[deltablues]

Somewhat unfortunate that apparently some outlets are now boycotting Coopers Brewery products.

I think we should all drink to the fact that beer should be separate from politics/religion.

But there you go...

 

[The Dawes]

Bit wintry out there tonight, hopefully there's a stout or porter at home.

 

[jmac70]

Bit wintry out there tonight, hopefully there's a stout or porter at home.

Got myself a six pack of Mornington Brown to keep me warm tonight mate.

 

[jmac70]

I have entered the beer bubble, it's beautiful in here.

 

[The Dawes]

Anzac Day game from 95 on fox footy now..... geez I feel like a Diamond Draft.

 

[jmac70]

I'm on my way to Beer City.

 

[The Dawes]

I'm on my way to Beer City.

Gods speed

 

[jmac70]

It's that time of the week people. Going with a six pack of Hawkers IPA tonight followed by a couple of single malts. Need to keep myself nice for the big game tomorrow.

 

[Quicky]

Friday tastes so good! Asahi for me.