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!Marc!
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2009-07-09, 13:10

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any recommendations?
high class hookers?
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2009-07-09, 13:20

and about the drinking natty light before my 21st... sshhhhh don't tip off the fuzz
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2009-07-09, 13:25

s'ok, it's not really beer anyway.
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2009-07-09, 13:43

ROFL, awesome story here:

http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/200...rl-dating.html

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How I Failed the Champagne Girl Dating Test

Beer guys shouldn’t date champagne girls.

The party was out of my league. For the champagne girl, it was likely beneath her. Even though I knew this, I still approached her and struck up a conversation. In retrospect, I should have seen the car wreck coming 100 miles away, but there is something about beer guys like me not being able to resist champagne girls. I left with her phone number and a date for the next week.

The problem with dating a champagne girl is that I always feel that I have to move up to her level, but since that level is usually way out of my financial league, I pretend by moving up a few levels closer than where I really am. This just makes the disaster all the more complete because I assume that since I’ve made an effort, the champagne girl will also make the effort and meet me half way and lower her level. It never happens. Champagne girls don’t compromise like that.

I should have just taken her to the local Chilis. She would have hated it, but she would have hated it for a whole lot less money. Instead, I picked a nice restaurant several levels above where I would normally go to.

It was obvious that she wasn’t impressed with my restaurant choice from the start. I saw the signs, and I should have just called it off right then and there. Instead, we ordered. She picked the most expensive appetizer to be followed by the most expensive entree on the menu. She crinkled her face when I ordered a wine that didn’t come to three figures even though it was worth enough cases of beer to last me several months.

When the appetizer arrived, she didn’t touch it. She continued with smalltalk and I noticed that she hadn’t touched her wine as well. When the waiter arrived with the main dish to see the appetizer hadn’t been touched, you could see the look of concern on his face:

“Is everything all right?” he questioned.

“Yes, perfect,” she smiled. “I’m finished, thank you,” and handed him the untouched plate to take back and throw away.

The main meal progressed the same way. She chatted lightly but the food never left the plate. The waiter raised his eyebrow again at the untouched plate. “Is there something wrong with the meal?” he questioned again.

“No, everything was wonderful. I’m finished, thank you,” she said indicating he could take her plate away.

That’s when I couldn’t hold it back any longer and said, “could you please wrap the meal so we can take it home.”

You would have thought I was clubbing baby seals right in front of her from the look she shot at me. “No, there is no need for that,” she said back to the waiter.

“Yes, there is a need for that,” I said. “We’d like it to go.” Her look indicated that I was not only clubbing baby seals, but also chopping off the feet of baby bunny rabbits to make good luck charms.

“No, that really won’t be necessary,” she said in a firm voice.

“Oh, yes it will be,” I replied. “If she doesn’t want it, then I will eat it. Thank you.”

As the waiter left, champagne girl was not at all happy with me. “That was my meal. If you insist on taking that meal out of this restaurant, then this date is over,” she stated as if this was even an issue at this point.

“I think that has already been well established,” I said. When the waiter returned with the meal, champagne girl said she wanted to be taken home right away.

“You can leave anytime you want. I’m sure the front desk can get you a taxi.”

Champagne girl stuttered. “But I don’t have any money on me.”

I pushed her wrapped meal in front of her. “Well, then you may want to eat this so you have enough energy to walk home” I said and left.

I later learned that I failed the champagne girl money test. Apparently, one way that champagne girls determine whether you have enough money to date them is to order the most expensive meal on the menu and not touch it. If the guy makes any mention about it, then he doesn’t have enough money to date them. Lesson learned.

Over the years, I’ve learned that I’m a beer guy and realizing that has saved me a ton of money. I’d love to be suave and have a ton of money so that I could sweep champagne girls off their feet, but I know that even if I do become wealthy in the future, I’ll still be a beer guy. It took a long time, but I’ve realized trying to be something I’m not is a great way for me to spend a lot of money achieving nothing. I can accept who I am even if it isn’t the perfect TV image I’d like and this has allowed me to conquer one of the most expensive habits that I ever had — trying to make myself appear better in other people’s eyes than I really am.

Now if you know a champagne girl that enjoys BBQ wings and beer, let me know so I can get her my number.
*raises a glass for beer guys and gals everywhere*
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2009-07-09, 16:20

I suppose that pretty much every guy has had an experience with a champagne girl. My own feeling was that any indication by girls that they were evaluating "whether you have enough money to date them" was enough to ensure that I did not want to date them. I'd prefer beer any day. That said, some girls who start out as champagne girls eventually find out that they prefer beer. I guess that's what keeps some guys hoping.

