CMIII takes a pinch...

_HD_ wrote:

duck wrote:

_HD_ wrote:Well Ringo, I'm always up for trying a new brew.  I always like to consult with Beer Advocate tho.  It's the Bible for beer.  Green Line Pale Ale got a mediocre review.  Doesn't mean I wouldn't still try it or that it's not good.  Just sayin'...

Beer Advocate merely tells you the opinion of what other people who have tried the beer think.  Reviews such as this are only as good as the palate of those doing the tasting and are also subject to the deficiencies that come along with bottled beer.  As anyone knows--beer in the barrel...never subjected to hot/cold cycles, light or old stock is far superior...and these pricks on Beer Advocate mostly always are reviewing bottled beer...  Beyond that--roughly 80% of the population has their head up their asses to some degree or another anyway.  It's one source of info--but there is no substitute for the dance your own taste buds do... 

Oh, absolutely.  Nevertheless I still find Beer Advocate to be a useful tool.  The people who write reviews are generally NOT by Coors-swilling kicks; they are by people who love beer just the way we enjoy football.  Each reviewer has his own bias and after a while you can get a sense of who's dialed in and who isn't.  More to the point, you can get a feel for which reviews might be most relevant to your own taste.  In many ways it's like a message board just like this.

By the way, they do NOT just review bottled beer.  They usually specify in the review whether they drank the beer on draft or from the bottle.  Breweries and ale houses get reviewed too.

From what I've seen 90%+ of the reviews are bottled beer...and the specialty offerings end up staying on the shelf generally for quite some time while the masses buy up their cheap swill.  If Miller Genuine Draft and beers like it were the only beers available--I simply wouldn't drink beer.

duck wrote:

_HD_ wrote:

duck wrote:

_HD_ wrote:Well Ringo, I'm always up for trying a new brew.  I always like to consult with Beer Advocate tho.  It's the Bible for beer.  Green Line Pale Ale got a mediocre review.  Doesn't mean I wouldn't still try it or that it's not good.  Just sayin'...

Beer Advocate merely tells you the opinion of what other people who have tried the beer think.  Reviews such as this are only as good as the palate of those doing the tasting and are also subject to the deficiencies that come along with bottled beer.  As anyone knows--beer in the barrel...never subjected to hot/cold cycles, light or old stock is far superior...and these pricks on Beer Advocate mostly always are reviewing bottled beer...  Beyond that--roughly 80% of the population has their head up their asses to some degree or another anyway.  It's one source of info--but there is no substitute for the dance your own taste buds do... 

Oh, absolutely.  Nevertheless I still find Beer Advocate to be a useful tool.  The people who write reviews are generally NOT by Coors-swilling kicks; they are by people who love beer just the way we enjoy football.  Each reviewer has his own bias and after a while you can get a sense of who's dialed in and who isn't.  More to the point, you can get a feel for which reviews might be most relevant to your own taste.  In many ways it's like a message board just like this.

By the way, they do NOT just review bottled beer.  They usually specify in the review whether they drank the beer on draft or from the bottle.  Breweries and ale houses get reviewed too.

From what I've seen 90%+ of the reviews are bottled beer...and the specialty offerings end up staying on the shelf generally for quite some time while the masses buy up their cheap swill.  If Miller Genuine Draft and beers like it were the only beers available--I simply wouldn't drink beer.

Fuck no.


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_HD_ wrote:one of the very best I've tasted in the past few years a couple of days ago in a cool waterfront bar on River Street in Savanna, GA.  

JnC4GB wrote:

_HD_ wrote:one of the very best I've tasted in the past few years a couple of days ago in a cool waterfront bar on River Street in Savanna, GA.  

Shit man, you shoulda said something. Me and Mrs JnC were just there last year...coulda told you about the best goddamn shrimp and grits on the face of the EARTH at an old antebellum mansion restaurant called The Pink Lady.
Heart attack on a plate, but LORDY were they a death-row last meal request.

How'd you like the place? I thought it was fucked up in a good way. Please tell me you didn't go to Lady & Sons...

