<html><head></head><body><div>Absolutely!</div><div><br></div><div>I was just looking at the empty 4/6-pack boxs on the floor :-)</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 15:18 -0400, Sean wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>I would add Smutty Nose Porter to this list.
Sean
On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 08:25 -0400, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
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Guiness 200th Aniversary Stout (outstanding and not like modern, US
Guiness)
Highland Oatmeal Porter
Founders Porter
Sam Smith Taddy Porter
Sam Smith Imperial Stout
Harvistoun Old Engine Oil ($$$$)
New Holland Dragons Milk
New Holland The Poet
Twain's has their stout on tap. Really outstanding and available in
pitchers! Their porter is very good, too. New brewer is a keeper!
A beer cocktail I created from a beer I really didn't like:
Creature Comforts Athena (tart German wheat)
Ikea blueberry or lingonberry juice concentrate
Pimm's #1
Rocks glass
Equal parts Athena and Pimm's. Juice to a rich color and to sweeten
the tart. In a 6 oz glass I use about 2-3 tablespoons. Stir. It help
to add juice to Pimm's, stir, then add beer and a light stir.
On March 28, 2018 9:20:22 PM EDT, Jonathan Meek via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>>
wrote:
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I am relieved to know that I am not the only one who has found the
pale Ales and IPAs to less than palatable. Mostly found oatmeal
stouts be among my favorites. Are there any good dark
recommendations people have? Running on low in my beer drawer.
Jonathan
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Putnam, James M. via Ale <ale@ale.
org> wrote:
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In 1986 I was in the Vancouver for the World's Fair (hey, I
just noticed
that Outlook Web App Lite(tm) recognizes Emacs key
bindings... I wonder
how the hell that happened?) when I noticed what seemed to be
a
relatively sober young Canadian gent take a long guzzle out
of a paper bag
and become visibly intoxicated in what would have been record
time for me.
He tossed the bag at a trash can, predictably missed, and
unsteadily wandered
off, presumably in search of more of whatever it was.
Being curious and a little thirsty, I retrieved the bag and
had a look. Inside
was an empty generic beer can labeled "Carling-O'Keefe Extra
Old Stock"
marked at 6% ABV, which while high wasn't a record breaker of
any kind.
An older man standing nearby said "A word of advice, young
man. That stuff is
called High Test and I wouldn't touch it if I were you."
I thanked him for the warning and seduced by the romance of
being at least
momentarily unchaperoned in a foreign country headed straight
for the nearest
package store where I asked for and was given a can of High
Test.
The woman behind the counter blanched, which was kind of a
good trick for a
Canadian, but she handed it over in a paper bag without
comment.
I stepped outside, popped it open and tried a swallow. It was
cold and went down
OK at first, but when it warmed up the nose hit me and I
almost gagged. It smelled
and tasted like somebody had carbonated a can of creamed corn
and added a
shot of pure grain alcohol. The aftertaste was cloyingly
sweet, and for the
the first and only time in my life I threw away a can of beer
without finishing it.
This frankly kind of killed the appeal of the famed Canadian
beers for me, and
when I tried a Molson later that day I had a similar
reaction, but managed to
choke it down.
I gather High Test is no longer made, and I learned a
valuable lesson that
day in which street advice about foreign libations probably
ought to be paid attention
to.
--
James M. Putnam
Visiting Professor of Computer Science
The air was soft, the stars so fine,
the promise of every cobbled alley so great,
that I thought I was in a dream.
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From: Ale [<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] on behalf of Steve Litt via Ale [
<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 2:09 PM
To: <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>
Subject: Re: [ale] Way-the-hell-and-gone off topic
On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:42:03 +0000
"Putnam, James M. via Ale" <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:
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May be a little West Coast, but Ranier Ale, aka Green
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Death. Equal
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parts cheap, strong, vile, and slightly caustic.
Came in a cute green barrel-shaped bottle with a wide
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mouth. A
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couple would reduce you to a sort of stomach-churning nauseous
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haze.
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Too many more than that induced a hangover epic for duration
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and
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depth.
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Yeah, in Venice CA Green Death was the main competitor of my
favorite,
King Cobra. I had a buddy who drank too much green death over too
many
years and it killed him.
SteveT
Steve Litt
April 2018 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques
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</blockquote></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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