It's Friday night and you're on MGoBoard. Some of you are on-call neurosurgeons, some of you are Thomas Pynchon suffering through writers' block. Most of you are drinking. What are you drinking, and is it nice?
I'll start, and set the bar low: I'm drinking Icehouse, in a 16oz can. It's not nice. I will not try to defend this choice.
captain+coke+lime=yummmmm
high-quality H2O
high-quality H2O
It ain't easy being cheesy
Rolling rock bottles.
Rolling rock bottles.
It's better to hate to lose, than love to win.
Ah,
Sweet Latrobe.
Nothing like a box of Rocks.
Nothing like a box of Rocks.
derelicte
yeungling
yeungling
"Relax you panic monger" -Megatron
I consider lack of Yeungling
I consider lack of Yeungling to be the worst thing about living in Ann Arbor
Wildcat,
Respond to this so I can +1 you again.
I +1'd you for starting this thread, I'm drinking Labatt from a bottle. Classy, I know, but that's how I roll.
But respond to this, as you definitely deserve a second plus for the icehouse.
And frankly, I still think I'd owe you one for the 16 oz can.
I thank you sir,
and I would respond gladly without a +1, because I actually love Labatt. It began as a high school romance, but Blue and I still have a connection.
Agreed,
but how many things will really get posted on this thread that i won't say, "ahhh, so delicious, one of my favorites" ?
Bud Lite Lime,
apparently.
Also the cement-mixer.
there's a shot with mayonnaise in it
I guess I knew there were a few things I won't drink.
Oh I loathe cement mixers!
Oh I loathe cement mixers! Those caused my 21st to be a very sketchy memory (or lack there of). I'm currently studying for my anatomy class drinkin Jack n Cherry Coke
UM football is my heroine
Beer
Bud-Lite Lime. Not my favourite but probably in my top 5 right now.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Please, sir,
could you add some fruit juice to this beer? As it is, the bitter taste is making my vagina hurt.
Sorry, I like you and all dude, but someone had to make fun here.
+1
not gonna lie, that stung a little. I can appreciate a good joke even when its directed towards me. Next time I won't be so open about what leftovers I'm drinking outta my fridge.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
I plussed you back, which I
I plussed you back, which I believe gets you net one point.
Nothing wrong with fruit in beer
The key word there, though, is "beer." I don't think anything with the words "Bud Light" in the name qualifies.
Where's Charlie Bauman when you need him?
Combination of a couple
Combination of a couple Shiner 6packs. Currently the Smokehaus. Also got the Bock, the Commemorator, and Bohemian Black.
I've never tried Shiner.
What would you compare it to?
Shiner overview
I'm not sure what I what I would compare bock to. It's a wheat beer that pours a copper color but drinks lighter. Due to it being a lighter bock, it's ideal for summer drinking, which is 80% of the year in Texas. It's also just heavy enough that it is also enjoyable in the spring/fall, which accounts for the other part of the year in these parts.
I find a lot of people who drink light beer, but don't like real beer can normally handle Shiner Bock. It's got enough craft beer flavor without going overboard. The bock used to be priced the same as light beers down here, which worked out extremely well for a guy in his late teens/early 20s. I learned to value the craft brew over bud light really quick.
The Smokehaus is very similar except its malt has been smoked in a bbq pit. The smoke taste is so light that many can't really taste too much difference. Again, a summer beer.
The Bohemian Black was their 97 year anniversary beer (they released a different beer in each of the 5 years leading to the 100). This is the only anniversary beer that they kept just due to it's high demand. It pours much darker but, again, isn't that heavy. I'd compare it to many other black lagers, the closest one I can recall being Saranac's Black Forest, except a little lighter.
I can't remember anything tasting like the commemorator. It's a little heavier than the other brews at Shiner, but nowhere near Guinness heavy. It's alright, but I don't expect it to stick around too long.
I miss their dunkel weiss, which was a dark, rich wheat ale. It had strong taste of wheat beer to it, but it didn't last one the market very long. Their hefe has continued to pick up steam, but it's nothing special.
I took the brewery tour two weeks ago and had a great time. There must have been 300 people there on a Friday afternoon (they only do two a day during the week and close down on the weekend). It was rather impressive for being a bit off the beaten path.
The brand name of Shiner is slowly becoming the beer of the state of Texas. I think it is Texas's oldest independent brewery, and ships to 40-45 states now.
I can see that will be a
I can see that will be a tl;dr. Oh well. I'll just keep drinking it.
I'm sold.
And I'll keep a look out for Shiner. The way you describe the Bohemian Black reminds me of Spaten Optimator. If you haven't tried that you should find some. It's 7% but smooth and not sweet by bock standards.
I once played the boot game
I once played the boot game with Paul with Spaten Optimator at the berg in Ann Arbor. If I remember correctly, I didn't remember anything after that. Good times and better happy hours.
It's going to be a bit lighter than Optimator and a little less bitter (at least to people who sample many beers). And it's probably only about 4-5%. None of shiner's beers are that heavy in alcohol content. It makes them more marketable down here.