I loved it--really did.  Wasn't able to stay long as there were lots of other places to go and people to meet...but it's a place I'll go back to for sure at some point with a special lady and stay awhile.  As you know--it's that type of town.  Wonderful interlaced southern hospitality and romantic charm in a historic, slow-moving world where people stroll the streets and stop to watch the butterflies frolic and lick every last bit of celery salt off the rims of their bloody mary's with brunch at the cobblestone sidewalk cafes...  The seafood there was tremendous--but actually had an even better dinner the night before in Charleston.  Cool, cool place.  Far from the tightly regulated world we live in up here...    

_HD_ wrote:

JnC4GB wrote:

_HD_ wrote:one of the very best I've tasted in the past few years a couple of days ago in a cool waterfront bar on River Street in Savanna, GA.  

Shit man, you shoulda said something. Me and Mrs JnC were just there last year...coulda told you about the best goddamn shrimp and grits on the face of the EARTH at an old antebellum mansion restaurant called The Pink Lady.
Heart attack on a plate, but LORDY were they a death-row last meal request.

How'd you like the place? I thought it was fucked up in a good way. Please tell me you didn't go to Lady & Sons...

No shit?  Cool.  Doesn't surprise me you'd target that city...

I loved it--really did.  Wasn't able to stay long as there were lots of other places to go and people to meet...but it's a place I'll go back to for sure at some point with a special lady and stay awhile.  As you know--it's that type of town.  Wonderful interlaced southern hospitality and romantic charm in a historic, slow-moving world where people stroll the streets and stop to watch the butterflies frolic and lick every last bit of celery salt off the rims of their bloody mary's with brunch at the cobblestone sidewalk cafes...  The seafood there was tremendous--but actually had an even better dinner the night before in Charleston.  Cool, cool place.  Far from the tightly regulated world we live in up here...    

JnC4GB wrote:

_HD_ wrote:

JnC4GB wrote:

_HD_ wrote:one of the very best I've tasted in the past few years a couple of days ago in a cool waterfront bar on River Street in Savanna, GA.  

Shit man, you shoulda said something. Me and Mrs JnC were just there last year...coulda told you about the best goddamn shrimp and grits on the face of the EARTH at an old antebellum mansion restaurant called The Pink Lady.
Heart attack on a plate, but LORDY were they a death-row last meal request.

How'd you like the place? I thought it was fucked up in a good way. Please tell me you didn't go to Lady & Sons...

No shit?  Cool.  Doesn't surprise me you'd target that city...

I loved it--really did.  Wasn't able to stay long as there were lots of other places to go and people to meet...but it's a place I'll go back to for sure at some point with a special lady and stay awhile.  As you know--it's that type of town.  Wonderful interlaced southern hospitality and romantic charm in a historic, slow-moving world where people stroll the streets and stop to watch the butterflies frolic and lick every last bit of celery salt off the rims of their bloody mary's with brunch at the cobblestone sidewalk cafes...  The seafood there was tremendous--but actually had an even better dinner the night before in Charleston.  Cool, cool place.  Far from the tightly regulated world we live in up here...    

Nice.
Charleston's on my list.

The South...like I said, fucked up, but in a good way. 

RingoCStarrQB wrote:Beer talk for Duck.   Hey Duck.........it is NOT imperative that every beer/ale that I drink shall be some high end full-bodied classic.     Sometimes one wishes to accelerate the process with a dozen Heineken Lights and 2 or 3 shots of Hennesey.  Whoops.........there it is.  Drinking is one thing........getting loaded is another.  How you get there depends on the pocketbook and the availability of liquids.    Even Miller High Life and few shots of chilled Patron silver can work very nicely too.  The most important thing is not what you drink........but rather who you are drinking with.    Sharing rotgut with a great person beats the alternatives.  Whammo!!........Zippee!!........Go Go GO PACKERs!

duck wrote:

RingoCStarrQB wrote:Beer talk for Duck.   Hey Duck.........it is NOT imperative that every beer/ale that I drink shall be some high end full-bodied classic.     Sometimes one wishes to accelerate the process with a dozen Heineken Lights and 2 or 3 shots of Hennesey.  Whoops.........there it is.  Drinking is one thing........getting loaded is another.  How you get there depends on the pocketbook and the availability of liquids.    Even Miller High Life and few shots of chilled Patron silver can work very nicely too.  The most important thing is not what you drink........but rather who you are drinking with.    Sharing rotgut with a great person beats the alternatives.  Whammo!!........Zippee!!........Go Go GO PACKERs!

