Beer is good.....

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That has been for me the biggest downside to being sober.
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Matt, Publix has Peets
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Matt, Publix has Peets
Thats frigging awesome! It is official now, publix is the greatest grocery store of all time then.
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You guys ever had Longhammer (I think thats the name) - they've got a 60 minute IPA that is AWESOME. They've also got a 90 minute IPA that I hear is for hardcore IPA lovers.

Me personally?
I like Newcastle BrownAle - although lately I've been liking the Wingwalkers Amber Ale... delicious!

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Mmmmmmmm.... Chimay Blue Label! So good, it should be illegal.

Thirsty now..... must... have....
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Mmmmmmmm.... Chimay Blue Label! So good, it should be illegal.

Thirsty now..... must... have....
There was a small shop that sold that in my college town.
Pretty good stuff. At the time though we'd just chug from the bottle... it's much better enjoyed properly.
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mxgrl wrote:
Mmmmmmmm.... Chimay Blue Label! So good, it should be illegal.

Thirsty now..... must... have....
That's my wife's favorite beer.

Good thing she doesn't drink very often.

Shit's EXPENSIVE!!


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isn't it around $10 a bottle? (large bottle though if I remember correctly)
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isn't it around $10 a bottle? (large bottle though if I remember correctly)
$8ish for a 750ml.

Really good, though.

My beer of choice is $1.89 for a half litre.

Plus tax, CRV, destination charges, and dealer prep.

$44ish for a case of 20.
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Have you tried Karl Straus red trolley ale? good shit
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Beer is good? Are you friggin' nuts! Beer is AWESOME.
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All things Shiner. There really isn't a need for anything else. Put a bunch of German and Czech immigrant farmers in the middle of nowhere (Shiner, Texas) in the early 1900's, add one Bavarian brewmaster (Kosmos Spoetzl) and something good can't help but come from it. 100th Anniversary is coming up next year, should be a good time! Bohemian Black Lager.....mmmmmmm, good stuff.

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This thread is full of drunks...
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Crash82 wrote:
This thread is full of drunks...
and now a jackass
6/27/2008 9:00am
Rahr beer. It's a microbrewery in Ft. Worth. Been around since before the prohabition.

Every Saturday between 1pm and 3pm they open the doors to the public. Buy a $10 pint mug and they give you 3 bottle caps; 2 different seasonal beers on tap usually dark and light each cost a cap. Good thing is once you buy the mug, the beer flows for free. I've spent a many Saturdays in that place. The dark ale is the best.
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You guys should give home brewing a shot. It's friggin' easy...............and the quality is magnitudes over anything you can buy......including your favorite microbrewery stuff.

Cheap as hell too. You can put together your own ferment kit for twenty bucks......or buy a basic starter kit for 50 bucks or so. Bottling is a PITA, but super cheap. Better is spend 150 bucks or so on a dual keg w/ taps and Co2 bottle setup.

Process is sooooo simple. For a basic extract ingredient kit, it costs about 15 bucks or so, makes 5 gallons, and will be about the best beer you ever drank.........2nd only to brew from partial mash and whole grain kits.

Fermenting kit is basically a 7.5 gallon bucket w/ airlock. Basically, you simply boil the ingredients (called the Wort), cool it, strain it into the bucket, add yeast, and wait 2 weeks. Then siphon it from the bucket into the keg for a seconday fermentation, pressurize the keg, bleed off the air, wait another 2 weeks. Put the keg in the fridge, after 24 hours, pressurize to 40psi to force carbonate it...........wait 3 days, pour a draft and dump it (first glass will pick up the trub from the bottom...yuck) then enjoy. You can get all kinds of highspeed, moving away from extract kits to whole grains as you gain experience. Give lagering a shot, all kinds of cool shit you can do.......like dump extra dry malt extract and cane sugar in to boost the alcohol content to hell and back, or throw all kinds of crazy shit in it just to see what happens and how it tastes........strawberries, watermelon, mesquite beans.......fuck you name, somebody has made beer out of it.