For the record, I had to buy
For the record, I had to buy the boot because Paul champed everything from the ankle to the toe. It was worth it as he definitely didn't remember much after that.
I think whoever served you
exposed him or herself to potential litigation. The idea of a boot race with Optimator make me wretch.
Also, I've never played more than three boot races without breaking the boot. I'm probably $150 out of pocket lifetime repaying bars for broken expensive glassware.
It's not so much of a race as
It's not so much of a race as it is the 2nd to last person to drink pays for it. It took a good while to finish it. It would have been wasteful otherwise.
On shiner.
the kosmos special from shiner is outstanding if you ever see it--unique too as I have little to compare it to. I got it in a sampler pack at my local beer sto, but all the flavors are good. Kosmos Spoetzl (sp?) is the guy who made this duck quack back in the day.
I am also glad to report that the local bar in southern IN I ate wings at tonight now has oberon on tap and it was SUPerb. I will be back to get some mo o dat.
I hope don't press means press right away! --Homer, 2003 A.D.
Yeah, it's the Spoetzl
Yeah, it's the Spoetzl brewery located in Shiner, TX. I've had one Kosmos special, but I was enough beers in at the time not to want to give my official take on it. The brew was a special reserve from about 10 years ago they just re-released. My next pack will probably be the Shiner family pack just to get another taste. I just hate that it comes with a Shiner light in it. I'd rather just get two shiner blondes. (that's the blonde beer)
as a gentile and professional supertaster, I...
prefer blondes and my numero uno beer for a few years, trite as it may be, is hoegarden (sp?). So, I would expect the kosmos to kick shiner's white beer's ass when you find a family pack. And for me, the hoe kicks the kosmos. My current #2 is unibroue's la fin du monde and I would put the kosmos at a up and coming # 3 pending future clinical trials fwiw.
I hope don't press means press right away! --Homer, 2003 A.D.
southern Indiana?!
Where? I spent he last two years in Evansville. I live in indy now.
i live in
madison on that river down south.
I hope don't press means press right away! --Homer, 2003 A.D.
Tremendous fan of hoegarden
Tremendous fan of hoegarden and la fin du monde, although I've only had it in very sparse quantities. The best beer I ever had, or so at least the memory seems to serve me now, is Avery's Kaiser. I was in boston for work in October 07, and I was at the Sunset bar, which has the most taps I've ever seen. We started to drink a Kaiser for every run the Red Sox scored against the Rockies in the World Series that night, which was 12 or so. That lasted through the third inning when we had to start taste testing more - I mean you've got so many taps, why limit yourself?
While there, I also split a 12 oz bottle of some swedish chocolate stout that was over $14 a bottle (I want to say it was actually $28, but I'll go conservative). It tasted of chocolate milk. It was divine.
the fin is my wife's favorite beer
not trying to offend, she has an affinity for the belgian style.
bodka
bodka
No question, Jim.
I'm drinking water. From the
I'm drinking water. From the tap.
Earlier I had some prickly pear juice. I'm guessing I'm the only one on the board who can say that.
that's
wierd.
Biz hundert azoi ve tsvantsik
Nah it isn't. Ever since they lost the vote
I guess prickley pear juice (from the tap) is what Magnus is calling it these days.
We're all enlightened in this day and age, though.
Thtop it. You're
Thtop it. You're embarrathing me, thilly.
Nah, just a lot of good natured fun to level the playing field
on this blog (seriously) as your knowledge of football far exceeds mine.
Besides, if I mentioned what I was currently drinking (a California Sauvignon Blanc - white wine!!!!) I'd receive far, far more abuse than you and your prickley pear juice (is that something like un-fermented tequila?).
I was at a wedding, alcohol
I was at a wedding, alcohol was not free, I had no money and it was expensive anyway. Worst wedding ever. It's not hard to make a wedding great... it takes an open bar and some good music.
That's just insane.
It would take an extraordinary rendition to get me to a cash-bar wedding.
That...
...is a great way to start a marriage off on the wrong foot. Possibly equivalent to the groom fooling around with a bridesmaid.
As a matter of fact I like beer.
Yeah... the groom was also in
Yeah... the groom was also in a wheelchair/on crutches throughout the ceremony/reception as he was hit by a car three weeks ago. Awkward in every way. I had a hard time not laughing out loud when he was wheeled down the aisle by his father.
in the grand scale
what's more tragic, wedding-wise?
dude in a wheelchair
vs.
cash bar
Biz hundert azoi ve tsvantsik
The good of the many
outweighs the good of the one.
What's More Tragic
Than the bride showing up?
That being said, it is what it is.
This is terrible. It sounds like the
worse (as in saddest/least celebratory) wedding I have ever heard of.
Yeah, people were
Yeah, people were surprisingly upbeat, but I left right after the first/father-daughter/mother-son dances, so I don't know how crazy things got after that.
Given a cash bar, not very.
Given a cash bar, not very. Good call on your part.
captain+coke+lime=yummmmm