Damn Ringo, thirty years ago I would have been with you stride for stride.  In fact, mere drinking was a woefully inadequate high.  Throw in a gram of coke, several joints of quality sinsemilla, and maybe on occasion a hit of acid or a few shrooms and you would have captured a good evening during my John Belushi phase.  Waking up the next morning with a ripping headache but in the company of some hot chick I barely recognized always added to the pizazz of the experience.


   Fuckin' A right big daddy!!     You were the truck stop hott mushroom gravy big gulp of hott azz pizazz and I can't stop smearing little debbie snack cakes all over my hooters thinking about you!!   Stop by for another turn on the wheel, big boy!!     Round 2 is when I really break out the shitzzz.  Bring some more fuckin' weed!       Your baby, Clarissa  XOXOXOXO  

_HD_ wrote:

duck wrote:

RingoCStarrQB wrote:Beer talk for Duck.   Hey Duck.........it is NOT imperative that every beer/ale that I drink shall be some high end full-bodied classic.     Sometimes one wishes to accelerate the process with a dozen Heineken Lights and 2 or 3 shots of Hennesey.  Whoops.........there it is.  Drinking is one thing........getting loaded is another.  How you get there depends on the pocketbook and the availability of liquids.    Even Miller High Life and few shots of chilled Patron silver can work very nicely too.  The most important thing is not what you drink........but rather who you are drinking with.    Sharing rotgut with a great person beats the alternatives.  Whammo!!........Zippee!!........Go Go GO PACKERs!

Damn Ringo, thirty years ago I would have been with you stride for stride.  In fact, mere drinking was a woefully inadequate high.  Throw in a gram of coke, several joints of quality sinsemilla, and maybe on occasion a hit of acid or a few shrooms and you would have captured a good evening during my John Belushi phase.  Waking up the next morning with a ripping headache but in the company of some hot chick I barely recognized always added to the pizazz of the experience.


   Fuckin' A right big daddy!!     You were the truck stop hott mushroom gravy big gulp of hott azz pizazz and I can't stop smearing little debbie snack cakes all over my hooters thinking about you!!   Stop by for another turn on the wheel, big boy!!     Round 2 is when I really break out the shitzzz.  Bring some more fuckin' weed!    <kisses and smooches>   Your baby, Clarissa  XOXOXOXO  

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duck wrote:

_HD_ wrote:

duck wrote:

RingoCStarrQB wrote:Beer talk for Duck.   Hey Duck.........it is NOT imperative that every beer/ale that I drink shall be some high end full-bodied classic.     Sometimes one wishes to accelerate the process with a dozen Heineken Lights and 2 or 3 shots of Hennesey.  Whoops.........there it is.  Drinking is one thing........getting loaded is another.  How you get there depends on the pocketbook and the availability of liquids.    Even Miller High Life and few shots of chilled Patron silver can work very nicely too.  The most important thing is not what you drink........but rather who you are drinking with.    Sharing rotgut with a great person beats the alternatives.  Whammo!!........Zippee!!........Go Go GO PACKERs!

Damn Ringo, thirty years ago I would have been with you stride for stride.  In fact, mere drinking was a woefully inadequate high.  Throw in a gram of coke, several joints of quality sinsemilla, and maybe on occasion a hit of acid or a few shrooms and you would have captured a good evening during my John Belushi phase.  Waking up the next morning with a ripping headache but in the company of some hot chick I barely recognized always added to the pizazz of the experience.


   Fuckin' A right big daddy!!     You were the truck stop hott mushroom gravy big gulp of hott azz pizazz and I can't stop smearing little debbie snack cakes all over my hooters thinking about you!!   Stop by for another turn on the wheel, big boy!!     Round 2 is when I really break out the shitzzz.  Bring some more fuckin' weed!       Your baby, Clarissa  XOXOXOXO  

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You have no idea, HD... no friggin idea.  I admit I was a disaster but damn, in this regard, I was... let's just say... an overachiever.