When there's an eel in the lake that's as long as a snake that's a moray.
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2009-07-09, 17:14

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I suppose that pretty much every guy has had an experience with a champagne girl. My own feeling was that any indication by girls that they were evaluating "whether you have enough money to date them" was enough to ensure that I did not want to date them. I'd prefer beer any day. That said, some girls who start out as champagne girls eventually find out that they prefer beer. I guess that's what keeps some guys hoping.
Never been an issue with me since I tend to shoot for beer girls from the beginning. Then I can impress them when I drop 20 bills for both of us.

Seriously though, materialism is such bullshit when you're trying to date. If they're more concerned with vetting my financial situation than my personality, they can walk home. Obviously they don't want to date a loser, but I would be supremely insulted if a woman made it that fucking obvious that she was only interested in me so I could buy her stuff. In that situation it would be fun to bring her to a dive bar and order a couple of PBR tall boys and see how long it takes for her to storm out.

Speaking of which (and bringing this thread back on topic!), I had a PBR tall boy last weekend. It was fun in a "LOL I'm really drinking this, where's my trucker hat" kind of way.
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2009-07-09, 19:03

Great story Luca... that guy was WAY more polite than I would've been. I would've asked when she said to take away the first appetizer.

"Yes are you sure it's OK, because you haven't taken a bite...?"

"I'm done."

"How can you be done if you haven't tasted it and therefore ascertained whether or not you like it?"

"You can take it away."

"No, waiter, go ahead and give that to me. I'll finish it as my main course. You can cancel the two entrees. We're done here."

"But I don't have money."

"Maybe if you had some you wouldn't be so damn fixated on it, looking to test a guy by seeing how much money he's willing to waste on you. Have a good night; I'm going to eat your appetizer now."




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I suppose that pretty much every guy has had an experience with a champagne girl. My own feeling was that any indication by girls that they were evaluating "whether you have enough money to date them" was enough to ensure that I did not want to date them. I'd prefer beer any day. That said, some girls who start out as champagne girls eventually find out that they prefer beer. I guess that's what keeps some guys hoping.
Truer words. Any woman that does not like a good beer (or at least is unwilling to try lighter fare like a good German Weiss beer) is fundamentally screwed up.

...into the light of a dark black night.
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2009-07-09, 22:06

Without having read all the preceding half dozen pages...

I'm generally more of a pear (or other fruit) cider kind of girl. I'm pretty new to drinking and don't really drink regularly. That said, I went through a good Pyramid Apricot Ale phase shortly after I moved to San Francisco.



I've decided I don't like the really "beery" beers. I have a friend who likes to share a beer whilst we share our lunch breaks, but her beers are too intense for me. (I think she drinks Anchor Steam or something? not sure.)

I can handle the Speakeasies, Prohibition, etc alright, but based on the one time I've tried it, I prefer something smooth like Pacifico.

As for champagne girls... Damn. The last time I went on a date, the fellow asked me what I wanted to do, and I didn't even want to suggest going out to dinner, for all that I rarely get to eat well if left to my own devices. First off, everyone else may be as broke as I am, and secondly, I can't stand to even imply that money must be spent on me to keep me around.
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!Marc!
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2009-07-10, 15:46

Asahi : tres bien

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2009-07-10, 16:18

Asahi FTW. Was my favorite beer for a long, long time. Still is a favorite but I don't get to drink it very often.
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2009-07-10, 16:24

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I can handle the Speakeasies, Prohibition, etc alright, but based on the one time I've tried it, I prefer something smooth like Pacifico.

As for champagne girls... Damn. The last time I went on a date, the fellow asked me what I wanted to do, and I didn't even want to suggest going out to dinner, for all that I rarely get to eat well if left to my own devices. First off, everyone else may be as broke as I am, and secondly, I can't stand to even imply that money must be spent on me to keep me around.
Hey, any kind of beer gets you in the club. And your assessment of the champagne girl theory of dating earns you bonus points. Well played, miss.
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!Marc!
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2009-07-14, 13:50

I have been sampling 'religiously' this week, whilst trying to ignore the threatening sore throats and stuffyness in the background.

Truly, I think someone mentioned EidelWiess earlier, and I saw it on special at the shops, so I got a bottle. My god is this stuff fermented in a tramps mouldy rancid boot? I kid you not. Foul IMO.

But I have enjoyed Fullers ESB. Piddle in the Hole - I kid you not, not something I was keen to try! Abbott Ale and some others

So far then, my top 5....um.. 10.

1. Old Crafty Hen
2. Old Speckled Hen
3. Spitfire
4. Abbot Ale
5. Innis and Gunn Oak....
6. Hobgoblin
7. Asahi
8. Cobra
9. Marstons Burton.
10. Wychcraft.

