This stuff tonight was off the chain good, though I have to say the most memorable flavor and texture I took away from it was the tomatoes they diced into it.

Last week was rabbit fricassee. I always think of Elmer Fudd when that dish is mentioned.

beer beer and more beer..and pot

Same here. I got some Beck's and now I'm going to root around for a dried up bottom bag since I worked to late to get some fresh weed.

Just for shits and giggles I decided to try the 18yo.

I think it is my favorite so far. I only wish they had bigger bottles.

That's a great Scotch. You can go crazy chasing off beat single malts but the law of diminishing returns applies. You can go to the local liquor store and find Glenlivet or maybe drive a little further and find your 18yo.

A good single malt is priceless and I think we can all acknowledge that having our normal three or four ounces with a special dinner is like drinking the nectar of the Gods. It is so sensually perfect.

cheap ass jose cuervo. cinco de mayo and all. i am completely shitfaced right now....

The bff and I are just taking it easy tonight since we have work tmrw morning. However, I'm in a scotch mood at the upcoming Cinco de Mayo party.

I hope you were careful Gia. Those minorities will gangrape you right where you stand.

....and then stick a watermelon up your ass. [rolls eyes]

Adult kickball league night, beer beer beer and beer!

Snoty wine bar. I don't know shit about wine and refuse to learn.

No shit- a well placed bullet right between the baserunners feet caused all kinds of damage when they crashed face first in the base line. The only thing better was dodgeball. A slightly underinflated playground ball was a lethal weapon that could mold itself to a persons skull.

Awesome... I wish we had that shit here. I'm jealous. I fucken loved that game.
I played softball for one season but I had to walk away from potential fight situations almost every night. I can't afford to hit people anymore. I still have mens league hockey but there is no contact and we have like 3 teams so if I fucken crush someone everyone knows about it.

Good stuff floof.. good for you.

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No shit- a well placed bullet right between the baserunners feet caused all kinds of damage when they crashed face first in the base line. The only thing better was dodgeball. A slightly underinflated playground ball was a lethal weapon that could mold itself to a persons skull.

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Scary... we are the same person. I've thrown out kids from third base and hit them up around their knees. That caused a whistle and sent them to the nurse to get gravel and sand picked outta their face.

UFC tonight, Machida got knocked the fuck out much to my suprise. Jack shots and american beer.

Someone left a bottle of the blue label Smirnoff over here. So it's that and orange juice tonight. Poured the first one too strong.

Happy Mother's Day

Golf in Scottsdale, Phoenix Suns sweep the goddamn San Antonio Sterns. Life is good. A fifth of Jack Daniels and Coke on the course, many pints of NewCastle in the bar. LIfe is good. Gooooood. WuTang motherfuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I. AM. DRUNK.

Never saw that coming !

If Anyone is wondering about any of these I would be happy to comment. I haven't had any of them before.

Starting with Georg Schneider's Organic Wiesen Edel-Weisse.

I'm especially curious about the one from Iceland (far left).

Conq, dude, you need to stop being a neat freak. I know that it's important to keep your monitor clean. Bacteria suck, I realize that. But do you really need to clean it hourly? Seriously, this isn't something you need to be OCD over. No one needs to keep their monitor that clean.

Let up a bit and allow some dirt to accumulate. You'll feel like a new man.

HAH. The monitor is about 15 years old and I got it from salvage. The dirt does not come off. Since it doesn't seem to have any effect on the visibility of the screen it's not a huge concern for me but if you have any tips of getting a decade of tobacco stains out of plastic I would be happy to hear them.



EDIT: you can see around the DELL logo where I hit it with steel wool. No dice.

And as far as the bacteria, licking it clean didn't work but I suffered no ill effects.

The one on the right interests me- it looks like an Austrian wheat beer. Actually they all interest me, we just aren't exposed to that many varieties down here. Even though some Southern craft brews are earning national and international awards they aren't that different from the breweries standard fare- just flavored at bottling.

@B:
It was terrific. Very mild but slightly hoppy without being too bitter. Exactly what I would by for a woman who drinks things like Blue Moon who wants to taste a good beer.

Only issue with it was that even after a hour in the fridge it erupted in head. I mean ERUPTED. Needed lots of paper towels.

The Carolus was totally unremarkable, not something I would get again.

The Warka tastes like most polish beers I have had but is a few percentage points stronger. I like it but nothing special about it. Doesn't have the sweetness of many "strong" beers.

