[ale] Way-the-hell-and-gone off topic

[Jim Kinney]

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 <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>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 at ale.org>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>     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.
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Ale [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Steve Litt via Ale [
>> ale at ale.org]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 2:09 PM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Way-the-hell-and-gone off topic
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:42:03 +0000
>> "Putnam, James M. via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>> >     May be a little West Coast, but Ranier Ale, aka Green Death.
>Equal
>> >     parts cheap, strong, vile, and slightly caustic.
>> >
>> >     Came in a cute green barrel-shaped bottle with a wide mouth. A
>> > couple would reduce you to a sort of stomach-churning nauseous
>haze.
>> > Too many more than that induced a hangover epic for duration and
>> > depth.
>>
>> 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
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