Friday Night Drinking/Football Thread

Submitted by jcgold on

Boise at Toledo on ESPN

Iowa St. at UConn on ESPN2.

Drinking Black Butte Porter.

ijohnb

September 16th, 2011 at 8:31 PM ^

Octoberfest.  This shit is delicious.  Seriously, I would drink one of these with a powdered shugy donut.  Fall is fantastic.

Boise will pull away, give it a minute.  I love Thursday and Friday night college football.  It is like a warmup for Saturday.  Big fan.

d_blue

September 16th, 2011 at 9:04 PM ^

& diet tonic water - a concession the waist & clock have mandated.  Still recovering from the "blue flu" I picked up back in A2 last weekend, but wouldn't trade in the memories of that game for anything, including better health right now.

bacon1431

September 16th, 2011 at 9:21 PM ^

Toledo needed to score more this half. Dropped a sure touchdown pass and keep putting themselves in 3rd and long. Their defense is doing their best and holding Boise St to about as little as you can expect. I think Boise will probably make some adjustments and it'll be tough for Toledo to keep up.

crispyBacon

September 16th, 2011 at 10:05 PM ^

Two years ago a whole bunch of Mich. State girls came into a bar with "Holy Toledo" shirts on. By gametime we'd challenged two of them to a drinking contest and got them both throwing up. One of them into a pitcher.

 

Sparty on.

justingoblue

September 16th, 2011 at 10:23 PM ^

Truthfully though, I think Great Lakes is either first or second in the midwest depending on how you want to rate. Depth, I think they're behind GI and maybe Bell's (especially in Hopslam season). Average quality, I think they're far and away number one. They make some damn good beers.

wigeon

September 16th, 2011 at 10:55 PM ^

but I had 4-5 Edmund Fitz's in Pittsburght the other night, with fresh mussels and some other tapas stuff.  One of the 2-3 best beers given the overall picture I've ever had.  Absolutely fantastic.

Tonight's been an endless sea of Blues and Molson Canadians. And a rogue bottle of Canadian Club passed around.

A bunch of neighborhood guys digging deep into the garage fridge, throwing bumpers for the dogs, throwing pass patterns for the boys,  hanging out and eating meat off the grill - chicken, andouille, and some decent venison steaks doused in beer.  Wives are all gone to Chicago - don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you bitches.  

 

 

 

 

crispyBacon

September 16th, 2011 at 10:03 PM ^

I'm finishing off some leftovers lying around the house.

 

It turns out that grapefruit juice mixed with any kind of flavored alcohol tastes just like grapefruit juice.

 

...although I fear for my man card...

justingoblue

September 16th, 2011 at 11:17 PM ^

Oktoberfest is a good fall session beer. Nothing to write home about, but I think it can hold up to Honkers or something similar. I haven't had Sunset Wheat, but their Shandy is amazing and basically all I drank this summer.

From what I've had, Leine's seems like a great beer to buy a twelve pack of and drink the whole damn thing, but I haven't seen anything top notch, like the Goose Island Belgians, Bell's Hopslam or Third Coast or GL Burning River.

Have you had Dogfish Head Punkin? I have a friend who's dying to try it and I don't know if I should partake in buying and drinking it.

BLUE HIKER

September 16th, 2011 at 11:29 PM ^

Almost everything you listed is completely "Greek to me."  Must just be that those are not readily available in NC.  I did have the Summer Shandy, and everyone I spoke to in Michigan absolutely loved it.  However, it was definitely not my favorite.  I much preferred the coriander affect in the Sunset Wheat.  Never had anything with that flavor before.  I do tend to prefer the wheats.

justingoblue

September 16th, 2011 at 11:41 PM ^

I'll have to try the Sunset Wheat. Oktoberfest is good. Basically, I was saying in a long winded way that while Liene's makes some great beers for "drinking", drinking, I haven't had anything of theirs that is ridiculously good.

OTOH, making a beer that you can enjoy twelve of is a skill in and of itself, not many breweries can say that they do a good job of it.

BLUE HIKER

September 17th, 2011 at 12:11 AM ^

after # 5 or 6, I could drink malt liquor and be happy (at least for a little while).  I try to base my opinions on #'s 1 through 3.  Of course I just finished # 7 of various types from 5.1% - 8%, so maybe I will think differently tomorrow.  Oops, it is tomorrow.  Maybe I think differently already.  Shocktop Raspberry Wheat is now my new favorite!

 

I do highly recommend the Sunset Wheat.  However, it does kind of taste "Fruity"...sort of like a blueberry.  So if you have a strong dislike of "Fruity beer", you may not like it.