theBlackman on 2/3/2013 at 03:24
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
You'd genuinely be hard pressed to find a time where I don't have a drink in my hand.
Some people say it's a problem... if it is, it's theirs!
Glad you don't have a problem and are just a drunk not an Alcoholic. That way you don't have to keep going to the meetings! :joke:
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pavlovscat on 2/3/2013 at 03:25
Quote Posted by Phatose
The states have their quality beer too - Dogfish Head Midas Touch is damn fine. Archaeology and brewing, a recipe from a tomb, and the ancients apparently knew how to brew.
Dogfish isn't available in Louisiana, but I had plenty of Midas Touch while we were in Texas. I love it! Oddly, every liquor store within a 25 mile radius knew us by sight. LOL
Phatose on 2/3/2013 at 03:41
It's unique, ain't it? Didn't know what to expect when I bought it the first time, but it's some good stuff. Wish I could get my hands on some of their other tomb-based brews, but never managed to find them.
They're not really my go to brewery though - too many IPAs. Victory Brewery is local, and my wife knows one of the brewmaster's wives. Victory's Golden Monkey is my go-to beer when I want to get smashed in style.
demagogue on 2/3/2013 at 04:45
NYU law school is next to a Belgian beer bar, can't remember the name just now, and we'd go there quite a bit. And of course if you go, you want to get a Belgian beer. I remember liking them, not rabidly or anything, but good beers.
Then at UTexas, it would have been the German microbrews, the lagers and such, Shiner Bock just being the most famous. The Hill Country (that area) is historically German, and that was my foreign language in school & I used to compete in the "German competition" they had there every year... Usually doing dismally except in the music event (play a piece by some German composer) which I always won every year I went. So it wasn't hard for the beer to get wrapped up in all that; I remember really loving the indigenous German lagers there.
Then there was DC (Maryland), which featured an Irish bar in Silver Springs & lots of Guinness and meat pies. And on Tsushima (island on Japan where I taught, part of Nagasaki prefecture) we'd go to the fishermen's bar for my favorite Japanese beer (Kirin Ichiban, started by an American & connected to Nagasaki) and teriaki kababs, which was probably the most authentic of them all... not to mention drinking is a social & vocational obligation much more there than the West.
It's interesting how drinks are connected to places you live. Not surprising, but interesting to think back on. Also interesting that two of my favorite beers are German & Japanese beers started by Americans in the 19th Century. I wonder if there's some narrative to that... something very cosmopolitan about it but also very local at the same time.
