Beer

Gary O'

Gary O'

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Floridatennisplayer’s thread on wine choices reminded me of how much I enjoy a good beer

writ about this awhile back (forgive me);


BEER

With fruit

Up until a couple decades ago I never really cared what kinda beer.
Cold beer was....better.

But one time, while team driving with a happening dude, we stopped for the night.

Found a bar.

Shot the breeze about the usual; politics, sports, economics, sports, ingrown toenails, sports, carburation vs fuel injection, sports, and....beer.

He seemed to know his way around several types and flavors; pilsners, stouts, lagers, ales, porters and on and on.
My main selection was 'wet'.

I noticed he had a piece of fruit in his beer.

'Corona with lime, good beer.'

I try one.
Actually, it was rather refreshing.

But just that one time.


Dark beer

While golfing, my club wielding hippy buddy offered one of his porters.
Black Butte porter
Man, that was gooooood beer.
Was
For awhile it became my beer of choice.

Then, like an old girlfriend...a flame that went out as fast as it flared up, my taste for it just disappeared.


IPA

After months of just getting whatever was on sale, my lady and I dropped by the Edgefield poor farm, one of McMenamins beer gardens just outta Portland OR.
Cool place.
One of our sometimes favorite haunts.
A quaint place on the grounds is called the 'little red shed'.
Cozy
Stone fireplace
Bowls of peanuts, of which you were encouraged to toss the shells on the dirt floor.

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Short bar, rather up close and personal.

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I asked the barkeep what his favorite beer was.

'IPA'

'I Pee what?'

'India pale ale'

He then went on with the IPA story about the Brits needing beer in India.

He drew one for me.

Not a lager

Not a pilsner

Definitely not a dark beer

Not any ale I'd ever had.

It was very good.

Distinctly good.

It became the beginning of a fascinating quest for me to find the best one. The best of the best in my opinion.

Up until last night, I'd actually hoped I'd never find it....traveling around, tasting, sampling.

But,

the hunt is over.

This beer, this medium dark beer....not dark, not amber, but a rich bodied color of....maybe mahogany, was capped with a glorious head.
A head that was not scraped off, but about two inches higher than the brim.
A head of tight little bubbles, bubbles so small they didn't really look like bubbles at all, but more like combed fleece.

This beer, this beer looked the epitome of the word 'quench'.

I knew I'd found it.
I hoped I'd found it.
I hoped it tasted half as good as it looked.

It tasted....better.

There is none other for me.

I cannot go back.

I refuse to go forward.

Why would I?

I have arrived at my destination.


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cheers
 

Thanks for sharing the pictures of the Little Red Shed, it looks like it could make a great summer project for you and a great addition to Coldwater Flats! :):playful::eek:nthego:
 
So what's the name of that beer you found, Gary?

I really enjoy a good beer, and I'm adventurous about my choices though I don't really have much of a clue what makes one different than another. My California son and always order beer samplers when I visit there and we go out and each which is most of the time. His wife will get a cocktail or a wine, and he and I will knock back sampler after sampler, just because we want to try everything lol!

There's a pub...there WAS a pub I should say...at which I got a wonderful brew. I don't know what its name was, but it had hints of coffee flavors. The pub is closed now which is a huge disappointment because I never did get the name of that delicious beer and I've been trying to find it ever since. I've come close a time or two, but haven't nailed it yet. There are a lot of micro breweries here in Nashville, lots of trendy places, and every time I go to one I ask for "the beer that has a coffee flavor." Some don't have anything like that, so I'll order whatever looks adventurous on the menu. Some do, and so I'll start with that, on the ever-elusive hunt for that delicious coffee flavored brew I had that one time!
 
Ronni said:
So what's the name of that beer you found, Gary?

I really enjoy a good beer, and I'm adventurous about my choices though I don't really have much of a clue what makes one different than another. My California son and always order beer samplers when I visit there and we go out and each which is most of the time. His wife will get a cocktail or a wine, and he and I will knock back sampler after sampler, just because we want to try everything lol!

There's a pub...there WAS a pub I should say...at which I got a wonderful brew. I don't know what its name was, but it had hints of coffee flavors. The pub is closed now which is a huge disappointment because I never did get the name of that delicious beer and I've been trying to find it ever since. I've come close a time or two, but haven't nailed it yet. There are a lot of micro breweries here in Nashville, lots of trendy places, and every time I go to one I ask for "the beer that has a coffee flavor." Some don't have anything like that, so I'll order whatever looks adventurous on the menu. Some do, and so I'll start with that, on the ever-elusive hunt for that delicious coffee flavored brew I had that one time!
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We are kin
Gotta get the name of that pub that closed...track down that brew...no other way....too many

'So what's the name of that beer you found, Gary?'

That particular IPA was brewed from the waters of the McKenzie River near Eugene Oregon

The brewery was named after the Sumerian goddess of beer, Ninkasi

Took some tracking, I'll tell ya

I became a devout follower

here's a six pack

from me to you


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make that a five pack


I mean four pack...sorry

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Never was big on beer, more of a liquor guy. I do recall my dad opening a can of Schlitz on our back porch with a can opener and giving me a sip and it was delicious. I was probably 8 or 9.
 
Gary O' said:
We are kin
Gotta get the name of that pub that closed...track down that brew...no other way....too many

'So what's the name of that beer you found, Gary?'

That particular IPA was brewed from the waters of the McKenzie River near Eugene Oregon

The brewery was named after the Sumerian goddess of beer, Ninkasi

Took some tracking, I'll tell ya

I became a devout follower

here's a six pack

from me to you


L71jOWM.jpg


make that a five pack


I mean four pack...sorry

SUZGgxr.jpg
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Dammit Gary quit guzzlin' mah brew!!!!! :aargh:
 
A beer "plant"? That's an appropriate name as too many "beers" are little more than flavourless Industrial fizz. To make it worse, they're served ice cold to remove any remaining taste.

In the village where I lived was a great BREWERY - George Gale &Co. It even had its own well and the water was originally raised by a steam engine. They brewed what was regarded as one of the best real ales in England. Lager was a dirty word in the village. Unfortunately after many generations, the last George Gale of the line sold up. This is the old brewery and my 'local', the Ship & Bell. (The road outside the brewery was the old main road from Portsmouth to London. The Ship & Bell was a stopping off point for chandlers and shipwrights.)

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Scotland is not exactly known for beer, but there are a number of small breweries producing craft beer. One company called 'Brewdog' started near where I now live, and has grown rapidly to become a national brand. I'm worried that it may have lost the passion the two original founders put into brewing distinctive beers. Check out their "Tactical Nuclear Penguin" at 32% ABV, or for a lighter drink, a glass of "Kamikaze Knitting Club".
 
My daughter and SIL are beer and wine snobs; they are quite annoying. :laugh: I don't need to impress anyone with what I like, which happens to be a Texas brewery, Shiner. I love their Shiner Bock. My second choice is Corona. I have loved the taste of beer since I was a kid; my dad had to be careful where he sat his mug down. :D
 
We mostly drink Miller High Life, sometimes with a special meal like a rib or steak BBQ, we'll have Foster's.
 
Would you believe. The country that makes the most beer in the world is China.

i tried Chinese beer.

My favorite beer now is from Holland.

European beers have more of a 'hoppy' tastes. Local brews also.

Im not a fan of fruit in beer.

I can only drink one Guiness. Too filling.
 

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