In Canada they label any beer that is above 5% as a "strong" beer no matter what the style. Or if the traditional style actually calls for it to be strong ABV wise.

So in my pic you can see a few of my beers are labeled "strong" where in fact they are pretty ordinary in their country of origin.

For Bornyo: clicky, review. Scores well.

EDIT: about the eruption, I carried my back pack full of beer home over a several (at least 5) kilometer walk so it was definitely shaken up. I just expected it would have had enough time to settle down. When you open a bottle be ready to pour it into a glass. YMMV.

Austrian wheat beer is known for the head, and the amount of time it takes to draw on tap. It stands to reason the slightest ill-treatment in a back-pack in a bottle would make it foam.

It's nothing you did, and your expectations aren't out of line. Many people think the wait is worth it, and they forgive the long wait and popskull headache the next day that must be due to the high sugar content, clean taste, and slightly sugared aftertaste that makes your saliva slightly thick.

As for me, I've gone the other way to light and cleans where all traces of the flavor are gone within five minutes. I'm done with beer that tastes and has the consistency and staying power of oatmeal. Sometimes that means my friends are choking down Guinness Extra Stout in the interest of being cool while I enjoy a Miller Lite or Bud Light.

Nothing wrong with American "lite" beers if that is what you're after.

Bizarre imports for me today though.

As far as that kind of thing goes I really like Miller High Life light.

And Yuengling light back in PA.

I bought a case of Yuengling Lager earlier. I havn't had any alcohol in a while. I realized I didn;'t eat today when I was on my fourth beer and I was a little drunk....usually takes more before I really feel it.

Please send me some.

Yuengling Lager is fucking awesome considering its only 18 bucks a case. Mmmmmm....tasty!!

I think it's around 14.00/case around here, and a hard sell at that.

I know! I grew up in central PA.

I looked into getting it here but it was more than 60 bucks with the taxes and other import shit. I have to order it through the LCBO (liquor control board of ontario) straight to one of the stores, they can't even deliver it to me.

Booze is already pretty expensive in Ontario but 60 bucks isn't worth it unless I can mix and match my case. I want some black and tan and some porter too.

Being in the Carolinas I'm sure it comes from Florida. I've not tried it. The point you make about the water is true- even Bud Lite has differences depending on the brewery location.

My favorite beer presently is Imperial, from Costa Rica. It's currently only brewed down there, with their water, and available in limited markets. When friends visit from Atlanta they bring it to me by the case.

I guess 30 years can change things a bit.

When I lived in PA, the beer was cheaper in PA than NJ or NY, but you had to be 21 [which I was not]. And, most of PA beer was sold in specialty beverage stores in returnable 16 oz deposit bottles [you never did that in NY at the time].

I used to get a 21 year old to buy my beer for Physics recitation help. I could fit a case in my little dorm fridge.

In 1980, I mostly I bought a rather poor beer called "Bartel's" which had as it's trademark "the old professor". It cost less than $1 per case [cheaper than coca cola], and wasn't all that bad properly chilled. In NY the cheapest beer at the time was likely Schmidt's or Old Milwaukee at around $1.10 per six on sale.

I rarely drank any myself [I used to type papers for sixes of Molson's Canadian and mostly drank Southern Comfort that year anyway], but it was there for all the guys that hung around my dorm room watch my pirated cable [yes, I was a media stealer from WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back!]

To put things in perspective as far as price this is Canadian brewed Bud (it looks like that to me, I don't buy it) .

THe PA Yuengling brewery is up in the mountains here. I've gone out for the tour and it was a good time except when they yelled at me for catching beer in my hands that was over flowing from the cans during processing. The most interesting thing was the main section of the brewery with the vats. The brewery was originally built before electricity was commonly available so the brewery has a stained glass ceiling. This provided light in the brewery and cut down on glare from the light reflecting off the early polished copper vats that caused problems for the brewery workers. The PA brewery also has a nice sized bar in it that is used for taste testing but was originally the employee bar where employees drank for free till the drinking and driving laws created liability issues for yuengling.

I always wanted to do the brewery tour.

And it is totally true that yuengling can get skunked from a dirty look.

I did the Schaeffer beer tour outside Allentown before it was sold to Strohs.

Yuengling only keeps the PA brewery open so they can retain the title of "America's oldest brewery". The PA brewery just barely fills the local demand in PA on its own.

^ Hey why the fuck doesn't Strohs go back to its old sulfuric recipe. It was fucking awesome !

Tonight !