Beer thread

[Green1]

You look like the "pirate" they used to pay to hang out at the Old Absinthe House on Pirate's Alley in New Orleans.

[Buster's Uncle]

Pay how much?

(And BTW?  I told everyone the avatar is a good likeness.)

[Dio]

Pay how much?

(And BTW?  I told everyone the avatar is a good likeness.)

A pittance and far less than they should for someone with such talent(s) .

[Green1]

Pay how much?

(And BTW?  I told everyone the avatar is a good likeness.)

Going rate for that stuff is about 9 an hour. Not enough to live off of in New Orleans. But, you do get shift drinks. Most private bars and restaurants in NOLA allow you x number of drinks gratis per shift while you work.

[Buster's Uncle]

Intercourse THAT cacophony.

[Green1]

Intercourse THAT cacophony.

That place the "pirate" works at seems like they are not jerks and that pirate has been there 9 years. But if you take a place like Tricou House, they want you to dress up all 1800s Southern and treat you like [poop] and fire no reasons. Oh yeah - YOU buy the costume.

[Buster's Uncle]

Intercourse THAT cacophony.

-even HARDER.

You might can pay me crap, you might can treat me like crap, but you absolutely can't do both.

[Vishniac]

Anyone else have any beers you think I should hunt down?

I do!

I am a somehow good beer specialist and, though my memory is not all that good to remember every and any beer I drink, I can be of good help.
More about it later but the thread didn't seem to bring you any help on beers, much more on religious matters...

First question: do you have a beer-shop in your town and, if yes, has it a website?
So I could point you to what I'm talking about.

[Geo]

West Vlieteren?

[Green1]

Anyone else have any beers you think I should hunt down?

I do!

I am a somehow good beer specialist and, though my memory is not all that good to remember every and any beer I drink, I can be of good help.
More about it later but the thread didn't seem to bring you any help on beers, much more on religious matters...

First question: do you have a beer-shop in your town and, if yes, has it a website?
So I could point you to what I'm talking about.

This is Baton Rouge. It is a college town (LSU) but also a state capitol. If I go to New Orleans, there are a lot of places. Up here, the closest place I would come to getting anything odd is Whole Foods on Perkins Rowe - Baton Rouge's "sanitized family friendly" attempt at the French Quarter. I will have to check for a website.

[Green1]

I may also want to check the bars on 3rd street going into Spanish Towne. They want to make it like the CBD or Magazine st in New Orleans. Maybe they have Magazine St or Uptowns's selection.

As you can tell, I am homesick... all this talk of New Orleans. But all the work is in this city.

[Rusty Edge]

I tried to reply to this once before, but I lost the post/window.
My great grandfather was an angry wife-beating drunk. This caused a couple of generations of Methodist prohibitionists. It also warped my views on alcohol. I learned/assumed drinking was synonymous with drunkenness.

I eventually learned that too much blame was placed on the alcohol, and not enough on the person, and that I myself am a happy drunk.

I always hated beer and the way it smelled. Until I went to Germany. They have a point about beer, fresher is better. No different than bread, really. The Miller here is Milwaukee and the Michelob in St. Louis are much better than their national reputation.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've got a similar story about family history -no wife-beating, but one grampa didn't keep his pants on and the other was verbally abusive in front of the kids, both weekend drunks as was common with poor working men from the Great Depression- that caused both my parents to take a very firm stance.

I tried alcohol enough to satisfy myself that it isn't for me - and I'd go liquor if I was going to drink.  Never acquired a taste for beer, and the hard stuff saves so much time; a few sips makes me tipsy, but strangely, I've never managed to get well and truly hammered, though I tried.  Weird capacity I have, being a lightweight but able to hold it, too...

[Rusty Edge]

As for beers themselves, ( since I usually don't have more than one drink, I'm more interested in taste than price ) -

beermenus.com has a search engine which allows you to learn who has a particular beer in your vicinity

A favorite dark beer is Unibroue  Maudite

I'm more of a lager style guy.

A sentimental favorite is Yuengling Lager

My local favorite is Spotted Cow

My European favorite is Spaaten

I enjoy most everything by Sam Adams.

[Vishniac]

I eventually learned that too much blame was placed on the alcohol, and not enough on the person, and that I myself am a happy drunk.

I always hated beer and the way it smelled. Until I went to Germany. They have a point about beer, fresher is better. No different than bread, really. The Miller here is Milwaukee and the Michelob in St. Louis are much better than their national reputation.

I tried alcohol enough to satisfy myself that it isn't for me - and I'd go liquor if I was going to drink.  Never acquired a taste for beer, and the hard stuff saves so much time; a few sips makes me tipsy, but strangely, I've never managed to get well and truly hammered, though I tried.  Weird capacity I have, being a lightweight but able to hold it, too...

Wow wow wow, guys!
You fully disappoint me here by talking about beer and getting drunk and the ravages of alcohol and what again in the same post! As if you were all teenagers drinking to get high...

First some general considerations:
- there are a lot of beers and they all have their own moment, just like wine (and I hope you don't drink wine to get drunk for it would be sad/a pity). There are beers you drink for thirst and beers you sip slowly but gulping down beer is a pretty poor use for it.
- there are a lot of beers but they can be regrouped in a few (several? a dozen? a few dozens?  ) categories.

What I can say to you both about the taste of beer is the same as Rusty Edge: I didn't like beer (Swiss industrial one) until I went to Germany and a friend served me one from Münich. Day and night!! So each time someone tells me "I don't like beer", I always ask "Which ones did you taste?" and I usually can find some that he/she likes.

Beers that I don't like, or at least don't drink more than one half-liter in a day are those I call "occidental industrial beers". They are usually acid and gazeous. That would be: Tuborg (S), Carlsberg (D), Kanterbrau (F), Cardinal (CH), Heineken (NL) and all their relatives. Heineken is the worst of all beers as far as I can tell and only its huge marketing allows people to drink it (but again, when you see what people eat, what most people drink is not a symbol of quality).

I don't drink much either the Fosters (AUS), Millers (USA) or American 'Budweiser' (renamed Anheuser Busch because they are losing all their trials against the Czech Budweiser  ). They are not so acid/gaseous but they taste like water. I guess they find their useness as barbecue beers on a sunny afternoon. 

In Europe, people caricaturize American beers as disgusting but I knew for long that it's false, just as the upper-mentioned beers don't stain the reputation of their origin countries. I know a few big US breweries with excellent beers but when I got really amazed was when I went to Miami in 2013. The first restaurant I went to get a steak had a list of...easily 20 beers of all kinds (stout, porter, amber,...) from many states. Made me a happy man! 

To be continued...