Yes, and I'm sure shipping to me would be even more insane!
Actually, I've seen some of these locally.....although it's probably best I don't go looking for them.
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Yes, and I'm sure shipping to me would be even more insane!
Actually, I've seen some of these locally.....although it's probably best I don't go looking for them.
I down to a case of Rochefort 10 so I'll buy more this afternoon. I tried a Corona earlier in the week and couldn't finish it. I never liked dark beer until having the Rochefort. Now I'm afraid the non-darks will taste too watery and lite-like. I'll try a Mexican beer that was recommend in anoher thread.
Yes, my experience is somewhat similar.
However, there are light beers of quality, and craft beers are a good place to start.
For that matter, Corona was always insipid, and to be perfectly frank, quite tasteless. There is a very good reason - and it wasn't just fashion though some of the more easily deluded persuaded themselves otherwise - that it used to be served with a slice of lime.
Lime has even more flavour than a slice of lemon, or a slice cut from an orange.
But, yes, agreed, the Rochefort 10 is an excellent beer.
Well, I suspect that if you tried the Corona without the addition of a slice or two of lime, you would have a hard time working out what the taste of it actually is.
Corona beer here went through a period of a hype, It was drunk by people who wanted you to know, that they had been to Mexico.
Now that that's over, Corona is mostly drunk by young women at BarBQ's.
Oh, gosh, yes. Guilty, m'lud.
Actually, I do remember when youngsters - especially young women - thought it was exceptionally cool (and fashionable) to be drinking Corona, swigging the bottle by its slim neck, a slice of lime squashed into the top of that same neck.
Granted, I even tried it once or twice myself (which is why I can remember that it is utterly insipid) - a fleeting slave to suave but sophisticated marketing - before greed (for something that tasted decent) triumphed over the hip appearance of a slim bottle.
I like Corona.. It isn't bad but it isn't great either. I would rather have Dos Equis Lager, don't like the amber. Especially on a hot day.
Only if you quaffed them enthusiastically!
It's Friday. I enjoy my weekly alcohol binge!
Well, I am conveying warm greetings to a bottle of St Bernardus Abt 12, sipped from a glass (chalice goblet) which comes with the words - naturally enough - 'St Bernardus' written in Gothic lettering.
Well, I'm still at work programming away, but, um, I may have poured myself a spot of rye to facilitate things...
Well, I'm still at work programming away, but, um, I may have poured myself a spot of rye to facilitate things...
Well work finished many hours ago for me.
That's why a few Stella's and a quadruple Jim Bean are ok. I've had the bottle nearly a year, so I guess it is time.
Go for it buddy! Anyway the Ballmer Peak requires some practice to hit...
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Jealous, I am just getting off work and of course my local spot didn't have any so I am going to look for a nice bottle of stone arrogant bastard ale aged in bourbon barrels!
Sipping another excellent beer from the St Bernardus stable. This is the St Bernardus Pater 6, a lovely rich ale, but lighter than the Abt 12.
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You have my deepest sympathy. But I hope you enjoy your beer.
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Jealous, I am just getting off work and of course my local spot didn't have any so I am going to look for a nice bottle of stone arrogant bastard ale aged in bourbon barrels!
You have my deepest sympathy. But I hope you enjoy your beer.
Jealous, I am just getting off work and of course my local spot didn't have any so I am going to look for a nice bottle of stone arrogant bastard ale aged in bourbon barrels!
I remember many times getting off graves and meeting up with several guys from the team on the commute home. Once when four of us were so long overdue at home the wives called the department and eventually CHP launched a helo out of Sacramento to search for us. Man did we ever get in trouble.
Bizarrely enough, I have quite often found that the best fun was to be had in drinking sessions that had not been been planned in advance but which just occurred spontaneously.
had gotten side-tracked.
However, these days, with mobile phones, there is no excuse not to notify significant (or insignificant) others, that you expect to be home later than originally anticipated.
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There's no question about it being selfish and insensitive. It happened in the early 90's. None of us had personal cells then but the bars in Oakland, Richmond, and Vallejo where we stopped all had phones. There were actually five of us but we dropped one in Richmond. We never joked about it in front of one guy's wife. He's the only one still married. Of the five two are now gone. One to cancer and the other was murdered. None of us were angels but all decent and (most of the time) responsible guys.
No, I am not criticising you, please don't think that: Indeed, I am more than equally culpable, as I have done that myself (more than once or twice, in my student days or early teaching days, and yes, we are talking late 80s, and early 90s, agreed) - and allowed myself to be persuaded that the enjoyment to be had from the snatched moment of pleasure was worth more than the necessary but inconvenient phone call (which would be received with sighs, and perhaps, annoyance, especially if there was a dinner at home waiting for you).
Oddly enough, it was only when my father - who rarely called me out on anything - rebuked my poor manners, and what he described as my thoughtlessness and selfishness - that I took heed and made a point of making those calls from then on, if pleasure offered a tempting vista.