If you bottle instead of keg, you just need a capper and a box of caps.........save your bottles (not twisties, they won't work)......instead of siphoning into the kegs.......you have a 2nd bucket with a tap and line for bottling. Siphon from the fermenter into the bottling bucket, then use the tap and line to fill each bottle from the bottom up, add some sugar, cap it, and wait a couple of weeks...........wallah.

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6/27/2008 10:35am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 7:25pm
Mmmm, I had the beer man dropping off Eichbaum, a rack of pils and a rack of export, every two weeks while in Germany....



6/27/2008 10:58am
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You guys should give home brewing a shot. It's friggin' easy...............and the quality is magnitudes over anything you can buy......including your favorite microbrewery stuff. Cheap as...
You guys should give home brewing a shot. It's friggin' easy...............and the quality is magnitudes over anything you can buy......including your favorite microbrewery stuff.

Cheap as hell too. You can put together your own ferment kit for twenty bucks......or buy a basic starter kit for 50 bucks or so. Bottling is a PITA, but super cheap. Better is spend 150 bucks or so on a dual keg w/ taps and Co2 bottle setup.

Process is sooooo simple. For a basic extract ingredient kit, it costs about 15 bucks or so, makes 5 gallons, and will be about the best beer you ever drank.........2nd only to brew from partial mash and whole grain kits.

Fermenting kit is basically a 7.5 gallon bucket w/ airlock. Basically, you simply boil the ingredients (called the Wort), cool it, strain it into the bucket, add yeast, and wait 2 weeks. Then siphon it from the bucket into the keg for a seconday fermentation, pressurize the keg, bleed off the air, wait another 2 weeks. Put the keg in the fridge, after 24 hours, pressurize to 40psi to force carbonate it...........wait 3 days, pour a draft and dump it (first glass will pick up the trub from the bottom...yuck) then enjoy. You can get all kinds of highspeed, moving away from extract kits to whole grains as you gain experience. Give lagering a shot, all kinds of cool shit you can do.......like dump extra dry malt extract and cane sugar in to boost the alcohol content to hell and back, or throw all kinds of crazy shit in it just to see what happens and how it tastes........strawberries, watermelon, mesquite beans.......fuck you name, somebody has made beer out of it.

If you bottle instead of keg, you just need a capper and a box of caps.........save your bottles (not twisties, they won't work)......instead of siphoning into the kegs.......you have a 2nd bucket with a tap and line for bottling. Siphon from the fermenter into the bottling bucket, then use the tap and line to fill each bottle from the bottom up, add some sugar, cap it, and wait a couple of weeks...........wallah.

My step-dad used to do that. Damn good beer. It tasted a lot like Shiner but had a little more bite. A few bottles of that would definately get you loose. I need to try it out again.
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Bunch of pinky pointers...give me a bud...ah make it a case.
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My favorite beer is cold beer.
6/27/2008 11:13am
Free beer aint half bad either.
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jonjon714 wrote:
Mmmm, I had the beer man dropping off Eichbaum, a rack of pils and a rack of export, every two weeks while in Germany....
Mmmm, I had the beer man dropping off Eichbaum, a rack of pils and a rack of export, every two weeks while in Germany....



Germany is what fucked me on drinking crap beer. Beer man came every week and dropped two cases on my doorstep, and picked up the two cases of empties. I paid the bill at the local beverage shop every month.

Slick as shit.
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Rahr beer. It's a microbrewery in Ft. Worth. Been around since before the prohabition. Every Saturday between 1pm and 3pm they open the doors to the...
Rahr beer. It's a microbrewery in Ft. Worth. Been around since before the prohabition.

Every Saturday between 1pm and 3pm they open the doors to the public. Buy a $10 pint mug and they give you 3 bottle caps; 2 different seasonal beers on tap usually dark and light each cost a cap. Good thing is once you buy the mug, the beer flows for free. I've spent a many Saturdays in that place. The dark ale is the best.
Dittos on the Rahr. I've known the head brewer since the early 80's. We used to brew beer together, and won many a competition.

We had quite the brewery set up in my garage. We started with kit stuff, but quickly graduated to all grain mash.

Next time you're in there look for J.B., the big blonde guy with the goatee.