I usually drink these bottles at the temp they come in from the shop, except the asahi wich was chilled. Should they be drunk at room temperature? I think it is easier to taste their character at room temp, but I dont know if they are intended to be drunk chilled?
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2009-07-14, 17:22

Below room temperature, but above fridge temperature ie: Cellar temperature, which is about 12 Celsius.
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!Marc!
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2009-08-21, 13:46

I just thought of teh beer thread.

I just tried Theaxtons XB - It reminds me of liquorice, I dont like liquorice. Shame

But I already downed the XB, an Old Crafty, a Bishops Finger and have a Hobgoblin as backup. A treat tonight for an utterly shite day (correction week...correction year...at work..but at least I have am still earning).

And to top it off I just downloaded the track 'Digital Orgasm - running out of time - from dubious sources just for a reminder of what life was like when I didn't have to give a crap.
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2009-08-21, 14:11

I know I'm like a month behind but:

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My own feeling was that any indication by girls that they were evaluating "whether you have enough money to date them" was enough to ensure that I did not want to date them.
Ding ding ding!

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"But I don't have money."

"Maybe if you had some you wouldn't be so damn fixated on it, looking to test a guy by seeing how much money he's willing to waste on you.
This. Is. So. True. I don't know much but I've noticed that, despite stereotypes of the wealthy, the people who are the most fixated on money are actually those that don't have it. The people who flaunt their "wealth" the most are actually those that don't really have a lot of it; it's like an insecurity thing.

My parents both obsess about money far more than anybody on the Forbes 400 or the Hollywood A-List, I'm sure. My dad literally has a money obsession (all of his hobbies relate directly to both currency itself - coin collecting, metal detecting, gambling - and "getting rich quickly"). It doesn't matter how much money either of them will ever have (and they've been through different brackets, in their lives) - they'll always be poor, so to speak.

If I ever got that seven-figure advance I'd buy a small but nice-ish loft, make some charitable contributions, and then put the rest of it in the goddamn bank so that, no matter what happens, I could at least continue to buy food off the interest of what might be the only real payday in my career. It's that stability that I want, not ever having to worry about being homeless or hungry, above all else. J. K. Rowling has made over a billion dollars writing books but she still says that financial stability is the best thing she's ever "purchased" with her money. And really, if you don't have that freedom from worry - if you have to worry about things as minor as being left at a restaurant and not being able to get home - are you really "rich"?

and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong
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!Marc!
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2009-09-21, 12:37

We cant let the beer thread die, so i'd like to play this idea.

I've noticed an odd thing, now that I am a recovering alcoholic after the quest of trying every kind of beer known to man, I've discovered that if you settle on a favourite beer, you become immune to its intoxicating effects, and can quite easily consume vast amounts of it beforewaking up in the gutter trash, but if you vary the beer, it is much easier to get intoxicated, for instance I just drank 2 bottles of something i've not had before and have completely lost it, yet 2 bottles of say 'Bishops Finger' (current favourite) is like drinking water.

I thought alcohol intoxication was just exposure to ethanol, so therefore all things being equal, its just down to taste preference, but this is quite odd that a new brand of beer can intoxicate so quickly.
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2009-09-21, 12:56

Hmm, I'm not so sure.

I'm no biologist or whoever would be the specialist for analyzing the effect of alcohol on people, but I would think that the intoxication is going to be same regardless of what you drink. I do think there is a difference between drinking say, wine cooler and beer in that it's easy to drink 10 wine cooler and still want more, but two pints of stout beer just basically fills you up and it's hard to keep drinking. This is all subjective experience, of course and has no scientific validity.

FWIW, I make a habit to rotate my selections, just to keep it fresh, and I only notice more intoxication from beers higher in alcohol content but not because it's 'new' per se.
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2009-09-21, 13:01

Being that my dad was a major alcoholic and also that I have diabetes, I don't really drink alcohol. As a result I know nothing about beer. I will make exceptions now and then though, like last night when my friend had a party at the HofBrauHaus just south of the strip, across the street from the Hard Rock.

It's what I'm told is a faithful recreation of a German beer hall, so I had a half liter of their Oktoberfest. Everybody else at the table loved it, and to me it was... well, beer. It's not that I don't like it, it's more like that I just don't know how to tell a good beer from a bad one. It was "beery" enough, had a thick head when it was delivered and was not offensive.

I don't know, maybe there's a market for reviews of beer from people who don't drink beer, but I get the feeling there would be a lot of entires that consist of "OH GOD IT'S RAPING MY THROAT" and "ITSSShssxhchg gggt6666n" *thud*
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2009-09-21, 13:03

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We cant let the beer thread die, so i'd like to play this idea.