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This is good, Duck.  I'm comforted in that, I really am.  That Walmart bitch flopping her ass around really had me disturbed and nearly ready to wretch... 

_HD_ wrote:

duck wrote:

_HD_ wrote:

duck wrote:

RingoCStarrQB wrote:Beer talk for Duck.   Hey Duck.........it is NOT imperative that every beer/ale that I drink shall be some high end full-bodied classic.     Sometimes one wishes to accelerate the process with a dozen Heineken Lights and 2 or 3 shots of Hennesey.  Whoops.........there it is.  Drinking is one thing........getting loaded is another.  How you get there depends on the pocketbook and the availability of liquids.    Even Miller High Life and few shots of chilled Patron silver can work very nicely too.  The most important thing is not what you drink........but rather who you are drinking with.    Sharing rotgut with a great person beats the alternatives.  Whammo!!........Zippee!!........Go Go GO PACKERs!

Damn Ringo, thirty years ago I would have been with you stride for stride.  In fact, mere drinking was a woefully inadequate high.  Throw in a gram of coke, several joints of quality sinsemilla, and maybe on occasion a hit of acid or a few shrooms and you would have captured a good evening during my John Belushi phase.  Waking up the next morning with a ripping headache but in the company of some hot chick I barely recognized always added to the pizazz of the experience.


   Fuckin' A right big daddy!!     You were the truck stop hott mushroom gravy big gulp of hott azz pizazz and I can't stop smearing little debbie snack cakes all over my hooters thinking about you!!   Stop by for another turn on the wheel, big boy!!     Round 2 is when I really break out the shitzzz.  Bring some more fuckin' weed!    <kisses and smooches>   Your baby, Clarissa  XOXOXOXO  

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You have no idea, HD... no friggin idea.  I admit I was a disaster but damn, in this regard, I was... let's just say... an overachiever.

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  This is good, Duck.  I'm comforted in that, I really am.  That Walmart bitch flopping her ass around really had me disturbed and nearly ready to wretch... 

Yes, that was pretty awful to watch.  So sorry!   

~Sheila~ wrote:

_HD_ wrote:

duck wrote:

_HD_ wrote:

duck wrote:

RingoCStarrQB wrote:Beer talk for Duck.   Hey Duck.........it is NOT imperative that every beer/ale that I drink shall be some high end full-bodied classic.     Sometimes one wishes to accelerate the process with a dozen Heineken Lights and 2 or 3 shots of Hennesey.  Whoops.........there it is.  Drinking is one thing........getting loaded is another.  How you get there depends on the pocketbook and the availability of liquids.    Even Miller High Life and few shots of chilled Patron silver can work very nicely too.  The most important thing is not what you drink........but rather who you are drinking with.    Sharing rotgut with a great person beats the alternatives.  Whammo!!........Zippee!!........Go Go GO PACKERs!

Damn Ringo, thirty years ago I would have been with you stride for stride.  In fact, mere drinking was a woefully inadequate high.  Throw in a gram of coke, several joints of quality sinsemilla, and maybe on occasion a hit of acid or a few shrooms and you would have captured a good evening during my John Belushi phase.  Waking up the next morning with a ripping headache but in the company of some hot chick I barely recognized always added to the pizazz of the experience.


   Fuckin' A right big daddy!!     You were the truck stop hott mushroom gravy big gulp of hott azz pizazz and I can't stop smearing little debbie snack cakes all over my hooters thinking about you!!   Stop by for another turn on the wheel, big boy!!     Round 2 is when I really break out the shitzzz.  Bring some more fuckin' weed!       Your baby, Clarissa  XOXOXOXO  

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You have no idea, HD... no friggin idea.  I admit I was a disaster but damn, in this regard, I was... let's just say... an overachiever.

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  This is good, Duck.  I'm comforted in that, I really am.  That Walmart bitch flopping her ass around really had me disturbed and nearly ready to wretch... 

Yes, that was pretty awful to watch.  So sorry!