Since he does it for a living now, we don't brew much anymore, but I get all I can handle so why jack with it?
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2 important things to remeber when homebrewing: (probably the causes of the horror stories abot how bad it tastes you've heard)

1- Clean, clean, clean! Sterilize the shit out of everything.
2- Never use soap to clean anything, use the store bought sterilizer or a bleach/waser mix. A little bleach goes a long way, and has never failed us.
You can never get all the soap out of bottles/vessels, and it will spoil the best of recipies.
6/27/2008 1:34pm Edited Date/Time 6/27/2008 1:35pm
That's cool. I didn't know you were such a distinguished gentleman. I probably wont go back until the fall; it was hot as hell in there last time.

Got any extra caps?
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SEEMEFIRST wrote:
2 important things to remeber when homebrewing: (probably the causes of the horror stories abot how bad it tastes you've heard) 1- Clean, clean, clean! Sterilize...
2 important things to remeber when homebrewing: (probably the causes of the horror stories abot how bad it tastes you've heard)

1- Clean, clean, clean! Sterilize the shit out of everything.
2- Never use soap to clean anything, use the store bought sterilizer or a bleach/waser mix. A little bleach goes a long way, and has never failed us.
You can never get all the soap out of bottles/vessels, and it will spoil the best of recipies.
Soap squashes the head........

In Germany, it's nigh unto a religion keeping soap away from beer mugs. If you got to a fest, where you pay a deposit for your mug, then just pay to keep it full.......you can watch 'em......people turn in a mug, it gets swished in warm bleach water, then swished in clean rinse water, then get's handed to the next person.


I clean all my shit with bleach, and rinse it with boilded water......because I have a well. Any bacteria whatsoever can add a bad taste to it.

You can get away with more when you keg, especially if you secondary in the keg as the alcohol plus the continuing yeast action will kill any bacteria, and when you pressurize it, the co2 layer protects the surface.......as well as making sure the bugs can't get in.

But you can't be to clean........I even bleach my hands! Nothing sucks more than getting through 4 weeks of aging.....only to discover that you have a nasty off taste because of bacteria.
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Crash82 wrote:
This thread is full of drunks...
Your point is?

If you arent bringing a sixxer to the party, GTFO !

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I hate home brewers who think their beer tastes soo good. When someone can make a good batch of Stella in their basement...I'll be over to drink.

Living in the Bay Area...even person I knew attempted to make their own beer. Same with Portland. End results was usually crap beer.
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SEEMEFIRST wrote:
2 important things to remeber when homebrewing: (probably the causes of the horror stories abot how bad it tastes you've heard) 1- Clean, clean, clean! Sterilize...
2 important things to remeber when homebrewing: (probably the causes of the horror stories abot how bad it tastes you've heard)

1- Clean, clean, clean! Sterilize the shit out of everything.
2- Never use soap to clean anything, use the store bought sterilizer or a bleach/waser mix. A little bleach goes a long way, and has never failed us.
You can never get all the soap out of bottles/vessels, and it will spoil the best of recipies.
xewbx wrote:
Soap squashes the head........ In Germany, it's nigh unto a religion keeping soap away from beer mugs. If you got to a fest, where you pay...
Soap squashes the head........

In Germany, it's nigh unto a religion keeping soap away from beer mugs. If you got to a fest, where you pay a deposit for your mug, then just pay to keep it full.......you can watch 'em......people turn in a mug, it gets swished in warm bleach water, then swished in clean rinse water, then get's handed to the next person.


I clean all my shit with bleach, and rinse it with boilded water......because I have a well. Any bacteria whatsoever can add a bad taste to it.

You can get away with more when you keg, especially if you secondary in the keg as the alcohol plus the continuing yeast action will kill any bacteria, and when you pressurize it, the co2 layer protects the surface.......as well as making sure the bugs can't get in.

But you can't be to clean........I even bleach my hands! Nothing sucks more than getting through 4 weeks of aging.....only to discover that you have a nasty off taste because of bacteria.
Yep what you said. Hops also have anticeptic benifits, and I love hops so...DOSE THAT BITCH!!!

Hop prices have at least tripled in the last year. The UK barley grows them at all anymore, and the big breweries are buying up all the US stuff.

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