I've noticed an odd thing, now that I am a recovering alcoholic after the quest of trying every kind of beer known to man, I've discovered that if you settle on a favourite beer, you become immune to its intoxicating effects, and can quite easily consume vast amounts of it beforewaking up in the gutter trash, but if you vary the beer, it is much easier to get intoxicated, for instance I just drank 2 bottles of something i've not had before and have completely lost it, yet 2 bottles of say 'Bishops Finger' (current favourite) is like drinking water.

I thought alcohol intoxication was just exposure to ethanol, so therefore all things being equal, its just down to taste preference, but this is quite odd that a new brand of beer can intoxicate so quickly.
Is the alcohol content of those two brands identical?
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2009-09-21, 13:12

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Is the alcohol content of those two brands identical?
essentially yes! (5% vs 5.4%) thats what got me thinking...

I have actually read about the biological effects of alcohol and its metabolizism within the body, which is why I got thinking about these peculiar effects.

I also know that state of mind can play a big difference, ie yesterday I drank quite alot whilst perusing over some calculus study notes, and I was quite sober by the end, yet its been known the same amount could have me horizontal...
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2009-09-21, 13:13

Well, you have to factor in time as well. Drinking four pints over four hour isn't the same thing as drinking four pints in an hour.
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2009-09-21, 13:19

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Well, you have to factor in time as well. Drinking four pints over four hour isn't the same thing as drinking four pints in an hour.
Indeed, I was wondering whether other chemical signatures in beer can influence the effect that the ethanol can have,

for instance, if I get accustomed to a brand that had chemical signatures A, B, C and ethanol, does my body recognise the toxin quicker than drinking a new brand that contains equivalent ethanol, but chemical signatures D,E,F.

Quite interesting dont you think?
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2009-09-21, 13:29

Is one noticeably fizzier or flatter than the other?
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!Marc!
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2009-09-21, 13:40

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Is one noticeably fizzier or flatter than the other?
no, i wouldnt say there is a discernable difference
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2009-09-21, 13:50

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ROFL, awesome story here:

http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/200...rl-dating.html



*raises a glass for beer guys and gals everywhere*
Bravo, Luca!




Comic by Lucy Knisley
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2009-10-09, 09:59

For anybody in the Twin Cities and/or hop enthusiasts, here's a Surly beer update: Something they are callling 'wet hop' beer. Haven't had any yet, but might make a run out to track some of this down. I like the description in this youtube clip of 'a giant tea bag.'


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gI7p...layer_embedded
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2012-02-10, 20:44

NECRO BUMP.

So, I have a new house favorite. Sierra Nevada's "Ruthless Rye"

I've been a fan of rye beers for a while now largely because of Founders' Red's Rye, but holy god is the Ruthless Rye delicious. I don't expect a lot from the big names (Sierra Nevada is about as far mainstream as I get given that I'm an uppity microbrew snob) but they've really outdone themselves with this one.

Highly Recommended.

So it goes.
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2012-02-10, 20:51

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NECRO BUMP.

So, I have a new house favorite. Sierra Nevada's "Ruthless Rye"

I've been a fan of rye beers for a while now largely because of Founders' Red's Rye, but holy god is the Ruthless Rye delicious. I don't expect a lot from the big names (Sierra Nevada is about as far mainstream as I get given that I'm an uppity microbrew snob) but they've really outdone themselves with this one.

Highly Recommended.
Saw that in NM last week. I'll have to see if it stocked here in the NE.
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2012-02-10, 21:08

Been on a tear lately with the s.o. and trying new things.

- Magic Hat #9
- Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

And I grabbed some Shock Top Pumpkin Wheat a few months ago (because the packaging was so damn nice) and drank all six in fairly short order.

We cook and try a new, different beer quite a bit. Some are hits, some are misses. But I have a little book I keep things in now, so we know.

Had some sort of copper ale something-or-other at one of our favorite little restaurants here in town. It was great.

Fact is, I'll try/drink anything.

On New Year's we went to our favorite little store (12-15 things on tap) and filled up two jugs. One tasted like coffee and motor oil (better than you'd think), but the other was some ungodly jalapeno/death mixture (she made the selections, and I've not let her forget). One got gone, the other got passed around. Guess which?

She was a mess the next day...I still laugh.

We went in and bought a beer-making kit for Christmas, for ourselves. Just haven't really had time to delve in. Soon...

There's a taste I can imagine in my head that I'm after.
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2012-02-10, 21:19

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Saw that in NM last week. I'll have to see if it stocked here in the NE.
Definitely. It's not an ass-kicker or anything you'd buy in a 4-pack. It's a fairly easy drinker at a mild 6.6%. I discovered it at first at my local beer shop, but have since seen it a Meijers of all places (Meijers is the Midwest version of a large food/everything one-stop place).

So it goes.
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