Unthankful
I think “real beer” is probably in the eye of the beholder. In my early drinking days, I tried to like beer. I drank Corona. It’s…. well, let’s just say I was doing as the Romans did at the time. I moved onto Zima. Yes, I admit it. And then one (very scary) night, I had some Snake Bite Ales & Hard Cider And that’s where I ended the beer drinking,
My brother tried beer making years ago. He didn’t do his homework, spent more time designing the label (“Yellow Snow” was the name and the illustration was an inebriated Polar Bear behind an iceberg) and the beer tasted…well, just as bad as you’d expect. But I like good beer…a nice dark stout with foam like whipped cream… yummmy
I love beer, at least, the better tasting ones. Coors is not one of them! The old joke about them using the leftover product from their Clydesdales is a close approximation of the taste. Can’t go the dark ones either, just too…much! Sam Adams makes a very drinkable product for the most part. Many of the micros are good too. Looooove Daquiris and Margaritas, also. Unfortunately, my beer and liquor days are over. Seems that some blood pressure meds can cause an allergy to them. Very, very unpleasant reaction. Swell up, turn red, hot flashes, itchy palms and soles of my feet. Thank goodness for Benadryl. I’m restricted to light beers now, but at least some of them aren’t too bad. I can get the taste without the bad effects!
Jude… Hee hee… I’m imagining the label now.
Ruth… Horse pee? That’s probably my assessment of beer in general. I’m much more fond of the spirits. But like you, I feel that my drinking days may be coming to a halt soon. My kidneys are beginning to grumble. Sigh. I don’t do moderation very well.
Appalling, foul and horrid did not seem to keep Randie from drinking the stuff.
Seems that Randie is critical, Ryan is tactful, and between them lies the truth.
brig… Argh, I remember Zimas and their assorted ick ilk. Folks filtered cheap beers to the point that they no longer had any color or taste, just alcohol, and then added various citrus and/or fruit flavorings, all in order to compete with another crazy fad at the time… wine coolers; cheap wine mixed with blended fruit juices. ‘Member those? Great commercials though.
jude… Speaking of commercials, the beer may have been a loser, but that name/logo combo sounds like a winner. You ought to have him draw it up again, copyright it and then put it up for bid among rebel micro brewering labels. It also sounds that you’d appreciate a Guinness Float. A pint of dark, rich, thick, strongly bitter (ahem… “dry”) Irish beer topped with a creamy scoop of frozen vanilla goodness.
Ruth… Coors, Colorado Rocky Mountains (“Rockies”), SABMiller (England ownership); Budweiser, Clydesdale beer wagon horse teams, AB InBev (Brazilian ownership). Yeh, I also remember back when Coors and Bud were American-owned brands.
brig… Hmm, “Horse Pee”? Might wanna have jude’s bro try doing up a label for that one too. Could sell many a beer to an amused audience.
Hey, it’s Thanksgiving. You’ve EARNED that tummy ache!
Hmm, is this the morning after? It’s kinda poetic that Randie would end up doing some couch time at Ryan’s place.
brig… What was I thinkin’? You’re the artiste ’round here. You oughta do up some “Yellow Snow” & “Horse Pee” logos, get get jude’s bro’s and Ruth’s creative okays, do up copyrights and sell’em yerself.
You’re either a beer person, or you’re not. I am not. But nice, frosty Margaritas, now…!
Back when I was in the Navy if you drank Zima with a fruit wedge (lemon, lime, orange, etc) we called that a Jolly Rancher – and no, we didn’t say it as a compliment. ::snicker:: Not that we were Bud or PBR snobs, oh no – most of us were Heineken snobs. 😀
What? Don’t look at me like that … you go on Med cruises where Heineken is treated as a *local* brew, not an import – and is cheap, being a local – you start to get really attached to it as a drink of choice. At the time, anyway, as my drinking pretty much stopped when I got out. I’ll drink a 4-pack of Mike’s Hard Lemonade per YEAR, nowadays.
I used to homebrew myself ( not on a boat either). I made mostly ales.
Lagers require refrigeration. I came up with some interesting recipies.( :
I personally don’t care for most beers, though I have found some import ales to be to my liking. There is just something different about some import ales… don’t really know how to describe it more than beer is just too bitter to me but ales seem to be all flavor with none or very little of the bitterness.
I’m a margarita person myself as well, though every so many years I go on a drinking binge where I give myself acute alcohol poisoning then I just stop drinking for quite a few years after. I’m in one of my non drinking periods at the moment.
I don’t really know why I go through drinking like that. I start out just drinking socially, then I start drinking more heavily, then I poison myself, then I stop drinking. Then it starts all over again.
I’ve done that twice now so far. From around 12 to 16 I drank pretty heavily, (yes… sadly I was an underage drinker) till I poisoned myself at a friends birthday party. Once I recovered I didn’t touch alcohol till I hit 21, I just didn’t want it. From 21 to about 30, I was fine, hardly drank. But around 31 I started the social drinking again and it escalated till I once again poisoned myself at yet another friend’s birthday bash.
Just like the first time, once I recovered I didn’t touch more than a single drink maybe once every six months or so. Just didn’t want it. I’m 43 now and I still only have maybe one drink every six months or so. For the most part I have no actual interest in it.
So yeah… I think I might be a mutant or something.
Funny thing is, you know all the home brewing we do? Yeah… we wind up giving nearly all of it away. 😀
GARNETT’S HOMEMADE BEER
1. Oh the year was nineteen seventy-eight,
(How I wish I’d never tried it now,)
When a score of men were turned quite green
By the scummiest ale you’ve ever seen
Chorus:
God damn them all,
I was told this beer was worth its weight in gold
We’d feel no pain, shed no tears,
But it’s a foolish man who shows no fear
At a glass of Garnett’s homemade beer.
2. Now Garnett Rogers cried the town
(how I wish I’d never tried it now,)
For 20 brave men all masochists who
Would taste for him his homemade brew.
3. This motley crew were a sickening sight
(how I wish I’d never tried it now,)
There was caveman Dave with his eyes in bags
He’d a hard-boiled liver and the staggers and jags.
4. We hadn’t been there but an hour or two
(how I wish I’d never tried it now,)
When a voice said “Give me some homemade brew”
As steeleyed Stan hove into view.
5. Now steeleyed Stand was a frightening man
(how I wish I’d never tried it now,)
He was eight foot tall and four foot wide
Said “pass that jug or I’ll tan your hide.
6. Stan took one sip and pitched on his side
(how I wish I’d never tried it now,)
Garnett was smashed with a cupful of drugs
And his breath set fire to both me legs.
7. Now here I am with my 23rd beer
(how I wish I’d never tried it now,)
It’s six long years since I felt this way
On the night before my wedding day.
Garnett Rogers is the brother of the late Stan Rogers. The tune is from Barrett’s Privateers – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMV34CwNMY0
The Auld Grump, me family thinks me to be a beer snob….
Ah! this makes me wanna raise my glass of Zima and sing! ER… no… my glass of absinthe, vodka something, mulled wine, merlot, or some such thing…Margaritas have a tendency to put me on my butt (and in front of the toilet… although, just recently, I overdid it on the absinthe and wound up in a similar position!)… none the less, let us all chime in with a glass of Jolly Rancher, Hard Lemonade or something and sing!